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Donald Trump and his advisers have taken steps to weed out potential hires who have previously criticized the president, worked for his critics or held dissenting views on Ukraine, NATO and tariffs
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The scope and velocity of President Trump’s initial moves are creating a ripple effect that stretches from American main streets to far-flung corners of the world.
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President Trump’s moves to close down foreign aid agency USAID have left U.S. government employees living in remote areas or war zones struggling to get home
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President Trump said he revoked former President Joe Biden’s security clearance Friday, stating there was no need for the Democrat’s continued access
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President Trump says he will appoint himself chairman of the prestigious John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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President Trump calls for rehiring of DOGE staffer who resigned over racist posts
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Senate Republicans are charging ahead with a border enforcement and defense-spending plan, aiming to leapfrog the House and deliver a quick victory on President Trump’s legislative priorities before turning to tax policy later this year
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President Trump’s actions on Friday include posts on Truth Social about balancing the budget, a return to plastic straws and a pre-Super Bowl interview, and he has a scheduled meeting with the prime minister of Japan
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MAGA kingmaker and one-time presidential adviser Steve Bannon discusses Elon Musk, RFK Jr. and President Trump’s expansive agenda in an interview with WSJ’s Maggie Severns
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Gerald F. Seib asks: Will Congress and the courts dare to push back against President Trump’s blizzard of executive orders?
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is slated to visit Guantanamo Bay as the administration steps up use of the naval base for migrants
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Drug cartels are what the Trump Justice Department cares about now—and not so much crooked executives or Russian oligarchs, the new AG says
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House Republicans close in on budget deal after meeting with Trump
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A federal judge extended a Thursday deadline for federal employees to decide whether to accept an offer from the Trump administration to resign their jobs voluntarily
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The Justice Department sued Illinois and Chicago over efforts to limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement
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Fentanyl dominated the tariff showdown, but a parallel, though quieter, issue was highlighted: the smuggling of guns from the U.S. into Mexico
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A judge signed off on a temporary agreement that limits the sharing of sensitive Treasury data amid a dispute over access granted to Elon Musk’s DOGE allies
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For residents of Washington’s Capitol Hill enclave, cuts to the federal workforce mean that home is where the angst is. “I can’t sleep.”
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Lawmakers plan to introduce a bill Thursday that would ban DeepSeek’s chatbot application from government-owned devices over new national-security concerns
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