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For the second year in a row, we're highlighting both the household names and lesser-known players who are making an impact at the Capitol and around the world. Whether you [...]

Byline: CATHAL KELLY; Staff Rogers is running a house ad during the 4 Nations Face-Off. It's one of those gauzy, jingoistic numbers that Tim Hortons used to have cornered until [...]

Byline: Colin Freeman in Kyiv US military volunteers fighting alongside Ukraine's armed forces called President Donald Trump a 'jackass' over his peace talks with Vladimir Putin, saying Ukraine's future was [...]

Sir Keir Starmer, writing in this newspaper, said Europe was facing a 'once-in-a-generation moment' for the collective security of the Continent. Ahead of the emergency summit in Paris, the Prime [...]

There is very little that Americans can agree on these days. Half of people report that religion is very important to them, while more than a quarter say it's not. [...]

In a match-up where context actually matters, context-driven Canadians are hungry to get a win, Rogers is running a house ad during the 4 Nations Face-Off. It’s one of those gauzy, jingoistic numbers that Tim Hortons used to have cornered until they went international. “Some [...]

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Byline: Ben Quinn Kemi Badenoch has said 'our country and all of western civilisation will be lost' if efforts to renew the Conservative party and drive forward rightwing ideas globally [...]

Byline: Lloyd Green 'What happens to our liberal democracy if American Christianity is no longer able, or no longer willing, to perform the functions on which our constitutional order depends?' [...]

Byline: Patrick Wintour in Munich As European leaders meet in Paris to prepare an answer to their apparent exclusion from the talks about Ukraine's future, the existential and all encompassing [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan It's tempting in this dire moment to try and shut out the nightmare of what's happening in Washington DC. 'I'm waking up every day to a genuinely [...]

Byline: Ramon Antonio Vargas The actor who portrayed JD Vance in the Oscar-nominated film Hillbilly Elegy before the latter man became the vice-president of the US has said his fellow [...]

Scholars of international law say President Trump’s vision for American control of a Gaza without Palestinians would be ethnic cleansing and a war crime. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met [...]

Byline: Kristen Soltis Anderson JD Vance may not command headlines like Donald Trump or even Elon Musk, but he is the man to watch if you care about the long [...]

Byline: Letters to the Editor In a world of uncertainty, one potent step forward is to repair. Reduce, reuse, recycle is a well-trod sustainability mantra. To repair is to prepare [...]

Byline: Nathan Brown nbrown@sfnewmexican.com To hear Raúl Torrez tell it, stopping Elon Musk is about upholding the principles on which America was founded. 'Abuses by the king of England and [...]

Byline: Ben Farmer DONALD TRUMP'S new defence secretary ripped up decades of foreign policy when he told European allies they must now look after their own defence. Pete Hegseth said [...]

Byline: BEN WALLACE This weekend leaders and officials from across the world will gather in Munich for the annual Security Conference, the pre-eminent gathering for securocrats and politicians. It's a [...]

Byline: BARRY HERTZ; Staff Captain America: Brave New World CLASSIFICATION: PG; 118 MINUTES Directed by Julius Onah Written by Rob Edwards, Malcolm Spellman, Dalan Musson, Peter Glanz and Julius Onah [...]

Some leaders make history. Others have it thrust upon them when they fail to understand the moment. Donald Trump's announcement that he has opened bilateral negotiations with Vladimir Putin over [...]

After a lawsuit filed last week by 19 attorneys general, a judicial ruling temporarily blocked Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the information. A case that [...]

Bangladesh, Feb. 13 -- In a significant diplomatic development, President Donald Trump spoke for 90 minutes with Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 12, signaling a major shift in US [...]

President Donald Trump's outcries against government overreach and abusive tactics are numerous. But will he instruct his administration not to repeat these power abuses? Trump's spokesman, Alex Pfeiffer, has asserted [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield; Patrick Svitek; Alec Dent Good morning, Early Birds. Happy Galentine's Day to those who celebrate. Send tips to earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us. In today's [...]

Byline: Mitch Daniels On Feb. 15, 2022, America lost one of its most brilliant and hilarious writers. Our culture lost one of its most perceptive critics. Me, I lost a [...]

