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TOPSHOT - Trucks and shipping containers are seen at a port in Nanjing, in eastern China's Jiangsu province on April 8, 2025. US President Donald Trump forged ahead with tariffs of over 100 percent against Chinese goods after Beijing refused to withdraw its retaliation as the world's biggest economies go head-to-head in a ruinous trade war that has rocked global markets. (Photo by STRINGER / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Why Trump is scrambling for allies in his trade war with China
The head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund Kirill Dmitriev speaks to members of the media as he leaves a hotel, after the U.S.-Russia talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 18, 2025. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
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What a Kremlin envoy’s trip to Washington says about Trump’s Russia-Ukraine policy
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a news conference at Rideau Hall for after a swearing in ceremony on March 14, 2025 in Ottawa. Carney was sworn in as Canada's prime minister, taking charge of a country rattled by a breakdown in US relations since President Donald Trump's return to power. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Mark Carney and the backlash against backlash politics
US Vice President JD Vance speaks during the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, US, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025.
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How far could JD Vance go?
Elon Musk attends the first cabinet meeting hosted by President Donald Trump, at the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., February 26, 2025.
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The haphazard nihilism of America’s new Department of Government Efficiency
<p>U.S. Vice President JD Vance vented at European leaders at the Munich Security Conference Friday, accusing them of cracking down on free speech and “running in fear” of their own voters. Meanwhile, Ukraine's president thanked the U.S. for its support in its fight with Russia.</p>
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How the world changed in a month
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Why Zelensky is reading Trump’s script to Europe’s elites
Former Rep. Liz Cheney receives the Presidential Citizens Medal from President Joe Biden during a ceremony at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 2, 2025.
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No love lost between Trump and Biden as inauguration looms
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, former President Donald Trump and US Sen. JD Vance attend a ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum in the Manhattan borough of New York City on September 11.
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The long and complex political legacy of 9/11
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attend a press conference after a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit, in Fasano, Italy, June 13, 2024.
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US sounds alarm over Chinese and North Korean support for Russia’s war in Ukraine
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 9.
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Why the far-right surge in European elections could be an omen for Trump
Former President Donald Trump speaks at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on May 21, 2024.
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Trump removes video referencing ‘unified Reich,’ but his Nazi allusions are long-standing
US House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, speaks to members of the media outside Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Former US President Donald Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Why Johnson’s appearance at Manhattan courthouse stands out among Republicans backing up Trump
Workers continue to investigate and search for victims after the cargo ship Dali collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse yesterday, on March 27, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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The true face of immigration
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer speaks during a press conference following the weekly Senate caucus luncheons on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 12.
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A speech that sent shockwaves from Washington to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 30: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks during for a press conference after the House passed a continuing resolution that would fund the government for 45 days on Saturday, September 30, 2023 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Republican blockade of Ukraine aid and Slovakia’s election play into Putin’s hands
SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA - JULY 29: (RUSSIA OUT) Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his press conference at the Konstantin Palace on July 29, 2023 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. President Putin hosted just 17 African leaders in this years's summit compared with the 43 who attended in 2019 participate in the Russia-African Summit. Talks centred with food security and the war in Ukraine. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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What Putin will take away from the first Republican presidential debate
President Joe Biden sits with Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a bilateral meeting with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Hiroshima, Japan, on Thursday, May 18.
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As China, Russia, and Trump challenge the old rules of global politics, G7 aims to shore them up
An attendee looks at a gun on display at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual convention in Houston, Texas, U.S. May 28, 2022. REUTERS/Callaghan O'Hare
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Analysis: Three experts explain America’s gun politics
US President Joe Biden looks at a note card referencing a reporter and its question during a news conference with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 26, 2023. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The secret of the presidential cue card
A six story glass facade building, center, is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York's Chinatown, Monday, April 17, 2023.
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Arrests over alleged secret ‘police station’ deepen showdown between Washington and Beijing
People stand near a memorial outside the Star Ballroom Dance Studio on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023, in Monterey Park, Calif. A gunman killed multiple people at the ballroom dance studio late Saturday amid Lunar New Years celebrations in the predominantly Asian American community.
