Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed, With Some Willing to Work With Republicans
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Trump Leaves Democrats Dazed, With Some Willing to Work With Republicans

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As President Trump pushes aggressively to reshape the federal government, Democrats have retreated into a political crouch that reflects their powerlessness in Washington. Far from rising up in outrage, the opposition party’s lawmakers have taken a muted wait-and-see approach as Mr. Trump tries…

Opinion | ‘Puerility, Provocation and a Strain of Nihilism’: 3 Writers on What Binds Trump and Musk
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Opinion | ‘Puerility, Provocation and a Strain of Nihilism’: 3 Writers on What Binds Trump and Musk

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Frank Bruni, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Bethany McLean, an author of “The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and Nate Silver, the author of “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything” and the newsletter Silver Bulletin, to…

Opinion | The Right Is Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds
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Opinion | The Right Is Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “Instead of taking a knee to call for social justice,” Zitner and McGraw wrote, N.F.L. players are doing the “Trump dance” in the end zone at football games. Mainstream entertainers, among them the country singer Carrie Underwood and the rapper Snoop Dogg, agreed…

Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife
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Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was ‘Abusive’ to Second Wife

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines An ex-sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth’s submitted a sworn statement to senators on Tuesday that accused Mr. Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, of being so “abusive” toward his second wife that she once hid in a closet from him and had…

Trump Returns to White House With More Deferential Allies and Foes
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Trump Returns to White House With More Deferential Allies and Foes

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines More than 30 miles of anti-scale fencing are being erected all over the nation’s capital. Concrete barriers are being placed at key junctures. Certain roads have already been closed to traffic. Surveillance drones will flood the skies. But if Washington looks like a…

Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump
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Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Many Americans who otherwise dislike President-elect Donald J. Trump share his bleak assessment of the country’s problems and support some of his most contentious prescriptions to fix them, according to a new poll from The New York Times and Ipsos. A little more…

Will Cuomo Run for Mayor? Racial Politics Complicate His Decision.
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Will Cuomo Run for Mayor? Racial Politics Complicate His Decision.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Andrew M. Cuomo has been here before. In 2002, fresh off a stint as the nation’s housing secretary, Mr. Cuomo decided to run for governor of New York. Fellow Democrats already had a well-liked Black candidate in mind, H. Carl McCall, but Mr….

‘I’m Urging You Not to Run’: How Schumer Pushed Biden to Drop Out
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‘I’m Urging You Not to Run’: How Schumer Pushed Biden to Drop Out

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Senator Chuck Schumer of New York sat in the foyer of President Biden’s Rehoboth Beach house, tired and tense. He had not slept the night before, and on the four-hour drive from Brooklyn to Delaware, he had rehearsed out loud what he planned…