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The president’s cabinet: A look at its history, the duties of members

By Bruce Simmons
Jun 04, 2025 12:06 pm - Author and retired educator Bruce Simmons debuts a column detailing the history of the president’s cabinet and the duties of each position.
Ukraine’s backers meet to drum up arms and ammo. The Pentagon chief is absent for the first time

Jun 04, 2025 7:03 am - Senior officials from almost 50 nations gathered Wednesday to drum up more weapons and ammunition for Ukraine, with the Pentagon's chief absent for the first time since the group organizing the military aid was set up three years ago.
Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE

By JOSH BOAK
Jun 03, 2025 5:38 pm - WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by El...
Musk slams Trump’s big tax bill as Republican senators race to meet a July 4th deadline

By LISA MASCARO and MARY CLARE JALONICK
Jun 03, 2025 2:40 pm - President Donald Trump wants his “big, beautiful” bill of tax breaks and spending cuts on his desk to be signed into law by the Fourth of July, and he's pushing the slow-rolling Senate to make it happen sooner rather than later.
Republican push for proof of citizenship to vote proves a tough sell in the states

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and NADIA LATHAN
Jun 03, 2025 8:10 am - President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made it a priority this year to require people to prove citizenship before they can register to vote. Turning that aspiration into reality has proved difficult.
Russian rockets kill 4 in a Ukrainian city as Kyiv claims it damaged a key bridge

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Jun 03, 2025 7:26 am - A Russian rocket attack targeted the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding 25, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the assault, saying it underscored that Moscow has no intentions of halting the 3-year-old war.
RFK Jr. says autism ‘destroys’ families. Here’s what those families want you to know.

By AMANDA SEITZ
Jun 02, 2025 2:58 pm - Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s comments and his plan to swiftly study its causes, have splintered a community of millions of people living with autism.
Conservative Karol Nawrocki wins presidential race, shaking up Polish politics

By VANESSA GERA
Jun 02, 2025 2:40 pm - Conservative Karol Nawrocki’s victory in Poland’s weekend presidential runoff has set the country on a more nationalist course — and cast doubt on the viability of the centrist government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk after the defeat of his liberal ally.
Trump asks the Supreme Court to clear the way for federal downsizing plans

By MARK SHERMAN
Jun 02, 2025 1:05 pm - President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday renewed its request for the Supreme Court to clear the way for plans to downsize the federal workforce, while a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities proceeds.
Ukraine’s drone attack on Russian warplanes was a serious blow to the Kremlin's strategic arsenal

By The Associated Press
Jun 02, 2025 11:53 am - A surprise Ukrainian drone attack that targeted several Russian air bases hosting nuclear-capable strategic bombers was unprecedented in its scope and sophistication for the first time reached as far as Siberia in a heavy blow to the Russian military.

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