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Efforts to oust Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook and install allies could erode the bank’s autonomy, with consequences for inflation, market confidence and everyday borrowing.

Republicans enacted the largest cuts to healthcare in US history, and fulfilled decades of conservative rhetoric

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ANALYSIS: President need only look to his predecessors to see what will happen now that he has committed to military strikes in the Middle East, writes Eric Garcia

Sending troops to American streets crosses a ‘dangerous line’ that tests how far Trump will go to crush dissent, veterans and legal experts tell The Independent

The president is escalating the situation to justify greater force and repression. Now he’s talking about sending ‘troops everywhere’

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the beginning of a terrible friendship. How did Merz's predecessors cope with the respective men in the Oval Office? Euronews checks out some of the key pairings through time.

If Donald Trump has taught Americans anything, it’s that political parties can shift positions on any number of issues and retain strong support. Republicans had once been aggressive Cold Warriors, standing shoulder to shoulder with allies against Russia, but now they are isolationists. They once favored so-called “free markets,” but…

In the first 100 days of his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has shown a willingness to lean on airpower when his administration decides that military force is necessary abroad.