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Vance offers an 'America First' argument on AI deregulation in his first foreign policy speech
In his first big moment on the world stage, Vice President JD Vance delivered an unmistakable message: the United States under the 47th president has room for you on the Trump train — but it also has no problem leaving you behind. Vance, speaking at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday, hewed closely to President Donald Trump's “America First” outlook as he spoke of maintaining U.S. dominance in the surging industry.
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New York City argues for noncitizen voting law before state's top court
New York’s top court was asked Tuesday to reverse a ruling against a law that would allow noncitizens to vote in New York City municipal elections by lawyers who argued city officials acted within their legal powers. New York City became the first major U.S. city to grant widespread municipal voting rights to noncitizens in January 2022 — though the law approved by the Democrat-led city council was never implemented due to a legal challenge from Republicans. The city law did not grant noncitiz
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Standing in the Oval Office with Trump, Elon Musk says DOGE is what people voted for
Elon Musk appeared alongside President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Tuesday to defend the cuts being made by DOGE.
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Ex-FEMA worker who directed staff to avoid homes with Trump signs violated Hatch Act, agency says
A federal agency is seeking disciplinary action against a former Federal Emergency Management Agency worker who directed workers helping hurricane survivors to avoid homes with yard signs supporting President Donald Trump, according to a complaint filed Tuesday. The complaint with the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board was filed by the Office of Special Counsel, whose leader was fired last week by Trump and reinstated by a federal judge on Monday after he sued the Republican president. The O
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Florida lawmakers work to settle DeSantis rift as they open a new session on immigration
Florida lawmakers on Tuesday took a major step toward settling a weekslong standoff between term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis and fellow Republicans who control the Statehouse, as they gaveled in another special session on immigration aimed at leveraging state and local resources to carry out President Donald Trump 's mass deportation agenda. DeSantis, who is widely expected to have presidential aspirations in 2028, has been locked in an unusual political tussle with Trump's allies in the Legislat
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FBI says it found 2,400 new JFK assassination records
The FBI on Tuesday said it discovered 2,400 new records related to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order last month to release thousands of files. The FBI said it's working to transfer the records to the National Archives and Records Administration to be included in the declassification process. The federal government in the early 1990s mandated that all documents related to the Nov. 22, 1963, assa
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After meeting with Trump, Jordan's King Abdullah II reiterates 'steadfast opposition' to moving Palestinians out of Gaza
WASHINGTON — Jordan’s King Abdullah II said he reiterated Tuesday during a meeting with President Donald Trump his country's and the region's "steadfast opposition" to the president's plan to resettle millions of Palestinians out of Gaza.
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Trump administration appeals Maryland judge's ruling blocking birthright citizenship order
President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday said it's appealing a Maryland federal judge's ruling blocking the president's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for people whose parents are not legally in the country. In a brief filing, the administration's attorneys said they were appealing to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. It's the second such appeal the administration has sought since Trump's executive order was blocked in court.
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'A lot of people will die': How Trump's USAID overhaul could lead to famine in Sudan
President Donald Trump’s 90-day freeze on all foreign aid could not have come at a worse time for Sudan, which is facing famine amid it's 2-year civil war.
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Trump steel, aluminum tariffs likely to drive up car costs, industry leaders say
President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel imports this week could wreak havoc on American auto manufacturing, industry leaders say. The moves align with the Trump administration's aggressive global trade agenda and ambitions to strengthen U.S. industry, but they could have an inverse effect. On March 12, all steel imports will be taxed at a minimum of 25%, the result of two orders the president signed Monday that also include a 25% tariff on aluminum.
