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Sen. Chris Murphy says he still has confidence in Minority Leader Chuck Schumer but Democrats must change tactics in combatting Trump’s agenda

President Donald Trump ordered the dismantling of news agency Voice of America, the U.S.’s state-funded media outlet that Trump has railed against for promoting biased media reports.  “Voice of America has been out of step with America for years. It serves as the Voice for Radical America and has pushed divisive propaganda for years now,” … Read more

While writing my book, I asked on social media for stories from parents suffering extreme sleep deprivation. It was hilarious – and frightening Sleep is a feminist issue. Or should I say, lack of sleep is a feminist issue. During a particularly thickly cut bout of tiredness, when my son was a newborn, I became … Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he was “not at all” worried about the stock market, which has dipped multiple times amid Trump’s tariff threats.

Tennessee state lawmakers introduced a bill to allow school districts and law enforcement agencies to deny enrollment to illegal migrant students. S.B. 836 states that a law enforcement agency or public charter school “may enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States.” Republican Sen. Bo Watson, who sponsored … Read more

If the Trump Administration comes out on the wrong side of this fight, it will be because defending free speech remains a politically lucid and powerful principle.

The U.S.C. basketball star’s magnetism is generated by nowness, by the way she seems to embody an ever-refreshing present.

The employers of the estate agent who sued them for unfair constructive dismissal would do well to read Machiavelli Niccolò Machiavelli had an important piece of advice about office politics: “If an injury has to be done to a man,” he writes in The Prince, “it should be so severe that his vengeance need not … Read more

A trade war could push up inflation when both the UK and US economies really need cheaper borrowing. So what’s a central bank to do? Monetary policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic will be considering how seriously to take Donald Trump’s threats of an all-out trade war as they give their verdict on the … Read more

District judge orders planes be turned around after Trump deploys obscure act against Venezuelans; strikes ordered on Houthis in Yemen – key US politics stories from Saturday at a glance A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using an obscure, 227-year-old law designed primarily for use in wartime to deport five Venezuelan … Read more