Presidential Odd Couple: After a Tough Race, Carter and Ford Became Friends
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Presidential Odd Couple: After a Tough Race, Carter and Ford Became Friends

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines They did not think much of each other at first. They crisscrossed the country for months, warning voters that the other one should not be trusted with power. Their campaign was as bitter as any of the era and ended in one of…

Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing
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Alito Spoke With Trump Shortly Before Supreme Court Filing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. spoke with President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday, not long before Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing following his conviction in New York in a case arising from hush money payments. “William Levi,…

Mourners Defy Subfreezing Temperatures to Honor Jimmy Carter at the Capitol
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Mourners Defy Subfreezing Temperatures to Honor Jimmy Carter at the Capitol

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines They came amid the ice and snow, bundled in parkas and long johns, expecting an hourslong wait in the subfreezing temperatures and whipping winds. Instead, the mourners who journeyed through the maze of barricades around the Capitol early Wednesday morning to pay their…

Greenland, Panama and Faucets: Trump Conference Shows Hints of Chaos to Come
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Greenland, Panama and Faucets: Trump Conference Shows Hints of Chaos to Come

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Nonetheless, it seemed at times like Mr. Trump was already president, in large part because Mr. Biden has faded from the scene so quickly. This was Mr. Trump’s second full news conference at Mar-a-Lago since he began forming his government, and in that…

Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal
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Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to…

Democrats Prevail in Virginia Races, the First Elections Since Trump’s Win
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Democrats Prevail in Virginia Races, the First Elections Since Trump’s Win

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Democrats on Tuesday held two key state legislative seats in Virginia, retaining their majorities in the General Assembly in the first special elections since President-elect Donald J. Trump won back the White House. The results were expected in overlapping House of Delegates and…

Jimmy Carter to Lie in State in Capitol Starting Tuesday
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Jimmy Carter to Lie in State in Capitol Starting Tuesday

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The nation’s leaders on Tuesday kicked off three days of tributes to Jimmy Carter, staging an elaborate pageant of Washington fanfare for a politician who disavowed the trappings of the imperial presidency and never gave up his humble Georgia roots. Mr. Carter, who…

Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term
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Meta to End Fact-Checking Program in Shift Ahead of Trump Term

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Meta said on Tuesday that it was ending its longstanding fact-checking program, a policy instituted to curtail the spread of misinformation across its social media apps, in a stark sign of how the company was repositioning itself for the Trump presidency and throwing…

Trump Again Hints at Jan. 6 Pardons, Including for Attacks on Police
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Trump Again Hints at Jan. 6 Pardons, Including for Attacks on Police

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President-elect Donald J. Trump on Tuesday once again left open the possibility of offering pardons to some of his supporters who are serving prison time for assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Mr. Trump, who campaigned…

Trump and Family Blur Lines in Deals on Cusp of His Presidency
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Trump and Family Blur Lines in Deals on Cusp of His Presidency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President-elect Donald J. Trump was at the lectern talking through the approaching inauguration of his second term. But across the ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla., was a display of the extraordinary way that his family business interests are now…