The major questions facing Hegseth over a Caribbean strike
03 Dec 2025
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Pressure is mounting for transparency on a “double tap” boat strike in the Caribbean tha...
“The world is watching”: Trump faces a big test in Tennessee
02 Dec 2025
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People in Tennessee are voting to fill a vacant seat in the U.S. House. The BBC’s Anthony Zurc...
Here’s where your Black Friday returns really end up
01 Dec 2025
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A strike against a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean has prompted bipartisan scrutiny. The Washin...
Rebroadcast: Should you cut ties with a family member? A therapist offers advice.
28 Nov 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: This is an episode from our archives.Even before the divisive presi...
Samin Nosrat doesn’t love Thanksgiving food. Here’s what she says will improve it.
22 Nov 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: With the release of her James Beard Award–winning cookbook, S...
Trump reveals his plan for ending the war in Ukraine
21 Nov 2025
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A proposed peace plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine would require major concessions from...
Why the fate of the U.S. economy could depend on this company
20 Nov 2025
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Nvidia reported record revenue in its latest earnings report. Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal bre...
Inside the stunning vote to force the release of the Epstein files
19 Nov 2025
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Lawmakers in Washington voted overwhelmingly to release the Epstein files. USA Today reports on what...
Why Trump is rolling out the red carpet for the Saudi crown prince
18 Nov 2025
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President Trump is set to meet with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Whi...
Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s spectacular fallout with Trump
17 Nov 2025
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Late on Sunday, President Trump reversed course and is now backing a vote compelling the DOJ to rele...
She documents war’s darkest truths — then returns home to her family
15 Nov 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario has spe...
The swipe-fee settlement that could spell trouble for your rewards card
14 Nov 2025
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Merchants could soon decline popular premium credit cards as part of a settlement between Visa and M...
Trump is named in new Epstein emails. What happens next?
13 Nov 2025
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It was a busy day in Washington, as lawmakers worked to reopen the government and immediately dealt ...
The shutdown is nearly over. The fight over health care isn’t.
12 Nov 2025
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The deal to reopen the government does not include an extension to Affordable Care Act subsidies, wh...
Why flight cancellations could drag on long after the shutdown ends
11 Nov 2025
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The Senate passed a deal to end the shutdown, but air travel could take a while to recover even afte...
How senators finally came to a deal that could end the shutdown
10 Nov 2025
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The Senate advanced a deal that would end the shutdown on a rare Sunday session, after several Democ...
The hidden dangers of being pregnant in America
08 Nov 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among hig...
Nancy Pelosi’s legacy after nearly four decades in Congress
07 Nov 2025
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that she will retire after nearly 40 years in Congress. ...
Shutdown forces airports into unprecedented flight reductions
06 Nov 2025
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The Trump administration has ordered a reduction in flights at 40 major airports across the country....
Democrats won big in the elections. Here’s what you missed.
05 Nov 2025
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Democrats won big in last night’s election results. Zohran Mamdani won the race for New York m...
Food aid is cut in half for millions as the shutdown drags on
04 Nov 2025
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The Trump administration says it will partially restore SNAP food aid to tens of millions of recipie...
There are major elections this week. Here’s what to watch for.
03 Nov 2025
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Tuesday is Election Day, and voters are deciding on contests for governor and mayor, and new congres...
The little-known official quietly driving Trump’s second term
01 Nov 2025
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From From Apple News In Conversation: Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and B...
How Prince Andrew went from favorite son to royal exile
31 Oct 2025
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King Charles stripped his brother Prince Andrew of his last royal title and will evict him from his ...
What the Fed’s latest cut reveals about state of the economy
30 Oct 2025
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The Federal Reserve cut interest rates again but Fed Chair Jerome Powell had a warning for Wall Stre...
Jamaica’s “storm of the century” inflicts catastrophic damage
29 Oct 2025
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Jamaica is contending with the aftermath of a historic hurricane. The BBC reports on the damage. Ten...
