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New York’s governor meets top political leaders as she weighs removing Mayor Eric Adams from office

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul held a series of meetings with key political leaders Tuesday as she contemplates removing Mayor Eric Adams from his office, an unprecedented step that reflects the growing turmoil inside City Hall.

The USAID shutdown is upending livelihoods for nonprofit workers, farmers and other Americans

There's the executive in a U.S. supply-chain company whose voice breaks while facing the next round of calls telling employees they no longer have jobs.

Musk doesn’t run DOGE, White House says

Elon Musk doesn't have independent powers to fire anyone from federal agencies, the Justice Department has told a federal judge, shooting down some of critics' more fantastical theories about the head of President Trump's effort to remake the bureaucracy.

Leonard Peltier, convicted in the killing of 2 FBI agents, released after Biden clemency

Leonard Peltier, the 80-year-old activist who received two life sentences for his role in the 1975 murder of two FBI agents, was released from prison Tuesday after President Biden commuted his sentence in one of his final acts before leaving office.

Trump will sign new executive orders while his first joint TV interview with Musk airs in prime time

President Donald Trump on Tuesday was set to sign new executive orders from his Florida home while his first joint TV interview with adviser Elon Musk airs in prime time.

Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions

Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.

Presidents Day protests were a break with reality

Presidents Day protests against President Donald Trump were just noise. They would not have seemed so disconnected from reality otherwise. What we saw was a mass of people who will not get on board with decidedly common and voter-approved motions from the president. Rapid-fire adjustments and reallocations are no shocking play, especially along the arc […]

The Panama Canal crisis isn’t over yet

President Donald Trump wants the Panama Canal back. However, he might be walking into his own version of the Cuban missile crisis. Amid the heated exchanges between the United States and Panamanian presidents, the diplomatic twist that hasn’t been reported is that Chinese state-owned entities COSCO and China Merchants are reportedly trying to buy a […]

Iran, China, and why Elbridge Colby must be confirmed

The United States cannot deter or defeat China in a war over Taiwan if U.S. naval and air forces are spread thinly across Europe, the Middle East, and China. The U.S. can deter Russia by maintaining Army deployments in Eastern Europe and nuclear strike preeminence. The U.S. can deter Iran by responding to acts of […]

In defense of Black Jeopardy

Saturday Night Live is often afflicted with horribly biased and unfunny sketches. But Kenan Thompson’s recurring Black Jeopardy isn’t one of them, and conservatives outraged by Tom Hanks’s appearance on the sketch during the show’s 50th-anniversary special need to get over themselves. If you watch just the Hanks appearance from Sunday and are ignorant about […]

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