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Thousands of Gaza children are malnourished under Israel's food blockade, aid groups say

By WAFAA SHURAFA, FATMA KHALED and LEE KEATH
Apr 17, 2025 4:13 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel’s blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where it has barred entry of all food and other goods for...
Florida State gunman used deputy mom's former service weapon to kill 2 and wound 6, authorities say

By KATE PAYNE and DAVID FISCHER
Apr 17, 2025 12:43 pm - Multiple victims were reported in a shooting Thursday at Florida State University and a suspect was taken into police custody, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
A recovering Pope Francis visits Rome prison to keep annual Holy Week appointment

By NICOLE WINFIELD
Apr 17, 2025 10:25 am - Pope Francis visited Rome's central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to spend Holy Thursday among the least fortunate, even as he continues recovering from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.
UN nuclear watchdog says US-Iran talks at a ‘very crucial’ stage

By JON GAMBRELL and AMIR VAHDAT
Apr 17, 2025 10:23 am - Talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program are “in a very crucial” stage, the head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog said Thursday while on a visit to the Islamic Republic.
U.S. jobless benefit claims fall last week as labor market remains strong despite recession fears

By MATT OTT
Apr 17, 2025 8:02 am - U.S. applications for jobless benefits fell again last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite fears of a tariff-induced recession.
Trump suggests he can remove Fed Chair Powell, saying he’s ‘not happy’ with him over interest rates

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK
Apr 17, 2025 7:45 am - President Donald Trump has attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates and says he could fire him if he wanted to. Trump is renewing a threat from his first term that could cause a major legal showdown over the issue of the central bank's longstanding political independence.
US stocks tumble as Nvidia slides and the fog of Trump’s trade war thickens

By STAN CHOE
Apr 16, 2025 9:55 pm - U.S. stocks are tumbling Wednesday after Nvidia warned new U.S. restrictions on exports to China will chisel billions of dollars off its results, while companies around the world said President Donald Trump’s trade war is clouding forecasts for how they or the economy will do this year.
ICE, DOGE seek sensitive Medicare data as immigration crackdown intensifies

By Hannah Natanson, Rachel Roubein and Dan Diamond
Apr 16, 2025 9:33 pm - Trump immigration officials and the U.S. DOGE Service are seeking to use a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants, according to...
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says US autism cases are climbing at an ‘alarming rate’

By AMANDA SEITZ
Apr 16, 2025 8:02 pm - WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to cond...
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts

By Lena H. Sun, Carolyn Y. Johnson, Rachel Roubein, Joel Achenbach and Lauren Weber
Apr 16, 2025 7:51 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs, a roughly one-third cut in discretionary spending by the Department of Health and...

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