Nation and World
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Child care programs just lost thousands of federal dollars. Families and providers scramble to cope
Oct 04, 2023 1:00 am - WILLIAMSON, W.Va. (AP) - Kaitlyn Adkins is studying law to help families in her community impacted by the opioid epidemic at the heart of West Virginia coal country. But...
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That blaring noise you heard? It was a test of the federal government's emergency alert system
Oct 04, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - "THIS IS A TEST": If you have a cellphone or were watching television Wednesday, you should have seen that message flash across your screen as the federal g...
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Thousands of US health care workers go on strike in multiple states over wages and staff shortages
Oct 04, 2023 1:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Some 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers walked off the job Wednesday in multiple states, kicking off a major health care strike in an extraordinary year for ...
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Kevin McCarthy is out as speaker of the House. Here's what's next
Oct 04, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives is entering uncharted territory after a far-right effort to remove fellow Republican Kevin McCarthy from the speakership succee...
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The Supreme Court seems likely to side with the Consumer Financial Protection BureauOct 03, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to preserve the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau against a conservative-led challenge. Even some ...
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McCarthy becomes the first speaker ever to be ousted from the job in a House vote
Oct 03, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown, a first in U.S. history that was forced by a contingent of hard-right ...
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Britain's COVID-19 response inquiry enters a second phase with political decisions in the spotlight
Oct 03, 2023 1:00 am - LONDON - Britain's inquiry into the response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the nation entered its second phase Tuesday, with political decision-making ar...
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Pandas could be gone from America's zoos by the end of next year
Oct 03, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Wearing an "I Love Pandas" T-shirt and clutching a panda-covered diary, Kelsey Lambert bubbled with excitement as she glimpsed the real thing. She and her m...
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New York judge issues limited gag order after Trump sends disparaging post about court clerk
Oct 03, 2023 1:00 am - NEW YORK - A New York judge sternly imposed a limited gag order in Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial Tuesday after the former president disparaged a key court st...
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Pritzker urges Biden to intervene amid 'untenable' pace of migrant arrivals
Oct 03, 2023 1:00 am - As Chicago prepares this week for an increase in the already steady stream of migrants arriving from the southern U.S. border, Gov. J.B. Pritzker is once again publicly ...