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No end in sight for America’s everywhere epidemic of mass shootings
FILE PHOTO: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses members of the media during a joint news conference hosted with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, following their annual Leaders' Meeting, at the Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices in Sydney, Australia, July 8, 2022. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
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Jacinda Ardern, like George Washington, knew when to quit
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is seen on screen as he remotely addresses a speech to the Members of the political delegations of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg, eastern France on October 13, 2022. (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERICK FLORIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Will democracy still be on a roll in 2023?
Haji Wright of United States is challenged by Andries Noppert of Netherlands during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Round of 16 match between Netherlands and USA at Khalifa International Stadium on December 03, 2022 in Doha, Qatar.
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What next for US soccer after an inspiring World Cup?
Students hold up placards including blank white sheets of paper on the campus of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in solidarity with protests held on the mainland over Beijing's Covid-19 restrictions, in Hong Kong on November 28, 2022. - Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in China's major cities in a rare outpouring of public anger against the state over its zero-Covid policy. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP) (Photo by PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden’s not the first US President to face a tug of war over China protests
A giant flag of IR Iran on the pitch prior to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Group B match between Wales and IR Iran at Ahmad Bin Ali Stadium on November 25, 2022 in Doha, Qatar.
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Did US Soccer just score an own goal?
Lee County voters wait in line to cast their ballots at Wa-Ke Hatchee Recreation Center in Fort Myers, Fla, on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. After the area was devastated and thousands were left displaced by Hurricane Ian, Lee County extended their early voting period and permitted voters on Election Day to cast their ballot in any of the dozen open polling places.
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Five global stories Meanwhile is watching as we wait for US midterm election results
Election workers separate verified ballots from their envelopes at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections headquarters on the eve of the US midterm elections, in Orlando, Florida, on November 7, 2022. (Photo by Gregg Newton / AFP) (Photo by GREGG NEWTON/AFP via Getty Images)
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A non-American’s guide to the 2022 US midterms
A woman places her ballot paper in the ballot box as Italians vote to elect a new parliament on September 25, 2022 in Bologna, Italy.
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The world leaders who refuse to leave the stage
Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at a ceremony to unveil the Obama's official White House portraits at the White House on September 7, 2022 in Washington, DC.
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A rare moment of public self-criticism by a former president
CHARLESTON, SC - JUNE 26: U.S. President Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" as he delivers the eulogy for South Carolina state senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney during Pinckney's funeral service June 26, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. Suspected shooter Dylann Roof, 21, is accused of killing nine people on June 17th during a prayer meeting in the church, which is one of the nation's oldest black churches in Charleston. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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How Obama and his chief speechwriter made sense of America’s ‘beautiful mess’
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Macron assumes his global leadership role
U.S. President Joe Biden addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 21, 2022. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
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Biden’s new mission: Heading off any possibility of a nuclear crisis with Russia
Members of the General Assembly listen as United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters on September 20, 2022 in New York City. After two years of holding the session virtually or in a hybrid format, 157 heads of state and representatives of government are expected to attend the General Assembly in person.
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The United Nations’ fundamental principles are under threat
US President Joe Biden looks on during a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval office of the White House in Washington, DC, September 16, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
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Maybe Biden means it on Taiwan
KHARKIV, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 11: Ukrainian flag waves after Ukrainian army liberated the town of Balakliya in the southeastern Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine, on September 11, 2022. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Ukraine’s battlefield wins encourage the West but could make the war more dangerous
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks to former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (L) 21 December 2004 before a press conference of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Putin at Gottorf castle in Schleswig. Lucrative energy deals, the sale of bankrupt oil group Yukos and a fresh initiative for Chechnya were at the top of the agenda of a second day of talks 21 December 2004 between Putin and Schroeder. AFP PHOTO DDP/JOCHEN LUEBKE GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read JOCHEN LUEBKE/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)
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Why Gorbachev is remembered as a giant in the West and a pariah at home
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 01: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room balcony of the White House on August 1, 2022 in Washington, DC. Biden announced that over the weekend, U.S. forces launched an airstrike in Afghanistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri. Zawahiri, 71, took over leadership of al-Qaeda in 2011, shortly after American forces killed Osama bin Laden. The president said there were no civilian casualties. (Photo by Jim Watson-Pool/Getty Images)
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Zawahiri death settles another 9/11 score – and hands Biden a political win
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US and China on a knife’s edge over Taiwan ahead of Xi-Biden phone call
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Biden faces a dilemma with the stunning prisoner swap offer to Russia
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference on June 14, 2022.
