Nation and World Politics
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Democrats confront limits of their power in bid to stop Trump and Musk
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...
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Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, clears Senate committee
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...
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Elon Musk tightens grip on federal government as Democrats raise alarms
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, ...
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China launches an antitrust probe into Google. Here’s what it means
Feb 04, 2025 3:34 pm - The Chinese government's move to open an antitrust probe into Google is the latest development in a long and tangled relationship that goes back to the early 2000s.
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How Trump tariffs could impact trade in Illinois
Feb 04, 2025 1:17 pm - President Donald Trump’s plan to implement tariffs on key United States trading partners could affect more than $100 billion worth of goods imported to Illinois from Canada, Mexico and China.
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US aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacuees
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.
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RFK Jr. appears on track to become US health secretary as he wins key Republican senator’s support
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.
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Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries
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.
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China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google
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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Wall Street falls following Trump’s tariffs, but not as badly as feared in the morning
Feb 03, 2025 4:01 pm - The threat of a punishing trade war sent Wall Street on a roller coaster Monday. After initially falling sharply on worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, U.S. stocks pared their losses after Mexico said it had negotiated a one-month reprieve.