Nation and World
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Firefighters battle to maintain the upper hand on a huge fire north of Los Angeles
Jan 23, 2025 8:20 am - Firefighters fought to maintain the upper hand on a huge and rapidly moving wildfire that swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles and resulted in more than 50,000 people being put under evacuation orders or warnings.
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7 police officers wounded in San Antonio shooting
Jan 23, 2025 7:45 am - Seven San Antonio police officers were shot while responding to a “suicide in progress” call and the suspect was later found dead inside an apartment after a standoff, the city's police chief said.
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Cracks emerge in House GOP after speaker’s threat to saddle California wildfire aid with conditions
Jan 23, 2025 7:43 am - California Republicans are pushing back against suggestions by President Donald Trump, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans that federal disaster aid for victims of wildfires that ravaged Southern California should come with strings attached, possibly jeopardizing the president's policy agenda in a deeply divided Congress at the outset of his second term.
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Trump administration cancels travel for refugees already cleared to come to America
Jan 22, 2025 8:44 pm - WASHINGTON — Refugees who had been approved to come to the United States before a deadline next week suspending America’s refugee resettlement program have had their trav...
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Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of online drug market Silk Road
Jan 22, 2025 8:34 pm - President Donald Trump said he granted a pardon Tuesday to Ross Ulbricht, founder of the online marketplace Silk Road — a campaign promise Trump had made to libertarian v...
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Trump shuts off access to asylum, plans to send 10,000 troops to border
Jan 22, 2025 7:31 pm - President Donald Trump is preparing to send around 10,000 troops to the southern border, where they will support Border Patrol agents under new orders to shut off access ...
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Justice Department freezes all cases in civil rights division
Jan 22, 2025 7:31 pm - The Justice Department has ordered its civil rights division to halt all ongoing litigation from the Biden administration and not pursue new cases or settlements, accordi...
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More than 50,000 are under evacuation orders or warnings from fire burning north of Los Angeles
Jan 22, 2025 4:53 pm - LOS ANGELES — More than 50,000 people were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains near foothill communities no...
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Supreme Court takes on accountability for police shootings
Jan 22, 2025 4:43 pm - The Supreme Court seemed inclined Wednesday to make it somewhat easier for individuals to try to hold police officers accountable for using deadly force, in a case involv...
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Woman whom prosecutors called ‘slut puppy’ can challenge death sentence
Jan 22, 2025 4:43 pm - When Brenda Andrew was on trial over allegations that she conspired with her lover to murder her estranged husband, witnesses testified about the revealing clothing she w...