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Senator seeks watchdog inquiry into Kash Patel, alleges behind-the-scenes role in purge at FBI
A top Democratic senator has asked the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate after he says he received information that President Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI, Kash Patel, had been “personally directing the ongoing purge” of agents at the bureau. The letter Tuesday from Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, asserts that Patel may have misled the panel at his confirmation hearing last month when he said in response to a question that he was
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Trump signs executive order to continue downsizing federal workforce
President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk, his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce. The Associated Press reviewed a White House fact sheet on the order, which is intended to advance Musk's work slashing spending with his Department of Government Efficiency. Musk said there are some good people in the federal bureaucracy but they need to be accountable and called it an “unelected”
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Republican Introduces Bill To Rename Greenland ‘Red, White And Blueland’
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) has pioneered a new kind of symbolic legislation to flatter President Donald Trump.
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Judge leaves intact a ban on DOGE access to Treasury records pending a hearing Friday
A federal judge on Tuesday made some tweaks but left intact a ban for now that prevents Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records containing sensitive personal data for millions of Americans. Judge Jeannette A. Vargas in Manhattan issued an order to continue a ban prior to a hearing Friday. The ban was put in place last week by another federal New York jurist in response to a lawsuit that 19 Democratic attorneys general brought against President
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Trump’s clash with the courts escalates
A flurry of orders from federal district judges has slowed Donald Trump's most controversial initiatives — prompting talk of outright defiance.
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4 FEMA employees are fired over payments to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants
Four federal employees were fired Tuesday over payments to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants, Department of Homeland Security officials said. On Monday, President Donald Trump's aide Elon Musk posted on X that his team had discovered payments used to house migrants in “luxury hotels” with money intended for disaster relief.
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Steve Bannon pleads guilty in New York 'We Build the Wall' case
Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony fraud for helping to defraud donors who were giving money to build a wall at the southern U.S. border.
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Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data removed after Trump's executive order
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered government agencies to restore public access to health-related webpages and datasets that they removed to comply with an executive order by President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington agreed to issue a temporary restraining order requested by the Doctors for America advocacy group. On Jan. 20, his first day back in the White House, Trump signed an order for agencies to use the term “sex” and not "gender" in federal policies and docume
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Trump administration ordered to restore removed CDC and FDA websites
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered U.S. health agencies to restore websites that they abruptly took offline in response to an executive order by President Donald Trump telling them to scrub websites of "gender ideology extremism." The temporary restraining order by U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington, D.C. came in response to a lawsuit by the left-leaning medical advocacy group Doctors for America, which said the sudden removal of websites by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr
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As Georgia lieutenant governor raises cash, a possible 2026 opponent questions how it can be spent
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr raised $2.2 million for his 2026 gubernatorial bid in less than two months after taking the unprecedented step of announcing in November. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who could be Carr's top opponent in the 2026 GOP primary, raised $1.7 million for what Georgia calls a leadership committee, filings show. The question, though, is whether Jones can use that money in a Republican primary.
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US aid freeze paralyzes NGOs working to help millions of internally displaced people in Somalia
In a desolate makeshift camp on the fringes of Somalia's capital, tens of thousands of internally displaced people sit under the baking sun not sure if they can have access to food rations and medication following U.S. President Donald Trump's decree to freeze most of his country's foreign aid. Trump’s decision, which will remain in force for 90 days following his Jan. 20 executive order, threatens to collapse the humanitarian aid economy that sustains the livelihoods of some of the world’s mos
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Democrats unveil state legislative map for the next election cycle, with eyes on opposing Trump's agenda and redistricting
The arm of the Democratic Party focused on state legislative races announced its initial target map for the upcoming election cycle Tuesday, identifying 10 states where they will seek to combat President Donald Trump’s agenda and prepare for the next redistricting cycle at the end of the decade.
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Top Democrat Warns The U.S. Is 'Staring The Death Of Democracy In The Eyes'
Donald Trump and his allies have suggested the courts have no authority to block the president's policies.
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Trump asks US court to end 'judicial overreach' and allow funding freezes
BOSTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration has asked an appeals court to put on hold a U.S. judge's decision forcing it to comply with his order barring it from freezing federal grants, loans and other financial assistance, saying the decision constituted "intolerable judicial overreach." The U.S. Department of Justice asked the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Monday to put on hold an order that a Rhode Island federal judge issued earlier that day, after fi
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Trump tariffs rattle small business owners already dealing with tight margins
President Donald Trump's continued roll out of a wide array of tariffs is rattling small business owners already dealing with tight profit margins. Most of the steel the company uses comes from China, and she gets material from Canada and Mexico, too. In addition to the steel and China tariffs, other tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods have been temporarily put on hol d, but they could be implemented later.
