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Trump to Hold Off on 25% Colombia Tariffs, Reaches Deal on Migrants — US President Donald Trump will hold off on imposing threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after reaching a deal on the return of deported migrants, the White House said. — The South American nation …
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Brazil slams US after dozens of deportees arrive handcuffed
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Colombia yields on US deportation flights to avert trade war
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Trump Aides Want to Hit Mexico, Canada With Tariffs Before Talks
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White House says Colombia agrees to take deported migrants after Trump tariff showdown
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Colombian president orders increase of import tariffs on US goods after Trump order
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Trump expected to sign executive orders to reshape the military, including banning transgender troops — President Donald Trump on Monday is expected to sign three executive orders that would reshape the military, including banning transgender service members from serving in the US armed forces …
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Trump's agenda is about to hit a make-or-break moment — Huddling at the president's Florida resort, Republicans are looking to make a game plan. — House Republicans are heading to President Donald Trump's Miami-area resort for their annual policy retreat. They're not going there for the weather.
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Democrats flip the script, eyeing debt limit to block Trump's agenda — Republicans have leveraged the debt ceiling for years to block Democrats' agenda. Now liberals see an opening to stymie Trump. — DORAL, Florida — Democrats in Congress are considering forcing a showdown …
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Nvidia falls 12% in premarket trading as China's DeepSeek triggers global tech sell-off … WATCH NOW — U.S. technology firms plunged in premarket trading, as Chinese startup DeepSeek sparked concerns over competitiveness in AI and America's lead in the sector, triggering a global sell-off.
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China's DeepSeek AI app sends U.S. tech stocks reeling — The tech-heavy Nasdaq index lost nearly 4 percent in early trading Monday, with chipmaker Nvidia down nearly 12 percent. — The sudden popularity of a Chinese artificial intelligence model called DeepSeek pummeled stocks Monday …
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Trump's Flaming Turd of an Argument for Ending Birthright Citizenship — A federal judge gently hints that Trump's lawyer might consider a change of location and extinguishes the dung—for now. — My late father, an old-school seersucker-and-bow-tie Virginia lawyer, had his good days in court and his other days.
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Trump's birthright citizenship EO is an attack on the rule of law
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Is Trump's Plan to End Birthright Citizenship ‘Dred Scott II’?
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No. We Should Not Move Beyond ‘That’ — The Philadelphia Eagles are going to the Super Bowl. (So are the Kansas City Chiefs, but who cares?) The last time the Eagles won it all, in 2018, many of the players declined an invitation to the White House to celebrate with President Trump …


I Voted for John Fetterman. He Betrayed Supporters Like Me. … I don't have a lot of political regrets, but at the very top of the list is voting for John Fetterman in 2022. At the time, I was living in a small town called Tunkhannock in the northeast corner of Pennsylvania, where I grew up …
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Less than 220K Holocaust survivors left worldwide, study finds … - A small number of survivors are expected to speak at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial & Museum commemoration in Oświęcim, Poland. — A handful of survivors will also be on hand at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The Race for Dick Durbin's Senate Seat Has Already Begun — The senator said he's still determining whether to run for reelection. Multiple Democrats are angling for the seat if he retires. — Copy — Sen. Dick Durbin told NOTUS he has not yet decided whether to run for reelection.
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Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps — At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement …


Democratic lawmakers slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices amid egg shortage — “During your first week of office you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren and 19 other lawmakers told the president in a letter.
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Why Trump won't be deporting “millions” of criminals … - About 13,100 of those were convicted in homicides and are imprisoned in the U.S. They'll have deportation hearings after serving their sentences. … But being in the U.S. illegally is a civil violation, not a criminal one.
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Kash Patel's Cringe Documentary Teases What Could Be in Store for the FBI — The conspiracy theorist Trump tapped to become FBI Director will sit for his confirmation hearing this week — Kash Patel will sit down in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to explain …
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Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now? — The U.S. had a playbook — now undermined — for responding to biological threats — On Saturday, Jan. 11, as we entered the final week of the Biden-Harris administration, I got a call about a suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.


Dem leads early Virginia governor polls — Former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger received 44% support in two surveys. — Early surveys show former U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D) leading Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R) in the race to replace Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) …


The Meme Coin Is Just the Beginning — The Market for Foreign Government Business Under Trump's New Ethics Policy — President Trump's new meme crypto token has dropped from its pre-inaugural highs and in recent days has been valued at only $ 29 billion, a fall of 60 per cent from its peak.


The Deportation Nightmare Begins — Whatever Trump intends, this will spiral out of control — Item: On Thursday, agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement entered the back of a small business in Newark, NJ without a warrant and arrested three undocumented workers.
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