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President Trump is testing pressure points within the GOP with a series of particularly bold moves that have shown just where some Republicans are willing to draw a line on certain issues.
Farm state Republicans have expressed concern about Trump's idea to import beef from Argentina as U.S. cattle ranchers face economic headwinds.
Meanwhile, New York Republicans pushed back on the decision to pardon disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was serving time in prison on fraud charges. And others in the president's party have expressed unease with Trump's talk of a massive settlement with his own Justice Department stemming from past investigations into his conduct. |
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Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner's mounting controversies are testing the willingness of Democratic voters and politicians to support a compromised candidate who could be their best option to defeat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) next year.
Platner has been hit with a string of negative headlines in recent days. Most notable was the revelation that he got a tattoo of a Nazi symbol on his chest, which he has subsequently covered up, along with numerous controversial statements he made in the past on Reddit.
Many of his supporters, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), are standing by him for now. And recent polling has suggested Platner is far more popular than Gov. Janet Mills, his top Democratic rival, raising the question of whether voters will overlook his baggage as the party seeks a new generation of leaders who could appeal to a broader demographic. |
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More than 40 million low-income food stamp beneficiaries are expected to receive less help with grocery bills — or no help at all — in the coming days.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is threatening to withhold billions of dollars in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) contingency funding, which Congress has already allocated for emergency scenarios, if the government shutdown stretches into November.
There is between $5 billion and $6 billion currently in that fund, experts say. That's not enough to cover the estimated $8 billion in SNAP benefits due in next month, but it would allow for partial payments to help low-income Americans defray food costs. |
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President Trump on Saturday slapped Canada with a 10 percent tariff on top of its current rate after an advertisement lobbying against tariffs aired during the World Series.
The Canadian ad, which has angered the president, features different parts of speech former President Ronald Reagan gave in 1987 about "free and fair trade" when announcing his decision to impose tariffs on Japan. Critics have said the pulled sections of Reagan's remarks are reordered in the ad, which was organized by the Ontario government and aired during the first game of the World Series Friday night between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers.
"Ronald Reagan LOVED Tariffs for purposes of National Security and the Economy, but Canada said he didn't! Their Advertisement was to be taken down, IMMEDIATELY, but they let it run last night during the World Series, knowing that it was a FRAUD," the president wrote in a Saturday statement on Truth Social. |
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Republicans are grappling with public polls showing the public places more blame on them, rather than the Democrats, for the shutdown, even as they argue they have the moral high ground in the shutdown fight.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republicans stress that they put no partisan poison pills in a GOP-crafted, House-passed stopgap to fund the government through Nov. 21. Democrats in the Senate have repeatedly blocked that bill as they demand that Republicans first negotiate with them on health care issues, particularly on enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expiring at the end of the year.
Johnson this week pointed to news coverage about the government shutdown while arguing Democrats are more to blame. |
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President Trump's bid to be awarded as much as $230 million by his own Department of Justice as compensation for the various federal probes into his conduct would likely face few legal backstops if successful.
The president confirmed Tuesday that his personal legal team was seeking out a settlement, a request that could prompt his own appointees — among them his former defense attorneys — to make the determination of whether to pay up. The unique scenario has drawn outrage from Democrats, who have called the move "blatantly illegal and unconstitutional." |
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President Trump on Saturday said the lack of progress toward peace between Russia and Ukraine amid their more than three-year war is "very disappointing."
The president has attempted to chart a course for peace since the start of his second administration after making a pledge to end the war in a day on the campaign trail. Trump had previously planned to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the coming weeks, but called it off, saying he didn't want it to be a "waste of time." "I'm not going to be wasting my time. I've always had a very great relationship with Vladimir Putin but this has been very disappointing. I thought this would have gotten done before peace in the Middle East," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way to Malaysia on Saturday. |
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President Trump on Saturday placed preliminary blame on Hamas should its ceasefire with Israel fail, but called the current deal in place an "enduring peace."
