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Trump Says He Wrote to Iran to Open Nuclear Talks

President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a deal to prevent Tehran from acquiring a...

Fort Liberty Set to Be Renamed Fort Bragg, Fulfilling a Trump Promise

The Trump administration will officially reinstate the name of an Army base in North Carolina on Friday to Fort Bragg, which was originally...

Trump Wants Europe to Defend Itself. Here’s What It Would Take.

President Trump has never had much love for the NATO alliance, which he thinks is overdependent on American largess, and in his first...

Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook

President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Wages, consumer spending and corporate profits were rising....

It’s Spring Forward Time for Some Famous New York Clocks

Good morning. It’s Friday. Today we’ll look at how the spring-forward time change this weekend happens with some of New York’s most famous...

Immigration Judges and Court Staff Take Payout Offers to Leave

A number of immigration judges have accepted government payout offers to leave, a union official said on Thursday, further depleting an overwhelmed system...

Judge Reinstates NLRB Member Fired by Trump

A federal judge on Thursday reinstated Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board, declaring that President Trump’s attempt to...

As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Trump Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear

The Ebola outbreak in Uganda has worsened significantly, and the country’s ability to contain the spread has been severely weakened by the Trump...

Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve,’ Adviser Says

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to create a national stockpile of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, an adviser said, an...

Trump’s Tariffs by Whim Keep Allies and Markets Off Balance

When the White House finally released the text of Mr. Trump’s orders on Thursday evening, it appeared that some of the tariffs —...

Why Do Republicans Want to Dismantle the Education Department?

Two months after the Education Department officially opened its doors in 1980, Republicans approved a policy platform calling on Congress to shut it...

Elon Musk Proposes Privatizing Amtrak, Calling Rail Service ‘Sad’

Almost since Amtrak’s creation in 1971, the 21,000-mile U.S. intercity passenger rail service has been fighting calls that it should be privatized.Now it...