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Thomas Peter / AP A Trade War With China May Be Inevitable
The interests of the U.S. and China are set to collide, for the simple reason that the Chinese recognize that they find themselves in a profoundly unfavorable position.
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Stringer France / Reuters Billy Graham, the Great Uniter, Leaves Behind a Divided Evangelicalism
The preacher, dead at 99, advised presidents, mentored clergy, and influenced millions of people. Will his legacy of non-partisan outreach continue?
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Haim Zach GPO This Is Not the Israel Trip Mike Pence Had Planned
The U.S. vice president promised peace in the country’s newly recognized capital, but his itinerary showed that a deal is far beyond reach.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'An Assault on the Body of the Church’
Catholic parishes have been hit hard by President Trump’s decision to suspend Temporary Protected Status for Salvadorans.
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AP How the Tet Offensive Undermined American Faith in Government
Fifty years ago, the January 1968 battle laid bare the way U.S. leaders had misled the public about the war in Vietnam.
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Alessandro Bianchi / Reuters Death Comes for Cardinal Law
The face of Catholicism’s clergy sexual-abuse scandal is laid to rest in Rome—but his legacy still haunts the American church.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters Trump Did Not Bring Jerusalem Crashing Down
In the Palestinian area of the city, many people just want to get on with their lives.
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Ammar Awad / Reuters ‘Jerusalem Is Not the Explosive Device—It’s the Detonator’
President Trump’s announcement on the status of the holy city could spark a crisis across the Middle East.
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Library of Congress What Is a 'Proactive Cooperator'?
Former Trump foreign-policy aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents during the Russia investigation, may have been secretly cooperating with investigators for months.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Mike Pence Promises to Defend Christians in the Middle East
The vice president announced that the administration will shift aid from the United Nations to the U.S. Agency for International Development. He’ll also visit the region in late December.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'An Utterly Untruthful President'
Trump and Senator Bob Corker are at it again, as the Tennessee Republican says the commander in chief is not a role model for the nation’s children and vows not to support him for reelection.
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Charles Mostoller / Reuters What John McCain Gets Wrong About Trump's Nationalism
The last seventy-five years of American foreign policy are not the story of a country consistently pursuing democratic ideals, only to see them undermined now by a fearful “blood and soil” isolationism.
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters How Al-Qaeda Benefits From America's Political Divisions
If the United States wishes to defeat Osama bin Laden's heirs and the toxic potency of their message, it needs to recommit to its most basic values.
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Gary Hershorn / Getty Trump's Trade Agenda Divides the Nation's Cities
The administration has inserted a wedge between the large metropolitan areas known for top-notch services and the small and mid-sized metros focused on manufacturing.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters The JCC Bomb-Threat Suspect Had a Client
Newly unsealed FBI documents suggest the Israeli arrested for sending the threats was selling his services for a fee.
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Courtesy of Jan M. Lodal Brezhnev's Secret Pledge to 'Do Everything We Can' to Reelect Gerald Ford
As the Cold War raged in 1975, a Russian leader promised his support for a president’s reelection bid.
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Mikhail Voskresensky / Reuters Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
“I hope that my story will help you understand the methods of Russian operatives in Washington and how they use U.S. enablers to achieve major foreign policy goals without disclosing those interests,” Browder writes.
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Department of Justice Hobby Lobby Purchased Thousands of Ancient Artifacts Smuggled Out of Iraq
The craft-supply giant, which will open its Museum of the Bible in D.C. this fall, will pay a $3 million settlement.
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Eddie Keogh / Reuters Donald Trump Offers to Help Charlie Gard
The president of the United States stepped in to defend a British infant whose life support will be removed after European courts sided with doctors against his parents.
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Reuters Staff The Pontiff Versus the Mogul
President Trump prepares to meet Pope Francis as his recently released budget shows just how different his philosophy is from the one that drives the leader of the world’s Catholics.
