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Nuclear Funds Raided For Trump’s Jet

The conversion of Qatar’s gifted Boeing 747-8 into a stopgap Air Force One shows how compressing a multi-year, high-security aircraft program into months almost...
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Presidential Pile-On: Reporter Turned Punching Bag

When a sitting president turns a single reporter into a recurring foil, what looks like a string of rude moments quickly reveals a deliberate...
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Assassination Shadow, Then Awkward Silence

When a president turns a ritual celebration of press freedom into an hour-long blend of condemnation of violence, rare praise, and sustained personal ridicule,...
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Planet Heat Spike Alarms NASA

Scientists say Earth is now heating up faster, and more widely, than at any time in at least 2,000 years, driven mainly by human...
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Mega Blaze Threatens Madrid

Firefighters in the Madrid area raced to stop two wind-fed wildfires from joining into one larger blaze, while officials warned that a fire in...
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Humiliation Politics: Farage Video Backfires

A viral video of a driver crashing just seconds after shouting a slur at Nigel Farage shows how our politics now runs on humiliation...
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Socialism Alarm Hits Virginia

Ideological labels do their most potent work in American politics when they are left deliberately vague; “socialism” functions less as a policy description than...
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Killer Outrage Freezes Burnham’s Prison Plan

When a prison system on the brink of overcrowding collides with a handful of highly symbolic, violent cases, it is almost always politics –...
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Pulpit Heist Exposed—FBI Traces the Cash

A Louisiana pastor trusted to guard the offering plate has now been convicted of secretly draining more than $340,000 from his own congregations to...
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Russian Guns Rattle Plymouth Waters

Russia’s live-fire drill off Plymouth was a lawful exercise in international waters, but its proximity, timing and allied response turned it into a pointed...

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