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The White House took a step last week that significantly undercuts the idea that federal employment should be nonpartisan. No modern presidential administration has undertaken such an effort to staff the entire government with political loyalists.

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“This is the politicisation of the armed forces,” said Maj Gen Paul Eaton. “It casts the military in a terrible light – it’s that man on horseback ... out in front of American citizens. We are headed towards the invocation of the Insurrection Act.”

The combination of a data center boom, rising gas exports and cuts to clean energy tax breaks could spike American energy bills, analysts say.

The fight might between the president and the conservative old guard might just be the biggest legal development of Trump’s second term.

After two decades, and many failed counterterrorism efforts, the Trump administration is considering shuttering U.S. Africa Command.

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The row between the US president and his billionaire ex-buddy may seem entertaining, but wealth and power are still dangerously merged. Politics remains in thrall to money. Democracy requires better safeguards than rampant egos.