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U.S. Plans Military Expansion in Greenland

The Pentagon is in talks with Denmark for access to three more areas on the Arctic island. Several Greenlanders said they didn’t like the idea.

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Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, meeting with members of the U.S. military at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland last year. The missile defense installation is the only active American base on the island.

Backdoor Funding of Homeland Security Agency Could Weaken Congress Anew

An emerging Republican plan to skirt a Democratic filibuster and fund an entire department without congressional appropriations would be the latest example of surrendering power to the White House.

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Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis in early January. Using the complex budget process known as reconciliation to fund the entire Homeland Security Department, as Republicans are suggesting, would be a significant departure from traditional congressional practice.

At the National Archives, the Declaration Gets More Company

The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years.

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Visitors looked at the original copy of the 19th Amendment this week. The document was recently added to the permanent display in the rotunda at the National Archives in Washington.

Gavin Newsom Suggests His Conservative Critics Are Gay in Online Insults Criticized as Homophobic

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aides said that their online insults were meant to ridicule figures on the right. But some critics say they are homophobic.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, is attracting criticism for social media posts taunting his opponents by suggesting they are gay.

Trump Seeks to Redefine ‘Regime Change’ in Iran War

President Trump and his aides have made contradictory statements on whether the United States and Israel have transformed the Iranian government through violence.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said during his news conference on Tuesday that “this new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last.”

Pentagon Weighs Using Anti-Drone Lasers Near D.C. Military Base

Sightings of drones around Fort McNair, the Army base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio live, have prompted consideration of deploying the new technology.

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The LOCUST, an anti-drone laser system that has been used recently along the border with Mexico, may be deployed in Washington to help protect the military base where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio reside.
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