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Confusion reigns after feds pull plug on aid; Illinois sues and Pritzker blasts White House

By Marni Pyke
Jan 28, 2025 3:06 pm - Illinois reacts to President Donald Trump’s move to freeze federal loans, grants and other financial aid.
Trump fills his government with billionaires after running on a working-class message

By BILL BARROW
Jan 28, 2025 7:31 am - President Donald Trump’s brash populism has always involved incongruence: the billionaire businessman-politician stirring the passions of millions who, regardless of the U.S. economy’s trajectory, could never afford to live in his Manhattan skyscraper or visit his club in south Florida.
Google to change map names for Gulf of Mexico and Denali when US updates them based on Trump order

Associated Press
Jan 28, 2025 7:25 am - Google says it will take its cue from the U.S. government if it has to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali on its maps.
Trump signs an order to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops

By TARA COPP, LOLITA C. BALDOR and ZEKE MILLER
Jan 27, 2025 8:38 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service.
Suburban police navigating conflicting state, federal directives on immigration crackdown

By Marni Pyke
Jan 27, 2025 5:04 pm - Illinois law requires local cops to leave immigration enforcement to the feds, but could they face consequences if they don’t assist with mass deportations?
Hundreds of US visa appointments canceled in Colombia following spat over deportation flights

By MANUEL RUEDA
Jan 27, 2025 2:13 pm - Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia were canceled Monday following a dispute over deportation flights from the U.S. that nearly turned into a costly trade war between the two countries.
What to know about Trump’s first executive actions on climate and environment

By MELINA WALLING
Jan 27, 2025 12:40 pm - President Donald Trump's first week in office included a flurry of executive orders with implications for Earth's climate and environment.
Fed expected to pause rate cuts as it begins to weigh Trump policies

Andrew Ackerman
Jan 27, 2025 8:18 am - Donald Trump’s return to the White House is overshadowing the Federal Reserve’s meeting this week, as policymakers begin to grapple with the way the president’s policies on trade, immigration and spending could reshape the economy and potentially stoke inflation.
Palestinians celebrate return to northern Gaza as Israel lifts its closure under truce

By OSAMA SALEH, WAFAA SHURAFA and JOSEPH KRAUSS
Jan 27, 2025 8:11 am - Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians streamed into Gaza’s most heavily destroyed area on Monday after Israel opened the north for the first time since the early weeks of the war with Hamas, a dramatic reversal of their exodus 15 months ago.
By VANESSA GERA
Jan 27, 2025 8:07 am - Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation.

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