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President Donald Trump speaks after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 06, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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Judges block Trump executive orders targeting law firms tied to Mueller probe

Trump pardons Trevor Milton, who was accused of fraud related to bankrupt truck maker Nikola

‘Something stinks’: Elon Musk, congressional Republicans target Democrats’ main fundraising machine

Court lets Trump fire labor and worker protection board members while they fight to keep their jobs

Trump’s ‘state secrets’ claim over deportation flight details breaks with past practice

State Department formally notifies Congress it is effectively dissolving USAID

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she’s worried about declining standards and broken norms

Law firms with ties to politics and Mueller probe take Trump to court over his executive order

Analysis

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, testifies before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

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A warning sign flares as the Trump White House refuses to moderate its shock politics

Why the American consumer is fed up

Trump’s favorite F-word is getting a workout

The White House says the Yemen security breach is a hoax. Here’s why it’s not

The larger problem uncovered by the Signal scandal

The politics of the Yemen chat scandal is obscuring key foreign policy shifts

Loathing for Europe, love for emoji and other things we learned from the Signal snafu

Damning Yemen group chat reflects an administration indifferent to the rule of law

Trump intentionally hired amateurs for top jobs. This is their most dramatic blunder

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Fact check: Trump exaggerates trade deficits, his 2024 vote total, Ukraine aid, border crossings and fentanyl deaths

President Donald Trump speaks at the Justice Department on Friday.

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Fact check: Trump’s false claims on immigration, Biden, Ukraine in DOJ remarks

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National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, in Washington, DC.

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‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Atlanta in June 2024.

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KFile: Gavin Newsom spent years fighting for progressive positions he now bashes on his new podcast

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What Matters

Martin Luther King, Jr. sits on a couch and speaks on the telephone after encountering a white mob protesting against the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama, in May 1961.

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Trump wants to speed release of FBI’s MLK spying files. But why?

Fault Lines

President Donald Trump and White House senior adviser and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk deliver remarks next to a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC.

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Trump’s moves to hollow out government could be difficult to undo

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Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from dismantling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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Trump targets ‘improper ideology’ at the Smithsonian in latest effort to reshape the arts and history

Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn Boasberg’s ruling blocking him from using the Alien Enemies Act for deportations

McConnell warns of ‘embarrassing naivete’ in Trump admin’s dealings with Putin while sharply criticizing Ukraine policy

Officials say texts sent by Waltz, Ratcliffe in Signal chat may have damaged US’ ongoing ability to gather intel on Houthis

Military spouse federal employees were told to return to office, until CNN asked the Trump administration

Trump signs executive order ending collective bargaining rights for many federal workers

Tracking Trump’s executive actions

Trump targets another large DC law firm where Robert Mueller used to work with executive order

Senate Republicans hit overdrive on their play to advance Trump’s agenda

Republicans grow concerned about Trump’s handpicked candidate in Florida special election

Social Security Administration delays and curtails new anti-fraud policy

White House pulls Stefanik’s UN ambassador nomination amid concern over narrow Republican House majority

Trump admin temporarily restores funding to initiative tracking Russian war crimes

Top senators ask for watchdog to probe Signal chat as some in GOP say it’s ‘time to move on’

Judge orders Trump administration to keep Signal records amid Yemen attack chat controversy

Alleged top MS-13 member arrested in Virginia was ‘leader for the East Coast,’ AG Bondi says

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Strom Thurmond room in the U.S. Capitol building, in Washington D.C, on December 19, 2018. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)

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JD Vance, Donald Trump's running mate, takes the stage at the Republican National Convention on July 17, 2024.

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