In Dueling Pardons, an Intensified Fight Over the Meaning of Jan. 6
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In Dueling Pardons, an Intensified Fight Over the Meaning of Jan. 6

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The dueling pardons issued Monday by the outgoing and incoming presidents were the latest and perhaps clearest reminders of how Donald J. Trump’s efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol have gradually worn down the consensus…

Biden Pardons 5 Members of His Family in Final Minutes in Office
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Biden Pardons 5 Members of His Family in Final Minutes in Office

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden pardoned five members of his family in his last minutes in office, saying in a statement that he did so not because they did anything wrong but because he feared political attacks from incoming President Donald J. Trump. “My family has…

Biden in Final Hours Pardons Cheney, Fauci and Milley to Thwart Reprisals
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Biden in Final Hours Pardons Cheney, Fauci and Milley to Thwart Reprisals

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden moved just hours before leaving office on Monday to guard some of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s most high-profile adversaries against a promised campaign of “retribution” by issuing pre-emptive pardons to head off politically driven prosecutions. Among those receiving the pardons were…

Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office. The War Rages On.
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Trump Vowed to End the Ukraine War Before Taking Office. The War Rages On.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After they win elections and move into the White House, plenty of presidents at some point eventually break a campaign promise. Donald J. Trump will not even wait that long. He will break an important campaign promise the moment he takes the oath…

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

#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…

Biden Made a Global Push to Constrain China. What Will Trump Do?
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Biden Made a Global Push to Constrain China. What Will Trump Do?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Biden and his aides came into office with deep experience in trans-Atlantic affairs. But over four years, they focused too on the Pacific, where China strains to be the dominant player. Their main effort: building up alliances to counter China. President-elect Donald…

Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Adviser, Reflects on China Policy
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Jake Sullivan, White House National Security Adviser, Reflects on China Policy

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “That to me, I think, has a practical answer, which is government-to-government agreements that emplace effective security safeguards and transparency around the hardware, the model weights and the know-how, and that’s what we have worked through in our M.O.U. [memorandum of understanding] with…

How Antony Blinken, America’s Top Diplomat, Became the Secretary of War
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How Antony Blinken, America’s Top Diplomat, Became the Secretary of War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Making his final trip as America’s top diplomat last week, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrived in Paris, his former hometown, to a hero’s welcome. France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, proclaimed Mr. Blinken “an eminent servant of peace” at a ceremony at the…

Health Secretary Defends Biden’s Covid Vaccine Mandates and Social Media Efforts
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Health Secretary Defends Biden’s Covid Vaccine Mandates and Social Media Efforts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Xavier Becerra, the man President Biden chose to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, does not want to talk about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the man President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen to “go wild” in reshaping it. Nor does he…

What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump
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What Border Crisis? Mexican Migrant Shelters Are Quiet Ahead of Trump

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Migrants used to gather by the hundreds in encampments in Ciudad Juárez, on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, waiting for a chance to cross into the United States. But as President-elect Donald J. Trump prepares to take office on Monday, few…