| After Texas Flooding, Questions About FEMA’s Role and Fate Under Trump
- President Trump wants to shutter the agency and shift responsibility and costs of emergency management to the states. In Texas, that process appears to already be underway.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:17:04 +0000
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| U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans in El Salvador for American Prisoners
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the U.S. envoy to Venezuela were both working on different deals and ended up at cross purposes.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 03:08:53 +0000
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| What Is a Trade Deal? Trump Takes an Expansive View.
- The president is deploying the word “deal” liberally, using the term to describe all kinds of trade arrangements, some very limited or one-sided.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 02:28:13 +0000
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| L.A. Moves to Join Lawsuit Against Trump Administration’s Immigration Raids
- The legal move came the day after federal agents and National Guard troops converged on a Los Angeles park in an extraordinary show of force.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:39:52 +0000
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| Trump Got the Green Light to Fire Federal Workers. Now, They Wait.
- A court-ordered pause in May covered nearly two dozen federal agencies at different stages of executing President Trump’s directive for mass layoffs. The Supreme Court said the administration could proceed.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 01:19:02 +0000
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| Trump’s Frustration With Putin Preceded Resumption of U.S. Weapons to Ukraine
- President Trump lashed out at the Russian leader on Tuesday, signaling a change in his posture toward the conflict.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:51:12 +0000
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| Trash Overflows in Philadelphia as City Workers’ Strike Enters Second Week
- Pungent odors permeate the City of Brotherly Love as a contract impasse between the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees continues.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:50:36 +0000
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| Trump and Bondi, Confronted Over Epstein Files, Tell Supporters to Move On
- A small but influential cohort of the president’s far-right political coalition spared him their ire but turned with a vengeance on the attorney general and the top officials at the F.B.I.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:19:00 +0000
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| Grok, Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Shares Antisemitic Posts on X
- The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding a query about a user’s comments on the Texas flood.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:08:43 +0000
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| Two Found, Two Missing: An Agonizing Search After the Texas Floods
- Four friends, all in their 20s, planned to spend the weekend in the Hill Country. Then the rains came.
Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:03:49 +0000
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| Abbott Calls Seeking Blame for Floods ‘the Word Choice of Losers’
- As both the death toll and number of questions about official preparedness increased, the Texas governor invoked football metaphors, saying “every team makes mistakes.”
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:51:10 +0000
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| Trump Uses Cabinet Meeting to Vent About Epstein, Putin and Powell
- The president held forth in public for 104 minutes, using a cabinet meeting to express much that is on his mind.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 23:18:04 +0000
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| Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump Administration’s Mass Firings of Federal Workers
- The justices announced they were not ruling on the legality of the specific downsizing plans but they allowed the Trump administration to proceed for now with its restructuring efforts.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:05:38 +0000
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| Antigovernment Protests Erupt Across Kenya, Killing Dozens
- Simmering anger against President William Ruto’s government has boiled over into clashes between protesters and the police, who have deployed live rounds, tear gas and water cannons.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:00:02 +0000
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| The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for Mass Federal Firings
- Also, Trump accused Putin of duplicity. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:40:37 +0000
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| Should New York City Ditch Its Party Primaries in Favor of Open Races?
- A panel created by Mayor Eric Adams wants to consider using an “open primary” system for elections in New York City. Here’s how the plan would work.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:40:28 +0000
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| Colorado Judge Fines MyPillow Founder’s Lawyers for Error-Filled Court Filing
- The judge said the lawyers had not explained how such errors could have been filed “absent the use of generative artificial intelligence or gross carelessness by counsel.”
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:36:18 +0000
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| The Bayeux Tapestry, a British Masterpiece, Returns to England After 900 Years
- The embroidered work, depicting the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, is a loan from France. For the first time, it will be on exhibit in London.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:10:11 +0000
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| Royal Family Welcomes President Macron to U.K. for State Visit With Pomp and Pizazz
- President Emmanuel Macron is on a state visit to Britain, the first of a French leader since 2008. His hosts are drenching him in pomp, pizazz and protocol.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:05:43 +0000
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| For Israel, It Pays to Be a Winner
- Diplomatic breakthroughs in the Middle East are the result of military victories.
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:00:06 +0000
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