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Trump Gave the Military’s Brass a Rehashed Speech. Until Minute 44. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Trump Gave the Military’s Brass a Rehashed Speech. Until Minute 44.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Five Takeaways About the Culture of Lawlessness in the U.S. Special Forces www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
Five Takeaways About the Culture of Lawlessness in the U.S. Special Forces
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October 1, 2025 at 1:55 PM
How many U.S. citizens have been swept up in the immigration sweeps is difficult to say. No comprehensive log of such encounters is available from the federal government, and immigration agents are not required to document stops of citizens. WHY???
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet
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September 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
No President Should Have This Kind of Power www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | No President Should Have This Kind of Power
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September 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/c...
Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle
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September 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Cardinal Dolan calls the late Charlie Kirk 'a modern-day St. Paul.' I'm not making this up. www.ncronline.org/opinion/card...
Cardinal Dolan calls the late Charlie Kirk 'a modern-day St. Paul.' I'm not making this up.
Cardinal Dolan joins the Catholic right's ever growing quest to lionize the late Charlie Kirk as a Christian martyr.
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September 19, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Where is our respect for human dignity? Promoting homeland security and enforcing immigration regulations in this manner is not in keeping with U.S. culture and values and is just about as un-Christian as you can get. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
He Raised Three Marines. His Wife Is American. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
How I am quietly countering Trump's DC takeover www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
How I am quietly countering Trump's DC takeover
Tom Roberts says we need to do what we can to counter President Trump's inane noise. Along with protests and voting, he suggests occasional, quiet, understanding conversation with citizens who happen ...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Trump's flawed DC takeover lacks factual, legal rationale www.ncronline.org/opinion/trum...
Trump's flawed DC takeover lacks factual, legal rationale
Not only does the claimed takeover lack factual or legal justification, it fails to advance even the executive order's stated goals, says Mary Graw Leary, D.C. law professor and a former assistant U.S...
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August 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Truman never ordered the use of the atomic bombs—but he did order atomic bombings to be stopped
On the 80th anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, President Truman deserves credit for the first use of the atomic bomb in war. But he also deserves some credit for the fact that atomi...
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August 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...
Opinion | I Survived an Atomic Bomb. It’s Time to End the Nuclear Threat.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Joy is a necessary ingredient to change the injustices in our world www.globalsistersreport.org/spirituality...
Joy is a necessary ingredient to change the injustices in our world
During these days of feeling disappointment, frustration and at times helplessness, Sr. Joyce Meyer believes it would help all of us to keep in mind the importance of joy.
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August 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Editorial: Amid 'Alligator Alcatraz,' where are Catholic voices — and the bishops? www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
Editorial: Amid 'Alligator Alcatraz,' where are Catholic voices — and the bishops?
"Alligator Alcatraz" will likely become historical shorthand for President Trump's unmitigated and escalating cruelty. Catholics must denounce this American concentration camp and speak out for the pe...
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July 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Urban Design of Sesame Street www.nytimes.com/video/arts/t...
Video: The Urban Design of Sesame Street
In the 1960s, the children’s television show Sesame Street was being conceived at the same time that the urban design book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs was exploding in...
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July 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Catholic opposition grows to Trump's big bill www.ncronline.org/catholic-opp...
Catholic opposition grows to Trump's big bill
The contrast reflected the sharp ideological division in the U.S. bishops conference over prioritizing opposition to abortion versus highlighting severe cuts to safety net programs included in the pre...
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June 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable."
How many kids go to work instead of school?
They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable."
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June 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Worth a few minutes of reading and reflecting - The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/o...
Opinion | The U.S. Cannot Solve All the World’s Problems
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June 27, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' not beautiful to these Catholic sisters www.globalsistersreport.org/social-justi...
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' not beautiful to these Catholic sisters
At 'Sisters Speak Out' rally, Catholic sisters protest drastic cuts in aid to the poor proposed in President Donald Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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June 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency
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June 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | We Saw Medicaid Work Requirements Up Close. You Don’t Want This Chaos.
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June 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Tell your Representative to Support the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act (HR2643, S1854) www.congressweb.com/quixote/19?f...
Tell your Representative to Support the Haiti Criminal Collusion Transparency Act (HR2643, S1854)
The humanitarian situation in Haiti continues to worsen as its people suffer from a crisis of gang violence and hunger, fueled by weapons and ammunition trafficked from the US. The flow of illegal wea...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing, Threatening Deportation www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...
ICE Arrests Mississippi Father at His Citizenship Hearing
ICE arrested Kasper Eriksen, a Mississippi father, at his citizenship hearing, imprisoning him and threatening him with deportation.
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May 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Official Pushed to Rewrite Intelligence So It Could Not Be ‘Used Against’ Trump
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May 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
President Trump proposed slashing $163 billion in federal spending that would eliminate a vast array of climate, education, health and housing programs, including some that primarily benefit the poor. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
Trump's 2026 Budget Proposal Calls for $163 Billion in Cuts: Live Updates
The president’s $1.7 trillion discretionary budget blueprint would cut $163 billion for the 2026 fiscal year, offering an outline of his vision for Washington and dramatically curtailing the role and ...
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May 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...
Behind Trump’s Deal to Deport Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Most Feared Prison
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
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May 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM