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Then, on Inauguration Day, he promised to sign an executive order by February 1 that imposes 25 percent tariffs on all goods ...

They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The stage for Trump’s particularly bloody equation of the border with the ...

It faces serious obstacles, but the uncertainty and terror it has already unleashed is real—indeed, part of the point.

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