Nation and World
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Congress unveils funding deal with more than $100 billion in disaster aid
Dec 17, 2024 12:21 pm - Congressional leaders have unveiled a spending agreement that will keep the federal government funded through March 14 and provide more than $100 billion in emergency aid to help states and local communities recover from Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and other natural disasters.
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Retail sales rose at healthy pace last month in latest sign of US economy’s health
Dec 17, 2024 7:44 am - Consumers stepped up their spending at retail stores last month, providing a boost to the economy in the early phases of the winter holiday shopping season.
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Is that a drone or a plane? Experts help explain the differences
Dec 17, 2024 7:41 am - Experts who study unmanned aircraft systems — better known as drones — say it can be tough to tell from miles away. But there are clues.
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A top Russian general is killed in a Moscow bombing claimed by Ukraine
Dec 17, 2024 7:38 am - A senior Russian general was killed Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow, a day after Ukraine’s security service leveled criminal charges against him. A Ukrainian official said the service carried out the attack.
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South Korea’s impeached leader avoids investigators as court begins meeting to determine his fate
Dec 16, 2024 8:00 pm - SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol dodged requests by investigative agencies to appear for questioning over his short-lived martial law ...
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Judge rejects Trump’s bid to toss hush money conviction because of Supreme Court immunity ruling
Dec 16, 2024 7:41 pm - NEW YORK — A judge Monday refused to throw out President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction because of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on presidential immu...
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Negotiators say Israel and Hamas are inching toward a ceasefire deal. This is what it may look like
Dec 16, 2024 4:24 pm - After months of deadlock, Israel and Hamas appear to be moving closer toward a ceasefire to end their 14-month war. Top officials from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt have resu...
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Prince Andrew faces questions over links to accused Chinese spy
Dec 16, 2024 3:46 pm - LONDON — Not for the first time, Britain’s Prince Andrew is at the center of a scandal over alleged links to questionable characters. The British establishment is abuzz o...
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Canada's finance minister resigns as unpopular Trudeau faces biggest test of his political career
Dec 16, 2024 2:23 pm - TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faces the biggest test of his political career after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, long one of his most powerful an...
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Trump weighs in on NY mayor, vaccines and drones in freewheeling press conference at Mar-a-Lago
Dec 16, 2024 2:09 pm - In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, declared the country was “not going to lose" the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey.