🚨BREAKING🚨: The U.S. secretly shipped the long-range version of ATACMS to Ukraine last month, and Kyiv has already used them to strike Russian targets twice
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both campaigning on warped economic statistics, cherry-picking weird data from the Covid crisis.

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Rep. Gregory Meeks: 'China should stay out of this — period.'

Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧: 'TikTok has no connection with China, I thought, so why would they do that?'

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We reported that Chinese officials are quietly lobbying to protect TikTok. China hawks in Congress say that’s exactly why a crackdown is needed.
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SCOOP: The Chinese Embassy has been quietly lobbying Congress against the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Gotta agree with Nahal Toosi here: keeping something off the president's desk is not a strategy. It's just a refusal to make choices.

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MY LATEST: At a perilous moment for the Middle East, Joe Biden doesn’t have an Iran strategy. Maybe he should? My new column will probably get me yelled at a lot: politico.com/news/magazine/…

NEW: Trump economic advisers — led by Lighthizer — discussing ways to devalue the dollar if they win the presidency

The idea is to boost exports and reduce the trade deficit, but risks abound from inflation to foreign retaliation

Trump is right about a two-tiered justice system. But he's wrong that it works against him. I wrote about the privilege of being Donald Trump on trial.

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“I can’t imagine any other defendant posting on social media about a judge’s family and not being very quickly incarcerated.” tinyurl.com/ysjsty2e

The possible return of Donald Trump to the White House has bred a deep sense of insecurity among Japan’s business and political elite. - Lionel Barber

Why America’s Longtime Ally in Asia Is So Anxious About Trump 2.0 - POLITICO politico.com/news/magazine/…

“We can't even mourn their death, even though we know they're dead.”
 
The families of the American hostages who have been declared dead since October 7 are struggling to grieve, as their loved ones’ bodies are still being held hostage by Hamas. cnn.com/2024/04/11/pol…

Zelenskyy reveals his Trump playbook: An invitation and a warning ow.ly/uMju105oZ0r

Solar eclipse offers test for a renewable-heavy grid politi.co/3vHjqTk via POLITICO

Built fjord tough: Why one American ally is surging defense spending politico.com/news/2024/04/0… Paul McLeary POLITICO

Column: The fear and anger at rising rents and unattainable homeownership has finally gotten policymakers’ attention — and they need to do much more, writes Politico economics correspondent Victoria Guida. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

I feel lucky to have had the chance to spend some time with Hal Malchow recently, and honored to tell his story. politico.com/news/magazine/…

Jay Powell’s greatest strength is something that he and his fellow officials are allergic to talking about: politics.

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.MJ Lee is a national treasure.

NEW: I convinced a bunch of foreign diplomats to talk about something they don’t like to talk about: U.S. domestic politics. And boy did they let loose. This is worth your time: politico.com/news/magazine/…