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‘No more feebleness’: Pelosi in showdown with Beijing over potential Taiwan visit
US President Joe Biden meets Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexico's president, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., US, on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Biden and Lopez Obrador plan to discuss ways to expand legal migration, improve security and strengthen their shared border. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Biden faces moment of truth on the economy this week
US soldiers prepare armoured combat vehicles before deploying to Romania on February 09, 2022 in Vilseck, Germany -- part of a coordinated deployment of NATO forces across eastern Europe.
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The most striking aspect of Sweden and Finland’s application to join NATO
In this image released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office on Sunday, May 1, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre right, and U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Pelosi, second in line to the presidency after the vice president, is the highest-ranking American leader to visit Ukraine since the start of the war, and her visit marks a major show of continuing support for the country's struggle against Russia. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
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The art of the Ukrainian drop-by meeting
President Volodymyr Zelensky, of Ukraine, addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York City on April 5, 2022. - Zelensky demanded "accountability" at the UN Security Council on April 5 for Russian "crimes" carried out during Russia's invasion of his country. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP) (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Zelensky’s compelling question: What is the UN for?
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev looks downcast as he addresses the Nation to announce his resignation on a TV image taken in Moscow on December 25, 1991. Gorbachev thus ended nearly seven years of power and signalled the end of the Soviet Union which had begun in 1917 with the Revolution. AFP PHOTO TV/APH (Photo credit should read TV GRAB/AFP via Getty Images)
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30 years after USSR fell, there’s tension between US and Russia this Christmas
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The pandemic has become a political nightmare for both Joe Biden and Boris Johnson
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Tensions with Kremlin over Ukraine pose a test for the Biden administration
The United States Table Tennis Team poses for a portrait with their guides in front of a pagoda at the Summer Palace near Beijing, China in 1971.
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Can the US and China ping-pong their way to peace again?
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The elephant in the room at the ‘three amigos’ summit of Biden, Trudeau and Lopez Obrador
BEIJING - AUGUST 10: Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) greets U.S. President George W. Bush on August 10, 2008 in Beijing, China. Bush was on an Asian tour and attending the 2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony. (Photo by Guang Niu/Getty Images)
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What a US diplomatic boycott of the Olympics would mean
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As Xi and Biden meet, the US has stopped pretending it’s not trying to contain China
France's President Emmanuel Macron welcomes US Vice President Kamala Harris prior to a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on November 10, 2021.
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Watch the US-France relationship going forward
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the opening ceremony of the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday Nov. 1, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow gathers leaders from around the world, in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (Yves Herman/Pool via AP)
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The memory of Trump is hanging over Biden’s Europe trip like a dark cloud
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How Nick Clegg ended up putting out fires for Facebook
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The Amish country headquarters of the US missionaries kidnapped in Haiti
The Taiwan Ministry of Defense released this undated file photo of a Chinese J-16 fighter jet when they announced that PLA aircrafts entered their air defense identification zone.
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Beijing’s relentless pressure on Taiwan is causing alarm in Washington
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen prepares to leave at the end of a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled 'Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower' on Capitol Hill October 5, 2021 in Washington. Haugen left Facebook in May and provided internal company documents about Facebook to journalists and others, alleging that Facebook consistently chooses profit over safety.
