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A flurry of leaks, President Donald Trump’s unproven wiretapping allegations and WikiLeaks’ disclosure of CIA hacking tools are breathing new life into civil libertarians’ hopes of reining in the government’s spying powers when they come due for congressional renewal this year. Critics of laws allowing federal agencies to eavesdrop on digital communications had faced daunting…
Because we are in a very strange time in politics now, there’s some governmental tanning news to talk about that has nothing to do with our unnaturally orange president. The Obamacare health plan included a 10 percent tax for customers who used tanning bed salons. The new and very contentious Republican health plan calls for…
In the days after President Donald Trump’s Jan. 27 directive banning travel to the U.S. by citizens of seven-majority Muslim countries, about two dozen lawsuits were filed challenging its legality. | Getty Revised Trump travel ban suffers first legal blow Federal judge in Wisconsin blocks impact on Syrian family as other courts mull broader relief….
Critics are hijacking the branding process for the GOP health plan as the White House resists slapping the president’s name on it. He built his career in large part by plastering his name on skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, books, wines and steaks, but there appears to be one place President Donald Trump does not want his…
SEOUL South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed President Park Geun-hye from office on Friday over a graft scandal involving the country’s conglomerates at a time of rising tensions with North Korea and China. The ruling sparked protests from hundreds of Park’s supporters, two of whom were killed in clashes with police outside the court, and…
END CLASS=”STORYTITLE” END CLASS=”STORY-TOOLS” END ID=”STORY-META” CLASS=”STORY-META HAS-BYLINE” Acutely malnourished child Sacdiyo Mohamed, 9 months old, is treated at Banadir hospital in Somalia on Saturday. Somalia’s government has declared the drought there a national disaster. Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP The world is facing its greatest humanitarian crisis since 1945, says the United Nations humanitarian coordinator, Stephen…
Stephen Bannon at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 23. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post) In the three years before he became Donald Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon lived as a virtual nomad in a quest to build a populist political insurgency. No presidential adviser in recent memory has followed such a mysterious, peripatetic…
Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, has pointedly and repeatedly refused to offer personal assurances about President Trump’s claims that President Barack Obama tapped phones in Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump has no regrets. His staff has no defense. After weeks of assailing…
President Trump during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House last week. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order on Monday blocking citizens of six predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States, the most significant hardening of immigration policy in generations, even with changes…
Google Microdata Mobile only ad Article “Cover” Five neuroscientists argue that fancy new technologies have led the field astray. Google Metadata A rat’s brain activity is recorded by sensors connected to its head. Reuters It’s a good time to be interested in the brain. Neuroscientists can now turn neurons on or off with just a…