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Deb Haaland Launches Bid For New Mexico Governor
The former interior secretary in the Biden administration and former Democratic congresswoman is the first declared candidate in the 2026 race.
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Steve Bannon pleads guilty in border wall funding case
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon pleaded guilty in New York state court on Tuesday to a fraud charge related to his fundraising campaign for the U.S. president's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. At a hearing, Bannon, 71, pleaded guilty to one count for scheme to defraud. Bannon was charged with money laundering and conspiracy, and accused of deceiving donors in 2019 who contributed more than $15 million to a private fundraising drive, known as "We Build the Wall,"
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Nancy Mace accuses ex-fiance and associates of rape and abuse in House speech
South Carolina Republican says she uncovered four men’s graphic photos and videos of women and underage girls
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Officials bristle at courts throttling Trump actions and Hamas postpones hostage exchange: Morning Rundown
Court rulings against parts of Donald Trump's agenda put White House officials on the defensive.
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NATO allies await US defense secretary's visit, the first by a member of the Trump administration
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will on Wednesday become the first member of the new Trump administration to visit NATO, where the allies are keen to understand how America now plans to influence the course of the war in Ukraine. Most U.S. allies fear that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not stop at Ukraine’s borders if he wins, and that Europe’s biggest land war in decades poses an existential threat to their security. President Donald Trump has promised to quickly end the war.
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Steve Bannon due in court after plea talks in border wall case
Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon is expected in a Manhattan court on Tuesday following discussions between his lawyers and prosecutors over a possible plea deal to resolve a criminal case over his crowdfunding campaign for the U.S. president’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bannon, 71, was charged by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office with money laundering and conspiracy for allegedly deceiving donors in 2019 who contributed more than $15 million to a private fundraisi
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Ossoff calls on Trump admin to ‘publicly refuse’ El Salvador’s offer to jail Americans
“Federal law does not allow the deportation of U.S. citizens, and El Salvador’s prisons are internationally notorious for life-threatening and abusive conditions,” the Georgia Democrat wrote.
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Turkey detains 10 officials, widening a crackdown on Istanbul's opposition-held districts
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 10 senior officials of Istanbul district municipalities over alleged links to Kurdish militants, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported, widening a crackdown on opposition-held city districts. The detainees include the deputy mayors of the districts of Kartal and Atasehir and eight district municipal council members, Anadolu reported. All are members of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP.
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Judge temporarily reinstates fired ethics watchdog
Hampton Dellinger filed a lawsuit claiming President Donald Trump illegally dismissed him last week.
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How Elon Musk's crusade against government could benefit Tesla
Elon Musk has long railed against the U.S. government, saying a crushing number of federal investigations and safety programs have stymied Tesla, his electric car company, and its efforts to create fleets of robotaxis and other self-driving automobiles. Now, Musk’s close relationship with President Donald Trump means many of those federal headaches could vanish within weeks or months. On the potential chopping block: crash investigations into Tesla’s partially automated vehicles; a Justice Dep
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Hegseth renames North Carolina military base Fort Roland L. Bragg and signals more change coming
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed an order restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg and said Tuesday that there will be more name changes coming. Speaking to reporters in Germany, Hegseth hinted at a wholesale reversal of the broader Biden administration effort in 2023 to remove names that honored Confederate leaders, including nine Army bases. “As the president has said, and I’ve said as well, we’re not done there," Hegseth sa
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Trump says Palestinians wouldn't be allowed back into Gaza under his plan
President Donald Trump said Palestinians wouldn't be permitted to return to the Gaza Strip as part of his plan for the United States to take ownership of the war-torn territory.
