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Trump expects to be 'satisfied' with DOGE cuts in few months

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he expected efforts to slash the size of the federal government’s workforce would bring it down to an appropriate level in the next two to three months as he met with billionaire adviser Elon Musk and Cabinet officials on Monday.

“We’re getting down to a point we think probably over the next two ...Read more

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Trump cancels NIH grants on equity research

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is canceling dozens of National Institutes of Health grants funding health equity research, including work studying Black maternal and fetal health and HIV.

Grantees were told in termination notices delivered over the last several days that their project “no longer effectuates agency priorities” and ...Read more

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Analysis: Trump's efforts to lower egg prices gets overshadowed by more partisan moves

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his team have had success in driving down egg prices, but achieving this campaign promise largely has been drowned out by their aggressive push to expand executive authority, target political rivals and dismantle certain government agencies.

Some congressional Democrats, sensing a politically weakened ...Read more

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Woman died after being 'violently' ejected from revolving door at Las Vegas Trump hotel, suit claims

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LAS VEGAS — The family of a woman who died a year after being “ejected” from a revolving door at Trump International in Las Vegas is suing the property.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed March 18 in Clark County District Court against Trump International Hotel claims California resident Diana Truschke, 78, died because of injuries she ...Read more

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Supreme Court rejects casino owner Steve Wynn's bid to reconsider US defamation laws

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid from former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to consider hearing arguments against a long-standing legal precedent that affords media organizations broad protections from libel lawsuits.

On Monday, the court denied Wynn’s petition to revisit New York Times v. Sullivan, a landmark 1964 ruling that ...Read more

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Supreme Court explores Louisiana's use of race in redistricting

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices expressed concerns Monday about the future of race in redistricting, part of oral arguments in the yearslong fight over a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana.

The state and a group of voting rights plaintiffs asked the justices to preserve the state’s current ...Read more

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Trump imposes 25% tariff on countries buying Venezuelan oil, says regime sent gang to US

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The United States will impose a 25% tariff on imports from any country that purchases oil products from Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced Monday, saying the move seeks to penalize Caracas’ socialist regime for deliberately sending tens of thousands of criminals to the United States.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social ...Read more

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Trump lawyers urge Supreme Court to block San Francisco judge's order to rehire workers

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block a judge's order requiring the government to "immediately" rehire 16,000 federal employees.

In an emergency appeal, they argued that U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco had no legal authority to second-guess the administration's personnel ...Read more

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Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump make relationship 'Instagram official'

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Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump confirmed their relationship together in a Sunday night social media post.

“Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together. At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts,” Woods wrote in an Instagram post.

Woods and ...Read more

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Trump imposes 25% tariff on countries buying Venezuelan oil, says regime sent gang to US

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The United States will impose a 25% tariff on imports from any country that purchases oil products from Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced Monday, saying that move seeks to penalize Caracas’ socialist regime for deliberately sending tens of thousands of criminals to the U.S.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social account, ...Read more

Trump demands his “distorted” portrait in Colorado's Capitol be taken down

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DENVER — President Donald Trump took to social media Sunday night to complain about what he called a “distorted” portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado State Capitol’s Gallery of Presidents.

“Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all...Read more

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Mia Love, first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, has died at age 49

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WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Mia Love of Utah, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday at age 49.

“She was in her home surrounded by family,” family members announced in a social media post. ”In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the bands of mortality and...Read more

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Congress returns for 3-week sprint session

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WASHINGTON — Both the House and Senate come back from recess this week to begin a busy three-week period that’s expected to focus on Republicans’ budget reconciliation agenda, including extending and expanding tax cuts and tightening immigration policy.

The top items on the House agenda this week, meanwhile, will include more measures to ...Read more

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Commentary: Trump 2.0 -- Navigating the new political landscape

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With Trump’s return to the White House, we once again bear daily witness to a spectacle that could be described as entertaining, were it only a TV series. But Trump’s unprecedented assault on our democratic norms and institutions is not only very real but represents the gravest peril our democratic republic has confronted in the last 80 ...Read more

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Bay State AG Andrea Campbell to Trump administration: 'Bring it on'

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Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has a message in response to threats from within the Trump administration to bring “hell” to Boston in pursuit of the president’s mass deportation plans.

“Bring it on,” she said.

Campbell, speaking during an interview aired Sunday by WCVB, said that while the country is facing a ...Read more

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Local governments where Trump spends many weekends seek federal reimbursement for security costs

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President Donald Trump did something unusual this weekend: he didn’t visit his Mar-a-Lago Club, something he’s done most weekends since returning to the presidency.

That gave a break to local law enforcement, which plays a major role in presidential security when he’s in Palm Beach County — and especially as he moves among his Mar-a-...Read more

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Trump consistently frames policy around 'fairness,' trading on American frustration

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In a sit-down interview with Fox News last month, President Trump and his billionaire "efficiency" adviser Elon Musk framed new tariffs on foreign trading partners as a simple matter of fairness.

"I said, 'Here's what we're going to do: reciprocal. Whatever you charge, I'm charging,'" Trump said of a conversation he'd had with Indian Prime ...Read more

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Emboldened Trump signals long court fight to expand power

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President Donald Trump has ramped up his fight with the judiciary as he racks up losses in court over his administration’s efforts to reshape the U.S. government and its approach on everything from immigration to federal spending.

Two months into his term, Trump is already fighting more than 150 lawsuits challenging his executive actions, ...Read more

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Carney calls April election in Canada, seeking mandate to face down Trump

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28, with polls showing a close contest between his Liberal Party and the Conservatives as the country faces a trade war and taunts about its sovereignty from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Carney requested the dissolution of Parliament on Sunday in a meeting with Governor General ...Read more

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Canada's election hinges on who can fix an economy under US threat

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Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to plunge Canada into an election campaign on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war sharpens the focus on fixing long-standing problems that have hindered the Canadian economy.

Carney and his chief rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, each will seek to persuade Canadians he’s the ...Read more

 

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