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Newsom Warns America: Trump Is Destroying Democracy
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed that the president’s plan to use the military against U.S. citizens will cost taxpayers a jaw-dropping sum.Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense...
New York Times Names Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as Co-Chief Restaurant Critics
The New York Times has appointed Ligaya Mishan and Tejal Rao as co-chief restaurant critics, the first time that the news organization will have more than one, the company...
China Walks a Line in U.S. Trade Talks, Trying Not to Overplay Its Hand
In its high-stakes trade talks with the United States, China has been trying to strike a balance in how it wields its market clout. It controls the world’s supply...
Trump’s Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires—and Reveals His Own Weakness
Those revelations come in this report in The Wall Street Journal, which says that in May, top Trump adviser Stephen Miller told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials that Trump...
Trump Is Expanding His Thuggish War on Union Leaders
The arrest and violent manhandling of David Huerta, the president of the Service Employees International Union of California, or SEIU, suggests that Donald Trump, that proud tribune of the...
Donald Trump’s Dirty Self-Dealing: The Audacity of His Rapacity
A rendering of Trump Tower Jeddah, being built in Saudi Arabia.SCREENGRAB VIA DAR GLOBALThat is merely one of what CREW estimates will be 19 such deals in the works...
Yiyun Li’s Unsparing Memoir of Life After Two Sons’ Suicides
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 192 pp., $26.00 Li, who left China in 1996 and now writes in her “adopted language” of...
Rubio Is Pressing to Open Sanctions Investigation Into Harvard
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is pushing to investigate whether Harvard University violated federal sanctions by collaborating on a health insurance conference in China that may have included officials...
Trump’s Angry, Violent Outbursts Go Nuclear as Poll Delivers Bad News
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump issued a direct promise to use “heavy force” on protesters who dare show up to his military parade this weekend. He made no distinction...
Musk Expresses ‘Regret’ Over His Criticisms of Trump
Elon Musk said in a social media post early Wednesday that he regretted some of his posts and comments about President Trump last week, which had led the president...
