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Trump will highlight Apple's plans to invest $100 billion more in US, raising total to $600 billion

By JOSH BOAK
Aug 06, 2025 12:12 pm - President Donald Trump on Wednesday is expected to celebrate at the White House a commitment by Apple to increase its U.S. investments by an additional $100 billion over the next four years.
Bomb threat at St. Charles conference center where Texas Dems are staying

By Susan Sarkauskas
Aug 06, 2025 10:49 am - St. Charles police are investigating a bomb threat Wednesday morning at a conference center where Democratic Texas state lawmakers have been staying.
Texas election map fight swells into national political warfare

Hannah Knowles
Aug 06, 2025 10:15 am - The fight over Republicans’ push to redraw the Texas congressional map has widened into a national political war, with red and blue states moving to counteract each other and ambitious politicians around the country vowing aggressive partisan combat.
Republican US Sen. Marsha Blackburn joins Tennessee race for governor

By JONATHAN MATTISE
Aug 06, 2025 9:19 am - Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn announced Wednesday that she is entering the open Tennessee governor's race in 2026, setting up a primary clash with U.S. Rep. John Rose.
Epstein's ex, Ghislaine Maxwell, doesn't want grand jury transcripts released

By JENNIFER PELTZ
Aug 06, 2025 7:26 am - NEW YORK (AP) — Jeffrey Epstein 's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, wants to keep grand jury records secret in the sex trafficking case that sent her to prison, her ...
Crucial exemption allows majority of Canadian and Mexican goods to be shipped to US without tariffs

By ROB GILLIES
Aug 06, 2025 7:14 am - U.S. President Donald Trump raised the tariffs on Canadian goods to 35% last week, but a key exemption for Canada and Mexico shields the vast majority of goods from the punishing duties.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s move to ‘country club’ prison smacks of special treatment, experts say

By Derek Hawkins
Aug 05, 2025 7:52 pm - With its red-roofed dormitories, grassy courtyards and wrought-iron fences, the Bryan Federal Prison Camp in Texas looks almost like a college campus, befitting its reputation as one of the nation’s most lenient lockups for nonviolent women offenders.
RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

By AMANDA SEITZ
Aug 05, 2025 7:23 pm - The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.
Hiroshima marks 80 years since atomic bombing as aging survivors worry about growing nuke threat

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
Aug 05, 2025 6:50 pm - Hiroshima on Wednesday marked the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city, with many aging survivors expressing frustration about the growing support of global leaders for nuclear weapons as a deterrence.
DOJ escalates probe into claims Obama officials conspired in 2016 election

By Perry Stein, Jeremy Roebuck and Gaya Gupta
Aug 05, 2025 6:45 pm - The Justice Department moved forward with its investigation into whether the Obama administration broke federal laws while investigating Russia’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election, demanding archived intelligence assessments from the nearly decade-old race, according to a letter obtained by The Washington Post.

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