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US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the pennyMay 22, 2025 10:39 am - The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed Thursday.
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Judge blocks Trump administration’s mass layoffs at the Education DepartmentMay 22, 2025 10:30 am - A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.
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2 people killed when private plane crashes into San Diego neighborhood, authorities sayMay 22, 2025 7:54 am - A private jet crashed into a neighborhood of U.S. Navy-owned housing in San Diego during foggy weather early Thursday, igniting cars and homes and killing two people while injuring multiple others, authorities said.
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Stocks drift to a mixed close as worries about the US government’s soaring debt continue to weighMay 22, 2025 7:51 am - Stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street in what has been a rocky week because of worries coming out of the bond market about the U.S. government's mounting debt. The S&P 500 slipped less than 0.1% Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was little changed, and the Nasdaq composite rose 0.3%.
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North Korea’s second naval destroyer is damaged in a failed launch attended by KimMay 22, 2025 7:49 am - North Korea's second naval destroyer was damaged in a failed launch this week, state media reported Thursday, sparking fury from leader Kim Jong Un, who wants bigger warships to deal with what he calls escalating U.S.-led threats against his country.
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Kim Kardashian dons a graduation cap and marches closer to becoming a lawyerMay 22, 2025 7:18 am - Kim Kardashian is a step closer to following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a lawyer. She has completed a legal apprenticeship and is now eligible to take the California bar exam, her representative confirmed Wednesday.
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Court papers say suspect in Jewish museum killings declared ‘I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza’May 22, 2025 6:48 am - Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said.
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House Republicans pass Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and program cuts after all-night sessionMay 22, 2025 6:12 am - House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump's priority bill to approval Thursday.
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Institute of Peace reclaims its headquarters after court win over Musk’s cost-cutting teamMay 21, 2025 9:53 pm - WASHINGTON — The U.S. Institute of Peace retook control of its headquarters Wednesday, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon M...
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Ex-assistant tells of cleaning up booze, drugs and baby oil after Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex marathonsMay 21, 2025 9:46 pm - NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs ' one-time personal assistant testified Wednesday that he was in charge of cleaning up hotel rooms after the hip-hop mogul’s sex marathons —...