Nation and World Politics
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Speaker Johnson leads House GOP on a trip to a Texas border city as Ukraine aid hangs in the balance
Jan 03, 2024 12:52 pm - EAGLE PASS, Texas — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson is leading about 60 fellow Republicans in Congress on a visit Wednesday to the Mexican border as they demand hard-line...
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Plagiarism charges downed Harvard’s president. A conservative attack helped to fan the outrage
Jan 03, 2024 10:02 am - WASHINGTON — American higher education has long viewed plagiarism as among the most serious of offenses. Accusations of plagiarism have ruined the careers of academics an...
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Trump's vows to deport millions are undercut by his White House record and one family's story
Jan 03, 2024 7:38 am - Noelia Sanchez was born in the rolling farmlands of southwest Missouri, where her Mexican parents worked as seasonal farmworkers in the 1950s. When she was 1, Noelia and ...
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Biden will start the year at sites of national trauma to warn about dire stakes of the 2024 election
Jan 03, 2024 7:03 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is starting the campaign year by evoking the Revolutionary War to mark the third anniversary of the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capit...
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Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of prisoners of war in biggest release so far
Jan 03, 2024 6:55 am - Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. Ukra...
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Israel's Mossad chief vows to hunt down Hamas members a day after senior figure killed in strike
Jan 03, 2024 6:54 am - BEIRUT — The chief of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service vowed Wednesday that the agency would hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no ...
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Iran says at least 95 were killed in blasts at a ceremony honoring slain general
Jan 03, 2024 6:48 am - TEHRAN, Iran — Two bombs exploded and killed at least 95 people Wednesday at a commemoration for a prominent Iranian general slain by the U.S. in a 2020 drone strike, Ira...
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony
Jan 02, 2024 1:27 pm - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where sh...
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Buffalo Grove ready to pass ordinance restricting migrant drop-offsJan 02, 2024 11:46 am - Buffalo Grove is ready to join other suburbs in passing an ordinance to deter unscheduled drop-offs of migrants from the southern border. The village board is expected to...
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States and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity after Iran attacks small town water utilities
Jan 02, 2024 11:24 am - HARRISBURG, Pa. — The tiny Aliquippa water authority in western Pennsylvania was perhaps the least-suspecting victim of an international cyberattack. It had never had out...