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President Trump’s surprise decision to suspend sanctions on Russian diesel fuel stunned Ukrainian and European officials, who were meeting with U.S. envoys at an exclusive golf club near Miami.

The death of a worker from the lab last week caused concern worldwide and is said to have killed at least one other person since and has many curious about the Siberian lab.

The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.

Pay off Iran to open Hormuz and freeze its nuclear program.

Justice Alito‘s book purports to answer the Court’s critics—by rebutting a caricature and ignoring the ways in which his own behavior contradicts his claims.

The US president said rising gas prices were a "small price to pay for keeping the world safe" at an election rally in Nebraska.

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Social media posts, including from the Department of Homeland Security and a Texas Republican candidate, have helped stir fear among people of South Asian heritage.

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Trillions of dollars in spending, higher interest rates, hardly any jobs

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.

Democrats finally show up to the class war.

The bill was designed to alert consumers about where their drugs came from. After two major changes to the proposed law, experts worry it won’t be as effective.

ProPublica revealed how a rushed effort to arm Ukraine with artillery shells wasted half a billion dollars in taxpayer funding. Here are the biggest takeaways from that reporting.

Influencer and model Bettina Trump, the wife of Donald Trump Jr., defended the couple’s wedding gift given to them by Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev. “Apparently our wedding is making he…

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...

Vice President JD Vance received sobering assessments about the war that did not line up with what he, President Trump and other top administration officials were saying publicly.

Wages now constitute the lowest share of the nation’s income since the government began measuring them in 1947.

‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Barbie’ show a zeitgeist shift that goes beyond Hollywood: The hero’s narrative is corroding our political and public life.

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A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.

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The Band of the Coldstream Guards played the track during the Changing of the Guard ceremony, drawing crowds of tourists who stopped to listen.

New CAP analysis reveals the Trump administration’s costly National Guard deployments have failed to reduce violent crime despite its claims of success.

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It wouldn't be the first time Donald Trump blew one of the country's biggest secrets.

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

Elected officials across the country are fighting the federal government’s mass deportation campaign with new laws and funding. But some states are welcoming the shock troops.

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Shasta County, California says they have offered a job to Tina Peters, the former County Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado. Peters was convicted in Colorado for tampering with voting machines.

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The real issue is not funding. It is planning.