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California tries Trump-proofing by another name

SACRAMENTO, California — California politicians are still trying to protect themselves from President Donald Trump — they’re just being quieter about it.The latest example is a trio of Democratic s...

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The Testing of John Thune

John Thune was going to miss his brother’s funeral.Late on the last Thursday of January, the Senate schedule was crammed — a logjam of unorthodox nominees that needed to be confirmed to fill Presid...

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Democrats Have a Man Problem

Chances are low that Joe Rogan will save your soul—or your party. Since Donald Trump’s election victory, countless Democrats have lamented their party’s losses among men, and young men, in particul...

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Mahmoud Khalil Isn’t the Only Green-Card Holder Targeted for Arrest

As the details of Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by U.S. immigration agents first emerged this week, attorneys I spoke with were so astonished that they wondered if the government had made a mistake. Pres...

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HHS braces for a reorganization

The Trump administration is readying to slash the Department of Health and Human Services workforce again, according to seven people familiar with the plans who were granted anonymity because of th...

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Senate Dems brace to vote for a bill they hate — to block Elon Musk

Senate Democrats appear poised to vote for a spending bill they hate to avoid a worse fate: Allowing a government shutdown that could enable President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to make deeper cuts...

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Judge orders sweeping rehiring of fired workers at 18 federal agencies

A second federal judge has ordered the mass reinstatement of fired federal workers, reversing the Trump administration’s terminations of probationary employees at 18 major agencies.The agencies cov...

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The left seethes at the ‘Schumer surrender’

The Democratic base wants a fight. Chuck Schumer won’t give it to them.The Senate minority leader on Thursday backed away from the shutdown confrontation that many liberal voters and activist leade...

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Another Upside-Down Day of Trump Diplomacy

He denounced the European Union as “hostile” and “abusive” while threatening to ratchet up tariffs on some of its most famous goods by 200 percent. He openly mused about annexing Greenland while si...

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Zero migrants left at Guantánamo after flights back to US

Presented by GE Aerospace —{beacon} Defense &National Security PRESENTED BY The Big Story Zero migrants left at Guantánamo after flights back to US The Trump admin...

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Trump to make rare visit to main Justice amid interference concerns

President Donald Trump will speak at the Justice Department on Friday, amid ongoing concerns that he has compromised the agency’s traditional arms-length relationship with the White House.While not...

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Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges’ power to block policies nationwide

President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to eliminate a key tool that lower courts have used to block various aspects of his agenda.In an emergency appeal Thursday, Trump asked the justic...

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Trump’s lieutenants say fired workers didn’t focus on safety. These DOT employees say otherwise.

A Transportation Department employee who studied how to prevent highway deaths lost their job. So did one who focused on preventing pipelines from leaking and exploding. And so did people at an age...

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Democrats, Shut Down the Government

In a moment of extraordinary political division, there is consensus on one subject at least: Senate Democrats are screwed. They are, to be fair, in an unenviable position. Earlier this week, House ...

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Congress’ crypto era is here

The cryptocurrency industry, once beleaguered by scandals and skepticism in Washington, is now within striking distance of the biggest policy win in its history.The Senate Banking Committee on Thur...

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Voters frustrated with Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts, new poll finds

Over half of voters believe Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are hurting the country, a new Quinnipiac University poll finds.Fifty-four percent of voters believe DOGE, which th...

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Trump waves off travel plans and hunkers down at White House

Oval Office for the week. Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. President Donald Trump isn’t keen to jet-set in his second term.Trump has taken far fewer domestic trips in the early weeks of his second admin...

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‘We’re not like some small country you can push around’

Months of tariff-fueled tensions with the U.S. have left Canada feeling defiant.“We're not like some small country that you can push around,” François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of innov...

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Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules

A federal judge on Thursday ordered federal agencies to rehire tens of thousands of probationary employees who were fired amid President Donald Trump’s turbulent effort to drastically shrink the fe...

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I Was a Columbia Student Journalist. Here’s What to Know About Mahmoud Khalil.

Last year, I was a student at Columbia University, where I covered tense campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war for the college newspaper and for POLITICO. So I’m familiar with Mahmoud Khalil, a...

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