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Schumer, Jeffries demand Trump meeting ahead of looming shutdown
Democratic congressional leaders demanded on Saturday a meeting with President Donald Trump ahead of a possible government shutdown after Senate Republicans and Democrats blocked rival stopgap measures.
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Trump threatens 'incalculable price' if Maduro fails to take back migrants from US
President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to the Nicolás Maduro regime on Saturday, demanding that it immediately accept the return of criminals and mentally ill individuals who he said were released from Venezuelan ...Read more
Trump shapes immigration gilded age with $100,000 H-1B fee
President Donald Trump took his most extensive step yet toward overhauling the U.S. legal migration system, with a pair of proclamations that explicitly favor the wealthiest of the world’s prospective expat workers.
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Ronald Brownstein: 'Color-blind' conservatism has some holes in its logic
The Supreme Court and President Donald Trump’s administration are mounting parallel crusades to virtually eliminate the use of race in government decision-making.
With one conspicuous exception.
Between them, the court...Read more
This Is Not Funny
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, told a right-wing podcaster, "this" being the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel. They did it the easy way. All ...Read more
Congress has no good excuse to keep trading stocks
In what’s become something of a ritual, members of Congress have lately been holding news conferences calling for stricter limits on their own stock trading. Americans love this idea, yet the bills have so far gone ...Read more
Editorial: Liberation Day tariffs are an increasingly costly mistake
Amid the president’s blitz of tariff initiatives, the April “Liberation Day” scheme is an outlier. Rather than targeting specific products or countries to advance a policy goal, it imposed across-the-board duties, ...Read more
Noah Feldman: Blaming violence on free speech is a very old trick
In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the Trump administration is following a very specific, very old script. It argues that political speech causes political violence, and that this speech must therefore be ...Read more
Commentary: Jimmy Kimmel and the threat that comedy poses to autocrats
The abrupt suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show on ABC might seem like the least of our worries amid the shuttering of government agencies, the collapse of congressional checks on executive power and ...Read more
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