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US Mint to strike last penny as Trump’s phaseout rattles retailers

President Donald Trump’s decision earlier this year to halt production of the U.S. penny is rippling through the economy faster than expected, triggering widespread shortages of the one-cent coin a...

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How Chuck Schumer plans to weather the storm

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is the target of liberal fury for a second time this year. His Democratic colleagues aren’t joining the pile-on.The New York Democrat is facing calls to resign ...

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Protesters and UN security clash at climate summit in Brazil

BELÉM, Brazil — Activist groups and United Nations security clashed in chaotic scenes late Tuesday after protesters appeared to force their way into the COP30 climate conference venue, in the most ...

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Utah’s Cox supports effort to appeal court ruling on redistricting

Utah GOP Gov. Spencer Cox supports appealing a court order installing new congressional maps in the state that would help Democrats, he announced Tuesday.Utah judge Dianna Gibson late Monday night ...

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First big foreign agent trial under Trump 2.0 set to kick off

The former aide to two New York governors charged with acting as an unregistered Chinese agent heads to federal court in Brooklyn Wednesday for the first big FARA trial of the second Trump administ...

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Newsom at UN talks: 'Donald Trump is temporary'

BELÉM, Brazil — California Gov. Gavin Newsom excoriated President Donald Trump in plenary remarks at a United Nations climate conference in Brazil on Tuesday.“He wants to bring us back and try to r...

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Progressive on the edge of a win in Seattle mayor race

A progressive activist appears to be on the cusp of winning her bid for mayor of Seattle in a narrow victory that has echoes of the race to lead New York City.With a dwindling number of ballots lef...

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Another Alberta separatist leader is courting U.S. conservatives in Washington and Mar-a-Lago

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Another Alberta separatist has travelled south of the border to woo American conservatives. In recent months, members of the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP), a separatist ...

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The Epstein files fight is finally coming to the House floor

The monthslong bipartisan effort to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson and force the release of all Justice Department files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is kicking into high gear this wee...

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The Running Man is the most fun you’ll have at the cinema this year

Nearly four decades after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s muscle-bound version sprinted across screens, The Running Man returns to cinemas. In Edgar Wright’s hands, this adaptation is a sharper, smarter re...

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The Running Man review: Edgar Wright and Glen Powell deliver a wild but weak remake

Why make The Running Man a comedy? Stephen King's novel was a furious political thrill ride about a man out of options, forced to fight for his life (and family) against a corrupt government, explo...

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Defense lawyers seek Bill Essayli’s ouster, again

Defense attorneys are taking another shot at ousting Trump administration appointee Bill Essayli as the top federal prosecutor in Los Angeles.In a motion filed late Monday night, attorneys from the...

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Trump administration declares CFPB funding illegal

The Trump administration has formally determined the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s current funding mechanism is unlawful, a move that puts the agency on track to close in the coming months...

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Flight restrictions will ease, DOT says — once air traffic controllers return

Air travel headaches aren’t over yet as the end of the federal shutdown nears — but a reprieve is on the horizon.The Transportation Department suggested in a Tuesday statement that it would ease re...

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The President’s Most Annoying Buddy

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on CNBC this fall to promote a deal so great that he deemed it “off the rails.” The government of Japan, he explained, had brought down its tariff rate by giv...

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The Moral Cost of the Democrats’ Shutdown Strategy

The longest-ever government shutdown has ended with a negotiated whimper rather than a glorious Resistance victory, and many Democrats are furious at their leaders. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecti...

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Republicans need Trump for the debate on Obamacare credits

President Donald Trump didn’t get involved in negotiations to end the government shutdown. But he plans to get his hands dirty as his party confronts expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, accordi...

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The man who talked to the president every day for decades

The White House is an iconic symbol of the most powerful country in the world.It is also a place where people live.Gary Walters, the White House’s longest-serving chief usher, was a fly on the wall...

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Obamacare could collapse under Trump’s new plan, policy experts say

Republicans are putting their own spin on subsidizing Americans’ health care: Route money away from insurers and put cash directly in consumers’ hands to give them more choice over their coverage.E...

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The flip side of America's price crunch: Paltry paychecks

The drubbing that Republicans took at the ballot box last week highlighted President Donald Trump’s weakness on the issue of affordability. But if voters are frustrated over high prices, the GOP’s ...

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This Comedian Just Showed Democrats How to Solve Their Messaging Problems

“There’s something about the term ‘sex worker’ that just feels belabored,” Gianmarco Soresi tells me. “It’s longer than hooker or prostitute.”Perhaps unsurprisingly, this subject never came up whil...

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