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Lebanese army making progress in displacing Hezbollah near Israeli borderApr 17, 2025 4:30 pm - BEIRUT — The Lebanese army has increased its deployment in the country’s south over the past few months, confiscating Hezbollah’s arms and dismantling its positions under...
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ICE, DOGE seek sensitive Medicare data as immigration crackdown intensifiesApr 16, 2025 9:33 pm - Trump immigration officials and the U.S. DOGE Service are seeking to use a sensitive Medicare database as part of their crackdown on undocumented immigrants, according to...
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Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cutsApr 16, 2025 7:51 pm - The Trump administration is seeking to deeply slash budgets for federal health programs, a roughly one-third cut in discretionary spending by the Department of Health and...
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Judge Boasberg to launch contempt proceedings into Trump administrationApr 16, 2025 7:47 pm - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of Washington, D.C., on Wednesday said that he would launch proceedings to determine whether any Trump administration official...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boardsApr 16, 2025 7:39 pm - Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are femal...
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Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt statusApr 16, 2025 7:38 pm - The Trump administration has asked the Internal Revenue Service’s top attorney to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, according to three people familiar with t...
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El Salvador refuses to allow senator to meet with mistakenly deported manApr 16, 2025 7:16 pm - El Salvador’s government rebuffed a request Wednesday from Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) to free Kilmar Abrego García, whose case has become a flash point in the battle o...
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Trump’s tariffs are ‘highly likely’ to push prices up, Fed chief warnsApr 16, 2025 4:19 pm - President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “highly likely” to spur a temporary rise in inflation, Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday, cautioning that those effects could end up being longer-lasting.
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Hegseth suspends 2 senior political aides amid Pentagon leak inquiryApr 16, 2025 3:57 pm - Two senior aides to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, both political appointees, have been suspended amid a Pentagon inquiry into the apparent leak of sensitive information...
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Hamas seeks to silence Gazans who criticize it over war with IsraelApr 16, 2025 3:37 pm - JAFFA, Israel — The move by Hamas in recent weeks to try to stop a wave of protests against it in Gaza reflects the group’s determination to continue silencing dissent ev...