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Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status

By Jacob Bogage by Jeff Stein
Apr 16, 2025 7:38 pm - The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, according to three people familiar with t...
El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported man

By Theodoric Meyer
Apr 16, 2025 7:16 pm - El Salvador’s government rebuffed a request Wednesday from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to free Kilmar Abrego García, whose case has become a flash point in the battle o...
Dog reunites with Israeli family after disappearing for 18 months in Gaza

By SAM MEDNICK
Apr 16, 2025 5:17 pm - BINYAMINA, Israel — Rachel Dancyg never thought she would see her dog again after it disappeared in the Hamas attack that sparked the ongoing war with Israel. Her ex-husb...
Trump’s tariffs are ‘highly likely’ to push prices up, Fed chief warns

By Rachel Siegel
Apr 16, 2025 4:19 pm - President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “highly likely” to spur a temporary rise in inflation, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday, cautioning that those effects could end up being longer-lasting.
Hegseth suspends 2 senior political aides amid Pentagon leak inquiry

By Dan Lamothe
Apr 16, 2025 3:57 pm - Two senior aides to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, both political appointees, have been suspended amid a Pentagon inquiry into the apparent leak of sensitive information...
Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with Israel

By Miriam Berger, Heba Farouk Mahfouz, Hazem Balousha and Hajar Harb
Apr 16, 2025 3:37 pm - JAFFA, Israel — The move by Hamas in recent weeks to try to stop a wave of protests against it in Gaza reflects the group’s determination to continue silencing dissent ev...
Israeli defense minister says troops will remain in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely

By ISAAC SCHARF, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY
Apr 16, 2025 3:33 pm - JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister said on Wednesday that troops will remain in so-called security zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria indefinitely, remarks tha...
Retail sales rise 1.4% in March as shoppers stock up on big ticket items ahead of tariffs

By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Apr 16, 2025 8:20 am - U.S. shoppers increased their shopping last month, fueled by a spending spree on big ticket items from gadgets to cars before President Donald Trump’s expansive new tariffs started kicking in.
Trump says he’s joining Bessent and Lutnick for trade negotiations with Japanese at the White House

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and MARI YAMAGUCHI
Apr 16, 2025 8:17 am - President Donald Trump said he’s joining some of his top economic advisers on Wednesday for negotiations at the White House over tariffs and trade with a top Japanese official who is traveling to Washington for the talks.
UK’s top court says definition of a woman is based on biological sex and excludes transgender people

By BRIAN MELLEY, JILL LAWLESS and SYLVIA HUI
Apr 16, 2025 7:09 am - The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition in a long-running dispute between a feminist group and the Scottish government.

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