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A US soldier keeps watch during a patrol in Syria.

Trump vows retribution after three Americans are killed after ambush in Syria

Clarissa-Jan Lim

President Donald Trump responds to a reporter's question.

Trump again threatens to primary Indiana Republicans who spurned his redistricting push

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Travelers pick up luggage at a baggage carousel at San Francisco International Airport.

Tourism groups warn of fallout from Trump administration’s proposed social media screening rule

Antonia Hylton

Police in Providence, Rhode Island
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Person of interest detained in Brown University shooting that left at least 2 dead, 9 injured

Anthony L. Fisher, Julianne McShane & Sydney Carruth

Brown University student speaks with MS NOW while sheltering in place

Brown University junior survived another school shooting in 2019

Tina Peters is in the rally in front of the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver.

Why Trump won’t stop trying to free Tina Peters — and why Colorado refuses to back down

Anthony Coley

Former University of Michigan Sherrone Moore of the Michigan Wolverines observes practice prior to a game.

Michigan fired its football coach amid a shocking scandal. Its athletic director should go, too.

Mike Wise

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson discusses affordability at a press conference.

House Republicans unveil health care plan that won’t extend enhanced ACA subsidies

Clarissa-Jan Lim

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) building in Washington D.C.

Trump’s pick for a top FEMA job has the wrong idea about charity

Jarvis DeBerry

A collage of New Orleans residents filming and an federal officer

Videos of ICE grabbing the wrong people leave me trembling

Annell López

Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff.

Skepticism grows in Europe over Putin’s intentions and Witkoff’s abilities

David Rohde & Ian Sherwood

Then Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, left, and his wife Erin Morrow Hawley wave at a rally in Springfield, MO

Hawleys launch dark money anti-abortion advertising group

Julianne McShane

Demonstrators protest at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis, I.N., on Dec. 11, 2025.

Why Indiana Republicans said no to Trump’s gerrymander bullying

Hayes Brown

Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the State Dining Room of the White House.

Why is Calibri typeface on Marco Rubio’s target list? DEI, of course.

Steve Benen

Cranes unload shipping containers at the Port of Los Angeles.

Declining tariff revenue creates a significant new headache for the White House

Steve Benen

Chris Hayes; Donald Trump.

After several political defeats, Trump begins to quack like a lame duck

Chris Hayes

Members of the Ethiopian community demonstrate outside of the U.S. State Department in Washington D.C.

Trump administration ends temporary legal status for Ethiopians

Sydney Carruth

Protesters clash with federal agents in Chicago.

Chicago grand jurors continue stunning streak of rejecting Trump DOJ indictments

Jordan Rubin

A profiled view of President Donald Trump in front of a poster of the "Trump Gold Card."

Within Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ plan is another tough truth for MAGA’s working class

Philip Bump

A collage of New Orleans residents filming and an federal officer

Videos of ICE grabbing the wrong people leave me trembling

Annell López

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in New Jersey

Trump’s escalating abuse of female journalists is getting personal

Ari Bernick

A sign for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Silver Spring, M.D., as seen through a prism on April 8, 2025.

The FDA is no longer a serious agency

Walker Bragman

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt during a press briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House.

White House’s Leavitt keeps arguing with reporters. Her real fight is with reality.

Steve Benen

Kilmar Abrego Garcia surrounded by people at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Baltimore Field Office.

Judge orders ICE not to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia at his check-in

Clarissa-Jan Lim

A close up of Marjorie Taylor Greene talking to reporters following a House GOP caucus meeting at the Capitol on April 10, 2024.

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s farewell gift to Mike Johnson: a longshot plot to oust him

Mychael Schnell

Pete Buttigieg praises Indiana GOP for standing up to Trump: ‘Absolutely extraordinary’

Allison Detzel

The Trump Admin’s latest move is an attack on legal immigration

Judge orders DHS to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia from custody

Lawrence: The K.I.N.D. Fund girls sing their thanks for scholarships

‘What if JFK said TIME needed to go away?’: Joe on Trump’s call for CNN to be sold off

The architects of AI named as TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year

‘He doesn’t get it’: New polling gives Trump lowest marks yet on economy

Trump Jr. sees fortunes soar with his father back in office

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Understand Today’s News

  1. A person holds their hand up to their chest as they swear allegiance to the U.S. flag during a naturalization ceremony in Miami, F.L., on April 28, 2006.

    If you want to see how Trump has poisoned our country, go to a citizenship ceremony

    Zeeshan Aleem

  2. Olivia Nuzzi.

    RFK Jr.’s escape from accountability in the Olivia Nuzzi scandal is no accident

    Eric Garcia

  3. California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during the 2025 New York Times Dealbook Summit in NYC.

    The unsubtle subtext of Gavin Newsom’s ‘culturally normal’ comment

    Nicholas Mitchell

  4. Israeli Speaker of the Knesset Amir Ohana and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson at the Capitol on Feb. 6, 2024.

    As Americans sour on the economy, Mike Johnson is focused on getting Trump a Nobel Peace Prize

    Ja'han Jones

  5. Miami Mayor-elect Eileen Higgins at her election night party on Dec. 9, 2025 in Miami, F.L.

    Why Democrats’ mayoral win in Miami is bad news for Trump

    Philip Bump

  6. Protestors demonstrate inside the rotunda of the Missouri Capitol Building in Jefferson City, M.O.

    Missouri activists just took a big step toward stopping their state’s Trump-backed congressional maps

    Ja'han Jones

  7. Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on July 29, 2025, in Championsgate, FL.

    Florida AG files suit against medical groups over gender-affirming care

    Ja'han Jones

  8. President Donald Trump participates in a roundtable discussion with farmers in the White House on Dec. 8, 2025.

    It doesn’t take a mathematician to see Trump’s $12 billion farmer bailout doesn’t add up

    Hayes Brown

  9. Justice Elena Kagan sits between Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

    Justice Kagan knows why the Supreme Court majority wrongly supported Texas’ redistricting effort

    Michael A. Cohen

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