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Wall Street loses ground, breaking a 9-day winning streak, and crude oil prices tumble

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA
May 02, 2025 11:30 am - Wall Street extended its gains to a ninth straight day Friday, marking the stock market's longest winning streak since 2004 and reclaiming the ground it lost since President Donald Trump escalated his trade war in early April.
CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 years

By MIKE STOBBE
May 02, 2025 11:02 am - More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday.
Trump re-ups his threat to strip Harvard University’s tax-exempt status

By SEUNG MIN KIM
May 02, 2025 10:38 am - President Donald Trump on Friday re-upped his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, escalating a showdown with the first major college that has defied the administration's efforts to crack down on campus activism.
Temu ditches Chinese imports model to avoid Trump’s tariffs

Bloomberg News
May 02, 2025 8:31 am - Temu is abandoning the model centered around cheap Chinese imports that catapulted it to success in the US, aiming to sell only goods from local merchants to American consumers for the foreseeable future.
Employers added 177,000 jobs as job market shows resilience

By PAUL WISEMAN
May 02, 2025 7:43 am - American employers added a better-than-expected 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump's trade wars.
White House comes out with sharp spending cuts in Trump’s 2026 budget plan

By LISA MASCARO
May 02, 2025 7:33 am - President Donald Trump's 2026 budget plan would slash non-defense domestic spending by $163 billion while increasing expenditures on national security, according to White House statements Friday.
Who are the contenders to be pope? They include a street priest, a missionary and a Lutheran convert

By The Associated Press
May 02, 2025 6:41 am - When the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to choose a successor to Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, they will be looking above all for a holy man who can guide the Catholic Church. Beyond that, they will weigh his administrative and pastoral experience and consider what the church needs today.
Miller highlights key Trump priority: the war against ‘cancerous, woke culture’

By Matt Viser and Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
May 01, 2025 7:18 pm - President Donald Trump and his top advisers on Thursday sought to spotlight their efforts so far to remake the federal government and American society with a pointed and ...
Trump threatens sanctions against buyers of Iranian oil after US-Iran nuclear talks are postponed

By JON GAMBRELL
May 01, 2025 7:14 pm - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian oil, a warning that came after planned talks over Tehran’...
Trump administration cuts school mental health grants created after shootings

By Ben Brasch
May 01, 2025 7:10 pm - The Education Department this week began cutting about $1 billion in mental health-related grants created in response to mass school shootings, claiming that schools that...

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