Nation and World
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Trump administration opens investigations into race in admissions at 3 medical schools
Mar 26, 2026 7:09 pm - The Trump administration has opened investigations into how race is considered in admissions at three medical schools, ratcheting up its pressure campaign against colleges and universities.
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Far fewer immigrants are moving to big cities in US, data shows
Mar 26, 2026 6:57 pm - The number of new immigrants settling in metropolitan areas in the United States has declined steeply, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of recently released U.S. Census Bureau data, a shift that comes as the Trump administration restricts arrivals from other nations.
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Israel says it killed Iran’s top naval commander in bid to reopen Strait of Hormuz
Mar 26, 2026 4:11 pm - Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that Iran’s top naval commander, Alireza Tangsiri, was killed in an overnight airstrike, casting it as an effort to support the United States’ push to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic.
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How the war in Iran is landing with Republicans, according to a new AP-NORC poll
Mar 26, 2026 3:54 pm - It's costing more and more to gas up the hot rods that Donnie Beson has spent a lifetime tinkering with. He's not questioning his support for President Donald Trump, but he feels as if the war in Iran has distracted the Republican president from the issues that got him elected.
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Doors were propped open at missing mother’s Arizona home, Savannah Guthrie recounts in interview
Mar 26, 2026 3:40 pm - The back doors of Nancy Guthrie’s Arizona home were found propped open and her phone and purse were still at the home when the 84-year-old disappeared, daughter Savannah Guthrie said in an interview that aired Thursday on NBC's “Today,” her first since her mother’s apparent abduction.
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Nicolás Maduro's lawyer argues against US blocking funding for drug trafficking case defense
Mar 26, 2026 11:45 am - NEW YORK — Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were back in a New York courtroom Thursday as they seek to have their drug trafficking indictments thro...
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Transgender women athletes banned from women's Olympic events by new IOC policy
Mar 26, 2026 10:12 am - Transgender women athletes are now excluded from women's events at the Olympics after the IOC agreed to a new eligibility policy on Thursday which aligns with U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order on sports ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
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Iran war deflects attention from Ukraine as an emboldened Russia starts spring offensive
Mar 26, 2026 8:59 am - The Iran war has deflected global attention from Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor Ukraine as Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II enters its fifth year and an emboldened Kremlin undertakes a spring offensive.
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‘This is our fight’: Suburbanites embrace anti-Trump resistance ahead of No Kings protests
Mar 26, 2026 8:02 am - A growing faction of concerned citizens living in suburban communities across the United States — places once known for political moderation or even conservatism — are increasingly positioned on the front lines of the anti-Trump resistance.
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Trump says he’ll sign order to pay TSA agents as Congress struggles to reach funding deal
Mar 26, 2026 7:59 am - With pressure mounting, senators moved quickly Thursday to debate a “last and final” offer to end the funding impasse that has jammed airports and put the livelihoods of Transportation Security Administration workers in jeopardy as Republicans try to address Democratic demands for changes to President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement changes.