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House GOP rejects Senate-passed DHS funding deal
House Republicans plan to offer an eight-week measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security, House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday, rejecting a separate deal the Republican-led Senate passed earlier in the day. The inter-chamber squabble...
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Trump adds 10 days to threat to attack energy sites in Iran
President Donald Trump said Thursday that progress has been made in negotiations with Tehran aimed at ending the Iran war. Talks “are going very well,” he wrote in a post to social media. In the same post, Trump said he would delay attacks on Iran’s...
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Cracks exposed in Israel’s vaunted air defenses
dimona, israel — When the air raid sirens blare and many residents of southern Israel seek shelter in basements, David Azran, 54, instead takes to his porch to watch Israel’s air defense system blast out a volley of interceptor missiles — dizzying...
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Senate Republicans pitch deal to end DHS impasse
Senate Republicans sent Democrats a new proposal Tuesday to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which has led to long lines at airport security in recent days and has forced many of the agency’s employees to go without pay...
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Border wall expansion raises alarms on all sides
The Trump administration is building hundreds of miles of border wall through iconic national parks, public lands and ecologically sensitive wilderness, empowered by provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill that provided $46.5 billion in funding and a...
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Eyeing war’s final stages
tel aviv — A surge of additional U.S. forces to the Middle East and President Donald Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iran’s energy infrastructure have set the stage for what U.S. and Israeli security officials increasingly see as the war’s possible...
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Ramadan around the world
On Friday in places such as, clockwise from top left, Brooklyn, Jerusalem, Gaza City and Indonesia, Muslims bid farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan with the celebration of the holiday Eid al-fitr. Typically a time of joy and excitement, this...
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U.S., Israeli objectives diverge as conflict deepens
When the United States and Israel initiated the war against Iran last month, their messages were perfectly in sync on the sweeping goal of regime change. President Donald Trump told Iranians to seize their “only chance” for generations to “take over...
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Tensions flare at Mullin’s hearing
Sen. Markwayne Mullin defended his record at a fiery Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday over his nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security, pledging to restore confidence in the embattled agency after a turbulent year that has led to...
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400 killed in airstrike on Afghan hospital
A man stands on debris Tuesday at the site of a hospital destroyed in what the Taliban said was a Pakistani airstrike in Kabul. Pakistan rejected Afghanistan’s accusation that it targeted the Omid Addiction Treatment center, insisting its strikes...
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Trump-xi summit delayed over issue of Hormuz
President Donald Trump has delayed a trip to China this month as he pressures Beijing and NATO allies to send warships to help the United States reopen the Strait of Hormuz, throwing into question a long-planned effort to reset relations between the...
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In Cape Verde, joy and worry
são vicente, cape verde — Teenagers start arriving on the soccer fields in this island nation shortly after sunrise, as fog is still clearing, to sneak in drills before school. Early evening, they’re back on the pitch for scrimmages that stretch into...
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Flocking together
Snow geese take off last week from the 6,300acre middle creek property in kleinfeltersville, Pennsylvania, to resume their migration to the arctic. the birds have been arriving in growing numbers here since the late 1990s. For a few short weeks...
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EX-NFL players decry war video using their hits
The video clip is a favorite of Kenny Bell’s friends: The University of Nebraska receiver lays a punishing blind-side block on a Wisconsin defender during the 2012 Big Ten title game. But the clip found new life — and new meaning — last Friday when the...
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UAE, an oasis of stability, shaken by war
dubai — Black smoke rose above Dubai’s international airport Saturday morning after an Iranian drone struck near a terminal. That night, a boom reverberated across the Marina neighborhood as debris from another drone slammed into a high-rise tower. By...
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A son leaves. A mother still fights.
lometa, texas — The United States was not yet at war when Emm Matous barely agreed to host this going-away party for her son. Since serving in Iraq, even small crowds bothered her, which was why she lived on a middle-of-nowhere ranch with a chore list...
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Former Nixon aide revealed White House tapes
“I was hoping you fellows wouldn’t ask me about that,” said Alexander P. Butterfield, a former White House aide summoned before the staff of the Senate Watergate committee on July 13, 1973. His questioner had alighted on a matter that would electrify...
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Iran chooses its next supreme leader
Iran’s selection of Mojtaba Khamenei — a powerful regime insider deeply intertwined with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — to succeed his father as Supreme Leader cements hardline theocratic rule in the country and sends a strong message of...
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Paying homage to a civil rights giant
Hillary and bill clinton, Barack obama, and jill and joe biden are among those at a memorial service friday in chicago for the rev. jesse jackson, which felt at times like a church service and others like a political rally.
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Beijing sets five-year strategy
Delegates in traditional dress leave after the opening session of the national people’s Congress in beijing, the country’s top annual political gathering, where china lowered its economic growth target and raised defense spending by 7 percent.
