The monthly trade deficit and imports rebounded in November after shrinking significantly in prior months, new data show.

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Iran’s Islamic Republic, weakened by airstrikes in June and huge popular unrest, warns that it will strike back hard if attacked by the United States. This time, Iran may mean it.

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A federal appeals court ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem unlawfully ended legal protections for Venezuelan and Haitian migrants.

In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene

It was the worst of times and then even worse; it was the age of lies and then more lies; it was an epoch of preening and cowardice. In the winter of despair, it was a day of the vile and a night of the obscene. It was a tale of two films, one featuring the stark killing of a protester on a cold Minneapolis street and the other starring Melania Trump striking poses in a “documentary” shown at a private screening at the White House.

Throughout the day of Saturday, 24 January, videos of the killing by ICE agents of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse at the Veterans Administration hospital, on a street in Minneapolis were broadcast endlessly on TV news channels and seen by tens of millions online. The videos clearly showed Pretti with his phone in his hand, holding his hands up as he approached ICE agents who had pepper-sprayed a woman. He was coming to her aid, a Good Samaritan. The ICE agents instantly attacked him. One frame of a video shows one agent with his gun drawn, pointed at Pretti’s back as he fell hands still in the air. Agents appear to have shot him 10 times in five seconds.

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The Democratic senator, who signaled her bid after Gov. Tim Walz said he wouldn’t run again, talked about moving past political divides in a video announcement.

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The Department of Homeland Security is in turmoil after the killing of Alex Pretti.

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Jay Bhattacharya, the N.I.H. director, says authorities broke the public’s trust in the Covid era. Now it’s up to outsiders to restore it.

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President Trump’s agenda faced more than 600 lawsuits over the past year. In many cases, district court judges found his policies to be unlawful.

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Tariffs have protected some companies, but more often they’ve hit the parts and materials many factories need to make finished goods.

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A State Senate runoff on Saturday in the Fort Worth suburbs will preview whether a backlash against conservative social policies will give Democrats a chance to gain.

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Loloi stockpiled rugs from India, Turkey and other countries in advance, but inventory is running low.

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The tale illustrates how inefficient the ICE operation has been in the year since President Trump ordered the base to prepare for up to 30,000 “criminal aliens.”

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The crackdown on unauthorized immigrants is resonating deeply among the Dakota and other tribes, as residents confront what they call a federal occupation of their land.

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America's immigration bubble has burst after 60 years of growth, with the U.S. experiencing negative net migration for the first time since the 1970s.

President Donald Trump reverses Biden appliance regulations targeting dishwashers, washing machines, air conditioners and water heaters through executive orders.

Under Donald Trump, the White House has filled its social media with memes, wishcasting, nostalgia and deepfakes. Here’s what you need to know to navigate the trolling

It started with an image of Trump as a king mocked up on a fake Time magazine cover. Since then it’s developed into a full-blown phenomenon, one academics are calling “slopaganda” – an unholy alliance of easily available AI tools and political messaging. “Shitposting”, the publishing of deliberately crude, offensive content online to provoke a reaction, has reached the level of “institutional shitposting”, according to Know Your Meme’s editor Don Caldwell. This is trolling as official government communication. And nobody is more skilled at it than the Trump administration – a government that has not only allowed the AI industry all the regulative freedom it desires, but has embraced the technology for its own in-house purposes. Here are 10 of the most significant fake images the White House has put out so far.

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The U.S. Department of Education said a California policy allowing school districts to keep students' gender transition from their parents violates federal law.

Trump’s special envoy to Greenland argues that the U.S. needs Greenland to defend it, American allies and American security.

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Chagos Islands talks between UK and U.S. reopened after President Donald Trump called the Mauritius deal an "act of great stupidity" as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says discussions have resumed.