A massive hurricane bears down on Jamaica today. What to know.
28 Oct 2025
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Hurricane Melissa made made its way toward Jamaica on Tuesday as sustained winds topped 160 mph. The...
How Canada’s “Reagan ad” reignited Trump’s trade war
27 Oct 2025
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It’s a big week for international trade as the presidents of the U.S. and China prepare to mee...
How Zohran Mamdani is already changing politics
25 Oct 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: Zohran Mamdani is leading New York City’s mayoral race by dou...
The FBI stuns the NBA with Mafia-linked charges against two stars
24 Oct 2025
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The FBI arrested Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozie...
Trump takes a bulldozer to the White House. What to know.
23 Oct 2025
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Construction crews were seen demolishing large parts of the the East Wing at the White House this we...
Why Elon Musk just went to war with NASA’s chief
22 Oct 2025
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A power struggle is going on at NASA as it struggles to keep one of its most ambitious projects on s...
How an internet outage caused mass disruption across America
21 Oct 2025
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A massive outage of Amazon Web Services downed hundreds of popular websites and apps around the worl...
Inside Trump’s military action in the Caribbean
20 Oct 2025
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In the Caribbean, U.S. forces struck a seventh boat alleged to have been involved in illegal drug-tr...
The dirty secret behind the hobby costing young men thousands of dollars
18 Oct 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: Sports betting has exploded in the U.S.: The Supreme Court gav...
Why both parties are holding out as the shutdown drags on
17 Oct 2025
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As the government shutdown continues, Republicans and Democrats both say the American public is on t...
How the Supreme Court could reshape the electoral landscape
16 Oct 2025
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Justices heard arguments Wednesday over a case concerning a key provision of the Voting Rights Act r...
Why Trump is bailing out Argentina for $20 billion
15 Oct 2025
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President Trump met with President Javier Milei of Argentina at the White House to discuss the detai...
What’s next in the Israel-Hamas peace plan?
14 Oct 2025
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The first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is underway as Israeli hostages and Palestinian prison...
All 20 living hostages in Gaza freed by Hamas as peace plan holds
13 Oct 2025
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The 20 living hostages still held in Gaza by Hamas were released after two years in captivity. Presi...
What happens when MAHA and public-health experts talk to one another?
11 Oct 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: The rise of the Make America Healthy Again movement reflects a larg...
What the skyrocketing price of gold reveals about the economy
10 Oct 2025
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President Trump said hostages could be released early as Monday, as details about how the peace deal...
Hamas agrees to release the hostages. What to know.
09 Oct 2025
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Hamas has agreed to release the hostages in Gaza after accepting the first phase of Trump’s ce...
What the government shutdown could mean for your next flight
08 Oct 2025
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Flight delays are starting to pile up as air-traffic controllers call off sick during the shutdown. ...
Why the Gaza ceasefire talks feel different this time around
07 Oct 2025
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Negotiations in Egypt between Hamas and Israel are ongoing. Foreign Policy reports that despite hope...
How the fight over Trump’s use of federal troops just escalated
06 Oct 2025
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The Trump administration is deploying federal troops into Chicago, claiming ongoing lawlessness. Ill...
Schools blocked ChatGPT. Now they embrace it. What changed?
04 Oct 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: In just a few years, U.S. school districts have gone from bloc...
How a deadly attack unfolded on Yom Kippur
03 Oct 2025
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At least two are dead after an attacker rammed a car into a crowd of worshippers at a synagogue in M...
One day in, where does the shutdown stand?
02 Oct 2025
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As the government shutdown continues into Day 2, a breakthrough on a funding bill remains elusive. R...
Government shutdown officially begins. What to know.
01 Oct 2025
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The government is officially shut down after Congress failed to pass a spending agreement before las...
Behind Trump’s winning streak at the Supreme Court
30 Sep 2025
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Trump and Netanyahu presented a proposal to end the war in Gaza. The Washington Post’s Michael...
The shutdown deadline is looming. Here’s what could happen.
