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Social Security targets tech team for cuts at a time when systems are under strain

Mistaken deportations stoke concerns over Trump’s aggressive immigration push

White House fires multiple administration officials after president meets with far-right activist Laura Loomer

Obama and Harris publicly rebuke Trump’s second term actions

Trump administration fires director of National Security Agency

Judge considering whether to hold Trump officials in contempt for violating court orders on deportation flights

Rep. Luna signals potential end to remote voting standoff

Top Russian negotiator says US businesses would be welcome in Russia if sanctions were lifted

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President Donald Trump talks to reporters before boarding Marine One at the White House on Thursday.

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Trump’s self-inflicted tariff crisis sparks confusion, chaos and questions of competence

Why is Trump rewriting US economic history? Anyone?

Trump is right: Everyone will remember the day he launched a total trade war

Turnout in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race was remarkable for an off-year election

Musk keeps giving select voters $1 million checks. How is this legal?

Trump has the world on edge as he mulls fateful tariffs decades in the making

Democrats have image problems. That may not matter much in 2026

Trump sounds dead serious about a third term, no matter what’s in the Constitution

Why Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariff transformation is so risky

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Canadians in crosshairs of trade war call Trump’s tariffs a ‘bad dream’

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President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

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Fact check: Trump’s false claims about tariffs and trade

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (not pictured) in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Fact check: Trump exaggerates trade deficits, his 2024 vote total, Ukraine aid, border crossings and fentanyl deaths

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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 02: U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance arrives for a "Make America Wealthy Again" trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Touting the event as "Liberation Day", Trump announced sweeping new tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S. on countries including China, Japan and India. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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‘The policy may very well fail’: JD Vance doubted Trump’s first-term trade policies, previously bashed tariffs

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Ben Ferguson at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, MD on Thursday, 20, 2025.

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Trump Justice officials demanded charges for Hillary, Biden for classified docs scandals. They’re silent on SignalGate

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President Donald Trump displays an executive order after signing it during a meeting with US Ambassadors in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2025.

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Trump’s favorite F-word is getting a workout

Fault Lines

President Donald Trump and White House senior adviser and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk deliver remarks next to a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

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Trump’s moves to hollow out government could be difficult to undo

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Tracking Trump’s executive actions

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Four Senate Republicans join with Democrats to rebuke Trump tariff policy in key vote

Wisconsin loss a warning sign for GOP about Musk’s campaign role

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Senate GOP unveils new budget blueprint and braces for another vote-a-rama

Cory Booker’s historic speech energizes a discouraged Democratic base

Several federal agencies give employees another chance to resign with little time to decide

Judge dismisses Eric Adams case and says it cannot be brought again, defying Trump DOJ

Supreme Court backs FDA’s denials of flavored vaping products for now

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison

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