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Trump Is His Own Worst Enemy

The president appears determined to prevent his party from achieving a durable majority coalition.

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Trump Said He’d End the War in Ukraine in a Day. It’s Harder Than He Thought.

Russian attacks and Ukrainian civilian deaths rose as President Trump’s peace talks dragged on during his first year back in the White House.

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An apartment building that a Russian missile struck in Kyiv, Ukraine, in August. Moscow’s attacks have inflicted a growing toll on Ukrainians.
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Jesse Jackson dies: Bernice King, Kamala Harris and Trump among public figures praising ‘one of America’s greatest patriots’ – live

Ordained minister and activist who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination had been living with progressive supranuclear palsy

You can watch Jesse Jackson’s famous 1988 speech at the Democratic convention urging Americans to “keep hope alive” below. It quickly became an American political classic and was echoed in the “hope and change” slogan of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 presidential campaign.

The civil rights campaigner, Al Sharpton, has paid tribute to his “mentor” Jesse Jackson, whom he worked closely with over the civil rights era. In a tribute posted to X, Sharpton wrote:

My mentor, Rev. Jesse Jackson, has passed. I just prayed with his family by phone. He was a consequential and transformative leader who changed this nation and the world.

He shaped public policy and changed laws. He kept the dream alive and taught young children from broken homes, like me, that we don’t have broken spirits.

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© Photograph: Mark Junge/Getty Images

© Photograph: Mark Junge/Getty Images

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