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African aid agency a major battlefield in war between Trump, government resistors

The U.S. African Development Foundation, one of the smallest agencies in the federal government, has become a major battlefield in the guerrilla warfare being waged between the Trump administration and resistors deep inside the bureaucracy.

Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva, 77, dies after battle with lung cancer

Longtime Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva has died at 77 after a "long brave battle" with lung cancer, his office announced in a statement Thursday.

Biggs seeks FBI probe into Democrat fundraising apparatus ActBlue

A House Republican lawmaker Thursday called on the FBI to begin an inquiry into the main fundraising apparatus of the Democratic Party.

GOP prods Gov. Brian Kemp to run against Democrat Sen. Jon Ossoff next year

After spearheading a series of conservative victories as the top dog in Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp faces intense pressure from Washington Republicans to get into the 2026 race for U.S. Senate.

Police arrest 98 protesters at Trump Tower calling for release of Mahmoud Khalil

Police arrested nearly 100 demonstrators Thursday who stormed Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan demanding the release of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Columbia University says it expelled some students who seized building last year

Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring, and had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated.

Senate Democrats lean toward shutdown as ‘least worst outcome’ in funding fight

Senate Democrats say they are not eager to shut down the government but believe voting against a Republican stopgap bill is their only way to stand up to President Trump and his cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency.

Unforeseen dangers

They say joining the military is life-changing, and from everything I’ve experienced and heard from others, I believe that to be true. I recently spoke with former Navy Lt. David Pingenot, whom I knew when I was growing up in Iowa, and I was interested to learn that enlisting in the Navy changed his life, […]

Top-shelf clothes

Last month I spent nearly $200 getting a stack of old trousers taken in at the waist. I had been keeping them folded up on a top shelf in a closet, in a kind of Carbohydrate Lover’s Strategic Reserve, because I know from past behavior that just because they’re too big for me now, there’s […]

American interests in Ukraine

The Ukraine war is like a Russian doll. A series of five increasingly complex geopolitical questions encases a solid core of historical conflict. That core issue is whether Ukraine should be independent of Russia or whether, as often in its history, it falls so far within Russia’s sphere of interest that it becomes a second […]

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