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A rapid reforging of the Middle East
jerusalem — Early on a cool autumn morning in 2023, from a tunnel beneath the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar gave an order that sent thousands of Hamas fighters through the fence separating the territory from Israel. That green light has reordered the Middle...
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Embassies, airports close as violence worsens
The State Department is scrambling amid the fallout from President Donald Trump’s highstakes military assault on Iran and Tehran’s blistering response, with at least three embassies in the Middle East shuttered as of Tuesday as violence worsened and...
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U.S. could send ground troops
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday would not rule out the possibility of sending American ground troops to Iran or articulate the Trump administration’s exit strategy as the Pentagon attempts to secure a quick, decisive victory while limiting...
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Counterattack kills three U.S. troops
It took only hours of military strikes on Iran for the United States to find itself in a familiar but unsettling position: the swift removal of a global foe only to confront an aftermath that history suggests will prove difficult to navigate. The...
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Moms’ group joins hunt for Nancy Guthrie
Lidia Hernandez has been searching for her son, lost to drug violence in Mexico, for seven years. But she spent this week scouring rocky dirt for clues in the disappearance of a far more well-known crime victim — Nancy Guthrie. On Sunday, Hernandez...
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‘No chance’ U.S. will be in drawn-out Mideast war, Vance says
aboard air force two — Vice President JD Vance said Thursday that while military strikes against Iran remain under consideration by President Donald Trump, there is “no chance” that such strikes would result in the United States becoming involved in a...
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As war with Russia drags on, the children of Ukraine learn to fight back
From her wooden schoolroom seat, Katya, 15, carefully eyes the assault rifles laid across the desks up front. Her mind flashes to the Russian checkpoint four years ago. She is crammed in the back of a neighbor’s car clutching her aunt’s cat as fear...
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High court strikes down most Trump tariffs
The Supreme Court’s decision to invalidate the Trump administration’s broad tariffs strips the president of a central instrument of his foreign policy, undercutting his ability to coerce global leaders and reshape world order in his second...
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A comeback stunner for the gold
Trailing against canada for most of the game, the u. S. women’s hockey team scored late in the third period and again in overtime to secure the 2-1 victory, with american megan keller beating stalwart canadian goaltender Ann-renée desbiens on a...
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Israel deepening control in West Bank
Israel has moved aggressively in recent days to deepen its control over the occupied West Bank, unilaterally adopting policies that analysts say represent a major shift toward annexation and appear to defy President Donald Trump, who has said he...
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‘I am — somebody’
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a charismatic preacher who became the leading voice of Black American aspirations in the years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and was the first African American to gain significant traction as a...
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Welcoming in the Year of the Horse
A worshiper lights incense sticks on the eve of the Chinese Lunar New Year on Monday at Boen San Bio temple in Tangerang, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia. Tuesday marks the start of the Year of the Horse.
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Working an underwater puzzle
At 2 a.m., oceanographer Ryan Smith was headed into his 12th hour of work with little sleep when trouble started. From the rear deck of the University of Miami’s research boat, he guided the vessel’s winch to lower a cage containing 14 long, gray...
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An Olympic shocker
“Quadg0d” ilia malinin of the united states reacts friday after competing i n milan, where the goldmedal favorite in the men’s singles figure skating competition finished eighth after falling multiple times during the free skate.
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Reclaiming a hallowed space
People gather thursday at the stonewall national monument in new york, birthplace of the gay rights movement, to raise a pride flag after authorities removed the existing one this week from the greenwich village site.
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Combative Bondi lobs insults under questioning
Attorney General Pam Bondi combatively defended her leadership at the Justice Department to House lawmakers on Wednesday amid sharp criticism that she botched the release of the Epstein files and has wielded the nation’s most powerful law enforcement...
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Olympic drones create buzz with stunning views
They go higher than any aerialist, faster than a downhill skier and send a stronger signal than ever about how the Winter Games want to be seen. At these Olympics, broadcast drones have given new life to the decades-old Olympic motto — faster, higher,...
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A beautiful game among the ruins
Palestinians gather to watch a five-a-side soccer match being played Monday amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City. Despite a United States-brokered truce that entered its second phase last month, violence has continued in the Palestinian...
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Seahawks soar to Super Bowl championship
Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold and Coach Mike Macdonald embrace after Seattle defeated the New England Patriots, 29-13, to win Super Bowl LX on Sunday night in Santa Clara, California. Seattle was led by its dominant defense, which shut down Patriots...
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Let the Games begin
MILAN — Mariah Carey sang “Volare,” though the Tuscan tenor Andrea Bocelli brought down the house. There were brightly colored Roman legions, espresso pots and Pinocchios, opera and Euro pop. They nodded to Armani, Da Vinci and astrophysicist...
