Nation and World
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Illinois bans AI therapy as some states begin to scrutinize chatbots
Aug 12, 2025 4:13 pm - Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy, joining a small group of states regulating the emerging use of AI-powered chatbots ...
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Israel is in talks to possibly resettle Palestinians from Gaza in South Sudan
Aug 12, 2025 4:12 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel is in discussions with South Sudan about the possibility of resettling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the war-torn East African country, pa...
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Israel must give UN full access to Gaza to halt starvation, allies say
Aug 12, 2025 3:57 pm - Israel must facilitate immediate and permanent access for the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to bring “a flood of aid into Gaza,” the foreign ministe...
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Desperate parents pleaded with officers to act during Uvalde school shooting, video shows
Aug 12, 2025 3:53 pm - AUSTIN, Texas — Desperate parents begged law enforcement officers to storm an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, in the frantic minutes after a gunman opened fire in one...
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US July budget deficit up 20% year-over-year despite record Trump tariff income
Aug 12, 2025 2:25 pm - Despite the U.S. taking in record income from President Donald Trump's tariffs in July — with a 273% increase in customs revenues (or $21 billion) from this time last year — the U.S. budget deficit is still higher, according to Treasury Department data released Tuesday.
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Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines
Aug 12, 2025 11:49 am - The man who fired more than 180 shots with a long gun at the headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention broke into a locked safe to get his father's weapons and wanted to send a message against COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said Tuesday.
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Trump’s rhetoric on DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime
Aug 12, 2025 10:29 am - President Donald Trump has taken control of the District of Columbia's law enforcement and ordered National Guard troops to deploy onto the streets of the nation's capital, arguing the extraordinary moves are in response to an urgent public safety crisis.
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Land swaps with Russia are not only unpopular in Ukraine. They're also illegal
Aug 12, 2025 10:17 am - A peace deal that requires Kyiv to accept swapping Ukrainian territory with Russia would not only be deeply unpopular. It also would be illegal under its constitution.
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Trump's Washington, DC, takeover begins as National Guard troops arrive
Aug 12, 2025 10:13 am - Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in the nation's capital on Tuesday, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city's police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city.
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US inflation held steady last month as tariff hit offset by cheaper gas, food
Aug 12, 2025 9:23 am - U.S. inflation was unchanged in July as rising prices for some imported goods were balanced by falling gas and grocery prices, leaving overall prices modestly higher than a year ago.