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India and Pakistan accuse each other of violating ceasefire hours after reaching deal

By MUNIR AHMED, AIJAZ HUSSAIN and RAJESH ROY
May 10, 2025 8:01 am - India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation between the nuclear-armed rivals in decades.
Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies

By JANIE HAR
May 09, 2025 9:08 pm - SAN FRANCISCO — The Republican administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday. Judge Susan Illston i...
‘Don’t get in my way,’ the new acting head of federal disaster agency warns in call with staff

By GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA and REBECCA SANTANA
May 09, 2025 7:36 pm - WASHINGTON — The new head of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country warned staff in a meeting Friday not to try to impede upcoming chan...
Supper with the pope: Wheaton restaurant hosted the future pontiff

By Christopher Placek
May 09, 2025 7:28 pm - A group of theologians from Loyola University Chicago met with then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, last August at Ivy Restaurant in Wheaton.
ICE moves detainees to Texas facility where judge declined to halt deportations

By Jeremy Roebuck and Marianne LeVine
May 09, 2025 6:33 pm - As the Trump administration battles to use a wartime law to speed deportations of alleged gang members, it has moved dozens of detained Venezuelans to the one court distr...
Trump revives, then discards, then revives again the idea of taxing the rich in big GOP bill

By LISA MASCARO and SEUNG MIN KIM
May 09, 2025 6:32 pm - WASHINGTON — After musing publicly and privately with the idea of raising the top tax rate for wealthy millionaires as Republicans draft his big bill in Congress, Preside...
Even with DOGE cuts, the U.S. has spent $166 billion more than last year

By Jacob Bogage
May 09, 2025 4:16 pm - Even as President Donald Trump and the efficiency-geared U.S. DOGE Service seek to cut programs and dramatically reduce the size of the government workforce, the federal deficit increased by $196 billion so far this fiscal year, as spending on social safety-net services and defense programs continue to climb.
Gates accuses Musk of ‘killing the world’s poorest children’ with DOGE cuts

By Amy B Wang
May 09, 2025 4:15 pm - The feud between billionaires Bill Gates and Elon Musk ramped up this week, with Gates accusing Musk of “killing the world’s poorest children” through massive cuts to the...
Freed Palestinian student accuses Columbia University of inciting violence

By HOLLY RAMER and AMANDA SWINHART
May 09, 2025 12:59 pm - A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship accused Columbia University on Thursday of eroding democracy with its handling of campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war.
As ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ plays, American cardinals in Rome celebrate Pope Leo XIV

By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO
May 09, 2025 12:51 pm - Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United States gathered in Rome on Friday to share their thoughts on the election of the first U.S.-born pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost.

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