29 Sep 2025
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Congressional leaders on both sides say they won’t budge as a government shutdown looms. Polit...
What we get wrong about political violence in the U.S.
27 Sep 2025
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From Apple News In Conversation: Earlier this month, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fat...
How pressure from Trump led to James Comey’s indictment
26 Sep 2025
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Former FBI Director James Comey faces federal charges of obstruction and making a false statement. N...
A shooter opened fire at an ICE facility. What to know.
25 Sep 2025
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A gunman killed a detainee and wounded two others at an ICE detention facility in Dallas. The Dallas...
Jimmy Kimmel returns to late-night TV. Here’s what he said.
24 Sep 2025
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Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves almost a week after ABC suspended him for comments about the d...
The weak evidence behind Trump’s autism announcement
23 Sep 2025
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Trump announced two significant regulatory changes surrounding autism. The Washington Post’s D...
Why an attorney tasked with prosecuting Trump’s critics resigned
22 Sep 2025
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Over the weekend Trump urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute some of his political enemies, ...
Inside Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel
19 Sep 2025
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The Wall Street Journal goes inside Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel. Congress faces anot...
What the Fed’s interest-rate cut means for you and the economy
18 Sep 2025
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The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday and signaled that additional cuts could come lat...
The suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing is charged. What we’ve learned.
17 Sep 2025
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The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk appeared in court for the first time Tuesday. NPR reports th...
The new GOP plan for D.C. crime: charging kids as adults
16 Sep 2025
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The House is set to vote on bills that would impose harsher penalties on people under 18 in D.C. The...
What’s at stake in a crucial week for the Federal Reserve
15 Sep 2025
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The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates this week. The Wall Street Journal’s Nic...
What to know about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s killing
12 Sep 2025
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Authorities have arrested a suspect in the shooting of Charlie Kirk. CBS News has more, while Politi...
How Charlie Kirk transformed the American conservative movement
11 Sep 2025
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The conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk died after being shot in the neck at an event in Utah. NBC N...
Child care is incredibly expensive. This state just made it free.
10 Sep 2025
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New Mexico will become the first state in the country to offer its residents free universal childcar...
ICE is escalating operations in Chicago. What to know.
09 Sep 2025
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Federal authorities began increased immigration-enforcement operations in Chicago, targeting people ...
Why ICE raided a company that invests billions in the U.S.
08 Sep 2025
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Hyundai has invested billions in American manufacturing. Now the immigration arrests of hundreds of ...
Was Trump’s strike on an alleged drug-trafficking boat legal?
05 Sep 2025
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U.S. warships killed 11 people on a suspected Venezuelan smuggling craft on Tuesday. Secretary of St...
RFK Jr. tore up vaccine policy. Now for a Senate showdown.
04 Sep 2025
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Vaccine policy is changing at a rapid rate as Florida and some Western states take drastically diffe...
The new Epstein files don’t reveal much. What’s next in the case?
03 Sep 2025
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Congress is back from summer recess with a list of big priorities — and some come with tight d...
How an earthquake devastated Afghanistan
02 Sep 2025
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The latest from Afghanistan after a catastrophic earthquake struck the eastern part of the country. ...
Hurricane forecasting improved after Katrina. That could change.
29 Aug 2025
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NPR’s Alejandra Borunda joins to talk about scientific advances in hurricane forecasting since...
Inside the CDC’s night of chaos as its director is fired
28 Aug 2025
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The White House says it has fired the CDC director, less than a month after she was confirmed. Now o...
The tariff on cheap packages all online shoppers should know about
27 Aug 2025
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The little-known de minimis tariff exemption is ending. Bloomberg unpacks the effect it could have o...
How Trump has flipped the meaning of civil rights
26 Aug 2025
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Laura Meckler, national education reporter with the Washington Post, joins to break down how the Dep...
It’s been two weeks of federal control in D.C. Here’s what’s changed in the city.
