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NY Times – Politics
Senior Treasury officials are holding a final round of talks with a new round of economic volatility on the horizon. [...]
President Biden says he weakened Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, laying the groundwork for Bashar al-Assad’s ouster. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Syrian leader would still be in power had he listened to American advice. [...]
The president-elect faces hard choices about the country’s post-Assad future. His vows not to get involved might be hard to keep. [...]
The economic lifeline ensures that Ukraine will have economic support after President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office. [...]
The agency is asking the White House, in the final days of the Biden era, to move ahead with plans to drastically reduce the addictive substance in traditional tobacco cigarettes. [...]
In an unsigned order, the justices dismissed the case against the tech giant as “improvidently granted,” meaning they had concluded that it had been a mistake to take it up. [...]