Nation and World Politics
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US economic worries mount as Trump implements tariffs, cuts workforce and freezes spending
Mar 08, 2025 7:03 pm - WASHINGTON — With his flurry of tariffs, government layoffs and spending freezes, there are growing worries President Donald Trump may be doing more to harm the U.S. econ...
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FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts
Mar 08, 2025 6:40 pm - CHICAGO — The country's preeminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staff...
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‘We won’t be silent’: Hundreds show support for International Women’s Day in GenevaMar 08, 2025 6:40 pm - A crowd estimated at about 1,000 by organizers waved signs reading, “Women’s rights are human rights.”
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House Republicans unveil bill to avoid shutdown and they’re daring Democrats to oppose it
Mar 08, 2025 3:52 pm - WASHINGTON — House Republicans unveiled a spending bill Saturday that would keep federal agencies funded through Sept. 30, pushing ahead with a go-it-alone strategy that ...
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Out of the lab and into the streets, researchers and doctors rally for science against Trump cuts
Mar 07, 2025 5:20 pm - WASHINGTON — Giving a new meaning to the phrase mad scientists, angry researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters ventured out of labs, hospitals and offices Frid...
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Trump weighs new sanctions on Russia, days after pausing military aid and intel sharing with Ukraine
Mar 07, 2025 2:05 pm - President Donald Trump said Friday he is “strongly considering” levying new sanctions and tariffs on Russia for its war against Ukraine, floating the possibility of new pressure on Moscow just days after he ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv.
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DOGE targets child support database full of income data
Mar 07, 2025 12:36 pm - Representatives of the U.S. DOGE Service have sought access to a powerful database of nearly all U.S. workers’ earnings kept by the health department’s child support office, setting off another disagreement with career staff over demands for legally protected records, according to four people familiar with the matter.
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Trump says he sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader over country's advancing nuclear program
Mar 07, 2025 8:32 am - President Donald Trump sent a letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, seeking a new deal with Tehran to restrain its rapidly advancing nuclear program and replace the agreement he withdrew America from in his first term in office.
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Clashes in Syria's coastal region between government forces and Assad loyalists kill more than 70
Mar 07, 2025 7:09 am - Clashes between Syrian security forces under the country's new, Islamist authorities and gunmen loyal to ousted President Bashar Assad in Syria's western coastal region have killed more than 70 people and left an area outside government control, a war monitor said Friday.
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Russia bombards Ukraine’s energy grid after Zelenskyy says his team will hold talks with the US
Mar 07, 2025 6:57 am - Russia targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in a large-scale missile and drone bombardment during the night, officials said Friday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that talks with the U.S. on ending the three-year war will take place next week.