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At least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into a German Christmas market in a suspected attack

By EBRAHIM NOROOZI, CHRIS STERN and GEIR MOULSON
Dec 20, 2024 9:53 pm - MAGDEBURG, Germany — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at leas...
Trump taps West suburban Catholic school leader as next Vatican ambassador

By Mitchell Armentrout
Dec 20, 2024 8:53 pm - President-elect Donald Trump on Friday announced he’ll nominate West suburban Catholic school board leader Brian Burch as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. Burch, ...
Floating a new plan, Speaker Johnson insists there will be no government shutdown

By LISA MASCARO, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MATT BROWN
Dec 20, 2024 1:44 pm - Veering toward a midnight Friday government shutdown, House Speaker Mike Johnson is proposing a new plan that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but punts President-elect Donald Trump demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
Amazon workers are striking at multiple delivery hubs. Here’s what you should know

By HALELUYA HADERO
Dec 20, 2024 8:26 am - Amazon workers affiliated with the Teamsters union launched a strike at seven of the company's delivery hubs less than a week before Christmas.
Trump was poised to inherit a strong economy. Then things got rocky and he added to the uncertainty

By JOSH BOAK
Dec 20, 2024 7:20 am - The smooth economy that Donald Trump was poised to inherit suddenly looks a bit rockier — with critics saying the president-elect is contributing to the uncertainty.
California man detained on suspicion of ‘plotting’ with Wisconsin school shooter

By Patrick Marley, Hannah Natanson and Sarah Blaskey
Dec 19, 2024 9:41 pm - MADISON, Wisconsin — Authorities have detained a California man on suspicion of “plotting a mass shooting” with the 15-year-old girl who opened fire in her small Christia...
Google Maps photo of man loading a bag in a trunk helps police find a body

By Victoria Bisset
Dec 19, 2024 9:37 pm - When Google Street View took photos in Tajueco in October, the town of just 57 residents in northern Spain appeared quiet, its streets mostly free of people and traffic. ...
Immigration drives US population growth to highest rate in 23 years as residents pass 340 million

By MIKE SCHNEIDER
Dec 19, 2024 9:36 pm - Immigration in 2024 drove U.S. population growth to its fastest rate in 23 years as the nation surpassed 340 million residents, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The ...
Trump backs new GOP plan to fund government and raise debt limit as shutdown nears

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING
Dec 19, 2024 3:40 pm - President-elect Donald Trump announced “success” in coming up with a new plan to fund the government and lift the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown, urging Congress to swiftly pass it in votes as soon as Thursday evening.
Closures, Social Security checks, furloughs: What a government shutdown might mean

By MEG KINNARD
Dec 19, 2024 1:53 pm - Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government or federal agencies will shut down, meaning hundreds of thousands of federal employees could be sent home — or stay on the job without pay — just ahead of the holidays.

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