Nation and World
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Trump is arriving in Washington for inaugural celebrations to mark his return to power
Jan 18, 2025 6:36 pm - WASHINGTON — Donald Trump will return to Washington Saturday to kick off days of pageantry heralding his second inauguration as president, four years after he departed th...
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Trump to change Border Patrol leader to political appointee
Jan 18, 2025 6:27 pm - As the incoming Trump administration prepares to install a political appointee to run the U.S. Border Patrol for the first time in the agency’s 100-year history, retiring...
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Ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will go into effect Sunday morning, officials say
Jan 18, 2025 5:19 pm - CAIRO — The ceasefire between Hamas and Israel will go into effect Sunday at 8:30 a.m. local time, mediator Qatar announced Saturday, as families of hostages held in Gaza...
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Trump says he ‘most likely’ will give TikTok a 90-day extension to avoid US ban
Jan 18, 2025 2:50 pm - President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that he “most likely” would give TikTok 90 more days to work out a deal that would allow the popular video-sharing platform to ...
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Judges hand down what could be the last punishments for the Jan. 6 riot before pardons from Trump
Jan 17, 2025 7:22 pm - WASHINGTON — The federal judge who oversaw Donald Trump's 2020 election interference case denounced efforts to rewrite the history of the U.S. Capitol attack Friday as sh...
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CBO projects US debt to grow $23.9 trillion in 10 years, not including costs of extending tax cuts
Jan 17, 2025 7:17 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts bein...
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The mysterious illness that plagued a presidential inauguration
Jan 17, 2025 5:55 pm - The inaugural parade of 1857, on a March day that was surprisingly warm, celebrated President-elect James Buchanan with something new to Washington parades: floats. There...
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Biden got an Oval Office letter from Trump and may leave one in the desk himself. It’d be a first
Jan 17, 2025 5:54 pm - WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan probably didn't realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawe...
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Trump and Chinese leader Xi talk about trade, fentanyl and TikTok
Jan 17, 2025 4:29 pm - WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping discussed trade, fentanyl and TikTok in a phone call Friday, just days before Trump heads back to ...
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US economy continues to outperform the rest of the world, IMF says
Jan 17, 2025 3:53 pm - The U.S. economy will continue to be the developed world’s best performer in 2025, easily topping Europe and Japan and giving President-elect Donald Trump a running start...