Nation and World Politics
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Russia and Ukraine trade deadly strikes as Zelenskyy prepares to meet Trump
Sep 22, 2026 7:39 am - Russia bombarded at least four Ukrainian regions overnight with missiles and drones, killing five people, officials said Tuesday, and Ukraine’s forces damaged another Russian oil refinery in their latest long-range strike.
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Trump in address to world leaders at the UN defends his decision to start the war against Iran
Sep 22, 2026 7:34 am - President Donald Trump returned to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at a tumultuous moment for the world — and for his presidency — and made the case that he's shown fortitude while other leaders have equivocated.
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Britain’s Burnham is set to meet Trump for the first time at the UN in New York
Sep 21, 2026 7:48 am - Andy Burnham once said he would refuse to meet Donald Trump. Now Britain’s prime minister is about to hold his first meeting with the U.S. president, with Ukraine and the soaring cost of conflict in the Middle East at the top of his agenda.
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Trump’s ‘grand conspiracy’ probe presses on with subpoenas after the lead prosecutor’s exit
Sep 21, 2026 7:36 am - Before taking over the sprawling Justice Department investigation into foes of President Donald Trump, Joe diGenova decried the lack of progress in bringing indictments.
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Russian drones slam a southern Ukraine city after Kyiv’s 1,000-drone weekend barrage
Sep 21, 2026 7:33 am - Russian drones blasted Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a day after Kyiv’s forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia, officials said Monday.
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico sue over denied White House access, citing First Amendment
Sep 21, 2026 7:30 am - CNN, MS NOW and Politico on Monday sued President Donald Trump’s administration after they were barred from covering the White House over the weekend, saying the selective ban was “a blatant violation” of the First Amendment.
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A city on guard: What the raids left behind after Operation Midway BlitzSep 19, 2026 10:29 am - It has been a year this month since the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz began. What it left behind can be measured in the number of neighborhood patrollers who are still making their daily rounds on constant lookout for the threat of federal agents. It can be measured in places still coming back to life, where people keep a wary eye from apartment balconies and from behind cracks in window curtains.
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After Trump ban, MS NOW and CNN say their journalists were denied access to White House
Sep 19, 2026 10:03 am - Two major news networks were denied access to the White House on Saturday morning, with reporters from CNN and MS NOW both going live to report they'd been barred following a ban imposed by President Donald Trump.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publiclySep 18, 2026 2:08 pm - More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the Defense Department’s internal casualty accounting data.
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Trump’s $1.4B haul comes back to haunt crypto industry
Sep 18, 2026 11:34 am - The crypto industry watched with a grim foreboding as its landmark bill detonated on the Senate floor Tuesday. Blame first fell on Democrats, none of whom voted to advance it. But some of the industry’s own supporters pointed elsewhere: at President Donald Trump and the roughly $1.4 billion in income he generated from crypto ventures last year.