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European capital rocked by violent protests as government corruption probe fuels unrest
Fetterman bucks Democrats, says party put politics over country in DHS shutdown standoff
White House fires court-appointed US attorney on day he is sworn in
Government to shut down at midnight after Dems, White House fail to strike DHS deal
Cruz targets Minnesota-style fraud with bill requiring proof before federal childcare payouts
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Congress’s Rejection of Trump’s Canada “Emergency” Is a Welcome—but Woefully Insufficient—Move
Federal Judge: Government Is Not Above the Law, Nor Are Former Death-Row Inmates Beneath Its Protection
CBO Warns of Ballooning Deficits in Latest Fiscal Report
Immigration Restrictions Cause Enforcement Excesses
Removing US Troops from Al-Tanf, Syria, Is the Right Call
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Congress’s Rejection of Trump’s Canada “Emergency” Is a Welcome—but Woefully Insufficient—Move
Federal Judge: Government Is Not Above the Law, Nor Are Former Death-Row Inmates Beneath Its Protection
CBO Warns of Ballooning Deficits in Latest Fiscal Report
Immigration Restrictions Cause Enforcement Excesses
Removing US Troops from Al-Tanf, Syria, Is the Right Call
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Thousands of anti-government protesters violently faced off against riot police outside government buildings in Albania’s capital, Tirana, earlier this week, as people called for...
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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., the lone Senate Democrat to join the GOP to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), accused his colleagues of...
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Alfredo Carrillo Obregon and Scott Lincicome The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night (February 11) to terminate the national emergency declared by President Trump...
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Matthew Cavedon The eminent intellectual historian Quentin Skinner, surveying history from antiquity to the Enlightenment, once defined “liberty” as freedom from the arbitrary whims...
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Dominik Lett The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook for 2026 to 2035. Rising interest costs and unchecked...
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Jeffrey Miron Recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in Minnesota, marked by large-scale raids and civilian harm, are less a local controversy than a...
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Jon Hoffman The announcement today by CENTCOM that it is vacating its presence at the Al-Tanf military base in southeast Syria is welcome news. US troops...
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is making an example of former President Barack Obama for encouraging voters and lawmakers to reject adopting national...
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Iran’s election as vice-chair of the United Nations Commission for Social Development is being slammed by human rights advocates and policy analysts, who have...
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President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) office focused on aviation is facing heightened scrutiny for hundreds...
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South Korea’s espionage agency, the National Intelligence Service, informed lawmakers Thursday that it thinks North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s teenage daughter is near...
