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Transcript: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Feb. 15, 2025
The following is the transcript of the interview with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, that aired on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” on Feb. 15, 2026. ED O’KEEFE: We turn now to House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who joins us this morning from New York City. Leader Jeffries, thank you for being here. DEMOCRATIC LEADER…
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The one world leader we’d most like to trade for Trump right now.
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images and Getty Images Plus. Sign up for the Surge, the newsletter that covers most important political nonsense of the week, delivered to your inbox every Saturday. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, Slate’s weekly politics newsletter that needs to seriously ramp up its war crimes, and soon,…
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Canadian leader Mark Carney visits China to mend economic relations
BEIJING (AP) — A leader of Canada is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild the country’s fractured relations with the world’s second-largest economy — and reduce Canada’s dependence on the United States. The push by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who arrives Wednesday, is part of a major rethink as…
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Congress senior leader dies after stabbed inside mosque in Maharashtra
Akola: Maharashtra Congress vice president Hidayatullah Patel, who was stabbed at a mosque in Akola district, succumbed to his injuries during treatment on Wednesday morning, January 7, police said. The alleged attacker has been arrested, they said. The 66-year-old was attacked with a sharp weapon by the accused over an old enmity at around 1.30 pm on January 6 after…
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Venezuelan Opposition leader offers to share Nobel with Trump
María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Opposition leader, has declared her intention to share the honour with US President Donald Trump, days after American forces toppled longtime strongman Nicolás Maduro, even as Trump dismissed her political prospects. Speaking to Fox News on Monday, January 5, Machado described ouster of Maduro as “a huge step for humanity, for…
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BNP leader Tarique Rahman returns: Who is Bangladesh’s potential next PM? | Politics News
After 17 years in exile, Tarique Rahman, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and frontrunner to be the South Asian nation’s next prime minister, returned to Dhaka on Thursday to a rousing welcome by thousands of his party’s supporters. Rahman, long seen as a prince of Bangladeshi politics, got down at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, alongside…
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Sheikh Hasina: Bangladesh plans to execute its former leader. There’s one big thing in the way: India
She was once cast as a secular heroine, the daughter of a revolutionary leader, whose brutal assassination in the 1970s defined her political ascent. But Sheikh Hasina’s rise to the top of Bangladesh’s politics preceded a stunning fall from power to self-exile in India. A death sentence delivered in absentia could now see her executed – if New Delhi decides…
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Leader of powerful Ecuadorian drug syndicate targeted by U.S. captured in Spain 4 years after faking his death
One of Ecuador’s most wanted drug traffickers was captured Sunday, years after he faked his death and moved to Spain. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa said that Wilmer Chavarria, also known as “Pipo,” was captured in the Spanish city of Malaga in a joint operation with Spanish police. In a message on X, Spain’s National Police posted a photo of Chavarria…
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Tejashwi calls Owaisi ‘extremist’; Hyderaabd leader slams, ‘Do you know its meaning?’
Patna: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi launched a scathing attack against Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav over his ‘extremist’ remark against the former. Owaisi shared an audio clip on X where Yadav is reportedly asked about secular forces in poll-bound Bihar, to which the latter replies,”Nahi, extremist ki koi jagah nahi hai (there is no…
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Ex TDP leader accused of molestation dies after jumping into lake; police calls ‘suicide’
In a shocking twist, former Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leader, Tatik Narayana Rao, who was accused of attempting to molest a 13-year-old school girl, allegedly jumped into a lake near Tuni in Andhra Pradesh on late Wednesday night, October 22. According to Peddapuram sub-divisional police officer, Srihari Raju, the 62-year-old was being taken to a local court. “At around 10…
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