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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"He was a male diva like no woman could be," President Trump on late opera great Luciano Pavarotti at a White House event unveiling a statue of Christopher Columbus
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
President Trump says he has a call set up with Russian President Vladimir Putin today on Putin's birthday.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump urges Ohio to vote: If we win big "we're going to shove it up their ass." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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In crude Ohio rally speech, Trump says he may not help if Democrats win
"Just get out and vote," Trump said at a rally for Republican candidates. "If you do that, we're going to win, and we're going to win big, and we're going to shove it up their ass."
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Most American Children Are Being Auto-Enrolled in Trump Accounts. What to Know. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Most American Children Are Being Auto-Enrolled in Trump Accounts. What to Know.
The Trump administration may have just signed up your child — and more than 60 million others — for a 530A savings account (if you haven’t already done so).
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Kristi Noem’s Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She Left
The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Crypto industry spends big to try to stop Sherrod Brown from winning in Ohio
The industry also worked against him in 2024.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Trump administration is paying $1.6 million a week to keep Voice of America staff on leave
Hundreds of VOA staffers have been on paid leave since the agency sidelined them in March 2025.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At the White House, Trump urges Hispanics to go out and vote in November midterm elections: "We're doing an extremely poor job of promotion, and an extremely great job of running the country," he said. "But we'll get the word out. ... We have to turn this around."
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic warns AI may pose 'existential risks to humanity' in IPO filing
Anthropic plans to caution potential investors in its ​IPO that advanced AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," an extraordinary warning by a company seeking to profit from the...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Trump rejects Iranian proposal to open Hormuz and end fighting
Iran raised the initiative at the UN General Assembly in New York and even engaged the Saudis, underscoring the stakes of the conflict.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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How Europe’s intensifying marine heatwaves threaten its fisheries
As drought spread and wildfires raged across Europe this summer, the extraordinary heat didn't stop at the shoreline.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Desolate Arctic outpost likely to host US troops under new Greenland deal
At a windswept gravel airstrip in eastern Greenland, ‌a small Danish military detachment has quietly kept watch for decades.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Successful fight to save Cherrydale Library honored by Virginia Library Association | ARLnow.com www.arlnow.com/2026/09/23/s... @arlingtonva.us
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ARLnow | Arlington, Va. local news
ARLnow is the up-to-the-minute source for breaking news, local government news, weather, events and community happenings in Arlington and Falls Church, Virginia.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues
James McCrery II resigned in October after warning that the president was insisting on designs that violated fire and safety codes.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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AI error-ridden court filings surge despite three years of court sanctions
(Billable Hours is Reuters' weekly report on lawyers and money. Please send tips or suggestions to D.Thomas@thomsonreuters.com)
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
After Accolades Abroad, an Israeli Documentary Faces a Backlash at Home www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/w...
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‘NAZA,’ Israeli Film About Killings in Gaza, Faces Backlash
The film “NAZA” investigates the killing of Palestinians by Israeli forces in Gaza. Israel’s culture minister has suggested revoking the directors’ citizenship.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Reflecting Pool Failure www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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EXCLUSIVE: How a billion-dollar sanctions dodge kept Chinese goods flowing to Iran
The secretive trade mechanism has provided a financial lifeline for Tehran in recent years.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Trump's Iran campaign echoes the post-9/11 'forever wars'
With the 9/11 anniversary at hand, Trump’s war against Iran is drawing comparisons in foreign policy circles to the ​long, divisive conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq that preceded it.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump moves to ease environmental rules for data centers www.axios.com/2026/09/10/t...
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Trump moves to ease environmental rules for data centers
The moves risk inflaming an already fierce and bipartisan backlash to data centers, the backbone of the AI boom.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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How two Israeli brothers are driving a West Bank settler land grab
The Libi family is in the vanguard of a hardline movement to seize land with farms and livestock, displacing Palestinians. As illegal outposts proliferate, settler violence is surging.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Gulf shipping traffic via Strait of Hormuz falls to six vessels
Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to six on Monday, compared ​with a 10-day average of about 11 vessels, ‌shipping data showed, amid fading hopes of a peace deal between the U.S. and ...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Trump used elaborate ruse to fly out of Turkey following summit because of Iran threat, report says
The Washington Post reports that President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft due to an Iranian assassination threat
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
U.S. Rep Bill Keating on Trump 'low-keying it" on Iran: "He has to retreat from where he is. What you're seeing here is the beginning of a capitulation. ... This is reality. It's sinking in." - CNN interview
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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TSMC could face $1 billion or more fine from US probe, sources say
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside a Huawei AI processor, according to...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Ukraine accuses Russia of war crime after video shows drone attacking market vendor
Footage released by Ukrainian police shows the drone pursuing an unidentified man around a van being used as a street stand before exploding ​after he dives for cover behind the vehicle.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Trump blinks again. Under pressure, US president cancels "massive attack" threatened against Iran. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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Trump says he will hold off on fresh Iran attack in hope of quick deal
Iran warned this weekend against any “adventurous action” by the U.S.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Israeli strikes kill at least four in Gaza despite Trump announcing breakthrough
Palestinian ‌health officials said Israeli warplanes carried out strikes in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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EXCLUSIVE: Iran to get Chinese shoulder-launched missile systems in weeks, sources say
Iran is expected to receive within weeks a first shipment out of up to 400 Chinese-made air-defence missile launchers.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Modi's education minister resigns in major win for Indian youth protesters
India's biggest street protests of recent years have become a political flashpoint, posing one of the biggest challenges ​to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech 'kill switch'
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ​has asked diplomats to push back against talk of a "kill switch" in American technology products following the White House's short-lived decision to keep foreigner...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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The Pentagon, sinking billions into Iran war, is quickly running short on cash
With some funds set to dry up within weeks, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is set to press lawmakers Tuesday to address the increasingly urgent shortfall.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Lebanon's Aoun to meet Trump at White House, hoping to generate pressure on Israel
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will make his first trip to the White House this week to present a plan to U.S. ​President Donald Trump on how to disarm Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and secure ...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Trump claims voting by noncitizens is rampant in America. The numbers tell another story.
Federal prosecutors have charged just 129 people under a federal “voting by aliens” statute. Many of these incidents appear to stem from voter confusion, miscommunication with election officials or ad...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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SpaceX IPO earns millions for US Small Business Administration head Kelly Loeffler
U.S. Small Business ​Administration head Kelly Loeffler multiplied the value of her investment in Elon Musk's SpaceX after she was nominated for the ‌job, earning millions of dollars from the company'...
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Trump administration allows killing of species threatened with extinction
Regulatory changes to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act also demand that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service consider the economic toll of habitat protection.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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Exclusive | Top Treasury Tax Official Ousted After Clashes With White House Over IRS Audits
Kenneth Kies warned that political officials risked breaching a law that limits who can influence tax enforcement.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Rubio tries to enlist other nations in antifa fight, but some allies recoil
The secretary of state plans to convene foreign ministers in Washington next week. The event has unsettled some U.S. and European officials.
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Doina Chiacu @doina.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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