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US aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacuees

By HANNA ARHIROVA
Feb 04, 2025 7:59 am - In what used to be the concert hall in this town in eastern Ukraine, cots are arranged on stage. Instead of music, the room is filled with the muffled sobs of local people driven from their homes by fighting in the country’s almost three-year war with Russia.
RFK Jr. appears on track to become US health secretary as he wins key Republican senator’s support

By AMANDA SEITZ and STEPHEN GROVES
Feb 04, 2025 7:45 am - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, is set to find out on Tuesday if he has cleared the first hurdle to become the nation’s top health official when the Senate Finance Committee votes on his nomination.
Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 04, 2025 7:20 am - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google

By KEN MORITSUGU and HUIZHONG WU
Feb 04, 2025 7:12 am - China countered President Donald Trump's across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports Tuesday, as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures.
Wall Street falls following Trump’s tariffs, but not as badly as feared in the morning

By STAN CHOE
Feb 03, 2025 4:01 pm - The threat of a punishing trade war sent Wall Street on a roller coaster Monday. After initially falling sharply on worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, U.S. stocks pared their losses after Mexico said it had negotiated a one-month reprieve.
Democrats push back after Musk says Trump agrees to close USAID and workers are kept out

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, FARNOUSH AMIRI and ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON
Feb 03, 2025 2:44 pm - Democrats have delivered a strong rebuke against the Trump administration’s attempt to gut an agency that provides crucial aid overseas to fund education and fight starvation and disease, calling it illegal, vowing a court fight and lambasting billionaire Elon Musk for wielding so much power in Washington.
Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could own part of TikTok

By ZEKE MILLER
Feb 03, 2025 1:56 pm - President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order directing the U.S. to take steps to start developing a government-owned investment fund that he said could be used to profit off of TikTok if he's successful at finding it an American buyer.
Tariff threats take aim at fentanyl trafficking. Here’s how the drug reaches the US

By JESSE BEDAYN
Feb 03, 2025 1:39 pm - President Donald Trump's plan to impose tariffs on goods from Mexico, Canada and China is partly aimed at combating the illicit flow of fentanyl into the U.S., where the opioid is blamed for some 70,000 overdose deaths annually.
Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, Canada after they pledge to boost border enforcement

By JOSH BOAK and CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN
Feb 03, 2025 10:08 am - President Donald Trump on Monday held off on his tariff threats against Mexico and Canada for 30 days after the two U.S. neighbors agreed to boost border security efforts.
EU leaders ponder the ‘cruel paradox’ of a U.S. ally threatening tariffs and a possible land grab

By LORNE COOK
Feb 03, 2025 9:33 am - After three years spent trying to deter Russia from destroying Ukraine, European Union leaders grappled on Monday with possible responses to a major ally who appears determined to start a trade war or perhaps even seize part of their territory.

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