Nation and World
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Trump loves Gilded Age tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many
Mar 10, 2025 7:17 am - In President Donald Trump's idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s, when top hats and shirtwaists were fashionable and typhoid fever often killed more soldiers than combat.
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What to know ahead of the talks between the US and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia
Mar 10, 2025 6:57 am - Saudi Arabia is to host talks on Tuesday between the United States and Ukraine in a new diplomatic push after an argument erupted during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Feb. 28 visit to the White House.
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Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge
Mar 08, 2025 7:36 pm - The Justice Department has removed top national security officials as part of a widespread purge of senior career leaders across the law enforcement agency, according to ...
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Iran’s top leader rejects talks with the US over missile range, regional influence
Mar 08, 2025 7:36 pm - TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he rejects a U.S. push for talks between the two countries because they would be aimed at imposing restri...
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US economic worries mount as Trump implements tariffs, cuts workforce and freezes spending
Mar 08, 2025 7:03 pm - WASHINGTON — With his flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes, there are growing worries President Donald Trump may be doing more to harm the U.S. econ...
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FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts
Mar 08, 2025 6:40 pm - CHICAGO — The country's preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staff...
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Much of the U.S. will soon have temperatures higher than 70 degrees. See where
Mar 08, 2025 4:11 pm - It’s not just clocks that will spring forward this weekend. Temperatures will, too. Several May-like waves of warmth will ride across the country through next week, durin...
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New Jersey police officer killed, second officer wounded in shooting by 14-year-old, authorities say
Mar 08, 2025 4:09 pm - NEWARK, N.J. — A 14-year-old shot and killed a police officer and wounded another Friday evening in New Jersey, authorities said, in a chaotic scene that witnesses descri...
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Russian strikes on Ukraine kill more than 20 as Polish prime minister warns against appeasement
Mar 08, 2025 4:06 pm - KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched heavy aerial attacks on Ukraine for a second night Saturday after the United States stopped sharing satellite images with the Ukrainian go...
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2 days of clashes and revenge killings in Syria leave more than 1,000 people dead
Mar 08, 2025 4:03 pm - BEIRUT — The death toll from two days of clashes between Syrian security forces and loyalists of ousted President Bashar Assad and revenge killings that followed has rise...