Nation and World
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Federal terrorism charge filed against a man who allegedly set a woman on fire on Chicago train
Nov 19, 2025 6:06 pm - Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a man with committing a terrorist attack for allegedly setting a woman on fire on a Chicago train.
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Appeals court pauses order restricting use of force by immigration agents in Chicago-area crackdown
Nov 19, 2025 4:54 pm - A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily halted an order restricting the use of force by federal immigration agents in the Chicago area, calling it “overbroad” and “too prescriptive.”
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Russian attack kills 25 in Ukraine’s Ternopil as Zelenskyy meets Erdogan in Turkey
Nov 19, 2025 3:53 pm - A large Russian drone and missile barrage on Ukraine's western city of Ternopil killed at least 25 people, including three children, authorities said Wednesday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to Turkey in search of diplomatic support for his fight against Russia’s invasion.
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Israel’s military carries out strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens of people
Nov 19, 2025 3:50 pm - The Israeli military carried out barrages of airstrikes in southern Lebanon Wednesday on what it said were Hezbollah sites, including weapons storage facilities, after a drone strike earlier in the day killed one person and wounded several others, including students on a bus.
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Alleged neo-Nazi pleads guilty over plot to poison children with candy
Nov 19, 2025 3:33 pm - The alleged leader of a violent white supremacist group pleaded guilty to soliciting hate crimes, federal prosecutors said, after he was accused of urging another individual to poison Jewish children and dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to children of racial minority groups in New York during the holidays.
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New hurdle in Comey case as Trump’s Justice Department faces questions about the grand jury process
Nov 19, 2025 1:30 pm - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey hit another hurdle Wednesday as the Justice Department acknowledged a possible lapse in how the case ...
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Larry Summers takes leave from teaching at Harvard after release of Epstein emails
Nov 19, 2025 10:57 am - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers abruptly went on leave Wednesday from teaching at Harvard University, where he once served as president, over recently releas...
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Takeaways from Trump’s White House meeting with Saudi crown prince
Nov 19, 2025 10:55 am - WASHINGTON — A jovial President Donald Trump held a warm and friendly meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the White House, packed with plenty of handsh...
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Trump signs bill to release Jeffrey Epstein case files after fighting it for months
Nov 19, 2025 10:53 am - President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pr...
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Trump administration announces dismantling of parts of Education Dept.
Nov 18, 2025 7:50 pm - The Education Department said Tuesday that it will move several of its offices to other federal departments, a unilateral effort aimed at dismantling an agency created by Congress to ensure equal access to educational opportunity but long derided by conservatives as ineffective.