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Harvard grads cheer commencement speakers who urge the school to stand strong

By MICHAEL CASEY and LEAH WILLINGHAM
May 29, 2025 6:54 am - Harvard graduates celebrated commencement on Thursday at a pivotal time for the Ivy League school, cheering speakers who emphasized maintaining a diverse and international student body and standing up for truth in the face of attacks by the Trump administration.
Trump pardons Julie and Todd Chrisley, reality TV stars convicted in 2022 of fraud and tax evasion

By STEPHEN SMITH and RUSS BYNUM
May 28, 2025 9:39 pm - President Donald Trump signed pardons Wednesday for reality TV stars Julie and Todd Chrisley, who were serving federal prison sentences after being convicted three years ago of bank fraud and tax evasion.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students

By ANNIE MA and COLLIN BINKLEY
May 28, 2025 6:58 pm - WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday the U.S. will begin revoking the visas of some Chinese students, “including those with connections to the Chine...
Federal trade court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
May 28, 2025 6:52 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into do...
RFK Jr. says he may bar scientists from publishing in top medical journals

By Niha Masih and Amy B Wang
May 28, 2025 4:08 pm - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he may bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, inst...
Air traffic control system must be improved to prevent problems like Newark airport, officials say

By JOSH FUNK
May 28, 2025 2:37 pm - The problems that disrupted flights at New Jersey's largest airport this spring could be repeated anywhere across the country, so Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is trying to sell Congress on his plan to overhaul the nation's air traffic control system that will cost “tens of billions.”
Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn

By SETH BORENSTEIN
May 28, 2025 2:28 pm - Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weather agencies forecast.
Four Palestinians die in storming of UN food warehouse a day after gunfire at new Gaza aid site

By WAFAA SHURAFA, SAMY MAGDY and MELANIE LIDMAN
May 28, 2025 1:21 pm - Hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse Wednesday in Gaza in a desperate attempt to get something to eat, shouting and shoving each other and even ripping off pieces of the building to get inside. Four people died in the chaos, hospital officials said.
Who is Mohammed Sinwar, the Hamas leader Israel says it killed?

By SAMY MAGDY and BASSEM MROUE
May 28, 2025 12:01 pm - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Mohammed Sinwar, believed to be the head of Hamas' armed wing, has been killed, apparently confirming his death in a recent strike in the Gaza Strip. There was no confirmation from Hamas.
A new variant of COVID-19 may be driving up cases in some parts of the world, WHO says

By CARLA K. JOHNSON
May 28, 2025 11:56 am - COVID-19 cases are rising again as a new variant begins to circulate in some parts of the world. The World Health Organization said Wednesday the rise in cases is primarily in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions.

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