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Mexico is looking beyond the incoming Trump administration’s threats of tariffs, betting on a bright future for global merchandise trade no matter what actions its northern neighbor and biggest trading partner takes.

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Donald Trump is returning to the White House after one of the most remarkable political comebacks in U.S. history. His side hustle as the frontman for a fledgling high-end watch brand, however, is less of a success so far....Read more

Michigan Republican U.S. Rep.-elect Tom Barrett snagged the office on Capitol Hill that he'd been pulling for ― a space in the Longworth building once occupied by his great-grandfather, the late Louis Charles Rabaut.

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump picked Brooke Rollins as U.S. secretary of agriculture, tapping a member of his first-term White House team and elevating another loyalist to his incoming administration.

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump selected Brooke Rollins, who heads a policy institute created to promote his agenda, as his nominee for U.S. secretary of agriculture.

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SAN DIEGO — The deployment of military troops to the southwestern border is nothing new.

Presidents both Republican and Democrat have called on military support in San Diego and elsewhere many times over the years to ...Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling alliance won an election in Maharashtra by a wide margin, signaling policy continuity in a state which houses most of India’s billionaires and is home to some of the country’s ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a quick special election timetable Friday for voters to replace former U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz in a Republican congressional seat in Florida’s Panhandle.

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Five days a week. That’s the new return-to-office policy at Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post and at Amazon.com Inc., the retail giant now run by his designated successor Andy Jassy. It’s also the RTO recommendation Elon ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the waning days of his administration, President Joe Biden is pushing to strengthen Ukraine’s position against Russia before the return of Donald Trump to the White House.

That’s because the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Scott Bessent, the veteran hedge fund manager who Donald Trump picked to become the next Treasury secretary, wants tariffs, a shadow chair for the Federal Reserve and maybe a weaker dollar.

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On Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, George Washington woke early. Assisted by his enslaved valets – William “Billy” Lee and the young Christopher Sheels – he powdered his hair, put on his favorite black velvet suit, ...Read more

She has yet to even be sworn in. But the hateful Republican women in the House of Representatives have already declared war on the first openly transgender woman to be elected to Congress, Sarah McBride. She is my new ...Read more

The Iowa pollster being slammed by Team Trump is quitting. Too late, the damage is done.

Her dismal prognosticating on the eve of the election became a major story. Iowa was swinging over to VP Kamala Harris? A red state ...Read more

As the Ukraine war, launched by the imperialist invasion by Russian despot Vladimir Putin, passed its 1,000-day mark this month, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s troops are newly empowered by the Biden administration to ...Read more

Most Americans, from both parties, say the government needs to increase the supply of affordable housing. For President-elect Donald Trump, that should offer a good opportunity to summon his instincts for development — ...Read more

California Governor Gavin Newsom knows a political opportunity when he sees one. That’s why it should come as no surprise that the ambitious lame-duck leader of the nation’s most liberal state has wasted no time ...Read more

Donald Trump lost his attorney general nominee on Thursday as Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration amid an ethics probe and doubts about his confirmation odds. But the news wasn’t all bad for the president-...Read more

Newspaper profiles of Pamela Bondi -- subbed in as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. attorney general following the scandalous implosion of Matt Gaetz -- often describe her with a phrase like "longtime ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Donald Trump disavowed the MAGA manifesto Project 2025, calling its ideas “abysmal.” Now the president-elect has nominated or appointed to his incoming administration at least five people...Read more