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US judge blocks Trump buyout program as 60,000 sign up to quit
A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s proposed buyout for federal workers until at least…
February 6, 2025
Trump plans for Gaza ownership embolden far-right Israeli settlers to increase attacks on Palestinians
The Nachala Movement, which supports building Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, reacted to Mr. Trump’s comments…
February 6, 2025
GOP support for Musk influence with Trump falls dramatically: Poll
In The Economist/YouGov poll taken in the days after the November 2024 election, 47 percent of surveyed Republicans…
February 6, 2025
Israel Defense Forces told to prepare plan for Palestinians to voluntarily leave Gaza
“The plan will include exit options at land crossings as well as special arrangements for exit by sea…
February 6, 2025
‘Nothing new’: Police say fentanyl crackdown existed before tariff threats
Canadian investigators were effectively cracking down on fentanyl trafficking and production well before U.S. President Donald Trump threatened…
February 6, 2025
NDP leader Nenshi calls Smith a ‘showboat’ on tariff crisis
Nenshi says Smith is a “showboat” who plays the tariff crisis more for attention than effect. “Premier Smith…
February 6, 2025
AOC’s former chief of staff files to run against Nancy Pelosi
Now, Chakrabarti has his sights set on Congress. “Watching Trump and Elon freely unleash chaos in their illegal…
February 5, 2025
Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk
“I’m appalled by democracy’s changes in the last, well, specifically two weeks — but it started a long…
February 5, 2025
German authorities suspect Russian sabotage in anti-Greens election attacks
Hundreds of cars across several German states appear to have been deliberately sabotaged — their exhaust pipes filled…
February 5, 2025
What Musk means for the constitutional order
The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’état across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything…
February 5, 2025
Former Chancellor Angela Merkel talks about her term and decisions about migration in talk with “Die Zeit”
The moderators confronted the former German Chancellor with the hard allegation of the CDU leader Friedrich Merz, who…
February 5, 2025
How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was traveling in Guatemala, heard the idea for the first time as…
February 5, 2025
Wall Street banks offload $5.5bn in debt linked to Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter
The offloading of the $6.5bn of debt is a pivotal moment for the banks, which had to fund…
February 5, 2025
Google eliminates diversity hiring targets
Search giant is eliminating goals to hire more minority employees and reviewing DEI programs, part of a pullback…
February 5, 2025
Palestinians and Arab states reject Trump’s Gaza takeover proposal
“We will not allow the rights of our people… to be infringed on,” Mahmoud Abbas stressed, warning that…
February 5, 2025
USAID was investigating Starlink’s contracts in Ukraine
Musk is trying to shut down the agency probing his company’s equipment — and now workers are pushing…
February 5, 2025
Axel Springer’s Politico received $8 million in subscription contracts from the US government
“I can confirm that the more than $8 million taxpayer dollars that have gone to essentially subsidizing subscriptions…
February 5, 2025
Robyn Urback: This near-trade war should shock Canada out of our stupor
Despite the 11th-hour, 30-day reprieve Mr. Trump just gave us on his tariff threat, Canada remains as vulnerable…
February 4, 2025
Trump tariff threat: B.C. to fast-track 18 mining and energy projects worth $20B
The list includes mining projects that have been criticized by some First Nations groups in B.C. and Alaska,…
February 4, 2025
Trump proposes ‘permanently’ displacing Palestinians so U.S. can take over Gaza
“Everybody I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning that piece of land.”
February 4, 2025