Nation and World
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Thousands report outage affecting Microsoft services like Outlook
Mar 01, 2025 9:01 pm - Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers reported having issues with services like Outlook on Saturday. In a series of posts on the social platform X, the company said it wa...
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DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records
Mar 01, 2025 7:39 pm - Officials from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have expressed interest in using personal tax records to check federal benefits payments for fraud, which would mobilize the ...
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Pentagon orders up to 3,000 troops, Stryker combat vehicles to border
Mar 01, 2025 7:35 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered about 3,000 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border, including soldiers from a motorized brigade equipped with 20-ton ar...
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As Trump warms to Putin, U.S. halts offensive cyber operations against Moscow
Mar 01, 2025 6:42 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive cyber and information operations against Russia as President Donald Trump seeks to end Pre...
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Zelenskyy embraced by British prime minister a day after White House blowout
Mar 01, 2025 6:26 pm - LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the nation's unwavering support a day after ...
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Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Zelenskyy shows limits of Western allies’ ability to sway US leader
Mar 01, 2025 5:23 pm - WASHINGTON — All it took was 90 seconds for weeks of tortured diplomacy to unwind in spectacular fashion. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukraine's Volo...
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Joseph Wambaugh, author who knew gritty reality of cop life, dies at 88
Mar 01, 2025 5:10 pm - Before the release of Joseph Wambaugh’s first novel, “The New Centurions,” he received an unusual offer from the star of the strait-laced TV police drama “Dragnet” to loo...
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Israel’s military is told to prepare to defend a Druze community outside Syria’s capital
Mar 01, 2025 3:38 pm - JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense ministry on Saturday said the military has been instructed to prepare to defend a Druze settlement in the suburbs of Damascus, asserting that...
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Life imitates art as Pope Francis fights pneumonia while ‘Conclave’ heads into Academy Awards
Mar 01, 2025 7:10 am - VATICAN CITY — There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of ...
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Pope has coffee, rests after setback in recovery — a bronchial spasm requiring further ventilation
Mar 01, 2025 7:10 am - ROME (AP) — Pope Francis had coffee and was reading newspapers Saturday after an alarming setback in his two-week recovery from double pneumonia: Doctors had to put him o...