Politics
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Trump admin aims for killing blow to independence of ‘Deep State’ agencies
President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is seeking to overturn a landmark Supreme Court case in an effort to give…
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A fired national park ranger lost his dream job. He says the public is losing more : NPR
Brian Gibbs, pictured with his son Oliver in front of the Effigy Mounds National Monument park sign, in July 2024.…
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Trump administration wants Supreme Court to permit firing of whistleblower agency head
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to…
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‘Border Czar’ Doubles Down on Asking If DOJ Should Prosecute AOC
Trump Border Czar Tom Homan is not backing down from his suggestion that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could have broken the…
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Trump threw Ukraine under the Russian bus. NATO could be next.
NATO is in serious trouble, and with it, the post-Cold War international order. For the first time in the alliance’s…
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Is Elon Musk a threat to the MAGA base? : NPR
NPR’s Andrew Limbong speaks with Sohrab Ahmari, U.S. editor for the UnHerd, about his recent essay on that website entitled…
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Trump administration fires more than a dozen immigration judges
More than a dozen immigration judges were fired on Friday, coinciding with President Donald Trump’s promise to trim the federal…
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Opinion | I’ve Covered Authoritarians Abroad. Trump’s Actions Look Familiar.
President Trump’s second term dizzies many Americans, but I find it oddly familiar — an echo of the time I…
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Opinion | The Barrage of Trump’s Awful Ideas Is Doing Exactly What It’s Supposed To
The first month of the second Trump presidency has put the lie to the widespread wisdom that Donald Trump has…
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Federal workers express shock, anger over mass firings: “You are not fit for continued employment”
Probational federal employees who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s mass firing of government workers expressed shock…
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