Newsom to Ask Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown
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Newsom to Ask Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to escalate California’s push to eradicate homeless encampments on Monday, calling on hundreds of cities, towns and counties to effectively ban tent camps on sidewalks, bike paths, parklands and other types of public property. Mr. Newsom’s administration has raised…

Friedrich Merz Has a Tough Job as Germany’s Chancellor. It Just Got Tougher.
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Friedrich Merz Has a Tough Job as Germany’s Chancellor. It Just Got Tougher.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Friedrich Merz’s party won Germany’s national election in late February. After weeks of coalition negotiations, Mr. Merz finally made it to the chancellor’s office late Tuesday afternoon, one failed parliamentary vote and several hours behind schedule. In the interim, nearly all of Mr….

G.O.P. Targets a Medicaid Loophole Used by 49 States to Grab Federal Money
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G.O.P. Targets a Medicaid Loophole Used by 49 States to Grab Federal Money

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In 1989, New Hampshire’s Republican governor, Judd Gregg, had a gaping budget hole he didn’t know how to fill. His health secretary came up with a solution: a tax maneuver he’d learned through the grapevine that would force Washington to send the state…

Opinion | Trump’s Third-Term Musings Are Part of a Pattern
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Opinion | Trump’s Third-Term Musings Are Part of a Pattern

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When Republicans took control of Congress in 1947, they were still angry that President Franklin D. Roosevelt had won a fourth term in 1944, and they set out to pass a constitutional amendment to limit future presidents to two terms. John Jennings, Republican…

Opinion | These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful
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Opinion | These Thinkers Set the Stage for Trump the All-Powerful

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With a blitz of moves in his 100 days in office, President Trump has sought to greatly enlarge executive power. The typical explanation is that he’s following and expanding a legal idea devised by conservatives during the Reagan administration, the unitary executive theory….

Opinion | There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab
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Opinion | There Is a Way Forward: How to Defeat Trump’s Power Grab

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines To be clear, some of his legal — or plausibly legal — policies also deserve opposition from liberals, moderates and conservatives alike. He has damaged America’s standing in the world, especially through his chaotic tariffs. He has made it easier for China and…

Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma
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Supreme Court Seems Open to a Religious Charter School in Oklahoma

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Supreme Court appeared open on Wednesday to allowing Oklahoma to use government money to run the nation’s first religious charter school, which would teach a curriculum infused by Catholic doctrine. Excluding the school from the state’s charter-school system would amount to “rank…

Opinion | Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt
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Opinion | Donald Trump, You’re No Franklin Roosevelt

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines What followed was a blitz of action meant to ameliorate the worst of the crisis. “On his very first night in office,” the historian William E. Leuchtenburg (who died three months ago) recounted in his seminal volume, “Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New…

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues White House to Block Board Firings
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues White House to Block Board Firings

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of the company’s board. In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in Washington, the media organization said the White House emailed…

Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency
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Opinion | A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Last month the House speaker, Mike Johnson, raised the possibility of eliminating some federal courts. “We do have the authority over the federal courts, as you know,” Mr. Johnson told reporters. “We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding…