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  • “Demoralizing”: How Donald Trump Undermined Coal Country’s Comeback
    Mother Jones 10 minutes ago
  • Venezuela’s Machado Expected to Collect Nobel in Person in Oslo
    Bloomberg 13 minutes ago
  • Sen. Mark Kelly predicts Hegseth will 'take a hike' on court martial
    USA Today 21 minutes ago
  • Analysis: The cracks in Trump’s base
    CNN 39 minutes ago
  • New US seed ban risks driving cannabis genetics underground, growers warn
    The Guardian 40 minutes ago
  • Pressure grows on ‘reckless’ Hegseth as twin scandals engulf Pentagon chief
    The Guardian 40 minutes ago
  • Experts fear for US childhood vaccine schedule after hepatitis B guideline change
    The Guardian 40 minutes ago
  • The Trump administration has moved to shut down any remaining pathway to America for its Afghan wartime allies and their dependents
    Wall Street Journal 40 minutes ago
  • A 'volcano' of controversy has hit the Minnesota Somali community
    USA Today 1 hour ago
  • Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit
    The Guardian 1 hour ago
  • The Right’s Post-Trump Civil War Is Already Underway
    New York Magazine 1 hour ago
  • Why Miami’s Trump backers are clashing with the ‘America First’ wing over Venezuela
    Washington Post 1 hour ago
  • Alarm grows in Europe over what is seen as Trump's 'betrayal' of Ukraine
    Los Angeles Times 1 hour ago
  • Trump struggles to persuade Americans to ignore affordability issues
    Washington Post 1 hour ago
  • What's next after Supreme Court approves pro-Trump Texas map for 2026?
    USA Today 2 hours ago
  • Threats, dysfunction and flying: Why quitting is all the rage in DC
    USA Today 2 hours ago
  • Afrikaner Access Soars Amid Trump’s Policy Shift
    New York Times 2 hours ago
  • Federal agents have repeatedly detained or used force against people who seem to be protesting peacefully, videos show
    CNN 2 hours ago
  • Takeaways from the latest special election and what it means for control of the House
    NPR 2 hours ago
  • President Trump’s pardon of a sports executive wiped away a case that Trump’s antitrust chief had said fleeced Texas taxpayers
    Wall Street Journal 2 hours ago
  • Hong Kong Summons International News Outlets for Rare Warning
    Bloomberg 2 hours ago
  • J-Lo Is Back in the Former USSR as Putin Drives Stars Out of Moscow
    Bloomberg 3 hours ago
  • The ‘War on Drugs’ felt over. Donald Trump re-started it
    CNN 3 hours ago
  • Badenoch’s Tories Show Signs of Life After £14 Million Year
    Bloomberg 3 hours ago
  • The Gaza Flotilla Story You Didn’t Hear
    Mother Jones 4 hours ago
  • Hong Kong Election Chief Urges Public to Vote on Sunday
    Bloomberg 5 hours ago
  • US actress Tara Reid seen downing wine in footage from night of alleged drugging
    South China Morning Post 5 hours ago
  • Will UK Politics Pay a Price For Farage’s £9 Million Crypto Donor?
    Bloomberg 5 hours ago
  • Hawaii Governor: The CDC changing childhood vaccine schedules ‘is a mistake’
    CNN 5 hours ago
  • Could Brian Cole Jr. claim Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons cover him? A former Jan. 6 prosecutor says that’s the argument he’d make
    CNN 6 hours ago
  • DOJ does not detail legal advice to Noem on El Salvador deportations, citing privilege
    ABC News 6 hours ago
  • Europe Faces Most Difficult Moment in Bid to Avoid Split With US
    Bloomberg 6 hours ago
  • FDA in turmoil after exit of veteran cancer researcher
    CNN 7 hours ago
  • Why Americans are feeling poorer even though they’re not
    Financial Times 7 hours ago
  • Trump’s Republicans turn on Speaker Mike Johnson as party unity frays
    Financial Times 7 hours ago
  • The sorry history of US policy in the Middle East
    Financial Times 7 hours ago
  • Australian TikTokker gives widowed US cashier, 88, gift of retirement
    South China Morning Post 9 hours ago
  • What could be in the Epstein grand jury materials that a federal judge in Florida ordered to be unsealed?
    CNN 9 hours ago
  • Dem Rep. Henry Cuellar reveals why he thinks he got a Trump pardon
    CNN 9 hours ago
  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump ‘Was Furious’ With Her for Signing the Epstein Files Discharge Petition | Video
    The Wrap 9 hours ago
  • Video Possible implications of SCOTUS taking on birthright citizenship case
    ABC News 10 hours ago
  • Under RFK Jr., U.S. Vaccine Policy Arrives at a ‘Defining Moment’
    New York Times 10 hours ago
  • 12/5: CBS Evening News
    CBS News 10 hours ago
  • Rep. Grijalva says ICE agents pepper sprayed her at Tucson restaurant raid
    Washington Post 10 hours ago
  • Trump news at a glance: list of countries under US travel ban set to grow
    The Guardian 10 hours ago
  • Lifeline or trash? Taiwan safety guide sparks fierce debate amid Beijing threat
    South China Morning Post 10 hours ago
  • Official Chinese media calls for end to name-and-shame campaign against cadres
    South China Morning Post 10 hours ago
  • Takeaways from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine panel: Over a two-day meeting in Atlanta, the panel aired its rethinking of the full slate of childhood vaccines
    Wall Street Journal 10 hours ago
  • Texas AG sues East Plano Islamic Center, alleges illegal land development scheme
    NewsNation 11 hours ago
  • Noem, Top US Lawyers Reveal Little in Judge’s Contempt Probe
    Bloomberg 11 hours ago
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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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