Weekly Review
On the second full day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump ended a 2011 policy preventing Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making arrests at schools, hospitals, and places of worship;...
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The U.S. Office of Management and Budget issued a two-page memo directing all federal agencies to pause the disbursement of federal financial assistance, sowing confusion across the country regarding...
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The new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency put more than 160 staffers on administrative leave, warned some 1,000 more that they could be fired at any time, and shut down an online...
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The Department of Justice ordered federal prosecutors in New York to drop corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams.1 In a memo providing rationale for the decision, the acting deputy...
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The newly appointed FBI director, Kash Patel, who has also been tapped to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told his employees to ignore Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s latest...
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Relations between the United States and Ukraine curdled over the course of a meeting of some 50 minutes in the Oval Office, during which President Trump discussed a deal that would require Ukraine to...
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The president of the United States was reported to have told the prime minister of Canada last month that he wanted the two countries to renegotiate their 117-year-old boundary; the Canadian prime...
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Ranjani Srinivasan, a doctoral student who had signed letters in support of Palestine and was arrested at Columbia University last spring, flew to Canada after immigration authorities revoked her...
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A version of this column originally ran in Le Devoir on December 2, 2024. Translated from the French by Elettra Pauletto. Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took Donald Trump seriously when...
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In Turkey, the opposition party’s supporters accused the government of orchestrating the arrest of their party’s presidential candidate; judges in South Korea overturned the impeachment of their prime...
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