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After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds

By Liz Goodwin
Feb 19, 2025 8:50 pm - Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated. Senators have in recent days...
Winter-weary East Coast hit with another storm as temperatures plunge elsewhere

By BEN FINLEY and JOHN RABY
Feb 19, 2025 6:09 pm - NORFOLK, Va. — Officials urged people to stay off the roads Wednesday in portions of Virginia and North Carolina where a storm dropped heavy snow and caused hundreds of a...
USDA tries to reverse mistaken firing of bird flu response workers

By Kelsey Ables
Feb 19, 2025 4:59 pm - The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday that it is moving to correct the accidental firing of several people working on the federal government’s response to an ou...
Trump administration freezes funds to Palestinian security forces

By Miriam Berger, John Hudson and Gerry Shih
Feb 19, 2025 4:44 pm - JERICHO, West Bank — The Trump administration has stopped all funding to the Palestinian Authority security forces as part of the global freeze on foreign assistance, acc...
Justice Department official urges quick dismissal of criminal case against New York City mayor

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ, MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER
Feb 19, 2025 4:40 pm - NEW YORK — At an extraordinary hearing Wednesday, the Justice Department’s second-in-command demanded that a judge dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor ...
Thousands of Palestinian families flee West Bank homes as Israel confronts militants

By ISABEL DEBRE
Feb 19, 2025 4:18 pm - FAR'A REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israe...
New Social Security chief contradicts claims that millions of dead people are getting payouts

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
Feb 19, 2025 2:31 pm - WASHINGTON — The new head of the Social Security Administration said Wednesday that deceased centenarians are “not necessarily receiving benefits,” contradicting claims t...
Trump moves swiftly on his agenda in a departure from his first-terms tumbles

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Feb 19, 2025 9:16 am - Months into his first term as president, Donald Trump was furious with the snowballing Russia investigation and ordered White House counsel Don McGahn to make sure that special counsel Robert Mueller got fired.
Rubio visits the UAE after landmark talks with Russia over Ukraine war

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 19, 2025 8:54 am - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Wednesday with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, wrapping up an overseas trip that saw the highest-level outreach between the United States and Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
Trump and Zelenskyy trade barbs as US-Ukraine relations sour over the war with Russia

By HANNA ARHIROVA and JUSTIN SPIKE
Feb 19, 2025 8:02 am - Relations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump deteriorated rapidly Wednesday as Zelenskyy said Trump was living in a Russian-made “disinformation space" and Trump called Zelenskyy“a dictator without elections” in comments that were sure to complicate efforts to end the war.

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