Trumps Envoy Lets Loose on the Panama Canal and Imminent Change in Cuba
Maurico Claver-Carone on the administration’s hemisphere-wide shakeup.
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Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
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I interviewed the vice president last year, and he didn’t mince words about wanting to provoke a constitutional crisis against the Supreme Court.
11:18 AM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Tennessee governor to sign new school voucher program that will exclude some immigrant families
Gov. Bill Lee will sign legislation designed to drastically expand school voucher access throughout the Volunteer State that will allow families to use taxpayer dollars on private school expenses regardless of income
03:06 PM on 02/12/2025 ABC Politics Former Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel confirmed as Ohios lieutenant governor
Former Ohio State Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel has been confirmed as Ohio's next lieutenant governor
03:06 PM on 02/12/2025 ABC Politics Trump's former personal lawyer defends him at a Senate hearing and decries 'partisan lawfare'
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Todd Blanche, criticized the criminal cases against the Republican as “partisan lawfare” during his confirmation hearing to become the No. 2 Justice Department official
03:06 PM on 02/12/2025 ABC Politics House Republicans unveil blueprint to extend $4.5 trillion in tax cuts and lift the debt ceiling
House Republicans have set the stage for advancing many of President Donald Trump’s top domestic priorities
01:37 PM on 02/12/2025 ABC Politics Connecticut Rep. John Larson says a complex partial seizure caused him to stop speech on House floor
Connecticut U.S. Rep. John Larson, who inexplicably stopped speaking during a speech Monday on the House of Representatives floor, says he suffered a complex partial seizure
10:42 PM on 02/12/2025 ABC Politics New York City argues for noncitizen voting law before state's top court
New York’s top court has been asked to reverse a ruling against a law that would allow noncitizens to vote in New York City municipal elections
08:02 PM on 02/12/2025 ABC Politics Alabama seeks to join states that allow the death penalty for child rape
Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation that would allow child rapists to be sentenced to death
07:39 PM on 02/12/2025 ABC Politics FBI says it found 2,400 new JFK assassination records
The FBI says it's discovered 2,400 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as federal agencies work to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to release thousands of classified files
04:00 PM on 02/11/2025 ABC Politics DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students' academic progress
A federal research office that tracks the progress of America’s students is being hit with almost $900 million in cuts after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency found no need for much of its work
01:38 PM on 02/11/2025 ABC Politics As Georgia lieutenant governor raises cash, a possible 2026 opponent questions how it can be spent
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr raised $2.2 million for his 2026 gubernatorial bid in less than two months after he took the unprecedented step of announcing in November
12:34 PM on 02/11/2025 ABC Politics Trump is slashing agencies long hated by the GOP. The next cuts might be harder.
“You gotta light things on fire that burn the brightest and have the most distinctive smell of waste, fraud and abuse,” said one White House ally.
04:45 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories The Shutdown Fight That Could Play Right Into Trumps Hands
There isn’t one neat trick to defeating Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s war on the federal government.
05:35 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps Justice Department moves to drop charges against Eric Adams
The DOJ has directed Manhattan prosecutors to nix the five-count bribery case after months of overtures by the mayor.
07:14 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories JD gets the game: Vance embraces role as social media provocateur
Vance’s approach to social media isn’t new. But his perch in the presidential line of succession is.
06:00 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories JD Vance warns Europe to go easy on tech regulation in major AI speech
U.S. vice president pushes for “international regulatory regimes that foster creation” ahead of the artificial intelligence “revolution.”
06:21 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support
“We have to get something. We can’t continue to pay this money,” U.S. president says.
06:20 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Deb Haaland, former Biden Interior secretary, launches New Mexico governor bid
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