"I think it will hold," Trump told reporters after meeting with Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani during a refueling stop in Doha aboard Air Force One while en route to Malaysia. "Well, if it doesn't hold, that would be Hamas," Trump continued. "Hamas will be not hard to take care of very quickly. I hope it holds for Hamas too because they gave us their word on something so I think it's going to hold and if it doesn't then they'll have a very big problem." |
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As federal workers remain in limbo amid the government shutdown, President Trump is traveling to Asia in an effort to unpack key foreign policy topics at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summits.
Trump is also set to meet with high-ranking counterparts during stops in Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. Among the planned meetings include a confab with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
South Korea is still awaiting a firm trade agreement with the White House to help solidify taxes on imports and exports. Trade discussions are expected to trickle down to Americans as they battle an increase in grocery prices, the cost of gas and products like toys ahead of the holiday season. |
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OPINION | The recent exposure of racist and antisemitic messages in a Young Republicans group chat has caused hurt and outrage — and rightly so. For Black and Jewish Americans who have recently joined or are considering the Republican Party, incidents like this reinforce painful fears — that their presence may not be fully welcomed, or worse, openly mocked.
At a time when the Republican Party is working to broaden its tent and build coalitions across diverse communities, these revelations cut especially deep. They send a dangerous message that hate still has safe harbor in corners of the conservative movement. Although the chat may represent a fringe view among young conservatives, the silence or dismissal of such behavior risks making it seem acceptable — or even normal.
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OPINION | Those who don't have a passion for America's human spaceflight program — and all should, as it is the key to our future national and economic security — may not be aware of the feud between SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and acting NASA administrator and current Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.
In full disclosure, I know both Duffy and his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy. I was interviewed by both on their podcast regarding my book "The 56," and have sat down with Sean Duffy over coffee as well. I believe him not only to be an honorable man but also one who is fully dedicated to President Trump's commitment to return American astronauts to the moon before Chinese astronauts get there. |
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When President Trump announced a $20 billion bailout for Argentina this month, Larry Ory, 86, a farmer in Earlham, Iowa, could hardly believe it, especially after boatloads of Argentine soybeans began shipping to China, a once-critical customer for Mr. Ory's family.
For Iowans, losing China's soybean market in the president's trade war was only one of many economic shocks that have hit the state since the start of Mr. Trump's second term. The cost of tractors and fertilizers have shot up with his tariffs. Labor has grown scarcer in agribusinesses. Major manufacturers have laid off workers. Even the ubiquitous wind turbines that provide income for some Iowa farmers are in the president's sights. |
The State Department's internal intelligence agency cast doubt earlier this year on the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin was prepared to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, dissenting from a more optimistic Central Intelligence Agency assessment of potential talks, according to several current and former officials.
Analysts at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, known as INR, expressed this opposing view in assessments and briefings in the months leading up to President Trump's August meeting with his Russian counterpart in Anchorage, Alaska. The dissent also appeared in the President's Daily Brief, according to the current and former officials. |
The Paris prosecutor said on Sunday that a number of suspects have been arrested over the theft of crown jewels from Paris' Louvre museum last weekend.
The prosecutor said that investigators made the arrests on Saturday evening, adding that one of the men taken into custody was preparing to leave the country from Roissy Airport.
French media BFM TV and Le Parisien newspaper earlier reported that two suspects had been arrested and taken into custody. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau did not confirm the number of arrests. |
TOKYO — The Japan that first caught President Donald Trump's attention in the 1980s was a Japan of glitzy excess and big dreams, a place so flush with cash that businessmen dropped $14,000 tips at hostess bars and golf memberships cost upward of $3 million.
Sales of high-end models of Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz cars soared. Land values were so high that the Imperial Palace grounds in the center of Tokyo, measuring just over 1 square mile, were worth more than all the real estate in California.
In the 1980s, when the 30-something real estate developer built a golden tower in New York on Fifth Avenue bearing his name, Japanese companies snapped up prime property in the United States — including Rockefeller Center near Fifth Avenue.
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