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Will the Supreme Court empower Trump to sack the Fed’s boss?

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OVER 14 seasons of “The Apprentice”, Donald Trump gleefully dispatched more than 200 contestants for botching a task or ruffling the wrong feather. In his second term as president, Mr Trump is discovering that axing federal-agency heads protected by “for-cause” removal statutes may require more than an imperious finger-point. In the latest of a series of emergency applications to the Supreme Court, he is asking the justices to grant him the unfettered power he once wielded on reality TV.

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Checks and Balance newsletter: Of God and MAGA

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Charlotte Howard, our executive editor and New York bureau chief, unpacks the blurring of church and state among Donald Trump’s circle

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The Hudson is now so clean that everyone can eat from it

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Battery sashimi, anyone?

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Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is a lethality-maxxing wasps’ nest

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America’s armed forces are supremely capable and roiled by infighting

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