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Canada First Conservatives primed for Trump fight
Pierre Poilievre used a Flag Day rally to recalibrate a campaign sidetracked by tariff threats.
06:51 PM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Top state Democrat calls on Adams to resign as party leaders convene for caucus weekend
Pressure is mounting on Gov. Kathy Hochul to remove Adams as thousands of Democrats gather in Albany for annual convention.
08:06 PM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Stunned federal workers brace for the real-world repercussions of Trump's purges
The Trump administration could face political backlash from voters in Republican and Democratic states who suddenly find a host of services vanish.
07:00 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Theyre not just suing to stop DOGE. Theyre suing Elon Musk himself.
A pair of lawsuits say that, with all the power he has accumulated, Musk is violating the Constitution's rules about the appointment of federal officers.
07:04 PM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories The umpires strike back: Judges rush to halt Trumps upheaval of the government
A flurry of orders from federal district judges has slowed Donald Trump's most controversial initiatives — prompting talk of outright defiance.
01:01 PM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories The 9 Trump World Breakups Waiting to Happen
MAGA 2.0 has brought together unlikely teammates. But the honeymoon might not last.
05:00 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Teddys Tomb: The Kennedys Have Fallen Apart
The late senator fought to preserve the family’s political brand, but with RFK Jr. in Trump’s Cabinet, it’s hard to tell what that brand has become.
08:02 PM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Republicans May Find It Harder to Cut Medicaid Than They Think
The program’s surprising superpower? It’s popular.
12:00 PM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories How Trump Could Snatch a Third Term Despite the 22nd Amendment
Four ways Trump could stay in power beyond 2028.
05:00 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Vance enters the world stage. Can he speak for Trump?
The vice president faces a perennially difficult task as he attempts to take the MAGA mantle.
05:28 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump and Putin stun Europe with peace plan for Ukraine
The moment Europeans and Ukrainians have been dreading for months, if not years, has arrived.
04:32 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump says he and Putin will negotiate to end the war in Ukraine
The president says he and the Russian leader spoke and are eager to work together.
12:44 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Why the health care industry is letting RFK Jr. cruise to confirmation
From drugmakers to doctors, few health care groups are asking senators to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming HHS secretary.
03:39 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories The cost of Trumps lifeline to Eric Adams
The New York City mayor, already a foe of the left, owes his legal reprieve to the polarizing Republican president.
02:43 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories How Trumps assault on bureaucracy could rock Virginia elections
The off-year races are often a bellwether for the national mood a year before the midterms.
02:04 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump assumes Kennedy Center chairmanship, ousts longtime president
Several Trump allies were also named as new trustees for the board.
04:30 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration rescinds Biden-era college athlete pay guidance
"The NIL guidance, rammed through by the Biden Administration in its final days, is overly burdensome, profoundly unfair, and it goes well beyond what agency guidance is intended to achieve," said Craig Trainor, the department's acting assistant secretary for civil rights.
02:08 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Jordan and Egypt unite against Trumps vision for Gaza
The countries' leaders clarified their “shared position” that Palestinians should not be displaced from Gaza just a day after the king of Jordan met with Trump.
04:20 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Red-state universities push back against NIH funding cuts
An administration official couldn’t explain why the 15 percent cap was chosen.
12:00 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump-Putin Ukraine peace talks mustnt exclude Kyiv, EU allies warn
U.S. and Russian leaders spoke on the phone Wednesday about ending the war — and agreed to start negotiations “immediately.”
01:42 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps Envoy Lets Loose on the Panama Canal and Imminent Change in Cuba
Maurico Claver-Carone on the administration’s hemisphere-wide shakeup.
10:00 AM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
12:00 PM on 02/12/2025 Politico Top Stories Theres No Need to Guess. JD Vance Is Ready to Ignore the Courts.
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 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
Haaland is the first candidate to jump into the open 2026 race.
09:54 AM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge to Trump-terminated ethics watchdog: Youre un-fired
Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger won an order allowing him to remain in his job for now.
09:51 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Hamas must release remaining hostages by midday Saturday, Trump warns
“After that, I would say, all hell is going to break out,” he threatened.
08:12 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories DOGE announces $881 million in cuts for Education Department contracts
About 170 contracts for the Institute of Education Sciences were targeted.
09:04 PM on 02/11/2025 Politico Top Stories Americans Can and Will Die from This: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos
The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.
04:00 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump says hell impose 25 percent tariffs on steel, aluminum
“Any steel coming into the United States is going to have a 25 percent tariff — aluminum too,” Trump told reporters.
07:15 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Kristi Noem: Get rid of FEMA the way it exists today
The DHS secretary backed Trump’s proposal to shutter the disaster response agency.
11:01 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories What the Dems who boycotted the first Trump inauguration say this time
POLITICO asked the 2017 boycotters what their plans are this time. Their answers reveal a faded resistance movement.
07:00 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Tracking Trumps Cabinet picks
Here's who has a seat at the table
10:49 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The anti-Trump resistance roars back with California at the forefront
State Attorney General Rob Bonta has already prepared legal arguments against everything from a possible national abortion ban to Project 2025 targets.
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