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Clashes in Syria's coastal region between government forces and Assad loyalists kill more than 70

By OMAR ALBAM
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.
Russia bombards Ukraine’s energy grid after Zelenskyy says his team will hold talks with the US

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
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.
Half a million US jobs on the line as DOGE fallout spreads

By Augusta Saraiva, Mark Niquette and Jarrell Dillard
Mar 06, 2025 7:59 pm - The Trump administration’s rapid efforts to dramatically shrink the size of federal government have economists rethinking forecasts for another solid year of labor market...
Trump administration plans 15% cut to VA workforce

By Gaya Gupta
Mar 06, 2025 7:56 pm - The Department of Veterans Affairs announced plans Wednesday to cut roughly 80,000 jobs, more than 15% of its employees, the latest in President Donald Trump’s effort to ...
Draft executive order calls for closing Education Dept.

By Laura Meckler
Mar 06, 2025 7:52 pm - President Donald Trump is set to issue an executive order as soon as Thursday directing his newly confirmed education secretary to work to close the department she now le...
GOP must cut Medicaid or Medicare to achieve budget goals, CBO finds

By Jacob Bogage
Mar 06, 2025 7:49 pm - Republicans in Congress cannot reach their goal of cutting at least $1.5 trillion in spending over the next 10 years for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” on...
Trump envoy says Ukrainians ‘brought it on themselves’ after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing

By AAMER MADHANI
Mar 06, 2025 3:53 pm - WASHINGTON — Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence shar...
Obama archive in Hoffman Estates planned move to Maryland before appearance on DOGE list

By Eric Peterson
Mar 06, 2025 3:13 pm - The Department of Government Efficiency recently claimed to end an annual $1.48 million lease of a Hoffman Estates building as the temporary archive of the Barack Obama Presidential Library, but the materials’ imminent move to a permanent site in Maryland had already been announced last August.
Trump envoy says Ukrainians 'brought it on themselves' after US pauses aid and intelligence sharing

By AAMER MADHANI
Mar 06, 2025 1:29 pm - Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv, a senior administration official said Thursday.
Trump’s trade policies are baffling businesses, threatening investment and economic growth

By PAUL WISEMAN, ANNE D'INNOCENZIO and MAE ANDERSON
Mar 06, 2025 12:27 pm - President Donald Trump’s ever-changing, on-again, off-again tariff war with America’s three biggest trading partners – Mexico, Canada and China — is baffling businesses and causing them to delay or cancel the investments that help drive economic growth. Trade wars complicate the decisions businesses have to make – which suppliers to use, where to locate factories, what prices to charge.

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