Nation and World Politics
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Macron appoints Defense Minister Lecornu as France's latest prime minister
Sep 09, 2025 3:23 pm - PARIS — French President Macron late Tuesday appointed Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France’s new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the...
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Senators ramp up pressure on Trump to abandon threats to send troops into U.S. cities
Sep 09, 2025 3:03 pm - A group of Democratic senators is filing a friend of the court brief Tuesday in California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit against President Donald Trump, stepping up pressur...
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Missouri Republicans advance Trump-backed plan to redraw US House districts
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Who is Katie Abraham, the suburban native at the center of the latest deportation campaign?
Sep 09, 2025 11:02 am - The Department of Homeland Security is dedicating a Chicago deportation “blitz” to Katie Abraham, one of two women killed in an Urbana drunken driving crash earlier this year by a Guatemalan man who lacked legal status and fled the scene.
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Illinois among blue states to keep public health dollars while red states lose out
Sep 09, 2025 10:58 am - President Donald Trump’s administration sought to block $11 billion in public health funding grants in a March executive order. Illinois was among nearly a dozen Democrat-led states to file suit against the action. Those states won an injunction against the administration’s action in May, which allowed them to keep much of the funding that was slated for cuts.
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Russian glide bomb attack in eastern Ukraine kills at least 24 people collecting their pensions
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Israeli strike targets Hamas leaders in Qatar as they weigh Gaza ceasefire proposal
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Epstein estate documents come to the HillSep 09, 2025 8:08 am - Aides for the Oversight Committee said the documents include a redacted version of the “birthday book” Epstein’s former partner Ghislaine Maxwell gave him for his 50th birthday.
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US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
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AP analysis: Presidents are taking longer to approve disaster aid. For some, the wait is agonizingSep 09, 2025 7:31 am - Disaster survivors are waiting longer for federal aid. A new Associated Press analysis found that it's taking more than a month, on average, for President Donald Trump to approve major disaster declarations after receiving requests.