The Far Right Is Distorting Ceuta

We’ve seen this before.

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Migrant Crisis Reveals Vast Differences Between Ceuta and Its Moroccan Neighbor (Gift Article)

Ceuta, Spain, and Fnideq, Morocco, are physically separated by only a mile, but they are intertwined by family and trade. A recent border crisis is the latest chapter in their story.

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How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)

Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...

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Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation

Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.

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Second major AI company says its systems hacked into other firms

Anthropic disclosed the previously undetected incident one week after ChatGPT developer OpenAI said one of its systems hacked a tech company.

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Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

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Opinion | Against Todd Blanche

Will a handful of Senate Republicans admit that Trump's attorney general nominee deserves rejection?

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The Putinization of the American Military

When poseurs and yes-men run a war

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Trump Turns Up the Heat on RFK Jr. to Cut Back Childhood Vaccines

​The president is focused on the shots’ alleged tie to autism, even though White House advisers wanted to tone down attention to the issue ahead of the midterms.

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How Netanyahu Lost America

The prime minister, a self-styled expert on the U.S., has shattered his country’s standing.

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Opinion | Trump’s Tariff Runaround Defies the Courts and Common Sense (Gift Article)

The administration will keep trying to run around rulings against import fees.

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The Wingman

Mark Kelly’s résumé and the goodwill he’s accrued as Gabby Giffords’s spouse have granted him a high level of admiration. Can it translate to excitement for a presidential campaign?

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Opinion | Thank you, Mr. President, for fact-checking yourself

Far from proving fraud, the declassified intelligence shows analysts doing their jobs carefully.

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Just Ask the Dinosaurs How Bad Air Quality Can Get

If an orange sky seems apocalyptic, imagine planet-wide fires against a black sky.

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How the U.S. Lost the World Cup—and Won Over the World

Despite political drama and a disappointing end to the U.S. team’s run, the 2026 World Cup proved to be an eye-opening affirmation of American soft power.

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Trump’s sons invest heavily in defense tech as father’s administration pours money in

Most investments by funds linked to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have taken place since their father’s reelection.

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The Fight Over Hormuz Boils Down to One Poorly Worded Clause in Trump’s Deal

Paragraph 5 hands Iran a leading role in opening the waterway, but one the U.S. and its allies aren’t comfortable with.

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U.S. Strikes New Targets After Iran Rejects Demand to Open Hormuz

President Trump said the U.S. would take over the waterway and demand compensation for the service.

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Aspiring to Regional Domination, Iran Is Ready to Escalate Over Hormuz

A fresh round of fighting over the key waterway highlights that for Tehran, keeping a chokehold on the strait cements its new power in the region.

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Hunter Biden wins $1.7m in suit over Iran bribery claim by ex-CEO of Overstock.com

Biden sued Patrick Byrne for defamation over claim that he sought bribe to lobby his father to free $8bn in Iran assets

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CIA Officers Can Sense the Threat Within

A survey reveals concern among the rank and file that Trump-administration meddling is undermining intelligence work.

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The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away From the U.S.

Facing threats from Trump, Carney emerged as a central figure in a project to reshape the Western alliance.

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Europe Races to Plug Security Holes After U.S. NATO Pullback

Alliance leaders say alternatives exist for systems U.S. will pull, but fears of weakened deterrence grow.

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‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America

Trump’s tariffs, threats against Greenland spurred a rebellion by top leaders; the limits of “flattery diplomacy.”

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What J. D. Vance Once Knew

Ten years ago, the vice president wrote that one day, voters would realize the truth about Donald Trump. That day has now arrived.

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Opioid of the Masses (From 2016)

To many, Donald Trump feels good, but he can’t fix America’s growing social and cultural crisis, and the eventual comedown will be harsh.

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Former Top General Warns the Military Is Being Politicized

CQ Brown, who was fired as Trump’s top general, questioned the president’s handling of the armed forces.

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Opinion | The Trump Family and ‘Honest Graft’

They are profiting off the Presidency in ways that demean the office.

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