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What to know ahead of the talks between the US and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia

By JON GAMBRELL
Mar 10, 2025 6:57 am - Saudi Arabia is to host talks on Tuesday between the United States and Ukraine in a new diplomatic push after an argument erupted during President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Feb. 28 visit to the White House.
Trump’s Justice Dept. ousts national security officials in latest purge

By Perry Stein and Salvador Rizzo
Mar 08, 2025 7:36 pm - The Justice Department has removed top national security officials as part of a widespread purge of senior career leaders across the law enforcement agency, according to ...
US economic worries mount as Trump implements tariffs, cuts workforce and freezes spending

By JOSH BOAK
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...
FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts

By CHRISTINE FERNANDO
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...
‘We won’t be silent’: Hundreds show support for International Women’s Day in Geneva

By Marni Pyke
Mar 08, 2025 6:40 pm - A crowd estimated at about 1,000 by organizers waved signs reading, “Women’s rights are human rights.”
House Republicans unveil bill to avoid shutdown and they’re daring Democrats to oppose it

By KEVIN FREKING
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 ...
Out of the lab and into the streets, researchers and doctors rally for science against Trump cuts

By SETH BORENSTEIN
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...
Trump weighs new sanctions on Russia, days after pausing military aid and intel sharing with Ukraine

By AAMER MADHANI and CHRIS MEGERIAN
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.
DOGE targets child support database full of income data

By Jeff Stein and Dan Diamond
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.
Trump says he sent a letter to Iran's supreme leader over country's advancing nuclear program

By JON GAMBRELL and WILL WEISSERT
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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