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Europes year of Trump trade trauma
The American president hurled a nonstop barrage of abuse at Europe in 2025. The EU had to suck it up — and do a one-sided trade deal.
10:44 PM Politico Top Stories These 3 Republican senators are giving John Thune headaches
Veteran hard-liners have new perches of authority and rising influence among Republican senators.
04:45 AM Politico Top Stories Poll: Major allies see US as unreliable and destabilizing
Pluralities in Germany and France — and a majority of Canadians — say the US is a negative force globally, new POLITICO-Public First polling finds.
12:00 AM Politico Top Stories Incredibly reckless: Trumps wind halt stuns even some allies
Republican worries about energy affordability didn’t deter the administration from halting five major projects that had already begun construction.
07:48 PM Politico Top Stories Conservative Party leaders dont foresee split with GOP over Blakeman campaign
The Nassau County executive’s position on abortion threatens to alienate parts of the right.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories New trove of apparent Epstein files posted on DOJ site disappears
The Justice Department didn’t respond to requests for comment on the new documents or the decision to remove them.
10:53 PM Politico Top Stories Judge Cannon clears way for release of classified docs report but gives Trump an out
The Trump-appointed judge emphasized that her timeline for release could give way to legal claims that the report shouldn’t be released at all.
11:54 PM Politico Top Stories US cities gird for World Cup rush hour
Are American transit systems ready for millions of soccer fans?
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories Opinion | Europe is failing Ukraine
After the bloc's failure to agree on the use of frozen Russian assets, Kyiv will need much more from Brussels — and that’s going to prove increasingly difficult.
04:44 AM Politico Top Stories This is shattering: Europe reels from Trumps new world order
Europe still wants and needs to work with Trump. But this year's made it clear they're increasingly on their own.
05:53 AM Politico Top Stories Senate Democrats cut off permitting talks after Trumps newest assault on wind
The Trump administration’s blocking of renewable projects is putting in jeopardy the long-running talks to reduce red tape for energy projects.
04:27 PM Politico Top Stories Trumps new Trump-Class battleship will carry nuclear weapons
The president wants to outfit new surface ships with weapons that haven't been deployed since the Cold War.
08:00 PM Politico Top Stories FCC bans foreign-made drones over national security, spying concerns
The ruling will hit Chinese drone-maker DJI the hardest.
05:04 PM Politico Top Stories I Never Heard of Her: Liz Truss Hits the MAGA Speaking Trail
British politicians — including two former prime ministers — are hitting the MAGA speaking circuit.
12:00 AM Politico Top Stories Trumps Economy Is Looking More and More Like Saudi Arabias
Top-down state capitalism is on the rise in both countries.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories The Tech CEO Making No Apologies for the Work With ICE
A conversation with an author who had a six-year-long window into the most interesting MAGA conversion in Silicon Valley.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories The AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality Than You Think
The Pentagon is racing to integrate AI into its weapons system to keep up with China and Russia. Where will that lead?
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
09:55 AM Politico Top Stories We wasted a lot of time: The next shutdown deadline will be here sooner than you think
No tangible progress toward funding the government was made before lawmakers left for the holidays.
04:45 AM Politico Top Stories Democrats are united in bashing GOP on Obamacare. Medicare for All could reopen a rift.
The single-payer health care system is again becoming a rallying cry for progressives in the midterms.
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories How Trump broke Californias grip on the auto market
The Trump administration learned from a first term hampered by sloppy regulations and internal resistance.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories A Forgotten Young Republicans Scandal Shows How Hard It Is for Party Elders to Control Young Troops
The 2022 group chat with bigoted messages led to few consequences.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
12:00 PM Politico Top Stories Vance tries to weather the MAGA storm at Turning Point
The weekend-long gathering has been enveloped in intraparty fighting.
03:42 PM Politico Top Stories No breakthrough after Ukraine talks in Miami
Steve Witkoff and Kyiv’s Rustem Umerov used identical language, saying Ukraine “highly values” U.S. support.
07:39 PM Politico Top Stories Don't call it a tax hike? Trump's demand for a cut of Nvidia's China profits raises novel questions.
Some Democratic lawmakers say Trump is intruding on congressional authority or may be breaking the law by demanding a price for the chip maker's access to China sales.
10:01 AM Politico Top Stories Deputy AG Todd Blanche defends moving Ghislaine Maxwell to minimum-security prison
He cited security concerns as the reason for Maxwell’s transfer.
12:41 PM Politico Top Stories Too Early, Too Alone: France Prepares for Russia as US Withdraws
Paris has long worried the United States was an unreliable partner. Donald Trump is proving them right.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories DOJ releases new Epstein docs as lawmakers steam about first tranche
Democrats, meanwhile, are looking to continue pressuring Trump over his ties to Epstein.
12:56 PM Politico Top Stories RFK Jr. wanted to endorse the Danish vaccine schedule. He was forced to pull back.
Legal and political concerns prompted the health department to cancel a planned announcement on Friday, officials said.
05:12 PM Politico Top Stories RFK Jr. wants states to ban junk food. No one knows what counts.
Retailers are scrambling to find out what thousands of foods will no longer be eligible under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program come January.
02:00 PM Politico Top Stories Trump AI czar David Sacks starts to worry the industry
Sacks is supposed to be pushing the tech industry’s AI agenda in Washington. But lobbyists fear he could be derailing it nationwide.
09:45 AM Politico Top Stories Do it for Trump: Treasury pushes businesses, wealthy people to contribute to 'Trump Accounts'
A pair of major contributions from business titans recently is part of a strategy to pump money into the new savings plans for children.
11:54 AM Politico Top Stories The US has a power crunch. Congress is still far from solving it.
A House-passed bill aimed at speeding approvals of energy projects includes language that wind and solar supporters call unacceptable. Now it goes to the Senate.
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories Ukraine talks proceeding constructively in Miami, Russias envoy says
The Kremlin denied that trilateral talks with Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. were in the offing during the weekend meetings in Florida.
06:54 AM Politico Top Stories Are Trumps tariffs making money? Watch this chart.
Our chart updates every weekday, giving important clues to how things are going.
10:47 AM Politico Top Stories How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change
The Trump administration recruited five marginalized researchers to challenge the international consensus on global warming. Here’s how it went wrong.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories Trump's flood-the-zone approach to unflattering news cycles has hit a new extreme
Everyone else: Epstein, Epstein, Epstein. Trump: Rosie O’Donnell? The Red Sox? Coca-Cola?
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories Graham Platner Really Might Be Doomed. Pay Attention to Him Anyway.
The candidate embodies a quarter-century of raw American frustration. It’s the source of his strength — and potentially his downfall.
05:00 AM 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.
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