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Trump’s show of federal force sparking alarm in cities
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Twitter bans thousands of QAnon accounts in crackdown
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GOP splits as virus aid package could swell past $1 trillion
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Staring down defeat, Trump attempts a coronavirus reset
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Fact check: At his first coronavirus briefing since April, Trump repeats a handful of classic false claims
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Trump’s new immigration fight: how to redraw House districts
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Trump asked envoy to see if UK would move British Open to his Scottish resort: NYT
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It 'Looks Very Scary For Renters' As Federal Eviction Relief Expiration Nears

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Too little, too late? Trump embraces masks in an about-face
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Homeland Security chief says federal agents 'will not retreat' from Portland
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Dems push universal health care, police overhaul in platform
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'Chaos and division': Biden decries clashes in Portland as federal officials defend efforts to end protests
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Senate Republicans: No reason for Biden to 'sound the alarm' on Russia
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Hawley accuses LeBron, Nike, NBA of profiting off slave labor in China
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Apology demanded from GOP lawmaker for Ocasio-Cortez remark
Trump's legal authority to deploy agents to U.S. cities may be limited, experts say
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El Salvador OK'd migrant prison deal as U.S. paved way for nuclear power

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that El Salvador's president offered to incarcerate deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including U.S. citizens, but the deal came the same day as a less-publicized offer from the United States: nuclear power.

El Salvador's Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco said a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the U.S. would help power the central American country "at competitive pricing without depending on geopolitics or on oil prices."

"The experience that [the United States has] on civil...
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Federal judge orders Trump admin to restore public health web pages

  • News source: FOX News
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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore web pages and datasets that were taken down in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order.

Under U.S. District Judge John Bates’ order, HHS, the CDC and the FDA are required to restore data sets and pages that were "removed or substantially modified" last month "without adequate notice or reasoned explanation."

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DOGE must 'defund' Planned Parenthood, Mike Pence's watchdog group urges Musk

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: Former Vice President Mike Pence's conservative watchdog nonprofit is urging Elon Musk, head of Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to cut off "wasteful" federal spending on Planned Parenthood.

"For the sake of the American people and generations yet unborn, the time has come for the United States to finally defund the largest abortion provider in America," Tim Chapman, president of Advancing American Freedom, wrote in a letter to Musk on Tuesday.

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Hegseth says DOGE welcome at Pentagon as Defense Department reviews military posture globally

  • News source: FOX News
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is "welcome at the Pentagon," telling reporters in Stuttgart, Germany, during his first overseas trip at the helm that the Department of Defense (DoD) will also be reviewing U.S. military posture globally to account for different "strategic assumptions" between President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden.

Upon arriving at the headquarters of U.S. European Command and Africa Command, Hegseth did push-ups, dead-lifts and other PT exercises with...
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Salman Rushdie testifies he thought he was dying after stabbing

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The author says he felt like he was lying in "a lake of blood" after he was attacked on stage in New York state.
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FEMA official ignores judge's latest order, demands freeze on grant funding

  • News source: Jonathan Allen | NBC News
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A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses.

In an email with the subject line “URGENT: Holds on awards,” Stacey Street, the director of the agency’s Office of Grant Administration, told her team to freeze funding for grant programs going back several years, including those focused on emergency preparedness, homeland security, firefighting...
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2 friends injured in shark attack in the Bahamas speak out

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Rileigh Decker and Summer Layman had jumped off their friend's boat in Bimini Bay together on Friday and were swimming back when the attack occurred.
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Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminum could raise these prices

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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White House will not release visitor logs during Trump's second term

  • News source: FOX News
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The White House will not release visitor logs during President Donald Trump's second term, Fox News has confirmed.

The move mirrors the policy of his first administration, a White House official told the Washington Examiner.

Trump's first administration made the announcement of keeping White House visitors secret in April 2017, according to the Washington Post.

"After four years of the Biden administration’s empty promises, lies, and secrets, President Trump is giving the people and the press a level of access and transparency never seen before,"...
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JD Vance, Treasury Sec Scott Bessent to meet with Zelenskyy as Trump team sets sights on Russia-Ukraine war

  • News source: FOX News
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Vice President JD Vance will meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday after years of railing against the U.S.’ continued funding of Ukraine in the war against Russia.

The vice president will meet with Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, a Vance spokesperson confirmed to Fox News Digital, just ahead of U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg’s trip to Ukraine on Feb. 20.

Trump announced on Tuesday he would also send Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to meet with Zelenskyy in Ukraine.

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Top political handicapper reveals what Dems' chances are at winning back the Senate in 2026

  • News source: FOX News
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Democrats face "few opportunities" to win back the Senate majority in next year's midterm elections, a top non-partisan political handicapper predicts.

While the Republicans are defending seats in 22 states in 2026 compared to just 13 for the Democrats, the Cook Report's first Senate rankings of the new election cycle points to a tough road ahead for the Democrats as they aim to recapture control of the chamber.

Senate Republicans enjoyed a very favorable map in the 2024 cycle as they flipped four seats from blue to red and stormed to a 53-47...
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Biden least popular living president, poll says – but who takes the top spot?

  • News source: FOX News
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In a recent Gallup survey of adults living in the U.S., former President Joe Biden earned the lowest favorability and the highest unfavorability of all five living presidents, while former President Barack Obama was held in the highest regard.

While 57% held an unfavorable view of Biden, just 39% held a favorable view of him.

But Obama's ratings were essentially the reverse, with 59% viewing the 44th president favorably versus just 36% who viewed him unfavorably.

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Trump pauses enforcement of law criminalizing foreign bribery: ‘In practicality, it’s a disaster’

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump has paused the enforcement of a law that criminalizes American businesses that bribe foreign officials in an executive order signed on Monday.

The order, which directs the Department of Justice (DOJ) to stop enforcing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), is intended to further American economic growth by eliminating excessive barriers to American commerce abroad.

"It sounds good on paper, but in practicality, it's a disaster," Trump said about the FCPA.

"It means that if an American goes over to a foreign country and...
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'This has to stop': House Dem faces backlash for 'promoting physical violence' at DOGE protest

  • News source: FOX News
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A Democratic congressman is facing heat from conservatives on social media after promoting the idea of a "street fight" at a protest pushing back against Elon Musk’s recent efforts to slash government waste through the newly created DOGE office.

"This will be a congressional fight, a constitutional fight, a legal fight, and on days like this a street fight, yes we will stand," Democratic Rep. Kweisi Mfume, who has represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District since 2020, said at a rally in Baltimore on Monday outside the Social Security Office...
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SCOOP: Trump budget chief Vought tells GOP senators $175B needed 'immediately' for border security

  • News source: FOX News
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FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's newly sworn in Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought will emphasize to Republican senators the urgent need for border security funding on Tuesday, telling them an immediate $175 billion is necessary.

At a weekly Senate GOP lunch, Trump's budget chief will speak to lawmakers, stressing that more money and resources are needed to secure the border and continue undoing Biden-era immigration policies, a senior administration official told Fox News Digital exclusively.

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