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NOAA was developing tool to help communities prepare for extreme rainfall. Trump officials stopped it.

By Sarah Kaplan
Jul 16, 2025 4:04 pm - The Commerce Department has indefinitely suspended work on a tool to help communities predict how rising global temperatures will alter the frequency of extreme rainfall,...
RFK Jr. and other Trump officials embrace psychedelics after FDA setback

By MATTHEW PERRONE
Jul 16, 2025 3:59 pm - WASHINGTON — For decades, proponents of psychedelic drugs have come to Washington with a provocative message: Illegal, mind-altering substances like LSD and ecstasy shoul...
Trump says he’s ‘highly unlikely’ to fire Fed’s Powell after floating that idea in private

By SEUNG MIN KIM
Jul 16, 2025 1:20 pm - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was “highly unlikely” to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a public statement made less than 24 hours after suggesting in a private meeting that he was leaning in favor of dismissing the head of the nation's central bank.
Trump slams his own supporters who are angered over how his team has handled the Epstein case

By JILL COLVIN
Jul 16, 2025 10:32 am - President Donald Trump is lashing out at his own supporters as he tries to clamp down on criticism over his administration's handling of much-hyped records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation, which Trump now calls a “Hoax.”
Bipartisan support helps foundations avoid tax increase in new Trump legislation

By THALIA BEATY
Jul 16, 2025 7:27 am - Two Republican senators and a broad bipartisan coalition of funders and nonprofits prevented a 600% increase in taxes levied on the endowments of the largest private foundations as part of President Donald Trump’s the tax and spending legislation.
Russia launches new attacks on Ukraine with the countdown to a US peace deadline underway

By ILLIA NOVIKOV
Jul 16, 2025 6:42 am - Russian weapons pounded four Ukrainian cities overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, injuring at least 15 people in an attack that mostly targeted energy infrastructure, officials said.
How Trump could use a building renovation to oust Fed Chair Powell

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and JOSH BOAK
Jul 16, 2025 6:39 am - President Donald Trump says he has finally found a way to achieve his goal of removing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, accusing him of mismanaging the U.S. central bank’s $2.5 billion renovation project.
US sends third-country deportees under secrecy to the small African kingdom of Eswatini

By GERALD IMRAY and MICHELLE GUMEDE
Jul 16, 2025 6:35 am - The United States has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration's largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday.
Syrian government and Druze minority leaders announce a new ceasefire as Israel continues strikes

By ABDELRAHMAN SHAHEEN and KAREEM CHEHAYEB
Jul 16, 2025 6:32 am - Clashes raged in the southern Syrian city of Sweida on Wednesday after a ceasefire between government forces and Druze armed groups collapsed and as Israel threatened to escalate its involvement, saying it's in support of the Druze religious minority.
Trump promotes energy and tech investments at a summit in Pennsylvania

By SEUNG MIN KIM and MARC LEVY
Jul 15, 2025 7:41 pm - PITTSBURGH — President Donald Trump touted tens of billions of dollars of recent energy and technology investments Tuesday in Pennsylvania while boasting of a “true golde...

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