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Detroit Opera Steps Into Trump’s Cross Hairs With ‘Central Park Five’
A rehearsal of “The Central Park Five,” an opera about the Black and Latino boys wrongly convicted of raping a Central Park jogger, was just a few days old this month when the tenor who plays Donald J. Trump began to sing. “They are animals! Monsters ...
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Kremlin Says Putin Ordered a 3-Day Cease-Fire in Ukraine for Next Month
There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about the unexpected announcement.
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A Road Map of Trump’s Lawless Presidency, According to 35 Legal Scholars
In his first hours back as president, Donald J. Trump did an extraordinary thing: He made a direct assault on the Constitution. He declared that his government would no longer treat U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants or children of lawful ...
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Trump afirma que está negociando con China. China dice lo contrario
El presidente Trump dijo que EE. UU. se estaba “reuniendo con China” para discutir los aranceles, comentarios destinados a calmar la inquietud de los mercados financieros. Pero los funcionarios chinos afirman que no se han producido conversaciones.
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Trump Doesn’t Want to Govern
I think it’s obvious that neither President Trump nor his coterie of agents and apparatchiks has any practical interest in governing the nation. It’s one reason (among many) they are so eager to destroy the federal bureaucracy; in their minds, you ...
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America’s Tough Guy in Chief Is Making America Weak
Provoking your enemies, alienating your friends and actively sabotaging your own defenses is no one’s idea of a sound national security plan. And yet, this is the playbook that President Trump has apparently followed over the first 100 days of his ...
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How Trump Plays Into Putin’s Hands, From Ukraine to Slashing U.S. Institutions
Many of President Trump’s actions have been seen as benefiting Russia either directly or indirectly, so much so that Russian officials have celebrated some of his moves.
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Trump Directs Sons to Fire Trump Org. Lawyer Because of Harvard Ties
The move to dismiss William A. Burck underscored both the entanglements between Mr. Trump’s presidency and company and the degree to which he will look to target people he believes have wronged him.
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This Is the Trade Conflict Xi Jinping Has Been Waiting For
Xi Jinping has been preparing for this moment for years. In April 2020, long before President Trump launched a trade war that would shake the global economy, China’s top leader held a meeting with senior Communist Party officials and laid out his ...
Chinese Factories Are Looking for the Next China
A movement of manufacturing to Vietnam that began in President Trump’s first term is accelerating as sky-high U.S. tariffs block Chinese exports.
Billionaires’ Battle Over a Sculpture Exposes a Mysterious Art Market
David Geffen and Justin Sun’s unusually public dispute over ownership of a Giacometti sculpture valued at tens of millions of dollars gives a glimpse into a shrouded world.
How Macron Became a Close Zelensky Ally
It sounded as if a friend were calling. “Sorry, Emmanuel,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, answering his phone in the middle of an online news conference in late March. “I have just a conversation with journalists. Can I be back in some ...
With U.S. Trade Deal, British Steel Industry Feels Some Much Needed Relief
The call from a supervisor came to the steel shop floor in Sheffield, England, on Thursday afternoon: The tariffs were off. “Everything had changed for us,” said Richard Bott, as he stood near stacks of steel slabs still radiating waves of heat from ...