Byline: Katie Mettler; Jeremy Roebuck; Perry Stein Maryland's U.S. Attorney Erek Barron, a Democratic appointee who had cultivated bipartisan backing statewide during his more than three years in the job, [...]

Byline: Philip Bump Exactly how does Elon Musk know what 'the people' want? During his appearance in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Musk presented public opinion as the standard against [...]

Byline: Lauren Weber; Rachel Roubein The Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, placing a member of the storied Democratic family in [...]

Byline: Callum Jones in New York Donald Trump threatened to ramp up his economic assault on some of America's biggest trading partners on Thursday , vowing to impose new tariffs [...]

Byline: Martin Farrer Morning, everyone. Donald Trump has threatened to ramp up his economic assault on some of America's biggest trading partners, vowing to impose new tariffs on countries that [...]

Byline: Joseph Gedeon, Joan E Greve and Chris Stein in Washington Robert F Kennedy Jr will take control of America's vast healthcare apparatus, as the Senate voted on Thursday to [...]

Byline: Editorial Ukraine and its European allies braced for the worst when Donald Trump won a second term. But the scale of his surrender to Russian aggression has still shocked [...]

Byline: Guardian staff and agencies in Washington Belarus has released three detainees including a veteran journalist for a US government-funded broadcaster and a US citizen, the White House said on [...]

Byline: Andrew Roth and agencies European powers, including Britain, France and Germany, have said they have to be part of any future negotiations on the fate of Ukraine, underscoring that [...]

Byline: Oliver Milman Donald Trump has already begun dismantling parts of the envied US endangered species protections in his quest to boost oil and gas drilling, in part using a [...]

Byline: Ed Pilkington Tens of thousands of American children studying in Pentagon schools serving US military families have had all access to library books suspended for a week while officials [...]

Byline: Dan Sabbagh in Brussels and Eleni Courea The US should not have made concessions to Russia in advance of peace negotiations by ruling out Nato membership for Ukraine and [...]

Byline: Jessica Glenza International health organizations have warned that Donald Trump's push to dismantle US foreign aid and orders barring diversity, equity and inclusion are destroying programs that once provided [...]

Byline: Clara Ence Morse, Sarah Ellison CORRECTION: A previous version of this article incorrectly said that Sen. Joni Ernst represents Idaho. Ernst represents Iowa. The article has been corrected. Originally [...]

Byline: David M. Zimmer, NorthJersey.com Opponents for decades have warned that removing the penny could lead to rounding prices upward from the 95- and 99-cent pricing strategies, effectively introducing a [...]

Byline: David Ignatius Now that President Donald Trump has launched negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, the big question is whether he will sell out the Ukrainians to get [...]

Byline: Thomas L. Friedman President Trump's plan to take over Gaza, remove its two million Palestinians and turn the coastal desert strip into some sort of Club Med proves only [...]

The tech mogul is unlikely to win. But his goal may be more about making life difficult for the A.I. start-up and its leader, Sam Altman. We have spent much [...]

Byline: SAM ASHWORTH-HAYES IF YOU still wanted confirmation that the competition to build powerful AI systems is moving from normal economic competition to an all-out race between nation states, US [...]

Byline: Bronwyn Cosgrave The eyes of the world are on Washington DC right now, but in New York, the fashion community has seized the spotlight and delivered one of the [...]

Byline: Michael Deacon As the BBC is a public service broadcaster funded by a compulsory licence fee, its reporting is expected to be scrupulously impartial. Bias, however, is not always [...]

President Trump's plan to take over Gaza, remove its two million Palestinians and turn the coastal desert strip into some sort of Club Med proves only one thing: how short [...]

I asked Senator Chuck Schumer what Americans want from Democrats right now. ''They want us to beat Trump and stop this shit,'' he told me. ''And that's what we're doing.'' [...]

Byline: By, Howard Lloyd A light-hearted Danish petition to buy the state of California and 'bring hygge to Hollywood' has appeared in response to US President Donald Trump's talk about [...]

Bangladesh, Feb. 12 -- US President Donald Trump has announced that he will dispatch Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine for discussions on a potential deal involving rare-earth minerals in [...]