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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Pentagon, is facing a tight Senate confirmation as questions continue to swirl around hi...
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Thousands of industry donors poured over $425 million into the general election this year, mostly backing the Republican Party and its pledges to repeal regu...
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — European allies spent the weekend here working to convince one another they absorbed the lessons of the first Trump term and are ready...
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Democratic officials are combing through granular election data, reevaluating their digital strategy and reaching out to Donald Trump’s voters as they attemp...
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Canada is hinting that it will accelerate plans to boost its defense spending to hit a long-elusive NATO target. But it’s looking like...
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Donald Trump may be at war with Washington but he’s still eager to make peace with the rest of the world.The incoming 47th president is stocking his Cabinet ...
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Top European and allied officials gathered here this weekend are frantically working to interpret who’s up and who’s down in President...
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After Donald Trump won this month’s election, one of the first things he did was to name two unelected male plutocrats, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to run...
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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have been locked in a bitter rivalry for supremacy in space exploration. Donald Trump’s return to the White House could boost Musk’s...
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PHOENIX, Arizona — On a scorching Sunday afternoon in August, Jenny Clark, who runs the non-profit Love Your School AZ, stood in the cool atrium of the Phoen...
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I was cooking eggs on a recent Friday morning when the lights went out. First a boom! and then darkness. In the sudden quiet, we walked out to the road, wher...
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Donald Trump selected Brooke Rollins, president of the America First Policy Institute, to head the Department of Agriculture, a move that could have broad im...
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Labour has got off to a shaky start in government. It’s time it told the truth about the state we’re inIt’s a running joke in Westminster that some on the Br...
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HALIFAX, Canada — Former Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said Saturday that the United States should prioritize helping Ukraine despite the looming threat o...
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BAKU, Azerbaijan — The U.S. has played the powerbroker in more than 30 years of global negotiations on fighting climate change — a quest that has swept in an...
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BAKU, Azerbaijan — Countries agreed to a deal early Sunday that asks rich, developed nations to pay at least $300 billion to help poorer countries shift thei...
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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to tap Brooke Rollins as his Agriculture secretary, after weeks of intense internal fighting over the role, accordin...
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Donald Trump is making it clear he wants to bend the Republican-led Congress to his will, pushing the limits of what lawmakers will accept on staffing his Ca...
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Former Defense Secretary William Cohen underscored the importance of having women in the military, including in combat roles, as President-elect Trump's pick...
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BAKU, Azerbaijan — Negotiators reached a deal early Sunday in which rich countries agreed to provide at least $300 billion per year in financing by 2035 to h...
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At 6:52 p.m. on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump announced his choice for Treasury secretary. Minutes later, he tapped a director for the Office of Manag...