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Supreme Court clears the way for Trump's plans to downsize the federal workforce

By MARK SHERMAN
Jul 08, 2025 2:56 pm - The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be out of their jobs.
Trump says he's 'not happy' with Putin and blames him for 'killing a lot of people' in Ukraine

By WILL WEISSERT
Jul 08, 2025 2:27 pm - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's “not happy” with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine is “killing a lot of people” on both sides.
5 Israeli soldiers killed in northern Gaza and 18 Palestinians dead in Israeli strikes

By TIA GOLDENBERG, FATMA KHALED and WAFAA SHURAFA
Jul 08, 2025 8:04 am - Five Israeli soldiers were killed in an attack in Gaza, the Israeli military said Tuesday, while health officials in the Palestinian territory said 18 people were killed in Israeli strikes.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels attack a ship in the Red Sea after claiming they sank another, killing 3

By JON GAMBRELL
Jul 08, 2025 8:01 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on a Liberian-flagged cargo ship in the Red Sea killed three mariners and wounded two others, a European ...
‘Deeply offensive:’ Democrats decry benching of EPA employees as political payback by GOP

By Marni Pyke
Jul 07, 2025 6:34 pm - U.S. Rep Sean Casten demands local EPA employees disciplined after criticizing the Trump administration be returned to work. Stratton’s war chest grows and bipartisan cheers for bill cutting prescription costs.
Troops and federal agents briefly descend on park in LA neighborhood with large immigrant population

By TARA COPP and DAMIAN DOVARGANES
Jul 07, 2025 3:12 pm - Dozens of federal officers in tactical gear and about 90 members of the California National Guard were deployed for about an hour Monday to a mostly empty park in a Los Angeles neighborhood with a large immigrant population. It wasn’t immediately known if any arrests were made.
Epstein ‘client list’ doesn’t exist, Justice Department says, walking back theory Bondi had promoted

By ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Jul 07, 2025 2:39 pm - Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a “client list,” the Justice Department acknowledged Monday as it said no more files related to the wealthy financier's sex trafficking investigation would be made public despite promises from Attorney General Pam Bondi that had raised the expectations of conservative influencers and conspiracy theorists.
How Trump’s big bill will affect you, from Medicaid cuts to tax credits

By Julie Zauzmer Weil, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Jacob Bogage
Jul 07, 2025 1:57 pm - Congress has signed off on a $3.4 trillion legislative package featuring new tax breaks, spending cuts, and more funding for defense and immigration enforcement, deliveri...
Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and BRIAN SLODYSKO
Jul 07, 2025 1:25 pm - Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s deep staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives.
Trump to put 25% tariffs on Japan and South Korea, new import taxes on 12 other nations

By JOSH BOAK
Jul 07, 2025 1:22 pm - President Donald Trump on Monday placed a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea, as well as new tariff rates on Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos and Myanmar.

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