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The African Union says it will present the AfCFTA agreement to the US president to ...
After 10 years of President Donald Trump dominating the national discourse, one effect is a coarsening of political language.
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As the United States prepares to celebrate its semiquincentennial, patriotism among American citizens is at its lowest point ...
High court’s decision fuels uncertainty about whether babies born to immigrants lacking legal immigration status will be ...
Foreign leaders’ visits to the White House used to be occasions for face-to-face diplomacy, allied backslapping and polite photo ops. But President Donald Trump’s public pillorying of Ukraine ...
Readers who are frequent users of various media are quite aware of Elon Musk's DOGE, a federal organization created by Musk unapproved by Congress, as Musk himself was unapproved--just appointed by an ...
President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress.
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Republicans spent months selling the bill to themselves. Now they have to talk to a wider audience with many voters saying ...
The wide-ranging megabill is the vehicle for much of Trump’s domestic policy agenda for his second term in the White House, ...
The signing of a controversial spending bill by President Donald Trump marks a decisive turning point in U.S. domestic policy ...