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‘Terrifying’: Facebook whistleblower cites violence in Myanmar and Ethiopia, spying by China and Iran
The Capitol is seen at dawn as a consequential week begins in Washington for President Joe Biden and Democratic leaders in Congress who are trying to advance his $3.5 trillion "Build Back Better" and pass legislation to avoid a federal shutdown, Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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The United States is heading for a cliff – and taking the world with it
In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou waves as she steps out of an airplane after arriving at Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong Province, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2021. A top executive from global communications giant Huawei Technologies returned to China on Saturday following what amounted to a high-stakes prisoner swap with Canada and the U.S. (Jin Liwang/Xinhua via AP)
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A dangerous new era of superpower confrontation was signaled this weekend
France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks with doctors and nurses working at the French Polynesia Hospital Centre in Papeete following his arrival for a visit to Tahiti in French Polynesia on July 24, 2021.
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Inside the exquisite linguistic ceasefire between the US and France
President Joe Biden, right, speaks during a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, in Washington, DC.
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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has played his hand well
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Joe Biden’s self-created image of foreign policy savvy has taken a serious blow
US President Joe Biden tours a neighbourhood affected by Hurricane Ida in Manville, New Jersey on September 7, 2021. - President Joe Biden headed Tuesday to storm-ravaged New York and New Jersey, just days after inspecting the damage caused by Hurricane Ida in Louisiana. Biden -- who is pushing a giant infrastructure spending bill, including major funding for the green economy -- argues that extreme weather across the United States this summer is a harbinger of worse climate change to come. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden gets real on climate change
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 31: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the end of the war in Afghanistan in the State Dining Room at the White House on August 31, 2021 in Washington, DC. The last American military aircraft took off from Hamid Karzai Airport a few minutes before midnight in Kabul, marking the end of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan since the invasion following the attacks of September 11, 2001. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan held an unflattering mirror to its often ugly politics
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 21: In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew prepares to load evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)
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After Afghanistan, Biden can’t afford any more missteps
President Joe Biden attends the dignified transfer of the remains of a fallen service member at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware, on Sunday, August, 29, 2021, one of the 13 members of the US military killed in Afghanistan last week.
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Biden’s political nightmare suddenly feels like 2005 all over again
An unidentified student is administered a test by a Wild Health nurse during a COVID-19 testing day at Brandeis Elementary School on August 17, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky.
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There’s never been a worse time in the pandemic for US kids
A ballot for a recall election seeking to remove California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is seen in Los Angeles, August 15, 2021. - The California Gubernatorial election will take place on September 14, 2021. Forty-six candidates, including nine Democrats and 24 Republicans, are running in the election. (Photo by Chris DELMAS / AFP) (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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The key to California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s fate
In this satellite photo released by Maxar Technologies, Kabul's international airport is seen amid evacuations on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021.
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America’s tortured domestic politics are hampering its foreign policy
Afghan Taliban militants and villagers attend a gathering as they celebrate the peace deal and their victory in the Afghan conflict on US in Afghanistan, in Alingar district of Laghman Province on March 2, 2020. - The Taliban said on March 2 they were resuming offensive operations against Afghan security forces, ending the partial truce that preceded the signing of a deal between the insurgents and Washington. (Photo by NOORULLAH SHIRZADA / AFP) (Photo by NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Is this America’s ‘Dunkirk’ moment?
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN-AUGUST 16: Thousands of Afghans rush to the Hamid Karzai International Airport as they try to flee the Afghan capital of Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. (Photo by Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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What the world is saying about America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan
TOPSHOT - Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Was US intervention in Afghanistan ever going to end any other way?
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 10: Displaced Afghans arrive at a makeshift camp from the northern provinces desperately leaving their homes behind on August 10, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban has taken control of six provincial capitals, among other towns and trade routes, since the United States accelerated withdrawal of its forces this year. Afghan families from Kunduz, Takhar and Baghlan provinces have arrived in Kabul in greater numbers, fleeing the Taliban advance. (Photo by Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
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As the Taliban gains ground in Afghanistan, this is Biden’s cold-eyed judgment of American interests
Afghans inspect damaged shops after fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Kunduz city, northern Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 8, 2021. Taliban fighters Sunday took control of much of the capital of Kunduz province, including the governor's office and police headquarters, a provincial council member said. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil)
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The US and Western withdrawal from Afghanistan looks increasingly likely to leave a disaster behind
Mexico filed a lawsuit Wednesday against eleven US-based gunmakers over fire arms that flow from the United States across the border and into criminal hands in Mexico, according to court documents obtained by CNN.
