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Trump Hits Colombia With Tariffs in Feud Over Military Deportation Flights — Gustavo Petro said on X that the United States should not treat Colombian migrants as criminals and that he had already turned away U.S. military flights carrying deportees. — Colombia refused to accept military …
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Trump orders tariffs, visa restrictions on Colombia over rejection of deportation flights — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he was ordering tariffs, visa restrictions and other retaliatory measures to be taken against Colombia after its government rejected two flights carrying migrants.


Trump issuing ‘emergency 25% tariffs’ against Colombia after country turned back deportation flights — President Donald Trump on Sunday announced retaliatory tariffs on Colombia after its president said he blocked US military deportation flights, the first instance of Trump using economic pressure …
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Colombia's Petro will not allow US planes to return migrants — President Donald Trump said on Sunday he will impose sweeping retaliatory measures on Colombia, including tariffs and sanctions, after the South American country turned away two U.S. military aircraft with migrants being deported …
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Trump's Colombia tariffs threaten surge in coffee prices … - Coffee futures are up 45% in the last six months. — Bloomberg reported last week that wholesale prices recently eclipsed all-time highs set in the late 1970s, and that it was only a matter of days to a few weeks until retail prices followed suit.


Trump announces retaliatory measures after Colombia blocks military deportation flights from U.S. — The flights were carrying about 80 Colombian migrants each. — President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would impose sweeping retaliatory measures against Colombia, including tariffs …
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Graham says ‘a good chance’ Supreme Court sides with Trump on birthright citizenship — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he believes there is a “good chance” that the Supreme Court sides with President Trump on the issue of birthright citizenship. — Graham joined NBC's “Meet the Press” …
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Sen. Lindsey Graham says he thinks Trump pardoning violent Jan. 6 defendants was ‘a mistake’ — In an interview on NBC News' “Meet the Press,” GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham said of the president's decision to pardon those convicted of violent crimes: “I think that's a mistake.”
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Scoop: How Trump's “black box” limits outside influences
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Trump wiped January 6 convicts' records clean. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters' crimes from the internet — As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters' attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges …


Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory — US president says he wants people to move to neighbouring nations, after resuming shipments of 2,000lb bombs to Israel — Donald Trump has suggested large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” …
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Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees and floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza
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Trump Floats Forced Relocation of Gazans: ‘Clean Out That Whole Thing’
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Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’
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Transcript: Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Jan. 26, 2025 — The following is the full transcript of an interview with Vice President JD Vance on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that aired on Jan. 26, 2025. — MARGARET BRENNAN: Mr. Vice President, if you're ready, we'll dive right in.
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‘People Will Be Shocked’: Trump Tests the Boundaries of the Presidency — Even more than in his first term, President Trump has mounted a fundamental challenge to the norms and expectations of what a president can and should do. — On his first full day back in the White House …
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‘Look in the Mirror’: New Catholic JD Vance Lectures Church Leaders on Faith — Vance, who converted to the Catholic Church five years ago, called on a group of bishops to “do better” after they criticized the White House's immigration policies.
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Vance Suggests Catholic Church Helps Immigrants to Boost Its ‘Bottom Line’
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Trump's gutting of federal DEI programs will hit rural poor communities — Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump authorized action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.”
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Trump Administration Begins Immigration Arrests in Chicago — The number of arrests was uncertain. Illinois officials, including the governor, said they had not been given advance notice. — The Justice Department announced Sunday it had begun a multiagency immigration enforcement operation in Chicago …
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South Korea's Impeached Leader Is Indicted on Insurrection Charges — President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his short-lived imposition of martial law. — South Korea's impeached and arrested president, Yoon Suk Yeol …
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White House tells Republicans to get behind Trump's nominees — or face political ‘consequences’ — More Trump nominees with potentially rocky paths to confirmation face hearings in the Senate this week, including Tulsi Gabbard, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kash Patel.
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SNL comedian uses five words to explain why ‘Elon Musk is not a Nazi’ — The billionaire was accused of making a fascist salute during an inauguration celebration for Donald Trump — Your support helps us to tell the story — From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech …


Hiring Freeze Creates Confusion and Concern at F.B.I. — President Trump's directive is supposed to exempt national security and public safety positions, but the F.B.I. has put an immediate hiring freeze in place. — The F.B.I. has taken drastic steps to comply with President Trump's hiring freeze …