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May 15, 2026
Trump aims to defy gravity with Beijing friendship summit
President Trump's summit with Xi Jinping was staged as a reunion between old friends, concluding Friday with a private tour of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese Communist Party's leadership compound.Strolli...
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May 13, 2026
Trump shrugs off rising inflation as war deepens economic spiral
President Trump flew to Beijing on Tuesday under some of the darkest economic clouds of his political career, leaving behind a country reeling from the cost of everyday life.Why it matters: The bot...
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May 11, 2026
Iran, China and AI collide in Trump's legacy-defining week
Three generational forces will converge this week — first in Washington, then in Beijing — in what could prove a hugely consequential stretch of Donald Trump's presidency.Why it matters: The coming...
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May 8, 2026
California dysfunction puts backlash on the ballot
LOS ANGELES — The two most consequential races in California have devolved into twin spectacles, with years of visible dysfunction hollowing out Democrats' case for competent leadership.Why it matt...
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May 5, 2026
New frontier of AI forces Trump's heavy hand
President Trump set out on his first day in office to free artificial intelligence from government constraints.15 months later, his own White House is preparing to become a gatekeeper for the most ...
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April 29, 2026
Red-meat retribution: Trump escalates campaign against MAGA foes
The Trump administration moved Tuesday against three enemies of the MAGA coalition: a former Anthony Fauci adviser, Somali-run daycare centers in Minneapolis, and Jimmy Kimmel.A fourth, former FBI ...
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April 27, 2026
Trump's 24-hour truce with the media
One uncomfortable question was all it took for President Trump to resume hostilities with the Washington press, less than 24 hours after their shared brush with death.Why it matters: In just a few ...
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April 25, 2026
Term-limited Trump mortgages GOP's future
President Trump is governing like a man who will never face voters again, mortgaging his party's future on promises he won't be around to keep.Why it matters: Trump's approval has plunged to a seco...
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April 23, 2026
Anthropic's growing pains mount ahead of OpenAI showdown
Anthropic is hitting turbulence at a critical moment, with a cascade of challenges converging ahead of a potential IPO that could value the company near $800 billion.Why it matters: The AI darling,...
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April 21, 2026
Silicon Valley is building its own news-industrial complex
Marc Andreessen on MTS. Screenshot via XSilicon Valley's most powerful venture firm helped launch a 24/7 livestream on X Monday, joining a wave of tech money piling into the news cycle as the inte...
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April 14, 2026
Trump's incredible shrinking tent
Donald Trump is torching the coalition that made him president, seemingly unaware — or simply unconcerned — with the depth of discontent permeating his movement.Why it matters: Trump won back the W...
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April 12, 2026
Earthquake in Hungary: Orbán defeated after 16 years in power
Hungarian voters have ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, delivering a stunning rebuke to one of the Western world's most entrenched populist leaders.Why it matters: The pol...
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April 8, 2026
Trump's MAGA media wall collapses
The architects of MAGA's media empire are in open revolt against President Trump, disgusted by his threat to destroy Iran's "whole civilization."Why it matters: Trump's political strength has alway...
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April 7, 2026
MAGA's global model faces existential test in Hungary
Vice President Vance on Tuesday will plunge into Europe's most volatile election in years — a Hungarian campaign engulfed by spy scandals, sabotage and unprecedented peril for MAGA's favorite forei...
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April 4, 2026
"We're fighting wars": Trump bets his presidency on the Pentagon
Data: White House; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsPresident Trump's new budget lays bare the transformation of his presidency, pairing a historic surge in military spending with historic cuts to do...
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April 1, 2026
Trump's blurry vision of victory in Iran
One month in, President Trump's Iran war has fractured into three competing realities:A military campaign that has largely delivered.A strategic vision that hasn't.A political and economic disaster...
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March 31, 2026
Trump pursues era of unshackled warfare
President Trump's threat to bomb Iran's water supply would constitute his most dramatic breach of the laws and norms designed to protect civilians in wartime.Why it matters: The Iran war is the big...
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March 25, 2026
Mysterious trading patterns follow Trump into war
Data: Yahoo Finance; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsAn epidemic of suspicious trading has emerged around President Trump's most consequential decisions — each time, just minutes or hours before he ...
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March 25, 2026
Exclusive: Newsom calls Musk "one of the great disappointments" of this era
California Gov. Gavin Newsom praised Elon Musk as this generation's Thomas Edison — then accused the Tesla CEO of surrendering the electric vehicle market to China."It breaks my heart," Newsom said...
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March 15, 2026
Cheap drones transform global battlefield
Cheap, mass-produced drones have permanently changed the face of warfare.Without them, Russia's overwhelming manpower and firepower advantage would grind Ukraine into dust.Without them, the Houthis...
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March 14, 2026
How America gamified its war with Iran
The U.S. government is treating strikes on Iran like a video game, inviting the country to watch as memes and montages subsume the human cost of war.Why it matters: The Trump administration didn't ...
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March 10, 2026
A world at war: The Iran conflict goes global
Ten days into President Trump's Iran campaign, the war has gone global.At least 20 countries are now militarily involved — shooting, shielding or quietly supplying — while a widening energy shock p...
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March 7, 2026
Trump's risky business
President Trump is mired in risk:Risk his Iran war of choice goes bad.Risk the February job losses are a trend, not a blip.Risk the stock market keeps dropping.Risk his tariffs, and now soaring oil...
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March 2, 2026
Trump campaign peace promises loom large over wartime presidency
No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many different countries as Donald Trump.He's attacked seven nations, three of which — Iran, Nigeria and Venezuela — had ...
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February 26, 2026
How Claude conquered Washington, Wall Street and Silicon Valley
Supremacy can be fleeting in the highly competitive AI race. But two months into 2026, Anthropic's Claude is upending U.S. national security, roiling financial markets and redefining how startups a...
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February 25, 2026
Trump's night of heroes: Takeaways from the 2026 State of the Union
President Trump staged a rose-colored spectacle at Tuesday night's State of the Union — the longest-ever address to Congress, from a president facing his lowest-ever approval ratings.Why it matters...
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February 23, 2026
AI's "centaur phase" consumes Silicon Valley
A manic new phase of the AI boom is sweeping through Silicon Valley, powered by autonomous "agents" capable of liquefying weeks of manual labor into minutes.Why it matters: For now, the frenzy is l...
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February 19, 2026
Europe answers Trump's call on Ukraine
Data: Kiel Institute; Note: Converted from euros to USD using the exchange rate as of Feb. 13, 2026; Kavya Beheraj/AxiosFour years after Russia's invasion, Europe has quietly replaced the United St...
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