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Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters Why Sweden Brought Back the Draft
Seven years after abolishing mandatory military service, the country is now responding to “the security change in our neighborhood.”
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NYT Archives The Leak That Helped Push America Into World War I
Published 100 years ago, the Zimmermann Telegram detailed a German proposal to ally with Mexico against the United States.
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters An Assassination by Weapon of Mass Destruction
The murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, involved the use of VX nerve agent, one of the deadliest chemical substances on earth.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Can Mexico Block Trump’s New Deportation Rules?
The administration’s plan to force undocumented immigrants out of the U.S. largely hinges on America’s increasingly tense relationship with its southern neighbor.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters Trump's Unnecessary Fight Over Israel
The polarizing politics over the president’s ambassador pick could just as easily have been avoided.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Shrugs Off the Two-State Solution
In a surreal joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister, the president did away with a cornerstone of American diplomacy in the Middle East.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Why Netanyahu Might Miss Obama
The Israeli premier’s former American counterpart served as a useful foil and a predictable check on the Israeli right.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters Why Life for Inmates Will Get More Expensive Under Trump and Sessions
Growing prison fees and fines faced by the incarcerated became a target of the Justice Department under President Obama. Those days are over.
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Chris Helgren / Reuters Tale of the Tweet: Donald Trump vs. Nordstrom
After the retailer cut ties with his daughter, the president took to Twitter to vent and sent the company’s stocks for a ride.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Silicon Valley’s Biggest Companies Denounce the Immigration Ban in Court
Nearly 100 tech giants—some of them rivals—have co-signed a legal brief arguing against the Trump administration’s controversial executive order.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Yemeni Bodega Strike
As many as 5,000 business owners and their supporters gathered in Brooklyn for a protest against President Trump’s immigration ban.
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Baz Ratner / Reuters Trump's Non-Policy on Israeli Settlements
In declining to take an “official position” on the issue, the president departs from a decades-old American posture.
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YouTube Budweiser’s Pro-Immigration, Totally-Not-Political Super Bowl Ad
The high-profile spot is already being interpreted along partisan lines, whether the company likes it or not.
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David Gray / Reuters Cars, Shoes, Tech: An Array of Corporations Protests the Immigration Ban
An unusually wide range of major companies are speaking out against President Trump’s recent executive order.
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Toby Melville / Reuters Lyft and Uber’s Public-Relations Battle Over the Immigration Ban
The two ride-hailing services were seen as taking opposing positions in the controversy over President Trump’s recent executive order.
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Stephen Yang / Reuters An Airport Protest in Support of Religious Freedom
Fury over the Trump administration’s immigrant ban found purpose after travelers from abroad were detained at U.S. airports.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Could Trump Actually Impose an Import Tariff on Mexico?
And what would such a policy do?
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters The Trump Administration’s Not-So-Internal Monologue on How to Pay for the Wall
In one afternoon, the White House offered a confusing statement on Mexican imports, leading many to believe a massive tariff was coming, and then backed away.
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AP How Ray Kroc Became an American Villain
Considered a 20th-century hero by his contemporaries, the story of the McDonald’s mogul gets a 21st-century spin in The Founder.
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Evan Vucci Trump Takes Office, Kills TPP
The controversial trade deal put together by President Obama and supported by many Republicans falls under the weight of the new president’s populism.
