Opinion | ‘Why Don’t Democrats Fight Fire With Fire?’ Three Opinion Writers on a Wounded Party
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Opinion | ‘Why Don’t Democrats Fight Fire With Fire?’ Three Opinion Writers on a Wounded Party

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens and the contributing Opinion writer Frank Bruni on the problems and challenges for the Democrats as President Trump seeks unchecked power. Patrick Healy:…

U.S. Considers Sending Israel 24,000 Assault Rifles Held Back Under Biden
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U.S. Considers Sending Israel 24,000 Assault Rifles Held Back Under Biden

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration is considering sending 24,000 assault rifles to Israel that had been held up at the State Department on the orders of Antony J. Blinken, the former secretary of state, a U.S. official said. Mr. Blinken had asked the State Department…

Opinion | Trump is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound.
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Opinion | Trump is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Democrats are a party controlled by elites, liberals and special interest groups. They are out of touch with America’s middle class. They are personified by a president who let inflation get the better of him and world events spin out of his…

How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze
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How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In famine-stricken Sudan, soup kitchens that feed hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in a war zone have shut down. In Thailand, war refugees with life-threatening diseases have been turned away by hospitals and carted off on makeshift stretchers. In Ukraine, residents on…

Internal FBI Emails Offer Glimpse Into Trump 2020 Election Investigation
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Internal FBI Emails Offer Glimpse Into Trump 2020 Election Investigation

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A series of internal F.B.I. emails released on Thursday showed that agents and officials followed standard procedure nearly three years ago when they opened the historic criminal investigation into Donald J. Trump’s attempts to stay in power after he lost the 2020 election….

U.S. Economy Grew 2.3 Percent in Fourth Quarter
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U.S. Economy Grew 2.3 Percent in Fourth Quarter

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Growth slowed but remained resilient at the end of 2024, leaving the U.S. economy on solid footing heading into a new year — and a new presidential administration — that is full of uncertainty. U.S. gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, grew at…

What Israel’s UNRWA Ban Could Mean for Palestinians
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What Israel’s UNRWA Ban Could Mean for Palestinians

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Israeli legislation taking effect on Thursday will threaten the operations of a major United Nations agency that provides critical humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip after more than a year of war has left the territory in ruins. The laws ban the agency,…

Trump Officials Revoke Biden’s Extension of Protections for Venezuelans
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Trump Officials Revoke Biden’s Extension of Protections for Venezuelans

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration has revoked an extension of deportation protections that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had granted to more than 600,000 Venezuelans already in the United States, according to a copy of the decision obtained by The New York Times. On Tuesday,…

Do DeepSeek’s A.I. Advances Mean US Tech Controls Have Failed?
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Do DeepSeek’s A.I. Advances Mean US Tech Controls Have Failed?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The United States has worked steadily over the past three years to limit China’s access to the cutting edge computer chips that power advanced artificial intelligence systems. Its aim has been to slow China’s progress in developing sophisticated A.I. models. Now a Chinese…

C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
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C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The C.I.A. has said for years that it did not have enough information to conclude whether the Covid pandemic emerged naturally from a wet market in Wuhan, China, or from an accidental leak at a research lab there. But the agency issued a…