Articles filed under Political Figures
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Tariff threats cast a shadow over US reliance on Canada for the majority of its oil importsDec 19, 2024 8:57 am - The U.S. increasingly relies on Canadian crude oil to meet domestic demand and that relationship faces potential strain amid the threat of tariffs from President-elect Donald Trump.
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What does Big Tech hope to gain from warming up to Trump?Dec 18, 2024 6:33 am - NEW YORK — In a string of visits, dinners, calls, monetary pledges and social media overtures, Big Tech chiefs — including Apple's Tim Cook, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Meta’s M...
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Trump’s lawyers allege juror misconduct in latest bid to get his hush money conviction dismissedDec 17, 2024 1:58 pm - NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump’s lawyers are raising a new claim in their fight to overturn his hush money conviction, alleging that the historic verdict wa...
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Canada's finance minister resigns as unpopular Trudeau faces biggest test of his political careerDec 16, 2024 2:23 pm - TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces the biggest test of his political career after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long one of his most powerful an...
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Trump weighs in on NY mayor, vaccines and drones in freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-LagoDec 16, 2024 2:09 pm - In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, declared the country was “not going to lose" the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey.
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From city streets to state highways — new IDOT secretary tappedDec 11, 2024 5:44 pm - Chicago’s former transportation chief takes driver's seat at IDOT. Will she pave the way to a "world-class transportation system?“
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Elon Musk warns Republicans against standing in Trump’s way — or hisDec 10, 2024 11:10 am - A week after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, Elon Musk said his political action committee would “play a significant role in primaries.”
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Key Republican senator reports ‘good discussions’ with Pete HegsethDec 10, 2024 8:25 am - Sen. Joni Ernst, a leader in the fight against sexual assault in the military who has been hesitant to support Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defen...
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Biden is rushing aid to Ukraine. Both sides are digging in. And everyone is bracing for TrumpDec 10, 2024 7:04 am - The grinding war between Ukraine and its Russian invaders has escalated ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration, with President Joe Biden rushing out billions of dollars more in military aid before U.S. support for Kyiv’s defenses is thrown into question under the new administration.
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In promising to shake up Washington, Trump is in a class of his ownDec 09, 2024 7:45 am - In the history of American politics, there's no shortage of presidents who promised to shake up Washington once they got to the White House. But Donald Trump may prove to be in a class of his own, and he appears more interested in beating the federal government into submission than recalibrating it.