Nation and World
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New German leader Friedrich Merz will meet Trump at the White House next week
May 31, 2025 5:23 pm - BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Washington next week to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, with the war in Ukraine and trade tensions among the it...
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Death toll reaches 151 in north-central Nigerian town submerged in floods, with thousands displaced
May 31, 2025 5:15 pm - ABUJA, Nigeria — The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria’s north-central state of Niger rose to at least 151 on Saturday, the local emergency...
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Spike in steel tariffs could imperil Trump promise of lower grocery prices
May 31, 2025 5:08 pm - NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s doubling of tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum could hit Americans in an unexpected place: grocery aisles. The announcement Friday ...
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States are rolling out red carpets for data centers. But some lawmakers are pushing back
May 31, 2025 5:02 pm - HARRISBURG, Pa. — The explosive growth of the data centers needed to power America's fast-rising demand for artificial intelligence and cloud computing platforms has spur...
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Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
May 31, 2025 3:14 pm - Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who drove a van to schools in North Carolina to offer vaccinations and a program that provided free tests to sick people in Tennessee.
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Hamas seeks amendments to Gaza ceasefire proposal but US envoy calls it ‘unacceptable’
May 31, 2025 3:07 pm - TEL AVIV, Israel — Hamas is seeking amendments to the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a senior official with the group told The Associated Press on Saturday, but...
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Trump fast-tracks Utah uranium mine, but industry revival may wait for higher prices
May 31, 2025 2:53 pm - SALT LAKE CITY — In the southeastern Utah desert famous for red rock arches and canyon labyrinths, the long-dormant uranium mining industry is looking to revive under Pre...
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White House MAHA Report may have garbled science by using AI, experts say
May 30, 2025 8:18 pm - Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in nume...
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Supreme Court says Trump for now can revoke ‘immigration parole’ for 530K migrants
May 30, 2025 7:14 pm - A divided Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way, for now, for the Trump administration to revoke the provisional legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of im...
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US communities spanning from red to blue blast Trump administration’s sanctuary list
May 30, 2025 7:02 pm - HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. — State and local officials blasted the Trump administration's widely anticipated list of “sanctuary” jurisdictions that are deemed uncooperative...