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Face to Face, Powell Told Trump He Was Wrong About a Construction Project
President Trump is used to world leaders bowing down to him, and to cabinet members fawning over him. Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, took a different approach.
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Fired FEMA Official Files Suit, Saying Board to Hear Worker Disputes Is Paralyzed
Fired employees have struggled to get a judge to hear their cases because Congress set up a separate system to referee such employment disputes.
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Texas Legislature Special Session: Democrats Attack Silent Republicans
President Trump wants Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s House maps to nab as many as five seats now held by Democrats. But no new maps have been publicly proposed yet.
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Gabbard’s Attacks on Obama Put the Attorney General in a Tough Spot
The director of national intelligence gave the Justice Department little warning before she demanded an investigation.
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Southwest Passenger Says She Was Ejected From Flight Based on Her Race
On a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., last November, the passenger said she was the only Black person seated in an exit row when she was asked to leave.
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6 Beaches in Europe Where You Can Cool Off This Summer
Visiting Europe in the heat can mean sweating it out with no air-conditioning, but sea breezes beckon in these refreshing spots from Croatia to Norway.
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Hints of Life on Exoplanet K2-18b Recede Even Further
New observations fail to confirm signs of life in the atmosphere of the distant planet K2-18b. They also raise questions about what it will take to detect biology light-years away.
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Canadian Company Claims to Find Large Oil Reserves in Poland
The firm’s chief executive said that the field in the Baltic Sea might eventually produce up to 40,000 barrels of oil a day, making it the largest discovery in Northern Europe in more than a decade.
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Opendoor and Krispy Kreme Are Part of a New Generation of Meme Stocks
A new generation of meme stocks are soaring and falling again.
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South Korea Jockeys for a Deal With Trump at Least as Good as Japan’s
The agreement Japan secured has added pressure on South Korea to defuse the threat of high tariffs on its exports to the United States.