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Trump wants Jordan and Egypt to accept more Palestinian refugees and floats plan to ‘clean out’ Gaza — President Donald Trump said Saturday he would like to see Jordan, Egypt and other Arab nations increase the number of Palestinian refugees they are accepting from the Gaza Strip …
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Trump suggests his plan for Gaza Strip is to ‘clean out the whole thing’ — President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about a potential plan to construct housing and move more than 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to other countries …
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Trump Says He Wants Jordan and Egypt to Take in Palestinians From Gaza — President Trump said he had spoken to Jordan's leader and planned to call Egypt's on Sunday. Most of Gaza's two million residents have been displaced in 15 months of fighting. — President Trump said he told King Abdullah II …


Scoop: Trump lifts Biden's hold on 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
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Trump Sends 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel, Weighs in on Refugees
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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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Trump vows to deliver on ‘no tax on tips’ campaign promise during Las Vegas speech: ‘100% yours’
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Live Updates: Noem Confirmed for Homeland Security Post; Trump to Speak in Las Vegas

Senate confirms Kristi Noem as Trump's Department of Homeland Security secretary
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‘I am terrified’: Workers describe the dark mood inside federal agencies — “I would love to leave, but I don't know where I'd go,” said one staffer. — President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the federal workforce have injected a fresh wave of anxiety among employees across the bureaucracy …
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Trump says he believes US will ‘get Greenland’ — President Donald Trump has said he believes the US will gain control of Greenland, after showing renewed interest in acquiring the autonomous Danish territory in recent weeks. — “I think we're going to have it,” he told reporters on Air Force …
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Musk tells Germans to get over ‘past guilt’ in speech to far-right AfD rally — The tech billionaire and Trump adviser has drawn rebukes for repeatedly endorsing the AfD in the leadup to Germany's snap election next month. — Elon Musk made a virtual appearance at a rally for the far-right Alternative …
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Elon Musk appears on video at German far right campaign event
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Trump's first-week strategy: ‘Flood the zone.’ Repeat. — It was all part of a plan to begin with a bang and follow a detailed policy blueprint, although key administrative posts remained stuck in a hiring bottleneck and many of his directives lacked immediate effect.
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Carville's advice to fellow Dems on Trump: ‘Let him punch himself out’
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Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power
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New York Post and Twitchy


Exclusive: White House in talks to have Oracle and U.S. investors take over TikTok — The Trump administration is working on a plan to save TikTok that involves tapping software company Oracle and a group of outside investors to effectively take control of the app's global operations …
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C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins — A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.'s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate. — The C.I.A. has said for years …
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Meta's Free-Speech Shift Made It Clear to Advertisers: ‘Brand Safety’ Is Out of Vogue — Social-media giant's loosening of speech restrictions is unsettling advertisers, who say a decade of efforts to protect their reputations is at risk — When Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg …
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In 2024 Elections, Most Races Were Over Before They Started — A New York Times analysis shows new maps stifled partisan competition for seats in the House of Representatives and state legislatures. — Competition is an endangered species in legislative elections.


‘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 …


Expect record-high egg prices for most of the year — Americans can continue to expect high prices for eggs this year, new estimates show, due to the ongoing avian flu outbreak and inflation. — Egg prices are estimated to increase about 20% in 2025, compared to about 2.2% for food prices in general …


They Were Waiting for Flights. Then Trump Closed a Door for Afghan Allies. — An executive order has halted refugee flights for Afghans who supported the American mission in Afghanistan and had been approved to resettle in the U.S. — Nasir, a legal adviser to the Afghan Air Force during the war …
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Trump's executive actions have more muscle this time around, but many are just posturing — The president's early actions are already enacting sweeping changes across the federal government. But not all of them are likely to result in tangible change. — President Donald Trump's first week …


House Speaker Invites Trump to Address Congress on March 4 — House Speaker Mike Johnson invited President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, seeking to set the stage for his first major speech to lawmakers since he returned to the White House.
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Johnson invites Trump to address joint session on March 4
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