Nation and World Politics
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Federal prosecutors move to dismiss charges against woman shot by Border Patrol agent in Chicago
Nov 20, 2025 6:58 pm - Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against a woman who was shot several times by a Border Patrol agent last month during the federal immigration crackdown in the Chicago area.
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Labor Department won’t release full October jobs report, a casualty of the 43-day federal shutdown
Nov 19, 2025 8:04 pm - The Labor Department said Wednesday that it will not be releasing a full jobs report for October because the 43-day federal government shutdown meant it couldn't calculate the unemployment rate and some other key numbers.
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Trump says he’d ‘love to fire’ Powell, renewing attacks on Fed chair
Nov 19, 2025 7:57 pm - President Donald Trump renewed his attacks Wednesday against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, saying he would “love to fire his ass” for not lowering interest rates as much as he would like.
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Alleged neo-Nazi pleads guilty over plot to poison children with candy
Nov 19, 2025 3:33 pm - The alleged leader of a violent white supremacist group pleaded guilty to soliciting hate crimes, federal prosecutors said, after he was accused of urging another individual to poison Jewish children and dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to children of racial minority groups in New York during the holidays.
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Trump’s immigration crackdown is keeping foreign professionals out
Nov 19, 2025 10:04 am - The Trump administration’s crackdown on legal immigration is making it tougher for foreign professionals — doctors, engineers, professors, artists — to get permission to work and live in the United States.
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Congress acts swiftly to force release of Epstein files, and Trump agrees to sign billNov 18, 2025 10:20 pm - WASHINGTON — Both the House and Senate acted decisively Tuesday to pass a bill to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the convicted sex offender...
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Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of Education Dept.
Nov 18, 2025 7:50 pm - The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective.
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Trump tells Congress don’t ‘waste’ time on Obamacare credits
Nov 18, 2025 7:41 pm - President Donald Trump said he will not support legislation to extend expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies even as senators are preparing to tee up a vote on the issue, complicating his party’s efforts to address health care costs.
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Trump attacks ABC News correspondent Mary Bruce in angry response to three sharp questions
Nov 18, 2025 7:21 pm - President Donald Trump denounced ABC News' Mary Bruce as a “terrible reporter” Tuesday and threatened the network's license to broadcast after she asked him three sharp questions at the White House.
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Pope strongly backs US bishops in blasting Trump immigration crackdown, urges humane treatment
Nov 18, 2025 4:05 pm - Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday strongly backed U.S. bishops who condemned the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and urged the American people to listen to them and treat migrants humanely.