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U.S. jobless benefit claims fall last week as labor market remains strong despite recession fears

By MATT OTT
Apr 17, 2025 8:02 am - U.S. applications for jobless benefits fell again last week as the labor market continues to hold up despite fears of a tariff-induced recession.
Trump suggests he can remove Fed Chair Powell, saying he’s ‘not happy’ with him over interest rates

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, AAMER MADHANI and JOSH BOAK
Apr 17, 2025 7:45 am - President Donald Trump has attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates and says he could fire him if he wanted to. Trump is renewing a threat from his first term that could cause a major legal showdown over the issue of the central bank's longstanding political independence.
US stocks tumble as Nvidia slides and the fog of Trump’s trade war thickens

By STAN CHOE
Apr 16, 2025 9:55 pm - U.S. stocks are tumbling Wednesday after Nvidia warned new U.S. restrictions on exports to China will chisel billions of dollars off its results, while companies around the world said President Donald Trump’s trade war is clouding forecasts for how they or the economy will do this year.
ICE, DOGE seek sensitive Medicare data as immigration crackdown intensifies

By Hannah Natanson, Rachel Roubein and Dan Diamond
Apr 16, 2025 9:33 pm - Trump immigration officials and the U.S. DOGE Service are seeking to use a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants, according to...
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says US autism cases are climbing at an ‘alarming rate’

By AMANDA SEITZ
Apr 16, 2025 8:02 pm - WASHINGTON — Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children in the U.S. are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate,” promising on Wednesday to cond...
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts

By Lena H. Sun, Carolyn Y. Johnson, Rachel Roubein, Joel Achenbach and Lauren Weber
Apr 16, 2025 7:51 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs, a roughly one-third cut in discretionary spending by the Department of Health and...
Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings into Trump administration

By Marianne LeVine, Spencer S. Hsu, Salvador Rizzo and Jeremy Roebuck
Apr 16, 2025 7:47 pm - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said that he would launch proceedings to determine whether any Trump administration official...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

By Carolyn Y. Johnson
Apr 16, 2025 7:39 pm - Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are femal...
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...

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