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Trump signs order to bring back plastic straws, claiming paper ones ‘explode’
Order rolls back Biden policy to phase out federal purchases of single-use plastic as Trump calls it a ‘ridiculous situation’
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What Mexico's richest man thinks Trump should do in his second term
Carlos Slim, Mexico’s richest man and one of the world's wealthiest, addressed a range of topics at his annual conference on Monday. Despite his extensive holdings in sectors ranging from communications and construction to an iconic Mexican restaurant and retail chain, much of the questioning centered — perhaps unsurprisingly — on U.S. President Donald Trump.
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First lawsuit targets Trump’s foreign aid freeze
The groups said the freeze violates Congress’ wishes and is endangering lives in developing countries.
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Tulsi Gabbard, Trump's pick for top intelligence official, clears key Senate hurdle
The Senate voted to advance the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence.
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Election official in Arizona’s largest county signals a shift away from combating disinformation
One of the top election officials in Arizona's largest county, which has been roiled in recent years by conspiracy theories and intimidation of election workers, is moving away from the office's previous efforts to combat misinformation. Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap has downsized his external communications staff from seven to one, drastically shrinking a team whose duties had included combating false information about elections. Heap, a Republican who took office in January, said in a
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What the polls can tell us about the early days of Trump's second term: From the Politics Desk
What the polls shows the public thinks about the early days of President Donald Trump's administration.
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Tennessee governor proposes another $1B toward roads amid a $30B project backlog
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday proposed an injection of more than $1 billion into road projects to help address the state's $30 billion projects backlog, which will again need more than what gas taxes and other fees can provide. The Republican governor's budget proposal includes nearly $1 billion in one-time, general state tax money and a plan to shift $80 million annually from the sales tax on tires. It comes two years after Lee and Republican lawmakers approved a similar $3 billion shift
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White House officials ready to meet with Zelenskyy in Munich for talks on Russia's war on Ukraine
President Donald Trump' s senior advisers are expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this week on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference to discuss the path toward ending Russia's nearly three-year war in Ukraine. Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, told The Associated Press that the White House is ironing out details of the highly anticipated talks during the annual summit for international security discussions.
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Trump signs executive order on plastic drinking straws
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back efforts by his predecessor to phase out single-use plastics and tackle waste. "We're going back to plastic straws," Trump told reporters at the White House as he signed the order, saying that paper straws "don't work." "I don't think plastic is going to affect a shark very much, as they're munching their way through
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Venezuela sends 2 planes to US to return migrants, signaling a potential improvement in relations
Two Venezuelan planes returned home Monday with about 190 Venezuelans deported from the United States, signaling a possible thaw in relations between two longtime diplomatic adversaries and a victory for President Donald Trump in his efforts to get more countries to take their people back. Deportation flights from the U.S. to Venezuela have been halted for years except for a brief period in October 2023 during the Biden administration. Venezuelans began showing up at the U.S. border with Mexic
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'Back to plastic': Trump signs order for plastic straws as he declares paper ones 'don’t work'
President Donald Trump said Monday he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they “don’t work” and don't last very long. The order directs federal agencies to stop buying paper straws “and otherwise ensure that paper straws are no longer provided within agency buildings.” The move by Trump — who has long railed against paper straws, and whose 2019 reelection campaign sold Trump-branded reusable plastic straws for $15 per pack of 10 — targets a Biden administration policy to phase out f
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Another Florida university picks a former Republican lawmaker as its next president
Florida Atlantic University on Monday picked a former Republican lawmaker as its leader in what is the latest example of a public university in the state picking someone with a political background for such high-paying posts over experienced academic leaders. The board of trustees of the university in Boca Raton picked Adam Hasner to be the school's next president, following a lengthy and controversial search process that resulted in FAU tossing out its initial slate of finalists. The announce
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Judge keeps block on Trump’s offer of mass buyouts for US federal workers
Federal employees claim in lawsuit ‘deferred resignation’ program is illegal because Congress has not approved it
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