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Trump administration ends credit for start-stop systems

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that manufacturers will no longer earn a credit for installing engines that automatically turn off when vehicles come to a complete stop and restart when drivers take their feet off the brake pedal. The start-stop feature is meant to save fuel and reduce

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San Francisco Teachers End Four-Day Strike

San Francisco teachers ended their strike early Friday, allowing public schools to reopen next week for about 50,000 students. Employees were set to return to campuses on Friday, but classes will not resume until Wednesday because closures were already planned for Friday and the district had holidays on Monday

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Islamist Party’s Rise Overshadows Student Revolution in Bangladesh

An Islamist party that once operated largely underground has emerged as a major force in Bangladesh’s new political landscape, winning 68 of 297 parliamentary seats in the first national election since the student-led uprising. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party secured a clear majority, and its leader, Tarique Rahman, is set

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Iran Protester Dies in Custody, Raising Fears of Execution

Ali Rahbar, a 33-year-old gym coach who posted weight lifting videos and poetry online, was arrested at a protest in Mashhad on Jan. 8 and was dead two weeks later, relatives say. His family says the only contact from authorities was an instruction to collect his body. Rights groups are

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Three American speeches at Munich, and plenty of confusion

European leaders have had three markedly different descriptions over the past year of how the United States now views its alliances, each message nudging them toward a new era in which Washington’s commitment to their defense may be more limited. The speeches ranged from a blistering critique of European-style

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Where US presidents lived after leaving the White House

When presidents leave the White House they move into a wide range of homes — some return to modest hometown residences, others to private estates or historic properties turned museums. Woodrow Wilson stayed in Washington, DC, at 2340 South S Street until his death in 1924, and his wife Edith remained

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Treasury asked to probe $500M UAE investment in World Liberty Financial

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim have asked the Treasury Department to investigate a $500 million United Arab Emirates–backed investment in World Liberty Financial, citing national security and data-privacy concerns. They set a March 5 deadline for the Treasury to determine whether the Committee on Foreign Investment in the

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Inside SAM 26000, the Air Force One that carried eight presidents

SAM 26000 was the first Air Force jet built specifically for US presidents and flew as Air Force One from 1962 to 1998, carrying every leader from John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton. Vice President Al Gore summed up its place in history on retirement: "If history itself had

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Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts

The Department of Homeland Security has been seeking the names, email addresses, phone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas in recent months, and some companies have complied. The

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In Munich, Lawmakers Concede Scars Remain After Trump’s Greenland Threat

U.S. lawmakers left the Munich Security Conference saying they had patched the wound inflicted on the trans‑Atlantic partnership after President Trump toyed with taking Greenland, but they conceded the episode had left lasting scars. Greenland dominated conversations over the three‑day summit, and several lawmakers said Secretary of

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Another Government Shutdown? Here’s What Travelers Should Know.

The Department of Homeland Security is set to run out of money at midnight, leaving parts of the agency unfunded. Congress has funded the rest of the federal government through the end of the fiscal year, but Democrats have blocked money for D.H.S. and vowed to oppose any

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Obama laments lost decorum after Trump’s racist video

Former President Barack Obama this weekend indirectly addressed a racist video posted earlier this month by President Trump that depicted Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle, as apes. On Brian Tyler Cohen’s "No Lie" podcast, Mr. Obama described a "devolution of the discourse," calling what

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Trump’s Attack on Israel’s President Touches a Nerve

President Trump called Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, “disgraceful” for not pardoning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pressing the point to reporters at the White House and saying, “The people of Israel should really shame him.” The blunt intervention into Israeli domestic affairs and its insulting tone provoked a rare open

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Europe Today Looks Different From the One Trump’s Team Describes

There is an Afghan grocery store on the blocks outside the main train station in Munich. Halal food counters are sprinkled amid the cathedral spires and beer halls. Nearly one of every three residents you meet in town is not German. It’s a decent approximation of what many European

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Gail Slater Leaves as Justice Dept. Antitrust Chief

Gail Slater said on Thursday she was leaving the Justice Department’s top antitrust post, departing after roughly a year in the job. In a post on X she wrote she was leaving with “great sadness and abiding hope,” and added, “It was indeed the honor of a lifetime to

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Crypto super PAC targets Texas Democrat Al Green

A crypto-backed super PAC plans to spend $1.5 million against Representative Al Green of Texas in next month’s Democratic primary. Green, an 11-term member whose Houston-area district was upended by redistricting, sits on the House Financial Services Committee and is running against Representative Christian Menefee, who won a

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Ohio State Professor Placed on Leave After Altercation With Filmmaker

Ohio State University has put an assistant professor on administrative leave after the faculty member physically clashed with a documentarian who tried to ask follow-up questions of former university president E. Gordon Gee. The professor, Luke M. Perez, is part of the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture and

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Trump nominee for top diplomatic post faces scrutiny over ‘white supremacist’ views

Donald Trump’s nominee Jeremy Carl will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday for the post of assistant secretary of state for international organisations, a role that manages relations with the United Nations and its agencies. Carl, from Montana, served as deputy assistant secretary of the interior

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Vitalik Buterin Proposes Crypto-Driven Political Reform for Russia-Ukraine War

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin condemned Russia’s invasion as "criminal aggression" and suggested applying crypto-inspired governance principles to reshape the country’s politics. His remarks, published ahead of the fourth anniversary of the invasion on February 24, 2026, linked blockchain concepts to the long-term security of Europe and

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Anthropic Invests $20 Million in Super PAC to Counter OpenAI

Anthropic said on Thursday it is putting $20 million into a new super PAC operation that will oppose super PACs backed by OpenAI’s leaders and investors. The donation kicks off a new conflict between the rivals with this year’s midterm elections as the battleground, centered on whether to

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Giant Super PACs Clash Over A.I. Safety

Big A.I. companies have long said they welcome regulation, but a new fight in Washington suggests their public positions are now aligning with partisan muscle. Anthropic announced it would put $20 million into Public First Action, a super PAC set to push for tighter A.I. safety rules and

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Mia Mottley wins third term as BLP takes all seats

Mia Mottley has won a third election victory as the Barbados Labour Party swept all 30 seats in the House of Assembly, unseating opposition leader Ralph Thorne and winning support across the island. “Our mission first and foremost is to stop poor people from being poor and to remove injustice

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Former U.S. envoys and commanders say NATO is vital to American security

Eight former American ambassadors to NATO and eight former American supreme commanders in Europe issued a joint letter calling the alliance “the cornerstone of United States national security” and “vital” to preserving American global interests. The bipartisan group, who served under every president from 1997 until last year, argued that

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States Decouple from Trump Tax Cuts, Drawing GOP Backlash

State income taxes often reflect federal policies, but several jurisdictions have moved to keep the latest Republican changes out of their codes. Even before Congress passed a broad tax cut last July, Colorado excluded a new deduction for overtime pay from its income tax; Delaware barred new federal business breaks;

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Immigration Officials to Testify Before Senate Homeland Security Panel

The heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are set to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Thursday. The hearing comes two days after the officials repeatedly declined to answer questions from House members about the fatal shootings