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Marco Rubio on Iran, Deportations, China, and More. Plus. . .
Secretary of State Marco Rubio. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
Pete Hegseth’s circular firing squad, the young black Democrat under fire from the left, and much more.
By Bari Weiss
04.23.25 — The Front Page
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It’s Wednesday, April 23. This is The Front Page, your daily window into the world of The Free Press—and our take on the world at large. Coming up: The black Democrat accused of being a “puppet of the right” and turmoil at the Pentagon. And much more.

But first, a conversation with Secretary of State Marco Rubio:

Yesterday, we had a pretty big scoop here …

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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