Politics
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Musk and DOGE try to slash government by cutting out those who answer to voters
For decades, conservatives in Congress have talked about the need to cut government deeply, but they have always pulled back from mandating...
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Trump's transactional approach to diplomacy is a driving force on the world stage
Donald Trump, the real estate developer turned commander in chief, is laying bare his style of diplomacy in the early weeks of his new term: It's a...
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Facing competition from Big Tech, states dangle incentives and loosen laws to attract power plants
Facing projections of spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers increasingly worry...
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South Dakota law raises questions about future of massive Midwest pipeline
A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines raises questions about the viability...
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California delegation in Congress requests federal wildfire aid
California's colossal congressional delegation is pressing Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress for wildfire recovery aid.
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Reconstruction of D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza to begin next week
Work to alter D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street NW will begin Monday, with that phrase expected to be removed.
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Activists vandalize Trump golf report over comments on emptying out Gaza
Pro-Palestinian activists said Saturday they have vandalized one of U.S. President Donald Trump's golf resorts in Scotland in response to his...
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Speaker Johnson plows ahead with Trump-backed spending deal
House Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled his yearlong government funding extension including a defense spending boost and agency cuts.
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Tribes and Native American students sue over Bureau of Indian Education firings
Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes...
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Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans
A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk 's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing...
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American Jews who fled Syria ask White House to lift sanctions so they can rebuild in Damascus
American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump administration to lift sanctions...
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Meet Amy Gleason, DOGE administrator who may be wielding extraordinary power
When her daughter was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease in 2010, Amy Gleason attacked the challenge.