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New Jersey church leader promises transparency again in the face of crisis
Cardinal Joseph Tobin is a powerful figure who long ago pledged "a new level of transparency" on abuse. Now he’s making the same promises amid a new scandal.
12:00 PM on 02/17/2025 Politico Top Stories UK 'ready' to send peace-keepers to Ukraine, prime minister says
Ahead of a meeting in Paris on Monday, Keir Starmer commits to putting British troops in harm's way to secure lasting peace.
09:48 PM on 02/17/2025 Politico Top Stories Mass layoffs, court challenges and buyouts: Making sense of Trump's plans to shrink the federal workforce
Answering some of the most important questions surrounding DOGE’s rapid transformation of the federal workforce.
01:31 PM on 02/17/2025 Politico Top Stories RFK Jr.s plans could make Musks look small
The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary on a mostly party-line vote Thursday.
11:34 AM on 02/17/2025 Politico Top Stories As US recedes, NATO scrambles to find a new leader
The Brits, French, and Germans all have their own ideas about how to defend the continent with America’s plans in flux.
08:37 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories The US said Ukraine would meet with Russia to discuss peace. That was news to Kyiv.
“I do not know what it is,” said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
08:07 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Putin likely to strike NATO nations next, Ukraine leader warns
The Ukrainian president says he won’t accept a peace agreement if his country is iced out of talks.
11:22 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump called Washington a city of filth' and 'decay. Hes trying to remake it in his image.
Trump in his first weeks of his second term has targeted the city like few presidents before him.
10:00 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Dems concede Republicans running circles around them online as Trump remakes Washington
The Democratic response to Trump, one Texas lawmaker said, is “too slow and too tepid and not meeting the moment.”
07:00 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration firings hit key office handling bird flu response
The layoffs in USDA's National Animal Health Laboratory Network program office come as egg prices reach record high amid worsening outbreak.
08:13 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories Appeals court rejects Trump in showdown over firing of ethics watchdog
The D.C. Circuit panel voted, 2-1, against the president’s bid to immediately remove Hampton Dellinger.
07:43 AM on 02/16/2025 Politico Top Stories 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.”
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