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At Munich Summit, European Leaders Agree With Trump: The Old World Order Is Over

At the Munich Security Conference, U.S. officials softened their tone but not their message: Europe should pay its own way. European leaders increasingly agree.

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President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain at the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
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Who Is Jeremy Carl, Trump’s Nominee to Lead the State Department?

Jeremy Carl, President Trump’s nominee to lead the State Department’s outreach to international organizations, had a rough confirmation hearing, but he stood by his views on “whiteness.”

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Jeremy Carl, nominee to be an Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, at a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., this week.
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Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

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The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Four Killed in Plane Crash Near Steamboat Springs, Colo.

The plane crashed in remote mountain terrain at about 12:20 a.m. on Friday “under unknown circumstances,” according to the National Transportation Safety Board.

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A small plane crashed in a remote wilderness area south of Steamboat Springs, Colo., early on Friday morning.
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U.N. Condemns U.S. Measures Halting Oil Deliveries to Cuba

The measures were installed last month by the Trump administration after the U.S. captured Nicolás Maduro and seized control of Venezuela’s oil industry.

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A street in Santa Cruz del Norte, Cuba, this month during a scheduled outage as part of energy rationing.
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Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Said to Raise Billions in First Pledges for Gaza

The United Arab Emirates and the United States have each committed more than $1 billion to President Trump’s new international initiative, officials said.

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Children collecting paper and plastic at a garbage dump in Gaza last month. Vast sections of the territory were destroyed in the war.
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A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

The National Science Foundation said management of the machine, used by researchers for forecasts, disaster warnings and pure science, would be transferred to a “third-party operator.”

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The supercomputer is currently run from the National Center for Atmospheric Research headquarters in Boulder, Colo.
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The Mutually Beneficial Ties Between Jeffrey Epstein and Thorbjorn Jagland

Thorbjorn Jagland, a former prime minister of Norway who led the Nobel Committee, promised influence, and the disgraced financier had gifts to give, new emails show.

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Thorbjorn Jagland, center left, a former prime minister of Norway, in Oslo on Thursday. A recently released tranche of emails revealed his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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White House Sees Win After 2 Strong Economic Reports

Solid jobs data and a soft inflation reading for January are welcome news for President Trump. But the bigger economic picture is less encouraging.

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“President Trump has defeated Joe Biden’s inflation crisis,” a White House spokesman said this week. The bigger economic picture is more uncertain.
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Ocasio-Cortez Offers a Working-Class Vision in Munich, With a Few Stumbles

Speaking at Europe’s largest security conference, she tied income inequality to the rise of authoritarians and offered a forceful rebuttal to President Trump’s worldview. She also had some shaky moments.

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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York spoke at two panels on Friday at the Munich Security Conference.
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Virginia’s Top Court Clears Path for Democratic Push to Redraw House Map

The State Supreme Court allowed a spring statewide referendum that is necessary for Democrats to redraw Virginia’s congressional map before the midterm elections.

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The Virginia Supreme Court left unsettled the legality of a bid by the state’s Democratic-led legislature to overhaul the House map in the party’s favor.
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A Surge of ICE Arrests Overwhelms the Federal Court System

A surge of immigration arrests in the state sent thousands of people to detention centers in Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere. Federal courts have been overwhelmed with their pleas for release.

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“Even if the constant emergency of this siege ends now,” said Graham Ojala-Barbour, an immigration lawyer from St. Paul, Minn., “we still have a lot of fallout from it.”
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German Officials Needle Trump at Munich Security Conference

Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany, said that under President Trump, the United States’ claim to global leadership “has been challenged, and possibly squandered.”

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Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany speaking at the Munich Security Conference, on Friday.
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