Nation and World
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Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?
Apr 01, 2025 9:15 am - In a feat of determination, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday evening, setting a historic mark to show Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s sweeping actions.
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FDA’s top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership
Apr 01, 2025 8:53 am - The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the federal health workforce Tuesday.
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US automakers make mad dash to push Trump to temper tariffs
Apr 01, 2025 7:12 am - U.S. automakers are making a last-ditch effort to sway the Trump administration on tariffs set to take effect this week, contending that levies on the thousands of parts they source abroad could have catastrophic effects on the industry.
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Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food
Apr 01, 2025 7:09 am - Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.
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Trump's promised 'Liberation Day' of tariffs is coming. Here's what it could mean for you
Mar 31, 2025 2:46 pm - President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day" — a moment when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
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A Kremlin official says Russia sees efforts to end Ukraine war as a drawn-out process
Mar 31, 2025 10:43 am - Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as “a drawn-out process,” a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries’ leaders as he tries to bring about a truce.
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Earthquake compounds Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis as the death toll passes 2,000Mar 31, 2025 10:41 am - The death toll in last week's massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media reported Monday, as rescuers and an activist group said it killed several hundred Muslims praying at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan and 270 Buddhist monks crushed by a collapsing monastery.
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Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president
Mar 31, 2025 8:46 am - President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.
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Slow US tax collections spark angst about debt ceiling X-date
Mar 31, 2025 8:29 am - Tax collection projections are down. Refunds are up. That’s a formula that could dampen U.S. government revenue and, if it persists, portend an earlier deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling — or risk a federal payments default.
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Musk-funded political group spends big and goes door to door in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
Mar 31, 2025 8:27 am - Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesday's outcome.