Category: Politics
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Kyiv agreed to an American request to hold off striking Moscow while the CIA director was in the city. The drones came back hours after his plane left — which tells you who the courtesy was for.
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The CIA director went to Moscow unannounced and proposed a three-way meeting with Putin and Zelensky. Why that errand goes to a spy chief rather than a diplomat, and why the summit keeps not happening.
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Canada’s answer to “Lake America” is a large sign on its own shore reading “Lake Ontario now and always”. Both gestures are free, both are visible, and neither touches the 50 per cent tariffs underneath.
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Why an island of 57,000 people has become a trans-Atlantic crisis: the minerals, the missile route, the shipping lanes, and the awkward fact that Greenland already has the legal right to decide its own future.
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Disclosure forms show more than a thousand transactions in June, including energy companies profiting from the war the president is directing. It is lawful, it is disclosed, and the conflict-of-interest statute does not apply to presidents.
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Government lawyers raised demolition of the national memorial to President Kennedy as a possible consequence if the administration cannot add Trump’s name to the building. What that argument is, and what it isn’t.
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The carrier under construction carries the name of a mess attendant who manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor without ever having been trained on one. The Navy is considering replacing it with the president’s.
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The order renames Lake Ontario “effective immediately”. Half the lake is Canadian, the name predates both countries, and an executive order reaches federal maps and nothing else. What the gesture actually changes.
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Six months of defending bases and allies against Iranian drones and missiles has left American interceptor stocks in Europe badly depleted — and a rival that reads stockpiles as a measure of strength has noticed.
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The publisher, editor-in-chief and a reporter at Stars and Stripes are suing Pete Hegseth and two Pentagon officials to stop their firings. The paper is funded by the Defense Department and legally independent of it. That contradiction is now before a judge.