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The deal reduces reciprocal tariffs and expands quotas for key trading goods, including Argentine beef — a flashpoint for American ranchers.
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President Trump last month offered to drop his hold on billions of dollars for a major infrastructure project in New York, but only if Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer agreed to rename New York's Penn Station and Washington's Dulles International Airport after Trump. - Schumer (D-N.Y.) rejected the offer, a source familiar with the talks told Axios, prolonging the standoff over funding for the Gateway Tunnel Project connecting New York to New Jersey. Why it matters: Trump, whose allies renamed the Kennedy Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace after him, is continuing his efforts to reshape American institutions in his image. - The offer did not come up in an Oval Office meeting between Trump and Schumer last month, the source…
House Democrats reacted with swift fury Thursday evening over reports that President Trump floated renaming Dulles Airport and Penn Station after himself in exchange for unfreezing $16 billion in funds for the Gateway Development Project . Why it matters: Trump administration officials proposed the deal to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Axios has confirmed. Schumer's fellow Democrats have angrily echoed the Senate leader's refusal. - Punchbowl News first reported Trump's offer. Driving the news: Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), whose New York City district would also be affected by the project, said in a statement to Axios, "Trump is pathologically petty and cannot be trusted to keep his word." - "There is no point in…
The new map still requires approval from the courts and the voters but, if enacted, it could help Democrats win four more House seats
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TrumpRx is aimed at helping patients use their own money to buy medicines. But researchers who study drug pricing warned that many patients could pay too much if they use the site.
As they appeal a ruling blocking their redistricting efforts, the state’s Democrats proposed redrawing districts in a way that would strongly favor them.
Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to receive the Democratic nomination at the party’s state convention on Friday, even as her running-mate selection has drawn some debate.
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Press freedom groups denounced Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's declaration this week that a journalist was "down another source" after her department "caught another prolific leaker," whom she'll refer for criminal prosecution. Why it matters: The Trump administration's escalating efforts to find and prosecute government sources who leak to reporters reflects a broader effort to assert control over information flow, which Committee to Protect Journalists' Katherine Jacobsen on Thursday called "terrifying." - The pattern suggests these actions are less about national security and more about punishing scrutiny, threatening independent reporting, press freedom experts say. - Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press president…
The decision clears the way for the first death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay to start this summer, more than 25 years after the attack.
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In the first of thousands of forthcoming sexual assault cases, the ride-hailing giant was ordered to pay $8.5 million to Jaylynn Dean, who said a driver raped her in 2023.
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