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On Thursday, a month after Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, conservatives are gathering under his leadership in Washington, D.C., for the annual CPAC (Conservative ...

Ecuador’s electorate will go to a runoff vote in April in a highly polarized climate. At stake is a broader political struggle between authoritarianism and democracy.

I come from four generations of Republicans who worked in meeting rooms and fought on battlefields of two world wars, for ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Senators on Capitol Hill are weighing in on Elon Musk’s moves at the US Agency for International ...