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Democrats confront limits of their power in bid to stop Trump and Musk

By STEVE PEOPLES and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Feb 04, 2025 6:50 pm - WASHINGTON — Outraged Democrats are testing the limits of their diminished power as they try to stop the stunning power grabs of President Donald Trump and his chief lieu...
Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, clears Senate committee

By DAVID KLEPPER and FARNOUSH AMIRI
Feb 04, 2025 6:18 pm - WASHINGTON — Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to be President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence cleared a key Senate committee Tuesday despite concerns raised ab...
Elon Musk tightens grip on federal government as Democrats raise alarms

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Feb 04, 2025 5:24 pm - WASHINGTON — Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald Trump ’s blessing, sidelining career officials, ...
Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 04, 2025 5:20 pm - GUATEMALA CITY — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American crimin...
Trump suggests displaced Palestinians in Gaza be ‘permanently’ resettled outside war-torn territory

By AAMER MADHANI, TIA GOLDENBERG and ZEKE MILLER
Feb 04, 2025 5:08 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory. Trump made the pro...
NY lets doctors keep names off abortion pills to avoid red-state charges

By Victoria Bisset
Feb 04, 2025 5:05 pm - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has approved legislation that allows physicians prescribing abortion medication to request that their names are left off the packaging for ...
US aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacuees

By HANNA ARHIROVA
Feb 04, 2025 7:59 am - In what used to be the concert hall in this town in eastern Ukraine, cots are arranged on stage. Instead of music, the room is filled with the muffled sobs of local people driven from their homes by fighting in the country’s almost three-year war with Russia.
RFK Jr. appears on track to become US health secretary as he wins key Republican senator’s support

By AMANDA SEITZ and STEPHEN GROVES
Feb 04, 2025 7:45 am - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, is set to find out on Tuesday if he has cleared the first hurdle to become the nation’s top health official when the Senate Finance Committee votes on his nomination.
Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 04, 2025 7:20 am - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google

By KEN MORITSUGU and HUIZHONG WU
Feb 04, 2025 7:12 am - China countered President Donald Trump's across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports Tuesday, as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures.

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