Nation and World
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Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings into Trump administration
Apr 16, 2025 7:47 pm - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said that he would launch proceedings to determine whether any Trump administration official...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Apr 16, 2025 7:39 pm - Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are femal...
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Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
Apr 16, 2025 7:38 pm - The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, according to three people familiar with t...
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El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported man
Apr 16, 2025 7:16 pm - El Salvador’s government rebuffed a request Wednesday from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to free Kilmar Abrego García, whose case has become a flash point in the battle o...
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Dog reunites with Israeli family after disappearing for 18 months in Gaza
Apr 16, 2025 5:17 pm - BINYAMINA, Israel — Rachel Dancyg never thought she would see her dog again after it disappeared in the Hamas attack that sparked the ongoing war with Israel. Her ex-husb...
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Trump’s tariffs are ‘highly likely’ to push prices up, Fed chief warns
Apr 16, 2025 4:19 pm - President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “highly likely” to spur a temporary rise in inflation, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday, cautioning that those effects could end up being longer-lasting.
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Hegseth suspends 2 senior political aides amid Pentagon leak inquiry
Apr 16, 2025 3:57 pm - Two senior aides to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, both political appointees, have been suspended amid a Pentagon inquiry into the apparent leak of sensitive information...
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Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with Israel
Apr 16, 2025 3:37 pm - JAFFA, Israel — The move by Hamas in recent weeks to try to stop a wave of protests against it in Gaza reflects the group’s determination to continue silencing dissent ev...
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Israeli defense minister says troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely
Apr 16, 2025 3:33 pm - JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, remarks tha...
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Retail sales rise 1.4% in March as shoppers stock up on big ticket items ahead of tariffs
Apr 16, 2025 8:20 am - U.S. shoppers increased their shopping last month, fueled by a spending spree on big ticket items from gadgets to cars before President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariffs started kicking in.