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Storms could unleash deadly floods, strong tornadoes in large part of US in coming days

By JEFF MARTIN
Apr 01, 2025 1:43 pm - Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South. The...
Democratic-backed Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority

By SCOTT BAUER
Apr 01, 2025 1:40 pm - Majority control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court will be decided Tuesday in a race that broke records for spending and has become a proxy battle for the nation’s political fights, pitting a candidate backed by President Donald Trump against a Democratic-aligned challenger.
Survivors still being found from Myanmar earthquake, but hopes begin to fade as deaths exceed 2,700

By DAVID RISING
Apr 01, 2025 12:39 pm - Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar's capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war.
Prosecutors directed to seek death penalty against UnitedHealthcare killing suspect

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Apr 01, 2025 10:47 am - U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said Tuesday she has directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Dec. 4.
Cory Booker sets a record with marathon Senate speech. Will it rally anti-Trump resistance?

By MIKE CATALINI
Apr 01, 2025 9:15 am - In a feat of determination, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday evening, setting a historic mark to show Democrats’ resistance to President Donald Trump’s sweeping actions.
FDA’s top tobacco official is removed from post in latest blow to health agency’s leadership

By MATTHEW PERRONE
Apr 01, 2025 8:53 am - The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the federal health workforce Tuesday.
US automakers make mad dash to push Trump to temper tariffs

Keith Naughton and David Welch
Apr 01, 2025 7:12 am - U.S. automakers are making a last-ditch effort to sway the Trump administration on tariffs set to take effect this week, contending that levies on the thousands of parts they source abroad could have catastrophic effects on the industry.
Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food

By CARLA K. JOHNSON
Apr 01, 2025 7:09 am - Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department began receiving notices of dismissal Tuesday in an overhaul ultimately expected to lay off up to 10,000 people.
Trump's promised 'Liberation Day' of tariffs is coming. Here's what it could mean for you

By JOSH BOAK
Mar 31, 2025 2:46 pm - President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day" — a moment when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs that he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.
A Kremlin official says Russia sees efforts to end Ukraine war as a drawn-out process

By The Associated Press
Mar 31, 2025 10:43 am - Russia views efforts to end its three-year war with Ukraine as “a drawn-out process,” a Kremlin spokesman said Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed frustration with the two countries’ leaders as he tries to bring about a truce.

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