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Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files
Exclusive: ICE obtains local voter files
White students drop below 50% nationwide
White students drop below 50% nationwide
U.S. routs Paraguay 4-1 in World Cup opener
U.S. routs Paraguay 4-1 in World Cup opener
Scoop: Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI
Scoop: Trump admin blocks foreign access to Anthropic's most powerful AI
    • Barak Ravid
    15 hours ago
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    World
    Trump's pending Iran deal is bitter pill for Netanyahu
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    Netanyahu during a press conference at Mar-a-Lago in December. Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty

    On Thursday evening, President Trump called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with news he did not want to hear: He expected to sign a deal with Iran within days.

    • "This is the deal. It's a great deal, and it's time to end this war," Trump told Netanyahu, according to a senior U.S. official.

    Why it matters: When Netanyahu went to war alongside Trump, this is not how he envisioned it ending.

    Go deeper (2 min. read)
    • Madison Mills
    Updated 17 hours ago
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    Business
    SpaceX shoots 19% higher in first day of trading

    SpaceX shares rose 19% in their first trading day, landing the company as the sixth-largest company in the U.S.

    Why it matters: Elon Musk's company ended the day with a $2.1 trillion market cap, officially the biggest IPO in U.S. history.

    Go deeper (1 min. read)
    • Brittany Gibson
    17 hours ago
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    Politics & Policy
    Scoop: ICE detention numbers slip
    Photo illustration of President Trump in profile besides hands in handcuffs over a photo of the CoreCivic Otay Mesa Detention Center and lines resembling a climbing bar chart

    Photo illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Photos: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto and Carlos Moreno/Anadolu via Getty Images

    ICE has empty detention bed space and the average daily number of detainees has slid to 58,000, Axios has learned from two sources familiar with the data.

    Why it matters: ICE went on a $38 billion buying spree to rapidly expand the number of available beds. But after its detention population more than doubled in President Trump's first year in office, the numbers have gone in the other direction.

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