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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Trump Goes With God—and the Gamble Mostly Pays Off
Foregrounding religion on a political trip abroad was a surprising choice. What’s even more surprising is that it seemed to work.
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Kathy Willens / AP / Bettmann / Getty ... The United States of Billy Joel
The Piano Man hasn’t released a new pop album since 1993. How does he continue to sell out stadiums?
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Mikhail Klimentyev / Kremlin What's Behind Israel's Diplomatic Flare-Up With Russia
After years of reported airstrikes in Syria, the Israeli ambassador in Moscow was suddenly summoned to explain his country’s recent attack.
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Stefan Wermuth / Reuters London Gets On With It
British Prime Minister Theresa May instructed citizens to “go about their day as normal” following Wednesday’s terror attack.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Why Foreign Leaders Read Trump's 1990 Playboy Interview
In preparation for their White House visits, both Japanese and German officials studied the infamous feature for clues into the president’s thinking on world affairs.
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Yves Herman / Reuters What Did the Dutch Election Really Prove?
One vote and the perils of over-interpretation
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters Is Israel's Travel Ban Comparable to Trump's?
The Knesset passed a law that would deny entry to some foreign activists who support boycotting the Jewish state.
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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.
