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US July budget deficit up 20% year-over-year despite record Trump tariff income

By FATIMA HUSSEIN
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.
Shooter attacked CDC headquarters to protest COVID-19 vaccines

By CHARLOTTE KRAMON and JEFF MARTIN
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.
Trump’s rhetoric on DC echoes a history of racist narratives about urban crime

By MATT BROWN
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.
Land swaps with Russia are not only unpopular in Ukraine. They're also illegal

By SAMYA KULLAB
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.
Trump's Washington, DC, takeover begins as National Guard troops arrive

By ASHRAF KHALIL
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.
US inflation held steady last month as tariff hit offset by cheaper gas, food

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
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.
Shooter kills 3 in a Target parking lot in Austin, Texas, before being captured, police say

By NADIA LATHAN
Aug 11, 2025 8:31 pm - A gunman opened fire Monday in the parking lot of a Target store in Texas' capital, killing at least three people, before stealing two cars during a getaway that ended with police using a Taser to detain him on the other side of the city, authorities said.
Trump nominates conservative economist to head agency that compiles jobs, inflation data

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 11, 2025 8:24 pm - President Donald Trump said Monday that he has nominated E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, to head the agency that compiles and publishes the nation's employment and inflation figures.
US, China extend trade truce another 90 days, easing tension between world’s largest economies

By PAUL WISEMAN and DIDI TANG
Aug 11, 2025 7:34 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump extended a trade truce with China for another 90 days Monday, at least delaying once again a dangerous showdown between the world’s tw...
Israel plans to widen coming offensive beyond Gaza City into last areas not under its control

By JOSEPH KRAUSS
Aug 11, 2025 6:26 pm - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel plans to widen its coming offensive beyond Gaza City to the last areas not yet under Israeli control, and where most of Gaza's 2 million residents have sought shelter as the territory slides toward famine.

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