Nation and World
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Judge calls Trump administration’s latest response on deportation flights ‘woefully insufficient’
Mar 20, 2025 5:19 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge instructed the Trump administration on Thursday to explain why its failure to turn around flights carrying deportees to El Salvador did not v...
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Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
Mar 20, 2025 4:36 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take ...
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Israeli strikes across Gaza hit multiple homes, killing at least 85 Palestinians
Mar 20, 2025 12:47 pm - Israeli strikes killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday, according to local health officials. Hours later, Hamas fired three rockets at Israel without causing casualties, in the first such attack since Israel ended their ceasefire with a surprise bombardment of Gaza on Tuesday.
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People named in JFK assassination documents are not happy their personal information was released
Mar 20, 2025 12:40 pm - Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that...
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Trump's bluntness powered a White House comeback. Now his words are getting him in trouble in court
Mar 20, 2025 10:59 am - Donald Trump’s shoot-from-the-lip style kept Americans on the edge of their seats during last year's campaign. But now that he's speaking as a president and not as a candidate, his words are being used against him in court in the blizzard of litigation challenging his agenda.
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With outlook uncertain, the Bank of England joins the US Fed in putting interest rates on hold
Mar 20, 2025 8:22 am - The Bank of England kept its main U.K. interest rate unchanged at 4.50% on Thursday even though the economy is barely growing and the nation faces more uncertainty in light of the tariff policies being enacted by the Trump administration in the U.S.
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Military leaders to discuss Ukraine peacekeeping force as partial ceasefire plans are worked out
Mar 20, 2025 8:18 am - Senior officers from countries across Europe and beyond will meet Thursday at a military headquarters on the outskirts of London to flesh out plans for an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine as details of a partial ceasefire are worked out.
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How will the universe end? A changing understanding of dark energy may provide a new answer
Mar 19, 2025 7:08 pm - NEW YORK — Scientists are homing in on the nature of a mysterious force called dark energy, and nothing short of the fate of the universe hangs in the balance. The force...
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Turkish police arrest Istanbul mayor, a key Erdogan rival, as government crackdown escalates
Mar 19, 2025 7:00 pm - ISTANBUL — Turkish police on Wednesday arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and several other promine...
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Trump to order a plan to shut down the US Education Department
Mar 19, 2025 6:51 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday calling for the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, according to a White House offici...