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President-elect Donald Trump’s rapid-fire cabinet appointments have made clear what he values: loyalty to Donald Trump and a demonstrated ability to articulate that loyalty on television.The respon...
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Donald Trump could have picked from a range of fire-breathing state superintendents, policy wonks or former governors to lead an Education Department he wants to abolish.But the president-elect tap...
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Republican senators appear to be giving Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Pentagon, the benefit of the doubt after his lawyer confirmed he paid a woman who accused him of sexua...
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, a Hamas leader commonly known as Mohammed Deif wh...
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Russian forces launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Ukraine, according to Ukrainian officials in the military. The Ukrainian Air Force Command said in a pos...
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In this Cut for Time sketch, an American culture correspondent (Charli xcx) on a Canadian news program breaks down the state of American politics. Saturday Night Live. Stream now on Peacock: htt...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) knocked the International Criminal Court (ICC) over its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and ex-Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. ...
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Mike Masnick, writing for MSNBC: Turns out for the “Twitter Files” crew, “creeping authoritarianism” isn’t so creepy when it’s your team doing the creeping. Before, we were told ...
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Michael Pollan, perhaps the country’s best-known advocate of healthy eating and reforming the food system, caused a stir earlier this week when he posted an article on his X account headlined “They...
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Donald Trump is not a monarch.That’s the unmistakable lesson of the ill-fated nomination of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Rather than showcasing Trump’s absolute power over his GOP allies, it re...
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Updated at 2:50 p.m. ET on November 21, 2024Of all the promises, from quixotic to horrifying, that Donald Trump has made about the next four years, the one that seems least likely to be fulfilled i...
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.For a few hours, Pete Hegseth’s nomination as secretary of defense was the most disturbing act of Donald Tru...
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Donald Trump’s transition team has rejected a push to install a prominent Project 2025 author in a senior role at the Department of Health and Human Services over concerns that his strident anti-ab...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia fired a new, nonnuclear intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine, part of a wide-ranging TV address that sharply c...
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When the Cable News Network (CNN) launched on the evening of June 1, 1980, it was a youthful upstart business. There were just a few hundred...
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Republicans senators projected optimism Thursday that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's controversial pick to be the next Pentagon chief, will ultimately be confirmed, despite a 2...
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BAKU, Azerbaijan — There’s no getting around the awkwardness of these climate talks.American officials made their travel plans for COP29 and sketched out their negotiating points before they knew w...
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Back to the drawing board.Matt Gaetz’s announcement Thursday that he was withdrawing his name from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's pick as attorney general set off immediate jockeyi...
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Matt Gaetz is out of the running for attorney general. He’s also out of a job on Capitol Hill. In Washington and Tallahassee, the question now is: Could he be back in the House in January?The Flori...
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Donald Trump spent his presidential campaign running from Project 2025. Now, he’s using it to stock his White House and administration.In recent days, Trump has tapped nearly a half-dozen Project 2...
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Two House Republicans, Reps. Matt Rosendale (Mont.) and Josh Brecheen (Okla.), are asking the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees to not include provisions in the annual defen...