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Trump admin cheers ‘important steps’ as Paraguay targets Iran and its terror proxies

The Trump administration praised Paraguay for designating Iran’s IRGC, Hamas and Hezbollah as terror groups, calling it a key move to cut off Tehran’s global terror reach.

Trump targets ActBlue for investigation of straw donors

President Trump is targeting ActBlue, the major online donation platform used by Democrats, by cracking down on "straw donors" or foreign campaign contributions, which he says the site has been involved in.

Trump makes probationary periods tougher for new federal workers

President Trump on Thursday ordered a new set of performance evaluations for federal workers during the probationary period of their employment.

Trump paves the way for deep-sea mining

President Trump is making moves for the United States to obtain the minerals in the seafloor, an offshore mining operation that some countries have banned.

Florida Senate’s Democratic leader says the state party is dead and he’s leaving it

The top Democrat in Florida's Senate is leaving his party, declaring that "the Democratic Party in Florida is dead."

Civil rights groups sue to restore jobs at Homeland Security oversight offices that were gutted

Three advocacy groups are suing the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Kristi Noem, seeking to restore staff jobs at three gutted offices that oversee civil rights protections across the department's broad mission.

Trump pardons Nevada politician who paid for her plastic surgery with funds to honor a slain officer

President Donald Trump has pardoned a Nevada Republican politician who was awaiting sentencing on federal charges that she used money meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery.

How Hollywood fell apart in the 30 years since ‘While You Were Sleeping’

Thirty years ago this month, I sat in a suburban movie house and watched America’s sweetheart stumble backward into love. No, the picture wasn’t Pretty Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, or You’ve Got Mail, though those 1990s classics deserve columns of their own. Rather, it was a film that nearly fell apart before it could be […]

Review of ‘Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light’

Some historical fiction is uncontroversial because it presents the past merely as a backdrop for a story that does not suggest new facts or challenge widely accepted interpretations. Other successful creations go the other way, dispensing with the truth so brazenly that they render caveats fatuous because their narratives aren’t so much revisionist history as […]

Algorithmic friendship

A friend of mine sent me a text last month. “Hope you’re doing well,” he said. “Any time for a call, just to catch up?” It’s always nice when a friend reaches out  — this friend is particularly diligent at staying in touch — so we set a time for a chat the next day. […]

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