Nation and World
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Trump, Gabbard purged top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit
Aug 27, 2025 10:38 pm - In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the CIA’s senior-most Russia experts worked gruelin...
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National Guard troops deployed in DC add sanitation, landscaping duties
Aug 27, 2025 8:57 pm - The August air was crisp Tuesday as members of D.C’s National Guard, a key component of President Donald Trump’s federal takeover of the District, scooped, spread and smoothed mounds of mulch around the city’s treasured Tidal Basin cherry trees.As they raked, specks of dirt and mulch floated upward into early morning sunbeams, an idyllic image starkly at odds with the president’s portrayal of Washington as a violent, lawless dystopia.
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Louisiana urges Supreme Court to bar use of race in redistricting, in attack on Voting Rights Act
Aug 27, 2025 8:16 pm - Louisiana on Wednesday abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.
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CDC director being ousted refuses to resign, says RFK Jr. is ‘weaponizing public health’
Aug 27, 2025 8:06 pm - The Trump administration moved Wednesday to oust Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after she faced pressure to change vaccine policy, sparking the resignation of other senior CDC officials and a showdown over whether she could be removed.Hours after the Department of Health and Human Services announced Monarez was no longer the director, her lawyers responded with a fiery statement saying she has not resigned or been fired.
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Journalist’s final images show the Gaza hospital stairwell where she was killed by an Israeli strike
Aug 27, 2025 6:57 pm - The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later. Dagga,...
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Denmark summons US diplomat over alleged influence campaign in Greenland
Aug 27, 2025 6:25 pm - Denmark’s foreign minister summoned the most senior U.S. diplomat in the country Wednesday after the nation’s public broadcaster reported that Americans have been conducting influence operations in Greenland, the semiautonomous territory that President Donald Trump wants the United States to control.
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FBI warns Chinese hacking campaign has expanded, reaching 80 countries
Aug 27, 2025 6:18 pm - The FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world warned Wednesday that a Chinese-government hacking campaign that previously penetrated nine U.S. telecommunications companies has expanded into other industries and regions, striking at least 200 American organizations and 80 countries.
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RFK Jr. targets one of the strongest state school vaccine mandate laws
Aug 27, 2025 4:38 pm - The Trump administration is urging West Virginia to offer religious exemptions from school vaccine mandates, alarming public health advocates who see it as part of a broader campaign to undermine an effective immunization strategy.West Virginia, which has one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates, has been embroiled in a dispute over Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s (R) demand to let parents decline shots for their children by invoking their religious beliefs.
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DHS moves to bar aid groups from serving undocumented immigrants
Aug 27, 2025 4:35 pm - The Department of Homeland Security is now barring states and volunteer groups that receive government funds from helping undocumented immigrants, according to a Washington Post analysis of updated guidelines and interviews with Federal Emergency Management Agency employees. The new rules also require groups to cooperate with immigration officials and enforcement operations.
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Top Florida official says ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ will likely be empty within days, email shows
Aug 27, 2025 12:52 pm - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A top Florida official says the controversial state-run immigration detention facility in the Everglades will likely be empty in a matter of days, eve...