Nation and World Politics
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El Salvador President Bukele says he won’t be releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the US
Apr 14, 2025 11:44 am - President Donald Trump's top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. Bukele called the idea “preposterous” even though the U.S. Supreme Court has called on the administration to “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return.
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‘It feels like the end of days’: Trump’s China tariff shocks US importers
Apr 14, 2025 9:40 am - Rick Woldenberg thought he had come up with a surefire plan to protect his Chicago-area educational toy company from President Donald Trump’s massive new taxes on Chinese imports.
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Stocks rally worldwide after Trump eases some of his tariffs on electronics, for now
Apr 14, 2025 8:56 am - Stocks are rallying worldwide Monday after President Donald Trump relaxed some of his tariffs, for now at least, and as stress from within the U.S. bond market seems to be easing.
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Russia claims its deadly attack on Ukraine's Sumy targeted military forces as condemnation grows
Apr 14, 2025 7:30 am - Russia on Monday claimed its deadly missile attack on Ukraine's Sumy that killed and wounded scores including children had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops, while European leaders condemned the attack as a war crime.
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China’s Xi says there are no winners in a tariff war as he visits Southeast Asia
Apr 14, 2025 7:26 am - China's leader Xi Jinping said no one wins in a trade war as he kicked off a diplomatic tour of Southeast Asia on Monday, presenting China as a force for stability in contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs moves.
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An emboldened anti-abortion faction wants women who have abortions to face criminal charges
Apr 12, 2025 9:41 pm - WASHINGTON — As Kristan Hawkins, president of the national anti-abortion group Students for Life, tours college campuses, she has grown accustomed to counterprotests from...
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Lawyers for wrongly deported man ask judge for U.S. contempt hearing
Apr 12, 2025 7:32 pm - Lawyers for a Maryland man mistakenly deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador asked a federal judge on Saturday to order the Justice Department to show by 10 a.m. Monday...
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Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead
Apr 12, 2025 6:47 pm - Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded ...
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America’s news TV channel for the Mideast fires its staff and goes off the air after funding cuts
Apr 12, 2025 6:18 pm - CAIRO — The head of a U.S.-funded Arabic-language television and online news outlet that claims a 30 million-strong audience in the Middle East and North Africa terminate...
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Layoffs and funding delays could slow fight against lead, experts say
Apr 12, 2025 6:14 pm - The entire staff of the lead poisoning office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was included in layoffs at the agency last week. And in recent weeks, stat...