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Mexico’s lawsuit against gun makers faces a tough road
An Afghan National Army commando stands guard on top of a vehicle along the road in Enjil district of Herat province on August 1, 2021, as skirmishes between Afghan National Army and Taliban continues.
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The Taliban is advancing in Afghanistan. Could Biden change his mind on US withdrawal?
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Big business steps into vaccine fight
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America’s fiery mask wars
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China dresses down the US; and climate’s ‘hammer’ blow
From left, U.S. Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell, Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone, Washington Metropolitan Police Department officer Daniel Hodges, and U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn arrive to testify at the House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
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A huge moment for US democracy
France's President Emmanuel Macron speaks with doctors and nurses working at the French Polynesia Hospital Centre in Papeete following his arrival for a visit to Tahiti in French Polynesia on July 24, 2021.
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Why Macron’s ‘Covid pass’ wouldn’t fly in the US
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Ordinary Joe Biden
TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 22: People wearing face masks walk past the Olympic Rings on January 22, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. With just six months to go until the start of the Games, it has been reported that the Japanese authorities have privately concluded that the Olympics could not proceed due to the ongoing Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Spokesmen from the IOC and Japanese government have since rejected the report. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
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Should the Olympics go ahead?
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America’s ‘moral obligation’
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Biden unfriends Facebook, betrays Covid frustration
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Trump’s new threat
HAMBURG, GERMANY - DECEMBER 07: German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel reacts after her last speech as CDU leader at the federal executive board meeting on December 7, 2018 in Hamburg, Germany. German Chancellor and leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel will step down as leader of the party following an 18-year reign. CDU delegates will elect today a successor from a choice of three candidates: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, whom Merkel favors, Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
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Merkel’s American farewell
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By the time this doctor’s patients want the vaccine, it’s too late
TOPSHOT - Cubans are seen outside Havana's Capitol during a demonstration against the government of Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana, on July 11, 2021. - Thousands of Cubans took part in rare protests Sunday against the communist government, marching through a town chanting "Down with the dictatorship" and "We want liberty." (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) (Photo by YAMIL LAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Biden now has a Cuba puzzle even as China showdown sizzles
US President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 8, 2021.
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Joe Biden just did something Donald Trump might call ‘America First’
This handout photo provided by UNICEF shows the first batch of vaccines from the United States arrive in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Friday, July 2, 2021. Bangladesh has received 1.25 million doses of Moderna vaccine from the government of the United States through global vaccine collaboration COVAX. The consignment is the first batch of 2.5 million vaccines pledged to Bangladesh under COVAX. (UNICEF via AP)
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Experts fear the next Covid-19 variant might evade the vaccines that are restoring the developed world
Police near the scene of the shooing in Kennesaw, Georgia.
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In America’s other pandemic, the dying never stops
TOPSHOT - Fireworks explode over the Lincoln Memorial during the Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, DC, July 4, 2019. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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America’s summer is ‘full of possibility,’ but is Biden’s mission accomplished moment coming too soon?
Associate Justice Stephen Breyer sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, April 23, 2021.
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To quit or not to quit – the question looming over a US Supreme Court justice
People from Mosakahiken Cree Nation hug in front of a makeshift memorial at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School to honour the 215 children whose remains were discovered buried near the facility, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, on June 4, 2021.
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Canada’s reckoning after the discovery of mass graves at former schools
Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) speaks to reporters after House Republicans voted for her as their conference chairperson at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on May 14, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Why US Republicans are so focused on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) leaves after meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron (L) at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on June 25, 2021. (Photo by Andrew Harnik / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Is a ‘Cold War’ really emerging between China and the US?