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Note to critics of the Trump tariffs: This is not the 1930s

Here’s a fact: No one — not Fed Chairman Jay Powell nor all the talking heads on Bloomberg and elsewhere who have blasted President Trump’s tariff regimen — has any idea how his upending of global trade terms will turn out. 

Whole Hog Politics: Checking in on Election Day 2025 

On the menu: Classical on the rocks; Newsom unveils Texas revenge package; Brown in; Where do you put 653 House members?; A dumpling for a bear There are many kinds of bias in the news business, but few as durable and reliable as New Yorkism: the outsized place that news happening in America’s media capital...

Bondi names DC ‘emergency police commissioner’

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday tapped the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief to serve as Washington's “emergency police commissioner," a move to wrest power from the district's current police chief amid the Trump administration's law enforcement takeover. DEA Administrator Terry Cole will now assume “all of the powers and duties” of D.C. Police Chief...

Nearly 60,000 Remington hair dryers recalled: Here’s why

You should immediately stop using the hair dryers, according to the recall.

Britain’s net-zero scheme is being derailed by opposition to solar and wind projects

Rural landowners are telling the owners of proposed solar and wind projects to take their PV panels and turbines and put them somewhere the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.

Formerly ‘DeFuture,’ DeSantis is diminished as 2028 GOP nominee

Although there is no DeSantis 2028 groundswell, he could eventually make a comeback, as the young governor turns 47 in September.

Alaska summit tests Trump’s peacemaker credentials

In today’s issue: ▪ Trump: Agenda with Putin ‘like chess’ ▪ AG Bondi federalizes DC police control ▪ States’ redistricting arms race escalates ▪ Trump shores up Social Security support President Trump today faces the most critical test yet of his ability to deliver on his promise to make peace in Ukraine. The president will...

What do Putin, Trump and Zelensky want from Alaska summit?

President Trump's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday could shape the future of Moscow’s more than three-year war in Ukraine — for better or worse. Trump has made ending the war a priority focus in his second term, but Putin has been a brick wall, refusing any concessions toward peace and only increasing...

SC Republican mounts bid for House seat currently occupied by gubernatorial hopeful Nancy Mace

South Carolina state Rep. Mark Smith is running for Congress, aiming to win the seat currently held by gubernatorial candidate Rep. Nancy Mace.

Virginia school districts support for transgender students’ rights in governor’s race spotlight

Virginia gubernatorial candidates Winsome Earle-Sears and Abigail Spanberger clash over Loudon County's transgender student policy as Justice Department threatens funding cuts

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