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Trump's ‘America First’ is becoming ‘America Alone’ — at the worst possible time
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The Associated Press reported that the White House Office of Management and Budget proposed slashing the State Department’s budget by almost 50%.
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How the far-right Heritage Foundation keeps accidentally proving liberals right
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The pro-natalist MAGA right is adopting long-held center-left policy proposals to solve America's babymaking crisis.
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I’m a legal scholar. We’re in a constitutional crisis — and this is the moment it began.
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Former Biden DOJ official and law professor Jamal Greene argues that the country entered a constitutional crisis on the very same day Trump was inaugurated.
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The incredible irony of Trump's new and unimproved brand of 'conservatism'
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The gap between conservative rhetoric and the reality of Trump’s second term, including his tariff policy, has reached Grand Canyon-like proportions.
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Why the brilliant second season of 'Star Wars' prequel 'Andor' hits too close to home
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When Disneyplus “Andor” debuted, the Diego Luna "Star Wars" prequel wasn't heavily promoted. That changed post-Mandalorian, whether Lucasfilm liked it or not.
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About that reported White House 'shouting match'
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The Musk-Bessent tension boils over This week Axios reported on an alleged “shouting match” between Elon Musk and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over who should lead the IRS.
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Trump walks back campaign promise on Russia-Ukraine war: ‘I said that figuratively'
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Donald Trump sat with Time magazine earlier this week for a wide-ranging interview on the first 100 days of his second administration.
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Trump adds Nevada’s Michele Fiore to his growing list of scandalous pardons
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In a normal political environment, Donald Trump’s brazenly corrupt approach to pardons would be the defining scandal of his presidency.
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Trump-appointed head of National Science Foundation resigns: ‘I have done all I can’
Source: MSNBC
NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan's departure comes amid sweeping cuts to the federal workforce and agency grants.
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Virginia Giuffre, an outspoken survivor of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse, has died by suicide
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Virginia Giuffre, a prominent survivor of financier Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse and an advocate for sex trafficking victims, died by suicide in her home in Australia, her family said Friday.
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Trump's new attack on the Civil Rights Act is a license to discriminate
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President Donald Trump attacked disparate impact liability in a new executive order, in a move that threatens decades of anti-discrimination efforts
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AG Pam Bondi continues persecution of trans people with 'genital mutilation' memo
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed the Justice Department to investigate doctors who provide health care to transgender minors, likening gender-affirming surgery for trans patients to “female genital mutilation” in a memo to U.S. attorneys this week.
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The subtly complicated politics of Pope Francis’ funeral
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Funerals can be contentious events, and Pope Francis’ funeral Saturday — which dozens of (often combative) world leaders will be attending — is no exception.
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Pope Francis was the first ever Jesuit pope. Here's why that matters.
Source: MSNBC
Today, after a Saturday mass at St. Peter’s, Pope Francis' body will be buried at a basilica in Rome. Here's how the Jesuits shaped Jorge Mario Bergoglio.
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A big part of Pope Francis' legacy is what he meant to young, lapsed Catholics like me
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Pope Francis leaves behind a broken world, a beautiful legacy, and an unprecedented number of young new Catholics.