25 Aug 2025
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The Washington Post’s Jenny Gathright joins to discuss the latest on Trump’s crime crack...
The surprising reason many fossil-fuel companies support EPA rules
22 Aug 2025
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The federal government might give up its ability to regulate climate law — and businesses are conc...
Stuck in their homes, stuck in their jobs: why Americans feel frozen
21 Aug 2025
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Nobody is buying homes. Nobody is changing jobs. Wall Street Journal reporter Konrad Putzier explore...
How much money is Trump making off the presidency?
20 Aug 2025
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New Yorker staff writer David D. Kirkpatrick spent months tallying up the dizzying amount of cash Tr...
Inside sports’ escalating stalking problem
19 Aug 2025
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Stalking has become an unsettling part of the elite-sports landscape. The Athletic’s Carson Ke...
Why Zelenskyy is bringing backup to the White House
18 Aug 2025
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Politico’s Paul McLeary joins to talk about what’s next as President Trump meets with Uk...
The three leaders who will decide Ukraine’s fate
15 Aug 2025
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Reuters White House correspondent Steve Holland discusses the high-stakes meeting between President ...
Why economists are worried about Trump’s pick to oversee jobs data
14 Aug 2025
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Three out of 10 people have trouble falling and staying asleep. Jennifer Senior, staff writer for Th...
How Trump’s use of the military breaks with past presidents
13 Aug 2025
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The National Guard was deployed into Washington, D.C. Vera Bergengruen from the Wall Street Journal ...
Trump seizes control of D.C. police. Here’s what that means.
12 Aug 2025
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Trump deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Brian Mann from NPR explains how the president...
Billions of dollars are going to ICE. What will it do with the money?
11 Aug 2025
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Caitlin Dickerson with the Atlantic reports on how Congress has allocated an unprecedented sum of mo...
Israel is planning a major escalation of the war in Gaza. What to know.
08 Aug 2025
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Benjamin Netanyahu wants to take control of all of Gaza. Alexander Cornwell with Reuters unpacks wha...
Trump’s tariffs are raising billions. Where is that money going?
07 Aug 2025
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Tariffs for nearly 70 countries are implemented today. CNN’s Elisabeth Buchwald explains where all...
The hidden culprit behind your rising electricity bills
06 Aug 2025
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More universities are beginning to engage with the Trump administration on settlements and other agr...
How Trump’s Texas power grab could change voting nationwide
05 Aug 2025
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The Texas governor is in a political showdown with Democrats. Lawmakers have fled the state to derai...
How Trump firing a data chief threatens jobs-stats credibility
04 Aug 2025
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Trump fired a key official after she delivered some bad news about jobs numbers. Courtenay Brown wit...
How Trump is using tariffs to help a political ally
01 Aug 2025
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Trump unveiled a new set of tariffs across the globe as his deadline arrived. Manuela Andreoni from ...
Why we don’t actually know much about Trump’s trade deals
31 Jul 2025
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As President Trump touts trade deals ahead his Friday tariff deadline, Politico’s Daniel Desrocher...
Tsunami waves reach U.S. after Russian earthquake. What to know.
30 Jul 2025
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One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s east coast, setting off tsu...
Inside the IRS’s plans to share highly confidential taxpayer data with ICE
29 Jul 2025
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According to a ProPublica report, the IRS is building a system that would share taxpayer data with I...
What millions of student-loan borrowers need to know this week
28 Jul 2025
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Photos of emaciated, starving Palestinians have drawn international condemnation of Israel’s b...
What the numbers reveal about Trump’s mass-deportation plan
25 Jul 2025
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The Guardian looks at how Trump’s goal to deport 1 million people in his first year in office ...
Three new developments in the Epstein saga to know about
24 Jul 2025
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Trump was briefed in May that his name was among many cited in the files relating to the Jeffrey Eps...
The unspoken threat in Trump’s Wall Street Journal lawsuit
23 Jul 2025
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Trump sued the Wall Street Journal over its report that he wrote a birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein....