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Trump administration plans 15% cut to VA workforce

By Gaya Gupta
Mar 06, 2025 7:56 pm - The Department of Veterans Affairs announced plans Wednesday to cut roughly 80,000 jobs, more than 15% of its employees, the latest in President Donald Trump’s effort to ...
Draft executive order calls for closing Education Dept.

By Laura Meckler
Mar 06, 2025 7:52 pm - President Donald Trump is set to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday directing his newly confirmed education secretary to work to close the department she now le...
GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO finds

By Jacob Bogage
Mar 06, 2025 7:49 pm - Republicans in Congress cannot reach their goal of cutting at least $1.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on...
A weak Pope Francis thanks people for their prayers ‘from the bottom of my heart’ in audio message

By COLLEEN BARRY and NICOLE WINFIELD
Mar 06, 2025 4:03 pm - ROME — A weak and breathless Pope Francis thanked people for their prayers for his recovery in a remarkable audio message broadcast Thursday, the first public sign of lif...
Spooked by Trump and Putin, Europe rushes to rearm

By Ellen Francis and Beatriz Ríos
Mar 06, 2025 3:56 pm - BRUSSELS — The European Union, an entity that has long cast itself as a peace and trade project, is in crisis talks Thursday focused on defending itself. Along with the s...
Trump envoy says Ukrainians ‘brought it on themselves’ after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing

By AAMER MADHANI
Mar 06, 2025 3:53 pm - WASHINGTON — Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence shar...
Trump envoy says Ukrainians 'brought it on themselves' after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing

By AAMER MADHANI
Mar 06, 2025 1:29 pm - Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, a senior administration official said Thursday.
Trump’s trade policies are baffling businesses, threatening investment and economic growth

By PAUL WISEMAN, ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and MAE ANDERSON
Mar 06, 2025 12:27 pm - President Donald Trump’s ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America’s three biggest trading partners – Mexico, Canada and China — is baffling businesses and causing them to delay or cancel the investments that help drive economic growth. Trade wars complicate the decisions businesses have to make – which suppliers to use, where to locate factories, what prices to charge.
Commerce Secretary Lutnick says most tariffs on Canada, Mexico likely to be delayed a month

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Mar 06, 2025 10:44 am - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday in a television interview that President Donald Trump will “likely” suspend 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico for most products and services for a month, broadening an exemption that was granted on Wednesday only to autos.
The House censures Democratic Rep. Al Green for disrupting Trump's joint address to Congress

By KEVIN FREKING
Mar 06, 2025 10:29 am - The House on Thursday voted to censure an unrepentant Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, for disrupting President Donald Trump's address to Congress.

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