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Trump tells CPAC his goal is a 'lasting' Republican majority
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expressed optimism about negotiations in Congress to push forward his agenda on taxes and immigration, declaring that his party’s political movement will have lasting staying power in Washington.
Trump reprised many measures of his first month back in the White House in a speech to the Conservative ...Read more

NY Gov. Hochul meets with Trump to defend NYC congestion pricing
U.S. President Donald Trump met on Friday with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who defended New York City’s congestion pricing program two days after the U.S. moved to undo the toll system.
The Republican president and New York’s Democratic governor met for more than an hour in the Oval Office, a Hochul spokesperson said. The pair “had a ...Read more

Trump tells federal scientists to end climate report work, report says
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told U.S. government scientists working on a global climate report to stop their work, one of the scientists involved told CNN.
The U.S. had been “highly involved” in planning for the next installment of the report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, according to CNN...Read more

Fresh off meetings with foreign allies, Rep. Schiff echoes alarm over Trump-style diplomacy
After days of meetings with European leaders, Israeli officials and other international security experts, Sen. Adam Schiff this week offered a blistering assessment of President Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy.
In an interview with The Los Angeles Times, the California Democrat accused Trump and other administration officials of ...Read more

Germany's Merz takes aim at Greens in final election stretch
Conservative frontrunner Friedrich Merz stepped up his attacks on rival Robert Habeck from the Greens as the campaign ahead of Germany’s federal election enters the final stretch.
Merz dismissed Habeck as “a sales person for heat pumps” who wasn’t up for the job of running the German economy, and pledged to appoint someone more ...Read more

'The race for governor is over': How Trump upended Florida politics
For nearly a decade, Republicans with political aspirations have been haunted by a devastating possibility.
One day, President Donald Trump could publicly endorse a political rival.
That nightmare came true on Thursday for the GOPers eyeing the 2026 Florida governor’s race. Trump posted to Truth Social his “Complete and Total Endorsement�...Read more

Trump's halt on refugees leaves families fearful for loved ones overseas: 'There is no hope'
PHILADELPHIA -- American embassy specialist Mohibullah Hasrat was evacuated from Afghanistan as the nation fell to the Taliban, departing Kabul with the promise that his parents and sisters would join him in the United States.
Finally, three years after they took refuge in Pakistan, his family was set to arrive in Philadelphia on Feb. 9 — ...Read more

Trump replaces a top military commander amid widespread shakeup
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Charles Q. Brown, as part of a broader shakeup of top military officers on Friday night.
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform Friday night, announced that Brown, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer who was appointed by President Joe Biden...Read more

Top Trump aide says conditions on federal aid to LA will target California Coastal Commission
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is planning to set conditions on federal disaster assistance to Los Angeles as it rebuilds from the Eaton and Palisades fires, a top aide to the president said Friday, indicating that the California Coastal Commission would be a central target of the White House.
Ric Grenell, a longtime ally to President...Read more

Supreme Court turns away -- for now -- Trump's appeal seeking to fire agency official
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday turned down President Donald Trump’s appeal seeking to fire an agency official.
Instead, the justices said they would weigh in on the matter only after a judge rules next week on whether the firing was legal.
The decision is a small but temporary setback for Trump and his lawyers,
Chief Justice ...Read more

Trump says he's considering merging Postal Service into Commerce
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is weighing a move that would absorb the U.S. Postal Service, an independent agency, into the Department of Commerce, a sweeping change that comes as his administration looks to overhaul the U.S. federal government.
Asked about a move to shift the agency into the Commerce Department, Trump said the ...Read more

House Republicans ready to roll the dice on budget blueprint
WASHINGTON — House Republican leaders are barreling ahead with a vote early next week on their all-in-one budget framework designed to knock out a huge swath of President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities in one filibuster-proof basket.
But they head into the vote on the fiscal 2025 budget resolution, currently expected Tuesday, on ...Read more

Brian Fitzpatrick is blasting President Trump's comments on Ukraine -- without naming him
PHILADELPHIA — On Wednesday morning President Donald J. Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social, slamming Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “terrible leader” and claiming that the wartime president is a “dictator without elections.”
Four hours later, U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., shot off a one-sentence ...Read more

Caribbean leaders will invite Trump to visit. They also want meeting on US policies
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Caribbean leaders want President Donald Trump to come for a visit — and along with the invitation they also plan, “as soon as practically possible,” to try to get a meeting with his senior officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne said Friday.
“We’re ...Read more

Florida Rep. Cory Mills under investigation by DC police for alleged assault
ORLANDO, Fla. — Central Florida Congressman Cory Mills is under investigation for an alleged assault, a spokesman for the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department said Friday.
Officers were called to an apartment building about two miles from the U.S. Capitol at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, according to the police department.
Mills, ...Read more

I went to CPAC as an anthropologist to see how Trump supporters are feeling − for them, a ‘golden age’ has begun
At the start of his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump declared, “The golden age of America begins right now!”
A month later, Trump’s supporters gathered at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, from Feb. 19-22 to celebrate the advent of this golden age.
...Read more

Caribbean leaders agree Haiti needs elections. The debate is on how soon they can happen
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — As the sounds of automatic gunfire in a central working-class Port-au-Prince neighborhood once more sent desperate residents fleeing for refuge on Thursday, hundreds of miles away in this surf-swept eastern island, Caribbean leaders were debating a key question:
Can Haiti hold elections by Nov. 15, as the head of the ...Read more

Trump's climate-change moves, other foreign policy shifts pose challenge for Caribbean
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Invasive brown algae is destroying their sandy coastlines, emanating toxic gasses that are killing corals and turning hotel guests away, while increasingly deadly tropical storms and uncharacteristic hurricanes are threatening to sink their already vulnerable economies.
But as governments across the Caribbean region ...Read more

We study mass surveillance for social control, and we see Trump laying the groundwork to ‘contain’ people of color and immigrants
President Donald Trump has vowed to target his political enemies, and experts have warned that he could weaponize U.S. intelligence agencies to conduct mass surveillance on his targets.
Mass surveillance is the widespread monitoring of civilians. Governments typically target specific groups – such as religious minorities, certain ...Read more

Trump’s moves to strip employment protections from federal workers threaten to make government function worse – not better
On top of efforts to fire potentially tens of thousands of federal workers, an early executive order from President Donald Trump’s second term seeks to reclassify the employment status of as many as 50,000 other federal workers – out of more than 2 million total – to make them easier for the president to fire as well.
The order ...Read more
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