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How Trump Could Snatch a Third Term Despite the 22nd AmendmentVance 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 picksThe 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.
12:01 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The Gaza-ification of the West Bank
With a cease-fire holding in Gaza, Israel shifts its war to the West Bank.
02:00 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife
It might take a mock battlefield to solve America’s political divisions.
04:00 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Democrats Are Falling For Trump and Musk's Foreign Aid Trap
Three veteran strategists want their party to be more thoughtful about fighting Trump’s anti-bureaucracy campaign.
05:20 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories What Elon Musk Said Is a Bold-Faced Lie
A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.
05:05 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration seeks urgent end of impermissible court order blocking access to Treasury systems
The order blocked DOGE access to a critical government payment mechanism.
07:34 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories The Senate gives Trump his Cabinet and their compliance
Unlike his first term, the president is getting little pushback from the chamber’s Republicans.
04:45 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Inside the House GOP clash over tax cuts
Hardliners are squaring off against their top tax writer as Republicans try to assemble a package President Donald Trump's priorities.
08:57 PM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories So dirty and rotten: Candidate for NJ governors fundraising tactic confuses some donors
Bill Spadea uses a fundraising strategy that’s come under scrutiny in recent years
10:00 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories Hochul to Adams: Use it or lose it on migrant funding |