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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.
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th-century wartime lawMay 01, 2025 12:56 pm - A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump's invocation of it was “unlawful.”
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In final season, ‘The Righteous Gemstones’ embraces depravity even as it appeals to ChristiansMay 01, 2025 12:40 pm - For a show about a Christian megachurch pastor and his nepo baby children — between the sex and the violence — the final season of “The Righteous Gemstones” is rife with its trademark depravity.
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‘Rust’ is a serviceable Western, haunted throughout by its tragic offscreen historyMay 01, 2025 12:10 pm - Surely, bringing an audience to tears with a poignant ending is something every filmmaker dreams of. And yet the moment that inspires a genuine, unambiguous tear in “Rust” is born of a true nightmare.
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Trump names Secretary of State Rubio as acting national security adviser, taps Waltz for UN envoyMay 01, 2025 10:48 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating for United Nations ambassador.