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Syria: What Comes Next?

The unexpected toppling this weekend of the Assad regime by rebel forces brought a swift end to Syria’s 13-year uprising-cum-civil war and over half a century of authoritarian rule. Syrians around the…

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Mitt Romney’s Senate Exit May Create a Vacuum of Vocal, Conservative Trump Critics

SALT LAKE CITY — With Mitt Romney set to exit the U.S. Senate, Washington will be without one of its strongest conservative critics of Donald Trump when the president retakes the White…

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Trauma and Terror in the North of Gaza

Yehya Qasem was having dinner with his family one evening in early October when the unmistakable sound of Israeli airstrikes pierced the air. The series of so-called firebelts were so deafening that…

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Trump Taps Kari Lake to Lead Voice of America

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he’s picking Kari Lake as director of Voice of America, installing a staunch loyalist who ran unsuccessfully for Arizona governor and a Senate seat…

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Palestinians File German Complaint on Media Giant Axel Springer’s Business in Israeli Settlements

Five Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank, along with the councils of three villages they hail from, filed a formal regulatory complaint in Germany accusing the media giant Axel Springer of contributing…

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Trump’s and Biden’s Advisers Had the Same Problem: a Stubborn Candidate

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. At times, the conversation sounded an awful lot like…

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Trump to Replace Lina Khan as FTC Chair and Taps Kimberly Guilfoyle for Greece Ambassador

President-elect Donald Trump made another flurry of job announcements on Tuesday, selecting Andrew Ferguson as the next chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Kimberly Guilfoyle as the ambassador to Greece and Tom…

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Biden Says Assad’s Fall in Syria Is a ‘Fundamental Act of Justice’

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad is a “fundamental act of justice” after decades of repression, but it was “a…

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From Campus to the Courts, the “Palestine Exception” Rules University Crackdowns

LAST WEEK, police at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland arrested four students on felony vandalism charges in relation to protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. The students were transferred to the…

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