With hard-right Republicans attacking federal law enforcement agencies and unwilling to extend their broad powers, a major warrantless surveillance program targeting foreigners overseas may face new limits from Congress.
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Yellen to Visit China in Bid to Steady Economic Ties
The trip to Beijing will be her first as Treasury secretary and is intended to ease tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
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Biden Is Trying to Co-opt Trump’s Biggest Strength
The administration is thickly populated with veterans of the Obama and Clinton White Houses. But it doesn’t see itself in comfortable continuity with those legacies.
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Michigan, a Climate Laggard, Plans to Catch Up, Fast
Lawmakers in Michigan have long fought tough pollution controls. But the toll of flooding, lost crops and damage to the Great Lakes appears to be changing minds.
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How Colleges Admissions Might Diversify Without Affirmative Action
To build a diverse class of students, the medical school at U.C. Davis ranks applicants by the disadvantages they have faced. Can it work nationally?