Nation and World
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Elon Musk tightens grip on federal government as Democrats raise alarms
Feb 04, 2025 5:24 pm - WASHINGTON — Elon Musk is rapidly consolidating control over large swaths of the federal government with President Donald Trump ’s blessing, sidelining career officials, ...
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Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries
Feb 04, 2025 5:20 pm - GUATEMALA CITY — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was exploring whether he can move forward with El Salvador’s offer to accept and jail violent American crimin...
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Trump suggests displaced Palestinians in Gaza be ‘permanently’ resettled outside war-torn territory
Feb 04, 2025 5:08 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be “permanently” resettled outside the war-torn territory. Trump made the pro...
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NY lets doctors keep names off abortion pills to avoid red-state charges
Feb 04, 2025 5:05 pm - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) has approved legislation that allows physicians prescribing abortion medication to request that their names are left off the packaging for ...
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US aid freeze puts at risk Ukraine’s wartime help for frontline evacuees
Feb 04, 2025 7:59 am - In what used to be the concert hall in this town in eastern Ukraine, cots are arranged on stage. Instead of music, the room is filled with the muffled sobs of local people driven from their homes by fighting in the country’s almost three-year war with Russia.
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RFK Jr. appears on track to become US health secretary as he wins key Republican senator’s support
Feb 04, 2025 7:45 am - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, is set to find out on Tuesday if he has cleared the first hurdle to become the nation’s top health official when the Senate Finance Committee votes on his nomination.
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Trump says he’s exploring option to send jailed US criminals to other countries
Feb 04, 2025 7:20 am - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio left El Salvador on Tuesday with an agreement from that country's president to accept deportees from the U.S. of any nationality, including violent American criminals now imprisoned in the United States.
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China counters with tariffs on US products. It will also investigate Google
Feb 04, 2025 7:12 am - China countered President Donald Trump's across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports Tuesday, as well as announcing an antitrust investigation into Google and other trade measures.
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Wall Street falls following Trump’s tariffs, but not as badly as feared in the morning
Feb 03, 2025 4:01 pm - The threat of a punishing trade war sent Wall Street on a roller coaster Monday. After initially falling sharply on worries about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, U.S. stocks pared their losses after Mexico said it had negotiated a one-month reprieve.
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Democrats push back after Musk says Trump agrees to close USAID and workers are kept out
Feb 03, 2025 2:44 pm - Democrats have delivered a strong rebuke against the Trump administration’s attempt to gut an agency that provides crucial aid overseas to fund education and fight starvation and disease, calling it illegal, vowing a court fight and lambasting billionaire Elon Musk for wielding so much power in Washington.