Tag: United States

Elon Musk to Get Terrifying Level of Access to Trump’s White House

“Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1pm CBP1 parole appointments learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down & those appointments are no longer valid,” said The Washington Post’s Arelis R. Hernández, who was at the scene. Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 pm CBP1 parole […]

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Trump’s Inauguration Is Already Causing Havoc at the Border

“Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1pm CBP1 parole appointments learned 20 minutes ago that the app has shut down & those appointments are no longer valid,” said The Washington Post’s Arelis R. Hernández, who was at the scene. Migrants in Ciudad Juárez who were waiting for their 1 pm CBP1 parole […]

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Did Elon Musk Seriously Just Do a Nazi Salute at Trump’s Inauguration?

Biden also commuted the sentence of Peltier. While he did not receive a pardon, he will be serving the rest of his life sentence in home confinement. Peltier is an indigenous activist affiliated with the American Indian Movement, which sought to address police brutality against Native people. He was sentenced in 1975 for the murder […]

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Trump Promises to Rename Gulf of Mexico on Day One as President

“Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date,” they continued. “For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.” TikTok preemptively went […]

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Trump Promises to Rename Gulf of Mexico in Dark Inauguration Speech

“Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date,” they continued. “For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.” TikTok preemptively went […]

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Trump Uses Inauguration to Vow New Frontier in Manifest Destiny

“Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date,” they continued. “For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.” TikTok preemptively went […]

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Trump Vows New Frontier in Manifest Destiny—and Musk Cheers Him On

“Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date,” they continued. “For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.” TikTok preemptively went […]

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Biden Pardons His Family—and Gives Clemency to One Prominent Activist

“Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date,” they continued. “For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.” TikTok preemptively went […]

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Biden Pardons His Family—and Grants Clemency to One Prominent Activist

“Now that the law has taken effect, there’s no legal basis for any kind of ‘extension’ of its effective date,” they continued. “For TikTok to come back online in the future, ByteDance must agree to a sale that satisfies the law’s qualified-divestiture requirements by severing all ties between TikTok and Communist China.” TikTok preemptively went […]

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Melania Trump Drops Her Own Crypto—Making Billions at Donald’s Expense

“Simply put, there’s not enough room,” one senior Republican aide told Politico. “It’s a shitshow.” The last-minute scramble to adjust plans for the weather has sparked confusion among lawmakers about whether they would be able to attend with their spouses, or if their guests would be moved to other locations throughout the building. Major donors, […]

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Melania Trump One-Ups Her Husband With Crypto Grift of Her Own

“Simply put, there’s not enough room,” one senior Republican aide told Politico. “It’s a shitshow.” The last-minute scramble to adjust plans for the weather has sparked confusion among lawmakers about whether they would be able to attend with their spouses, or if their guests would be moved to other locations throughout the building. Major donors, […]

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Trump Will Sign Alarming Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship

“I spoke a lot about HIV, and that the foundation’s literally working on a cure for that. We’re at an early stage, and so he, in the Covid days accelerated vaccine innovation, so I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got … pretty excited […]

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Trump Plans to Unleash Dizzying Array of Executive Orders on Day One

“I spoke a lot about HIV, and that the foundation’s literally working on a cure for that. We’re at an early stage, and so he, in the Covid days accelerated vaccine innovation, so I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got … pretty excited […]

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Trump to Sign Dizzying Array of Executive Orders on Inauguration Day

“I spoke a lot about HIV, and that the foundation’s literally working on a cure for that. We’re at an early stage, and so he, in the Covid days accelerated vaccine innovation, so I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got … pretty excited […]

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Trump Will Sign Flood of Sweeping Executive Orders on Inauguration Day

“I spoke a lot about HIV, and that the foundation’s literally working on a cure for that. We’re at an early stage, and so he, in the Covid days accelerated vaccine innovation, so I was asking him if maybe the same kind of thing could be done here, and we both got … pretty excited […]

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TikTok Got a Reprieve, but Americans and Chinese Are Still on RedNote

TikTok got an apparent reprieve from being forced to shut down, but Americans on Monday were still using and downloading Xiaohongshu, the Chinese social media app that surged in popularity last week in anticipation of TikTok’s closure. TikTok, owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance, went dark in the United States ahead of a federal […]

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Meet the New Boss. Same as the Old Boss.

