Author: NAOMI LIM Washington Examiner
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Trump harnesses unique bully pulpit to hold countries to account on civil and human rights
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During his first term, President Donald Trump complained that the United States had spent too much time trying to remake countries in its own image, imposing the American way of life on others, instead of advocating for its security interests. Trump underscored that complaint when he traveled to Saudi Arabia for his first overseas trip of…
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Trump’s MAGA feuding expands to new policy fronts
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The MAGA movement that President Donald Trump created keeps pushing back on him, from his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files to his comments this week regarding visas for foreign workers. Trump says that he decides what it means to “Make America Great Again,” but the repeated disputes underscore how the ideological purity of…
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Trump confronted again by Epstein problem that won’t go away
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Jeffrey Epstein died more than six years ago, and yet, he continues to haunt President Donald Trump from beyond the grave. House Oversight Committee Democrats disclosed on Wednesday that some of the convicted sex offender’s emails in their possession in which the disgraced financier writes that Trump “knew about the girls.” The revelations come hot…
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Vance accuses Democrats of childlike behavior after aviation shutdown roundtable
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Vice President JD Vance warned that the air travel industry would face greater strain the longer the government shutdown lasts, placing blame for the already historically long lapse in funding at the feet of Democrats, whom he accused of throwing a tantrum. Vance hosted a roundtable on Thursday at the White House with Transportation Secretary…
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Trump and Xi superpower summit: Here’s what’s at stake
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President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are preparing for their first in-person meeting during Trump’s second administration, a high-stakes moment in the diplomatic battle for superpower supremacy. Their sit-down on Thursday in Busan, South Korea, on the sidelines of this year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders summit, comes as the United States and China…
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Trump to take off for Asia amid tensions flaring over shutdown, Russia, and Israel
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President Donald Trump is embarking on his first trip to Asia during his second administration, facing headwinds on the home front and from abroad. Trump departs on Friday for Malaysia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders summit before traveling to Japan on Monday for trade talks with new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to…
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Biden braces for fight with both parties over broadly defined infrastructure packages
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President Joe Biden will launch a campaign to pass his sweeping $2.25 trillion “American Jobs Plan” in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, the first of two proposals expected to invest up to $4 trillion in traditional and what he is calling “social” infrastructure to bolster a pandemic-battered economy and middle class. Infrastructure was once considered a bipartisan…







