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Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DCFeb 06, 2025 11:25 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.
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Exes make good competition on HGTV’s ‘The Flip Off’ with the El Moussas, Christina HaackFeb 06, 2025 11:00 am - There’s conscious uncoupling and then there's conscious collaborating. Exes and TV personalities Tarek El Moussa and Christina Haack have reunited for a new reality competition show, “The Flip Off,” on HGTV.
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Musk uses his X ownership and White House position to push Trump priorities, intimidate detractorsFeb 06, 2025 10:26 am - The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary dynamic — a White House adviser who's using one of the world’s most powerful information platforms to sell the government’s talking points while intimidating its detractors.
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Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out ‘anti-Christian bias’ and urges ‘bring God back’Feb 06, 2025 7:46 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S., announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians.
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Mexican border cities are in limbo as tariff threats spark fears of a recessionFeb 06, 2025 7:27 am - As soon as the sun glints over miles of border fence dividing the United States and Mexico, the engines of cargo trucks packed with auto and computer parts roar to life along border bridges and bleary-eyed workers file into factories to assemble a multitude of products geared toward the U.S. market.
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The US is freezing and La Nina usually eases warming. Earth just set another heat record anywayFeb 06, 2025 6:58 am - The world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, according to the European climate service Copernicus.
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Kendrick Lamar to discuss Super Bowl halftime performance in New OrleansFeb 06, 2025 6:58 am - What can viewers expect from Kendrick Lamar's highly anticipated Super Bowl halftime performance? So far, we know SZA will join him on stage, but more details could be revealed Thursday when the Grammy winner speaks ahead of Sunday’s game.
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Second type of bird flu detected in US dairy cowsFeb 06, 2025 6:54 am - Dairy cattle in Nevada have been infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has spread in U.S. herds since last year, Agriculture Departm...
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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rain forest, USAID has big impact across the globeFeb 06, 2025 6:48 am - The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats and raised questions and concern about the influence billionaire ally Elon Musk wields over the federal government.
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Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resignFeb 06, 2025 6:44 am - Thousands of miles from Elon Musk’s office in the White House complex, a federal worker based in the Pacific Northwest is wondering whether to quit.