Nation and World
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Trump to mark Army’s birthday, and his, with parade of 6,600 soldiers
May 02, 2025 10:43 pm - President Donald Trump’s long-held hopes of soldiers marching and armored vehicles rolling down the streets of the nation’s capital are moving closer to reality, as the W...
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access Social Security systems
May 02, 2025 10:39 pm - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for Elon Musk ’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security sy...
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Head Start survives Trump administration budget proposal
May 02, 2025 8:29 pm - WASHINGTON — The Trump administration apparently has backed away from a proposal to eliminate funding for Head Start, the early education program that serves some of the ...
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GOP balks at approving even a fraction of Musk’s DOGE cuts
May 02, 2025 7:45 pm - White House officials have in recent weeks brainstormed strategies for enshrining into law the government cuts implemented by billionaire Elon Musk’s team, aiming to turn...
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Public broadcasting chiefs vow to fight Trump’s executive order cutting federal funding for PBS, NPR
May 02, 2025 7:30 pm - The head of PBS said Friday that President Donald Trump's executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to public broadcasting institutions PBS and NPR was blatantly u...
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AmeriCorps volunteers comfort lonely seniors. Trump just cut their programs.
May 02, 2025 7:19 pm - Each week, a group of people 55 years or older fans out across Chester, South Carolina, offering comfort and companionship to the elderly residents of the small town. The...
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Judge blocks Trump executive order targeting elite law firm, a blow to his retribution campaign
May 02, 2025 6:52 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday blocked a White House executive order targeting an elite law firm, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump’s campaign of retrib...
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A series of tornadoes tore through Texas, even when none were predicted
May 02, 2025 5:48 pm - BURKBURNETT, Texas — A family of strong tornadoes tore through areas south of Killeen, Texas, on Thursday, leading to swaths of destruction — all on a day when no tornado...
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Maryland Zoo’s ‘surprise’ baby giraffe gets a name
May 02, 2025 1:51 pm - A baby giraffe whose birth in March came as a surprise at the Maryland Zoo this week received a name — Titali, which means “butterfly” in the Bulu language spoken in sout...
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Soviet-era spacecraft once bound for Venus expected to crash to Earth in May
May 02, 2025 12:24 pm - Part of a spacecraft that launched in 1972 and has been orbiting Earth for 53 years is due to reenter Earth’s atmosphere in the next two weeks and could crash to the ground intact, scientists say.