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Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma was chosen to replace the ousted secretary Kristi Noem and will face senators at a confirmation hearing on Wednesday. [...]
In a Senate hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers are likely to ask about the information provided to the Trump administration ahead of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. [...]
In South Texas, two of President Trump’s top priorities, the economy and immigration, are colliding as ICE raids upend the construction industry and frustrate workers. [...]
In a legal filing, the government said it questioned whether the A.I. start-up could be a “trusted partner” in wartime, which led it to label the company a supply chain risk. [...]
Long before Trump would transform himself into a messianic figure for the American right, Trump was the creator of one of the most grotesque pedagogies of modern capitalism: the reality [...]
Jeffrey Epstein was not only a rapist and a child predator, but also — wait for it — a White supremacist. While some speculate that the Epstein issue is just [...]
Three months before taking power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung wrote of the solidarity required for the Chinese people’s revolution, remarking that a “principal and fundamental experience” was to “unite in [...]
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The head of a prominent U.S.-funded nongovernmental organization has recently acknowledged years of involvement in subversive operations in Cuba and Nicaragua, some in defiance of executive policies. Damon Wilson, president [...]