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President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

FACT FOCUS: Trump’s glowing account of progress is at odds with his government’s own stats

December 17, 2025

President Donald Trump has offered a glowing account of progress under his watch in a speech from the White House. But some of his claims Wednesday night were out of tune with the experience of price-squeezed Americans and the story told by some of his government’s own statistics. For one, he claimed consumer prices are falling rapidly. Yet the inflation numbers are about where they were when he took office. Inflation had been falling during the first few months of Trump’s presidency, but it picked back up after the president announced his tariffs in April.

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The Washington National Cathedral is photographed in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Mike Pesoli)

A bipartisan show of respect and remembrance is set for Dick Cheney’s funeral, absent Trump

November 20, 2025

Washington National Cathedral is hosting a bipartisan show of respect and remembrance for Dick Cheney, the consequential and polarizing vice president who became an acidic scold of fellow Republican President Donald Trump. Trump has been publicly silent about Cheney’s Nov. 3 death and was not invited to the funeral Thursday. Two ex-presidents are coming. Republican George W. Bush is set to eulogize the man who served him as vice president, and Democrat Joe Biden plans to attend. Among others delivering tributes are Liz Cheney, the former vice president’s eldest daughter, and his longtime cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner.

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Brianna Wheeler poses for a photo at Peninsula Park, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

At America’s national parks in the Trump era, the arc of history bends toward revisionism

October 5, 2025

The National Park Service under President Donald Trump is looking to reshape what it tells Americans about their history. Park managers are under orders to make their stories more “uplifting.” But the history of slavery doesn’t lend itself to a happier narrative. At some parks, officials tell The Associated Press that brochures have been pulled for revision and employees have been told to purge references to “enslavers.” Even so, a guided tour at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, still presents an unflinching story from the town where John Brown mounted a violent raid to free the enslaved and stirred anti-slavery public opinion on the cusp of the Civil War.

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Activists with Free DC work on a banner as they gather outside Washington Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Washington, Friday, Aug. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump’s aggressive push to take over DC policing may be a template for an approach in other cities

August 15, 2025

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy. The right sees it as a bold move to break through the crust of Democratic urban bureaucracy and make D.C. a meaningfully better place to live. Where that debate settles, if it ever does, may determine whether Washington becomes a Trump-shaped model for how cities are policed, cleaned up and run — or ruined. Trump put some 800 National Guard troops on Washington streets this week. Then he upped the stakes by declaring federal control of the district’s police department. Alarmed local officials sued to block that, and the Trump administration partially retreated, for now.

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FILE - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has a heavy escort as he enters car to leave the airport in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 1, 1979, after arriving back in the country on a chartered Air France Boing 747. (AP Photo/FY, File)

The US and Iran have had bitter relations for decades. After the bombs, a new chapter begins

June 25, 2025

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse. For nearly a half century, the world has witnessed an enmity for the ages. It’s heard the threats, the plotting, the poisonous rhetoric between the “Great Satan” of Iranian lore and the “Axis of Evil” troublemaker of the Middle East, in America’s eyes. Now President Donald Trump has brokered a ceasefire in the Israel-Iran war that may or may not hold. Either way, something has broken loose in the stuck-in-time relationship after the U.S. bombing of Iranian nuclear-development sites and Iran’s retaliatory yet restrained attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar.

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