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How global cybercrime syndicates are stealing hearts — and billions

Major global cybercrime syndicates are turning their efforts to romance scams, where victims are lured in by the prospect of love before being squeezed for their personal data or finances.The scams...

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America’s charm offensive in Munich masks harder line on Europe

MUNICH — Trump administration officials have taken a markedly warm — even friendly — approach to European allies this weekend at the Munich Security Conference. But the message itself is uncompromi...

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The curious case of Newsom’s singing French grasshoppers

When Gavin Newsom was asked at a press conference this week about Donald Trump’s move to take control of building permits in Los Angeles’ wildfire-stricken neighborhoods, the California governor fi...

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Judge orders release of 5-year-old detained by ICE in Minnesota

A federal judge on Saturday ordered the immediate release of Adrian Conejo Arias and his 5-year-old son Liam, whose apprehension by federal authorities — captured in a viral photo — became a symbol...

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Elon Musk pours millions more into helping Republicans keep Congress

Tech mogul Elon Musk poured $10 million into two major Republican super PACs at the end of last year, according to campaign finance disclosures submitted Saturday, as he once again takes a more act...

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The Truth About ICE’s Recruiting Push

In the second Trump administration, immigration policy is made with big round numbers. There’s a formula: First the White House sets an ambitious goal—1 million deportations a year, 3,000 immigrati...

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Shutdown risk grows as Democrats revolt after Minneapolis shooting

The odds of a partial government shutdown next week are growing after federal immigration agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Saturday.Several Democratic senators who voted to...

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Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane

Why Young Women Moved Left While Young Men Stayed Sane Authored by vittorio on X, Bill Ackman quote-tweeted a graph showing the partisan gap between young men and women almost dou...

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US strikes ISIS in Syria

The U.S. military launched air strikes in tandem with other countries at ISIS targets in Syria on Saturday, U.S. Central Command announced in a post on X, as President Donald Trump continues his bi...

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Inside lobbying efforts to make the Mar-a-Lago foreign worker visa a staple of MAGA

As President Donald Trump fends off an intraparty fight over visas, a trade group with Mar-a-Lago ties is pushing for seasonal worker visas to be expanded — and hoping to slip under the radar of MA...

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Jim Justice to pay more than $5M in back taxes

Republican Sen. Jim Justice and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5 million in back taxes dating back over 15 years, as the freshman senator continues to weather financial difficulties that ma...

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The D Brief: US, Ukraine in talks; Counter-drone war, at scale?; China’s anti-AI playbook; Spies see opportunity in feds’ fear; And a bit more.

<![CDATA[Developing: United States and Ukrainian officials have made some progress in talks to wind down Russia’s Ukraine invasion, Kyiv’s national security advisor announced Tuesday morning. “O...

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Utah’s GOP-controlled Legislature to appeal new congressional map

Utah’s Republican-controlled Legislature plans to appeal the state’s new court-ordered congressional map to the state Supreme Court, legislative leadership announced Tuesday.A state district judge ...

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Trump wants peace in Ukraine, no matter what a deal looks like

President Donald Trump’s primary goal is to end the war in Ukraine, no matter what the peace deal looks like.As European allies and the Ukrainians haggled over the details of an initial 28-point pl...

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Trump’s Mamdani embrace complicates Elise Stefanik’s path to governor

ALBANY, New York — President Donald Trump’s astonishingly chummy Oval Office meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani could not have come at a worse time for Rep. Elise Stefanik.The Ne...

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MORNING GLORY: MLB Commissioner Manfred — don’t do the obvious thing

This is an argument for mercy. Somebody please send it to Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.Among the most important decisions Commissioner Rob Manfred will make in the course of his c...

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How Donald Trump and the CEO of the world’s biggest company became BFFs

President Donald Trump and Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang. The biggest company in the world is Nvidia, and it’s been making the same product since 1993: a specialized computer...

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Democrats spending big to expand coalition in midterms

Democrats are riding momentum from this month’s off-cycle elections into an eight-figure spend to expand their base in the midterm elections next year.The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committe...

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X’s location update exposes international troll industry

A new transparency feature on X has revealed that many politically influential US accounts, including pro-Trump ones with hundreds of thousands of followers, are a...

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Trump was going to roll out a health care plan. Then Republicans weighed in.

Donald Trump’s health care plan is in limbo after pushback from Republicans who were caught off guard by the president’s forthcoming proposal — questioning, in particular, whether it would include ...

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Is the Comey case gone for good? And other questions after Halligan’s cases crumbled

The criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are gone — for now. But a federal judge’s decision to dismiss the indictments and eject the le...

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