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Pentagon officials, surprised by President Trump's orders, scrambled to work out a plan to halt sanctioned tankers as Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's leader, vowed resistance.
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The Pentagon said it was initiating a "command investigation" into the senator, another extraordinary step as the Trump administration seeks retribution against the president's perceived foes.
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The sprawling legislation includes a provision seeking video and other materials detailing the Trump administration's military activities in Latin America.
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The move could doom bipartisan efforts to ban stock trading, as Republicans may not back a measure that extends to the executive branch.
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Jeff Flake, Joe Manchin and Tina Smith all decided to leave the Senate during the Trump era. On "The Interview," the current and former lawmakers open up about why they think the Senate is broken and what it would take to fix it.
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El traslado de más de una veintena de hombres esta semana reanudó una operación de deportación del gobierno de Trump en la base después de una pausa de dos meses.
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Former special counsel Jack Smith was giving a closed-door deposition to the House Judiciary Committee. He had asked to testify in public.
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President Donald Trump commended Bongino on his tenure and suggested that he would be returning to his job as a conservative podcaster.
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Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.
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The Atlanta-area district attorney called President Trump and his allies "criminals" while being questioned by a Georgia Senate committee on Wednesday.
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The White House unveiled plaques near the Oval Office that describe U.S. presidents with varying levels of accuracy, depending on President Trump's opinion of them.
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An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize "those who've unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship."
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The fresh adornments to a "Presidential Walk of Fame" that Trump installed in September take a display already intended as a bit of a troll to new heights.
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The comment from Brendan Carr, a Republican, raised concerns from lawmakers about how President Trump might use the agency.
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President Trump has ordered what he called a "total and complete blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, as the United States escalates pressure on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The move comes amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region and days after U.S. forces seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil. Since September, the U.S. military has carried out at least 25 airstrikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific near Venezuela, killing at least 95 people.
The administration's actions against Venezuela signal "the total renunciation of liberal internationalism" and further abandonment of "a world governed by common laws," says Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Yale University professor Greg Grandin. This comes as Latin America is on a "knife's edge between the left and the right," with the Trump administration eager to boost its authoritarian allies across the region, says Grandin.
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People from Syria, South Sudan and those with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority are included in the latest restrictions. More than 35 countries are now under U.S. travel restrictions.
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The change to funding governments instead of NGOs is long overdue but could easily go wrong.
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At least a dozen people have died in Gaza as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians forced to shelter in makeshift tents among the rubble of collapsing buildings severely damaged by Israeli bombing. That rubble is being eyed by U.S.-based contractors, who are already vying for lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal. "People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruction in Iraq," says Aram Roston, whose latest investigation for The Guardian US looks at how the company behind the notorious Florida immigration detention jail nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" has been involved in rebuilding plans spearheaded by Trump's so-called Board of Peace.
Roston also discusses his reporting on the CIA's involvement in U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean. "It plays this key role in picking the targets that are chosen by the military for destruction."
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 Dustin Chambers/ ReutersA Georgia judge on Tuesday paused a last-minute rule adopted by Donald Trump's allies on the State Election Board requiring ballots to be counted by hand.
The judge wrote that introducing an unknown and untested rule at the "11th-and-one-half hour" affecting more than 7,500 poll workers was guaranteed to introduce "administrative chaos" that was "entirely inconsistent with the obligations of our boards of elections (and the State Election Board) to ensure that our elections are fair, legal and orderly."
The September 20 rule requires that after the polls close on Election Day, three poll officers must unseal and open each scanner ballot box and remove the paper ballots and sort them into stacks of 50 ballots to make sure the ballots match the figures recorded on the precinct poll pads, ballot marking devices, and scanner recap forms.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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