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1 week ago | 
politico.com | Ali Bianco |Ari Hawkins
Brussels is looming large in Washington these days. | John Thys/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump announced Sunday he’s granting an extension to the European Union on the timeline to strike a deal to avoid his sweeping 50 percent tariffs — punting back the deadline to July 9. Trump’s announcement comes after a phone call with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Felicia Schwartz |Ali Bianco |Daniel Lippman
The plans involve slashing the number of staffers in the NSC to less than 150, according to three people familiar with the restructuring. The moves come as President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have reshaped the foreign aid and national security landscape.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Robbie Gramer |Felicia Schwartz |Ali Bianco |Daniel Lippman
The Trump administration is carrying out a dramatic overhaul of the White House National Security Council, shrinking the nerve center of the American foreign policy machinery, according to five people familiar with the plans. The plans involve slashing the number of staffers at the NSC to less than 150 from around 350 currently — and some of those cuts have already begun.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Ali Bianco |Bianca Quilantan
“Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on X. A sculler rows down the Charles River near Harvard University, at rear, April 15, 2025, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | Charles Krupa/AP The Trump administration is halting Harvard University’s eligibility to enroll international students — the latest move in the growing pressure campaign for the university to align itself with the administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Ali Bianco |Bianca Quilantan
The Trump administration is halting Harvard University’s eligibility to enroll international students — the latest move in the growing pressure campaign for the university to align itself with the administration. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem notified the university on Thursday that their certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program is revoked, following an extensive records request from the Department of Homeland Security that Noem alleges Harvard has not complied with.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing |Ali Bianco
Biden struggled through long pauses to recall key dates, including the death of his son Beau. Former President Joe Biden's interviews with special counsel Robert Hur became central to a broader debate about Biden’s mental acuity in the second part of his administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing |Ali Bianco
Newly released audio recordings of then-President Joe Biden’s 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur show Biden struggling to recount key events in his personal and political life, reigniting the debate about his cognitive capacity in the latter part of his presidency. In audio posted in full by the news site Axios, Biden can be heard faltering while answering the special counsel’s questions, speaking softly and slowly between long, drawn-out pauses.
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4 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Ali Bianco |Gregory Svirnovskiy
The account posted criticism of the administration on social media. Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on May 8. | Domenico Stinellis/AP A social media account under the pope’s name repeatedly criticized the Trump administration — and especially Vice President JD Vance — in the months and years before assuming the papacy.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Ali Bianco |Gregory Svirnovskiy
A social media account under the pope’s name repeatedly criticized the Trump administration — and especially Vice President JD Vance — in the months and years before assuming the papacy. A series of posts under an account for Robert Prevost — now the Bishop of Rome and newly anointed as Pope Leo XIV — shows the Chicago-born Cardinal reposting an op-ed criticizing Vance on his interpretation of his faith, and the strict immigration policies that Vance along with President Donald Trump have touted.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Ali Bianco |Eric Bazail-Eimil
President Donald Trump announced he will nominate Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations just hours after reports came out that the national security adviser was getting ousted from his current position. Waltz’s removal from his post, and nomination for another, follows a tumultuous time that included the leaked Signal chat scandal.
