Nation and World
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Georgia's Fulton County seeks the return of 2020 election documents seized by the FBI
Feb 04, 2026 9:11 am - Officials in Georgia's Fulton County said Wednesday they have asked a federal court to order the FBI to return ballots and other documents from the 2020 election that it seized last week, escalating a voting battle as President Donald Trump says he wants to “take over” elections from Democratic-run areas with the November midterms on the horizon.
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Washington Post cuts third of staff in blow to legendary news brand
Feb 04, 2026 9:07 am - The Washington Post laid off one-third of its staff Wednesday, eliminating its sports section, several foreign bureaus and its books coverage in a widespread purge that r...
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Renters use ‘rent now, pay later’ services to manage monthly payments, but fees raise concerns
Feb 04, 2026 8:03 am - Rent can eat up an entire paycheck at the start of the month, so a growing number of renters are turning to a financial product that promises relief by letting them split the bill — for a price.
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Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon
Feb 03, 2026 8:33 pm - He had decided that the America he believed in would not make it if people like him didn’t speak up, so on a cool, rainy morning in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Jon, 67 and recently retired, marched up to his study and began to type.He had just read about the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s case against an Afghan it was trying to deport. The immigrant, identified in The Washington Post’s Oct. 30 investigation as H, had begged federal officials to reconsider, telling them the Taliban would kill him if he was returned to Afghanistan.
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Renée Good’s brothers, others describe assaults, shootings at hearing
Feb 03, 2026 7:43 pm - American citizens told congressional leaders Tuesday that they had been shot, manhandled and dragged from their cars by aggressive federal immigration enforcement agents in recent months, experiences that left them fearing for their lives.
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Epstein invested alongside top Silicon Valley names in crypto firm Coinbase
Feb 03, 2026 6:25 pm - Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invested $3 million into the cryptocurrency startup Coinbase in 2014, according to documents released by the Justice Department on Friday, giving him a small role in the rise of what is now a $51 billion public company and the largest U.S.-based crypto exchange.
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Measles cases identified at ICE’s largest detention facility for children
Feb 03, 2026 3:58 pm - Two detainees at the nation’s main immigrant family detention center, in Dilley, Texas, have tested positive for measles, authorities said, alarming lawmakers and attorneys who fear the virus could spread in the crowded facility.
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Iran’s killing of protesters reached level rarely seen, emergent count shows
Feb 03, 2026 3:22 pm - Iran’s sweeping crackdown on anti-government demonstrations left more than 6,800 people dead, the vast majority of them protesters killed last month, according to an advocacy organization tracking and confirming the fatalities. The level of violence against protesters has few recent parallels, human rights groups say
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Clintons finalize agreement to testify in House Epstein probe, bowing to threat of contempt vote
Feb 03, 2026 2:52 pm - Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton finalized an agreement with House Republicans Tuesday to testify in a House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein this month, bowing to the threat of a contempt of Congress vote against them.
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Trump administration's tongue-in-cheek names for immigration operations praised and slammed
Feb 03, 2026 2:40 pm - The Department of Homeland Security's approach to naming immigrant enforcement operations, accompanied by a punchy, at times mocking tone in its official statements, elicits polarizing opinions: Are the names funny or offensive?