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The institution’s American history museum, natural history museum, African American history museum and American Indian museum are all affected.

President Trump’s sharp criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday is sending chills across Europe, where leaders are working to guard against the worst-case scenario: Trump aligning with Russian President Vladimir Putin to force a bad deal on Kyiv.  Trump blew past a deadline last week to impose punishing sanctions on Russia and its…
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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russia had been stonewalling negotiations on the return of Ukraine children, thousands of whom have been forcibly transferred to Russia over the course of its invasion. “We cannot reach an agreement with them on the return of the children,” Zelensky told reporters in response to a question from…
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President Donald Trump wants tens of thousands in attendance for the fight.

Daniel Dale tackled the litany of false claims President Donald Trump made on Monday while announcing Washington, D.C., is coming under federal control.

A little over a tenth of Americans found Sydney Sweeney’s recent American Eagle ad campaign offensive, according to a new poll. When asked in the Economist/YouGov poll about the ad campaign, 12 percent said they considered it offensive, while 39 percent called it clever. Forty percent said it was neither, and 8 percent were unsure.…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday the country would not cede portions of the Donbas region to Russia amid ceasefire talks. “We will never leave the Donbas” Zelensky told reporters Tuesday, per NewsNation. “Everyone forgets the first part of the film,” he added, referring to Russia’s 2014 takeover of Crimea. His comments come days before…
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Close Thank you for signing up! Subscribe to more newsletters here The latest in politics and policy. Direct to your inbox. Sign up for the Evening Report newsletter Subscribe 96 <!– Plus: Federalization takes hold in D.C. {beacon} TEXAS GOV. GREG ABBOTT (R) said Tuesday he’ll call for another special session this week to redraw…
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“I’m a former professional football player, too,” Dean Cain said, trying to defend himself from criticism.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Tuesday that it is “pretty clear” President Trump “wants his own domestic police force” after the president took control of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). “Look, this president is trampling on basic freedoms of the American people to a degree we — I don’t think we’ve ever seen,” Smith said…
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U.S. electricity usage is expected to grow to new highs in 2025 and 2026, according to a Tuesday projection. The forecast, from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the nation’s energy statistics agency, attributes the projected increases to power hungry data centers in the latest iteration of its Short Term Energy Outlook. It states power sales to…
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The late night host opened up about the country’s political climate during an episode of “The Sarah Silverman Podcast.”

President Trump has activated 800 National Guard members to address what he calls a crime emergency in Washington, D.C. — even though data shows violent crime rates are falling.

Conservative pundit and social media personality Benny Johnson used an appearance in the White House Press Briefing Room’s “new media” seat to rail against crime in Washington, D.C., and suggest a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer, who was recently assaulted in the District, be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. “As a D.C. resident…
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Republicans love their boogeymen; the grotesquely exaggerated villains they use to justify their worst policy ideas. President Trump loves to parade his favorite boogeymen: the “criminal aliens,” the dishonest media, the Democrats, and so on. These dehumanizing caricatures help him rile up his base and lead them to back his cruelest initiatives.  As the GOP-controlled…
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday said his counterpart, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was “in denial” about the suffering in Gaza. His comments come after Australia’s commitment on Monday to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state, following in the footsteps of Canada, France and the United Kingdom.  Albanese said he spoke with Netanyahu…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is taking on what he calls a “no regrets strategy,” saying he must “fight fire with fire” in countering the President Trump-led redistricting efforts in Texas.  In exclusive comments made to The Hill, Newsom said he is feeling “very confident” about moving forward with his own redistricting plan, as the California…
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Later this week, the eyes of the world will be on the war in Ukraine not the horror in Gaza as strongmen Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet in Alaska for peace talks. But don’t forget about the crisis in Gaza.   While the world waits and watches for a settlement of the Central European crisis,…
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Former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan was elaborating on President Donald Trump’s takeover of Washington, D.C.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) trolled President Trump with a social media post Tuesday declaring a “SECOND-TO-LAST WARNING” in the ongoing blue state/red state battle over redistricting — ribbing Trump over his polling, squishy deadlines and distinctive communication style. “DONALD TRUMP, THE LOWEST POLLING PRESIDENT IN RECENT HISTORY, THIS IS YOUR SECOND-TO-LAST WARNING!!! (THE NEXT…
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(NEXSTAR) — At the end of last year, it seemed that marijuana could be rescheduled in the U.S. That idea came screeching to a halt when proceedings were put on pause in January. There were early hopes that the then-incoming Trump administration would get the ball rolling, but that didn’t immediately materialize either. On Monday,…
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U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro will provide an update Tuesday afternoon on Washington’s crime numbers as the number of homicides this year in the nation’s capital hits 100. The press conference comes a day after President Trump declared a crime emergency in D.C. and announced that his administration is taking control…
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White House officials are launching a review of some of the Smithsonian’s museums aimed at ensuring “alignment” with President Trump’s “directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives, and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions.” A Tuesday letter to Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch was signed by the Domestic Policy Council’s Vince…
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California Republican Doug LaMalfa shrugged off the boos and jeers by asking a constituent if they wanted to “talk about something productive.”

President Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggested the agency should stop issuing monthly jobs reports, claiming that the data the agency uses to calculate them is not reliable. E.J. Antoni, whom Trump nominated Monday to lead BLS, said the agency should “suspend issuing the monthly jobs reports, but keep publishing…
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