Nation and World
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Federal lawsuit seeks to stop ICE agents from arresting people at immigration courts
Jul 16, 2025 7:41 pm - A group of immigrants and legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants w...
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20 killed in Gaza as crowd surges at aid site run by an Israeli-backed group
Jul 16, 2025 4:25 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — Twenty Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly fro...
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Another key ally quits Netanyahu’s governing coalition in a major blow to Israel's leader
Jul 16, 2025 4:20 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a major political blow on Wednesday as a key governing partner announced it was quitting his coaliti...
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NOAA was developing tool to help communities prepare for extreme rainfall. Trump officials stopped it.
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,...
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RFK Jr. and other Trump officials embrace psychedelics after FDA setback
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...
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Trump says he’s ‘highly unlikely’ to fire Fed’s Powell after floating that idea in private
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.
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Trump slams his own supporters who are angered over how his team has handled the Epstein case
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.”
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Bipartisan support helps foundations avoid tax increase in new Trump legislation
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.
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Russia launches new attacks on Ukraine with the countdown to a US peace deadline underway
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.
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How Trump could use a building renovation to oust Fed Chair Powell
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.