President Trump has transformed the agency. We look at what’s happening on the inside.

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President Trump has tightened the U.S. grip on the Americas by rewarding allies and punishing rivals. That has upended the region’s politics.

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Plus, Hollywood’s star-studded movies are tanking.

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As the talks continue, some countries are pushing for a detailed “road map” for a global transition away from oil, gas and coal.

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Andy Baraghani’s bright, brilliant menu is a feast for the eyes, too.

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Opposition-minded Russians who remain in the country are trying to keep politically active in whatever ways they can.

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Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change.

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The investigator, who did not believe the teen, faced little punishment, illustrating the different ways that officers in New York State are disciplined for misconduct.

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The iconic corner store is perhaps the ultimate symbol of a city constantly evolving and on the move.

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President Volodymyr Zelensky removed Odesa’s mayor, raising fears he might be using his wartime powers to tighten control over opposition-run cities.

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A newly engaged Air Force veteran who was found dead inside a postal service mail handling machine has now been pictured -- as his family demand answers about his mysterious death.

Aaron Glenn is trying to change the Jets' culture, and that’s admirable. But picking unnecessary battles with the press is a waste of time and won’t help that cause.

Home secretary to announce a drastic tightening of rules, including requiring asylum seekers to wait 20 years before getting the right to permanently settle in UK

Momentum, the leftwing Labour group, has also denounced the government’s asylum plans. In a statement it says:

The home secretary’s new immigration plans are divisive and xenophobic.

Scapegoating migrants will not fix our public services or end austerity.

Draconian, unworkable and potentially illegal anti-asylum policies only feed Reform’s support.

The government has learnt nothing from the period since the general election.

Some of the legal changes being proposed are truly frightening:

Abolishing the right to a family life would ultimately affect many more people than asylum-seekers.

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Deal comes despite Donald Trump targeting Perkins Coie with executive order that posed ‘existential risk’

IT’S been a huge week for micro-penises — especially those belonging to psychopaths.

Artificial intelligence will become smarter than ‘most or all humans in most or all ways’, says Dario Amodei

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Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or risk repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the chief executive of the AI startup Anthropic.

Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind the Claude chatbot, said he believed AI will become smarter than “most or all humans in most or all ways” and urged his peers to “call it as you see it”.

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In this episode of "NP Talks," the National Post's Jesse Kline sits down with Michael Kovrig for a wide-ranging discussion on the threat posed by the Communist Party of China. Watch the full video directly above. Read More

"Blue Hill is holding hostage millions of dollars of highly collectable rare and vintage wines and spirits,” according to court filings.

"Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville tied the knot to his longtime girlfriend and costume designer Emily Ting over the weekend in an intimate ceremony with close family and friends.

"We were all about continuing traditional values in Eastchester. Like supporting the police. Keeping Eastchester safe.”

There are perspectives from which a snap federal election call might make sense. There are far more perspectives from which it looks like a fever dream trapped in a bubble. Many of them have to do with the New Democrats, who aren’t even an official party in the House of Commons. Read More

Last year, the world watched as biological male Olympic boxers first beat the crap out of women in the ring and then stole their medals. It was a shame. Read More

How was Trump’s shooter radicalized – and did the feds tell whole story?

Meaningful therapy offers a path past our worst impulses. We should be fighting for it to be available for everyone

When I picture what a good life means to me, I feel a tension in my chest. I see my daughter and my husband and I feel the profound fulfilment of being exactly where I need to be, tightened by the terror that life is so fragile and I cannot protect them from that reality. Then a memory: lying on my analyst’s couch and describing a feeling of hollowness inside that I felt deeply ashamed of, and her listening and thinking and understanding – and my noticing that while I felt horror and repulsion, she didn’t seem to. Next: different walks around different parks with different friends, each with the same feeling of being warmed from the inside out; also, bumping into neighbours at the playground and feeling a part of my community. I remember powerful moments with my patients, who have felt understood, by me and within themselves. And I think of the moving messages from readers who have got in touch, sharing precious stories from their lives.

People often think that psychoanalysis and its NHS-friendly grandchild, psychodynamic psychotherapy, are all about looking inwards. And it’s true – good therapy should give us the time and space, the frame and the containment, to look inside and listen to ourselves.

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