Some 600 college leaders recently signed a letter opposing the Trump administration’s interference in higher education. The only Ivy League president who did not sign the letter was Sian Beilock, …
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President Trump has floated changing the name of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of a trip to the Middle East next week, a move that infuriated Iran …
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After Criticism, Harris’s $900 Million Group Tries to Lay Out a Future
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesEver since Vice President Kamala Harris lost the election in November, a big-money group that had raised over $900 million to support her but ultimately failed in its efforts has …
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Does Trump Have the Power to Install Jeanine Pirro as Interim U.S. Attorney?
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPresident Trump’s announcement that he was making the Fox News host Jeanine Pirro the interim U.S. attorney in Washington has raised questions about whether he had legitimate legal authority to …
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Elon Musk’s Use of X Mimics Hearst’s and Ford’s Manipulation of Media
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAn entrepreneur who revolutionized the automobile business decides he now needs to change how the world thinks, so he buys a media property to use as a megaphone. His rants …
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Trump, Raking In Cash, Expands His Power in the G.O.P. Money World
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPresident Trump is harnessing the Republican Party’s all-encompassing deference to him to exert even greater control over the G.O.P. big-money world, which had long been one of the party’s final …
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Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Plans for Mass Layoffs and Program Closures
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesA federal judge on Friday called for a two-week pause in the Trump administration’s mass layoff plans, barring two dozen agencies from moving forward with the largest phase of the …
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An air traffic control facility that guides planes at Newark Liberty International Airport had a brief radar outage on Friday morning, the latest technological disruption at one of the nation’s …
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Trump Softens on Raising Taxes on the Rich, Saying G.O.P. Probably Shouldn’t
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesPresident Trump on Friday publicly softened his private push on House Republicans to raise taxes on wealthy people and scrap a tax break that benefits private equity executives as part …
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Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThe Trump administration is working to bring the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the United States early next week, according to officials briefed …