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Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BILL BARROW
Dec 18, 2025 1:34 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.
US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren't feeling it

By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Dec 18, 2025 10:02 am - U.S. inflation slowed unexpectedly last month according to data that was delayed, and likely distorted, by the government shutdown.
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

By JOHN ROGERS
Dec 17, 2025 10:15 pm - Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.

By Lena H. Sun and Paige Winfield Cunningham
Dec 17, 2025 7:40 pm - The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Trump taps Yale doctor who pushed unproven COVID treatment to lead US cancer effort

By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Dec 17, 2025 7:33 pm - Harvey Risch, a Yale public health researcher long respected for his work in cancer research but who has faced controversy for promoting an unproven COVID-19 treatment, has been selected by President Donald Trump to lead the nation’s cancer initiative.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau’s No 2 official

By ERIC TUCKER
Dec 17, 2025 7:18 pm - FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host.
Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM
Dec 17, 2025 4:43 pm - With the search for the Brown University shooter in its fifth day Wednesday, authorities were asking the public to review any security or phone footage from the week before the attack in the hopes it might help investigators identify the person, believing the attacker may have cased the scene ahead of time.
Rob and Michele Reiner’s son appears in court on murder charges while siblings speak of their loss

By ANDREW DALTON and CHRISTOPHER WEBER
Dec 17, 2025 4:34 pm - Nick Reiner made his first court appearance Wednesday in Los Angeles on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner, while the couple's other two children made their first public statement on their crushing loss.
Trump officials say they will dismantle ‘global mother ship’ of climate and weather forecasting

By Ruby Mellen and Carolyn Y. Johnson
Dec 17, 2025 4:26 pm - The Trump administration said Tuesday it was breaking up one of the world’s preeminent earth and atmospheric research institutions, based in Colorado, over concerns about “climate alarmism” — a move that comes amid escalating attacks from the White House against the state’s Democratic lawmakers.
Trump administration admits to targeting blue states for energy grant cuts

By Meryl Kornfield and Hannah Natanson
Dec 17, 2025 4:08 pm - The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing this week that a decision to cut energy grants during the government shutdown was influenced by whether the money would go to a state that tended to elect Democrats statewide or nationally.

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