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Pritzker signs order to protect personal autism data in response to federal action

By JADE AUBREY
May 08, 2025 7:07 pm - Gov. JB Pritzker issued an executive order Wednesday that bars state agencies from collecting and disclosing data about autism to the federal government unless it's medically or legally necessary.
Trump says he is naming Fox News host and former judge Jeanine Pirro as top federal prosecutor in DC

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
May 08, 2025 6:04 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job.
EU threatens tariffs on aircraft, car parts if US trade talks fail

By Ellen Francis
May 08, 2025 3:56 pm - BRUSSELS — The European Union threatened Thursday to impose tariffs on U.S. aircraft, car parts and other products if talks with Washington break down, as the bloc attemp...
Trump asks Supreme Court to allow him to end humanitarian parole for 500,000 people from 4 countries

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
May 08, 2025 2:07 pm - President Donald Trump's administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries, setting them up for potential deportation.
Ukraine accuses Russia of violating its own truce over 700 times as Kyiv ratifies US minerals deal

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
May 08, 2025 9:36 am - Russia and Ukraine both reported attacks on their forces on the first day of a 72-hour ceasefire called by President Vladimir Putin.
Trump agrees to cut tariffs on UK autos, steel and aluminum in a planned trade deal with Britain

By ZEKE MILLER and JILL LAWLESS
May 08, 2025 8:19 am - President Donald Trump has agreed to cut tariffs on U.K. autos, steel and aluminum in a planned trade deal with Britain, which would buy more American beef and streamline its customs process for goods from the United States.
India and Pakistan don’t fight wars like other countries. Here’s why

By RIAZAT BUTT
May 08, 2025 8:16 am - India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars since they gained independence from British India in 1947. They’ve also had dozens of skirmishes and conflicts, including one atop a glacier dubbed the coldest and highest-altitude battlefield in the world.
India and Pakistan trade fire and accusations as fears of a wider military confrontation rise

By BABAR DOGAR, MUNIR AHMED and SHEIKH SAALIQ
May 08, 2025 8:12 am - India fired attack drones into Pakistan on Thursday, wounding four soldiers, the Pakistani military said. India, meanwhile, accused its neighbor of attempting its own attack, as tensions soared between the nuclear-armed rivals.
House GOP backing off some Medicaid cuts as report shows millions of people would lose health care

By LISA MASCARO and AMANDA SEITZ
May 07, 2025 8:38 pm - WASHINGTON — House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill, as they r...
Anti-government group threatens crucial weather radars, NOAA warns

By Angie Orellana Hernandez and Scott Dance
May 07, 2025 8:35 pm - An anti-government group is making threats against weather equipment that it says is a “weather weapon” controlled by the military, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric A...

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