Nation and World
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What to know about Trump’s first executive actions on climate and environment
Jan 27, 2025 12:40 pm - President Donald Trump's first week in office included a flurry of executive orders with implications for Earth's climate and environment.
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Rain in Southern California creates mudflows but helps firefighters
Jan 27, 2025 8:27 am - More rain fell Monday on parts of Southern California after causing mudflows over the weekend, helping firefighters but boosting the risk of toxic ash runoff in areas scorched by Los Angeles-area wildfires.
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Fed expected to pause rate cuts as it begins to weigh Trump policies
Jan 27, 2025 8:18 am - Donald Trump’s return to the White House is overshadowing the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week, as policymakers begin to grapple with the way the president’s policies on trade, immigration and spending could reshape the economy and potentially stoke inflation.
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Palestinians celebrate return to northern Gaza as Israel lifts its closure under truce
Jan 27, 2025 8:11 am - Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas, a dramatic reversal of their exodus 15 months ago.
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Jan 27, 2025 8:07 am - Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation.
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Top Trump administration officials in Chicago for start of immigration enforcement crackdown
Jan 26, 2025 4:33 pm - CHICAGO (AP) — Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and the acting deputy attorney general, visited Chicago on Sunday to witness the star...
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Trump ends Biden’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel
Jan 25, 2025 8:04 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has ended his predecessor's hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, lifting a pressure point that had been meant to reduce civili...
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More DEI fallout: Air Force scraps course that used videos of Tuskegee Airmen and female WWII pilots
Jan 25, 2025 3:56 pm - WASHINGTON — The Air Force has removed training courses with videos of its storied Tuskegee Airmen and the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs — the female World War ...
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Senate confirms Noem as Trump’s homeland security secretary
Jan 25, 2025 2:29 pm - WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essent...
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Hamas frees 4 female Israeli soldiers in exchange for 200 Palestinian prisoners as ceasefire holds
Jan 25, 2025 2:21 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — Four female Israeli soldiers who were taken in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza returned to Israel on Saturday after Hamas militants paraded the...