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Trump moves to invoke Schedule F to make it easier to fire some federal workers

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and WILL WEISSERT
Apr 18, 2025 7:20 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has begun making one of the controversial personnel changes for government employees that was spelled out in the conservative Project ...
Trump ready to ‘move on’ from Ukraine peace talks if no progress, Rubio says

By Adam Taylor, Robyn Dixon and Ellen Francis
Apr 18, 2025 7:15 pm - PARIS — President Donald Trump is ready to “move on” from peace talks between Ukraine and Russia if there is no progress “within days,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio tol...
DOJ questions Glenview science journal about bias, triggering free speech concerns

By Mark Johnson
Apr 18, 2025 5:45 pm - Amid brewing conflict between scientists and the administration of President Donald Trump, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent an unusual letter this week...
Dozens killed in US strike on Yemeni oil port, Houthis say

By Victoria Bisset
Apr 18, 2025 4:14 pm - Dozens of people were killed in U.S. airstrikes on a Yemeni oil port on Friday, Yemeni officials said after the U.S. military reported attacking the facility in the west ...
Israeli strikes kill at least 25 in Gaza and Huckabee makes first appearance as US ambassador

By WAFAA SHURAFA and FATMA KHALED
Apr 18, 2025 4:01 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 25 people on Friday including children, hospital workers said, as the new U.S. ambassador to Is...
US has 800 measles cases and outbreaks in 24 states. Here’s what you should know

By DEVI SHASTRI
Apr 18, 2025 3:47 pm - The U.S. has 800 cases of measles nationwide as of Friday, and two more states identified outbreaks this week.
Video shows doctor with measles treating kids. RFK Jr later praised him as an ‘extraordinary’ healer

By MICHELLE R. SMITH
Apr 18, 2025 3:42 pm - PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Texas doctor who has been treating children in a measles outbreak was shown on video with a measles rash on his face in a clinic a week before Health...
Judge pauses Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Apr 18, 2025 11:18 am - A federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump's administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled Friday that the bureau can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees.
The US has a single rare earths mine. Chinese export limits are energizing a push for more

By JOSH FUNK
Apr 18, 2025 10:03 am - America’s only rare earths mine heard from anxious companies soon after China responded to President Donald Trump’s tariffs this month by limiting exports of those minerals used for military applications and in many high-tech devices.
Students at Florida State gather at memorials, prepare to retrieve belongings after deadly shooting

By KATE PAYNE and DAVID FISCHER
Apr 18, 2025 9:58 am - When a 20-year-old opened fire at Florida State University, terrified students barricaded doors and fled across campus, abandoning chemistry notes and even shoes, in a shooting that investigators said killed two men and wounded at least six others.

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