Gail Collins: Well, Bret, here we are. Neither of us is crazy about staggering into another four-year Trump term, but I’ll bet you can come up with a more optimistic spin than I can. Go to it. Bret Stephens: Well, here’s one hope: Donald Trump’s return to power will serve as a wake-up call for […]

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Martin Luther King Is a Model of Hope Just When We Need It

On Monday we’re celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day and inaugurating Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. That may seem like an odd pairing, especially to those of us who believe Mr. Trump has fueled a culture of skepticism, denial and indifference to matters of injustice. But if Dr. King’s life […]

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Does Banning TikTok solve the National Security Issue?

Whether it’s reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, Times Video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. Whether it’s reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, Times Video journalists […]

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TikTok Starts Going Dark in the U.S.

“Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” the message read. Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United States was set to take effect, the social media app went dark, and U.S. users could no longer access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them with a message that said “a law banning […]

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Trump’s Return Has Unnerved World Leaders. But Not India.

Over the past year, a pair of legal bombshells have put India’s growing relationship with the United States to one of its biggest tests yet. Just as the two sides were announcing unprecedented expansions in defense and technology ties, U.S. prosecutors accused Indian government agents of plotting to assassinate an American citizen on U.S. soil. […]

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What Are the Omens for Trump 2.0?

In the years just before Donald Trump’s ascent, political commentary increasingly aspired to a quasi-scientific style of analysis, with data journalism in all its forms supplanting the old-fashioned emphasis on hunches, narratives and vibes. In the Trump era, though, the mythic has had its revenge on the merely quantifiable. The data is still useful, in […]

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Even Before TikTok’s Troubles, Chinese Companies Were Wary of Washington

Chinese tech companies long looked to the United States as a key market and source of investment. Firms like ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, courted major American investment firms like General Atlantic and Susquehanna Capital. Chinese start-ups in Shanghai and Shenzhen saw an initial public offering on the Nasdaq or New York Stock Exchange as […]

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Why the Supreme Court Upheld a Ban on TikTok

Whether it’s reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, Times Video journalists provide a revealing and unforgettable view of the world. Whether it’s reporting on conflicts abroad and political divisions at home, or covering the latest style trends and scientific developments, Times Video journalists […]

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TikTok to ‘Go Dark’ on Sunday for Its 170 Million American Users

TikTok said late Friday that its service would “go dark” for its 170 million American users on Sunday in the face of a federal ban over fears that its Chinese ownership poses a threat to the United States’ national security. The company said in a statement posted to its website and on X that “unfortunately […]

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Canada Prepares for Trump Tariff Threat With Three-Stage Plan

Orange juice from Florida. Whiskey from Tennessee. Peanut butter from Kentucky. Canada is preparing for an all-out trade war with its closest ally and one of its top trading partners, and the list of American goods that could be affected is long. Canadian officials are preparing a three-stage plan of retaliatory tariffs and other trade […]

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Freed Cuban Dissident: The Church and Biden Got Duped

José Daniel Ferrer, a former fisherman who became one of Cuba’s leading human rights figures, was released from prison Thursday in a deal brokered by the Biden administration. But in some ways, he said he would have preferred to have remained locked up. Mr. Ferrer, 54, who was jailed in 2021 after trying to attend […]

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Bill Gates Becomes the Latest Billionaire to Bow Down to Trump

“But I want to protect ourselves, our most recent examples of domestic terrorism were not what we have spent the majority talking about today: crime from a migrant,” Slotkin said. She noted that she didn’t dispute that some crimes are committed by immigrants—in fact, Slotkin was one of the more than two dozen Democrats who […]

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TikTok CEO Tries Sucking Up to Trump After Supreme Court Upholds Ban

“But I want to protect ourselves, our most recent examples of domestic terrorism were not what we have spent the majority talking about today: crime from a migrant,” Slotkin said. She noted that she didn’t dispute that some crimes are committed by immigrants—in fact, Slotkin was one of the more than two dozen Democrats who […]

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Northeast Braces for Snow as Frigid Air Settles Across Most of the U.S.

The coldest air of the season so far will settle across the United States this weekend, producing a blanket of snow in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Sunday, and bringing below-freezing temperatures with dangerously blustery winds to most of the country. Facing what was likely to be one of the coldest inaugurations in decades, President-elect […]

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Trump Plans to Unleash Flood of Dark Executive Orders on Day One

“But I want to protect ourselves, our most recent examples of domestic terrorism were not what we have spent the majority talking about today: crime from a migrant,” Slotkin said. She noted that she didn’t dispute that some crimes are committed by immigrants—in fact, Slotkin was one of the more than two dozen Democrats who […]

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