#White House

A new book says Iran’s threat “to assassinate Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign was far more serious than publicly known — and led to extraordinary precautions by his team that included using a decoy plane to avert a feared attempt on his life,” Axios reports. “Law enforcement officials

It was easy to miss in the relentless flood of headlines, but President Trump ordered the creation of a U.S. sovereign wealth fund—an idea typically associated with oil-rich autocracies, not the world’s largest free-market economy. The plan raises serious questions. Join now to continue

You might not like Donald Trump’s hard line immigration policies or his pledge to put tariffs on our allies, but at least he campaigned on those ideas and won an election. You might think some of his Cabinet picks are wildly unqualified or ideologically extreme, but at least they have to go

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