Nation and World
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Layoffs begin at US health agencies charged with tracking disease, researching and regulating food
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.
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Trump's promised 'Liberation Day' of tariffs is coming. Here's what it could mean for you
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A Kremlin official says Russia sees efforts to end Ukraine war as a drawn-out process
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Earthquake compounds Myanmar’s humanitarian crisis as the death toll passes 2,000Mar 31, 2025 10:41 am - The death toll in last week's massive earthquake in Myanmar has passed 2,000, state media reported Monday, as rescuers and an activist group said it killed several hundred Muslims praying at mosques during the holy month of Ramadan and 270 Buddhist monks crushed by a collapsing monastery.
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Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as president
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Slow US tax collections spark angst about debt ceiling X-date
Mar 31, 2025 8:29 am - Tax collection projections are down. Refunds are up. That’s a formula that could dampen U.S. government revenue and, if it persists, portend an earlier deadline for Congress to raise the debt ceiling — or risk a federal payments default.
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Musk-funded political group spends big and goes door to door in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race
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Mortgage company Rocket buying Mr. Cooper in all-stock deal valued at $9.4 billion
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Severe storms and tornadoes possible across central, eastern US
Mar 29, 2025 8:04 pm - A multiday episode of severe weather — including the risk of potentially significant tornadoes — begins Saturday night and will continue through at least Monday, with the...
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor calls for ‘fearlessly independent’ judges