Nation and World Politics
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Britain is getting a defense boost aimed at sending a message to Moscow, and to Trump
Jun 02, 2025 8:29 am - The United Kingdom will build new nuclear-powered attack submarines, get its army ready to fight a war in Europe and become “a battle-ready, armor-clad nation,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, part of a boost to military spending designed to send a message to Moscow — and Washington.
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Turmoil, worry swirl over cuts to key federal agencies as hurricane season begins
May 31, 2025 5:37 pm - WASHINGTON — With predictions for a busy hurricane season beginning Sunday, experts in storms and disasters are worried about something potentially as chaotic as the swir...
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Spike in steel tariffs could imperil Trump promise of lower grocery prices
May 31, 2025 5:08 pm - NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum could hit Americans in an unexpected place: grocery aisles. The announcement Friday ...
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Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
May 31, 2025 3:14 pm - Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee.
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Trump’s week shows the risks of his full-speed-ahead approach
May 31, 2025 1:34 pm - President Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by volatility, brought about in part by his insistence on bulling forward in search of maximum gain, even if that heightens the risk of ultimate failure. This week crystalized just how rapidly his fortunes can rise and fall.
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Vernon Hills companies behind effort to block Trump tariffsMay 31, 2025 10:47 am - A federal judge’s decision last week to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs stems from a challenge filed by a pair of Northwest suburban companies.
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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
May 30, 2025 8:18 pm - Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in nume...
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Supreme Court says Trump for now can revoke ‘immigration parole’ for 530K migrants
May 30, 2025 7:14 pm - A divided Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way, for now, for the Trump administration to revoke the provisional legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of im...
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US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump administration’s sanctuary list
May 30, 2025 7:02 pm - HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — State and local officials blasted the Trump administration's widely anticipated list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions that are deemed uncooperative...
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Trump gives Elon Musk an Oval Office sendoff, crediting him with ‘colossal change’
May 30, 2025 6:52 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump bid farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Friday, providing a cordial conclusion to a tumultuous tenure for the billionaire entr...