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Trump admin welcomes reform of Palestinian prisoner payments dubbed "pay for slay"

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas listens President Trump makes a statement for the press before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd United Nations General Assembly on September 20, 2017, in New York.

Trump elected chairman of Kennedy Center board

Trump in suit with light blue tie and gold curtain background
Updated Feb 12, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Trump says he might meet Putin in Saudi Arabia after call on Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and US President Donald Trump shake hands before a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018.

Groups sue to get access to immigrants at Guantánamo Bay

A U.S. Army soldier stands at the entrance to Camp Delta where detainees from the U.S. war in Afghanistan live April 7, 2004, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Feb 12, 2025 - Business

NYSE to launch stock exchange in Texas

Illustration of money collaged over the Texas flag.

An asteroid could hit Earth in 2032. Don't panic — yet

Illustration of a dented caution sign with an asteroid.
Updated Feb 12, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Top Trump picks have ties to Project 2025

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Top Dem on DOGE subcommittee calls on Elon Musk to testify

Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) speaks during a House Oversight Committee hearing on "Rightsizing Federal Government," on Capitol Hill, on February 5

In photos: Black History Month's 60 year anniversaries

Civil rights demonstrators link hands and sing during a protest at the Dallas Country Courthouse in Selma, Alabama. Later, Sheriff Jim Clark ordered deputies to arrest the protesters in 1965..
Updated Feb 12, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Trump's intel chief

Tulsi Gabbard

RFK Jr.'s once-wobbly health chief nomination advances in Senate

RFK Jr and Donald Trump
Updated Feb 12, 2025 - Politics & Policy

Inspectors general sue Trump admin over their firings

Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office at the White House on February 10
Updated Feb 12, 2025 - Politics & Policy

House GOP unveils $2 trillion in proposed spending cuts

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks during a news conference after the House Republican Conference meeting at the U.S. Capitol Building on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Feb 12, 2025 - Economy

Inflation surges ahead, warning price pressures still persist

Hegseth to NATO: U.S. troops won't guarantee Ukraine's security after war

Hegseth and Ukraine defense minister

Consumer Price Index shows inflation heated up in January

Feb 12, 2025 - Business

Who benefits from the White House pause on fighting corruption

Illustration of uneven scales of justice hanging from an upward trending profit line.

DOGE plans for NOAA, FEMA could have big climate impacts

Illustration of Elon Musk walking away from a pile of slashed sand bags.

Tests of Trump's power on fast tracks to the Supreme Court

Hegseth welcomes DOGE's "keen eye" to massive Pentagon budget

Pete Hegseth
Feb 12, 2025 - Business

Ford CEO: Trump is creating "costs and chaos" for automakers

Dozens of vehicles in a parking lot at the Port of Veracruz, Mexico, waiting to be exported.
Feb 12, 2025 - World

"High on Trump": Netanyahu sees Trump's Gaza gambits as Israel's big chance

Trump and Netanyahu before a fire
Feb 12, 2025 - Technology

Trump taps RNC executive as national cyber director

An image of Sean Cairncross, former CEO of the Millenium Challenge Corporation, onstage during the 2019 Concordia Annual Summit in September 2019.

Trump orders "large-scale" cuts to federal workforce, gives DOGE more power

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with his son X Æ A-Xii join US President Donald Trump as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 11, 2025.
Updated Feb 11, 2025 - Politics & Policy

American teacher back in U.S. after Russia releases him from detention

President Donald Trump welcomes Marc Fogel back to the United Stated after being released from Russian custody, at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Feb 11, 2025 - Business

AP says it was blocked from Oval Office event

HONG KONG, CHINA - 2020/12/31: A microphone of Associated Press (AP), an American non-profit news agency is placed outside the Court of Final Appeal as they wait for the verdict of Jimmy Lai's bail. (Photo by Chan Long Hei/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Musk's double-edged sword on government shutdowns

This is Elon Musk and Donald Trump

Scoop: Dems "pissed" at liberal groups MoveOn, Indivisible

These are House Democrats
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