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Wall Street loses ground, breaking a 9-day winning streak, and crude oil prices tumbleMay 02, 2025 11:30 am - Wall Street extended its gains to a ninth straight day Friday, marking the stock market's longest winning streak since 2004 and reclaiming the ground it lost since President Donald Trump escalated his trade war in early April.
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CDC reports 216 child deaths this flu season, the most in 15 yearsMay 02, 2025 11:02 am - More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine flu pandemic 15 years ago, according to a federal report released Friday.
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Trump re-ups his threat to strip Harvard University’s tax-exempt statusMay 02, 2025 10:38 am - President Donald Trump on Friday re-upped his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, escalating a showdown with the first major college that has defied the administration's efforts to crack down on campus activism.
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Employers added 177,000 jobs as job market shows resilienceMay 02, 2025 7:43 am - American employers added a better-than-expected 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump's trade wars.
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White House comes out with sharp spending cuts in Trump’s 2026 budget planMay 02, 2025 7:33 am - President Donald Trump's 2026 budget plan would slash non-defense domestic spending by $163 billion while increasing expenditures on national security, according to White House statements Friday.
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Who are the contenders to be pope? They include a street priest, a missionary and a Lutheran convertMay 02, 2025 6:41 am - When the cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to choose a successor to Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, they will be looking above all for a holy man who can guide the Catholic Church. Beyond that, they will weigh his administrative and pastoral experience and consider what the church needs today.
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Genetic medicine can leave people with rare mutations behind. But there’s new hope.May 01, 2025 10:45 pm - Stunning advances in genetic science have revealed the subtle, insidious culprits behind brutal diseases and have started paving the way for treatments. But patients with these exceedingly rare mutations often have fewer options and poorer prospects such that many are now pinning hopes on experimental gene therapies.
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Trump threatens sanctions against buyers of Iranian oil after US-Iran nuclear talks are postponedMay 01, 2025 7:14 pm - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian oil, a warning that came after planned talks over Tehran’...
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The US has nearly 900 measles cases, and 10 states have outbreaks. Here’s what to know.May 01, 2025 4:32 pm - With one-fifth of states seeing active measles outbreaks, the U.S. is nearing 900 cases, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Driver who killed 4 by smashing through an Illinois after-school camp may have had health emergencyMay 01, 2025 2:28 pm - The driver of a car that barreled through a building used for a popular after-school camp in central Illinois, killing three children and a teenager, was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol and may have had a medical emergency, police said Thursday.