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Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout, smuggling in Starlink systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.

Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel asked the president to postpone any planned attack. Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran could retaliate by striking their countries.

The opposition leader María Corina Machado gave the prize to President Trump at the White House. The Nobel Committee has said that the honor is not transferable.

In her State of the Union address, Delcy Rodríguez echoed her predecessors’ fiery rhetoric but tried to hew to President Trump’s agenda.

The United States agreed to lower tariffs on Taiwanese goods from 20 to 15 percent, while Taiwan says it will invest in more chip manufacturing in the U.S.

The Justice Department has sued about two dozen states over access to voter rolls, as the federal government pushes to create a national database.

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling further behind their global peers.

Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained.

Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, recent data shows, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.