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In northwest Nigeria, the U.S. confronts a growing terrorist threat
There are still bloodstains and bullet holes in the mud-brick alcove where villagers took shelter last month after militants overran their community, opening fire on residents who had gathered to drink tea in the town square. Six people, ages 18 to...
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On a paradise Pacific island, meth and HIV epidemics rage
The methamphetamine dropoffs to a squatter settlement here followed a routine. Once a week, according to residents, a black Dodge truck with tinted windows pulled up to a tent on the edge of the community, a dense maze of tiny shacks connected by...
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Shutdown ends, with ICE talks to come
The U.S. House passed a set of spending bills Tuesday to end the partial government shutdown while buying time for bipartisan negotiations over new accountability measures for immigration enforcement. President Donald Trump later signed them into law,...
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Cutting off a lifeline
Medications have kept Tori Samuel’s HIV at bay for decades. The parttime worker from Ocala, Florida, has thrived, marrying her husband and giving birth to three children, none of whom have the virus. But now she risks losing access as Florida prepares...
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Russia lured Kenyans with job prospects, then forced them to Ukraine’s front lines
Hundreds of Kenyans have been recruited by the Russian military to serve on the front lines in Ukraine, according to former recruits and their families. Many have never returned. Most men said they were tricked — offered civilian or “safe” security...
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In Kyiv, left out in the cold
Kyiv residents without power to their homes following russia’s air attacks wait in line to receive free hot meals in the city’s downtown amid freezing temperatures on friday. Russia said friday that a moratorium on attacking ukraine’s energy...
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D.C. shivers under an icy blanket of ‘snowcrete’
A person navigates franklin park in downtown washington on thursday. Several days after a fierce winter storm dropped up to 9 inches of snow and sleet, freezing temperatures have left banks of ice and snow on nearly every sidewalk. we followed a...
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ANTI-ICE protests escalate in Minn.
minneapolis — Thousands of people converged at a downtown park on Friday afternoon in the state’s biggest show of opposition yet to the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota, braving subzero temperatures and skipping work and...
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In House hearing, Smith defends his prosecution of Trump
Former special counsel jack smith, right, during a hearing before the house judiciary committee. Smith told lawmakers he stood by his decision to charge president donald trump in two felony indictments. “No one should be above the law in our...
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Trump bends on Greenland demands
davos, switzerland — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he had reached the “framework” of a deal on Greenland, backing away from his earlier demands to acquire the Danish territory after days of escalating threats and once-unthinkable worries...
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One day in the turbulence of the Twin Cities
minneapolis — On the seventh Friday of the largest immigration enforcement operation in a U.S. city, during a presidency defined by the issue, a growing cadre of activists searched tinted car windows for masked federal agents. A man facing a...
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High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
Emergency personnel work monday at the site of a collision late sunday between two highspeed trains near adamuz in southern spain. the crash occurred after a madridbound train partially derailed, causing it to collide with a second train traveling...
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A monumental birthday
People braved snow and frigid temperatures to take photos in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday. The birthday of the civil rights leader and Nobel Peace laureate, who was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39,...
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Maduro’s top aides warm up to Trump
caracas, venezuela — Last month, as U.S. forces were massing off Venezuela, government officials here — the political heirs to Hugo Chávez, founder of the country’s socialist state — vowed American intervention would ignite 100 years of war. “If they...
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U.S. prisoners freed in Venezuela
Multiple Americans detained in Venezuela have been freed by local authorities, the State Department says, the first known release of U.S. citizens since the U.S. military capture of authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro this month. “We welcome the...
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Regulator pushed to go after Powell
Housing finance regulator Bill Pulte met recently with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-lago and shared a prop resembling a “wanted poster” he had made up featuring Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, according to a person with knowledge of the...
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A father mourns his ‘hero’ son
In the lonely house at the edge of the forest, an old man picked through the detritus of his life. Over here was the bed he and his wife had shared for decades. Over there, the trumpet his son had played in the military marching band. And here was his...
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Minn. is sidelined in probe of killing
Minnesota officials and federal authorities escalated their dispute Thursday over an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis, with state leaders saying the Trump administration was blocking local agents from an FBI investigation...
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Fear in Caracas amid new wave of repression
For a brief moment, some Venezuelans allowed themselves to celebrate. When they learned Saturday that strongman Nicolás Maduro had been seized by U.S. Special Forces, many group chats filled with messages of joy and relief. Some people cried. One...
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In N.Y. court, Maduro says U.S. ‘kidnapped’ him
NEW YORK — Deposed Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro made his first court appearance Monday in New York and said he was “kidnapped” by the U.S. government, assailing the Trump administration for capturing him and portraying himself as his country’s...
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Uncertainty clouds U.S. plan to ‘run’ Venezuela
Marco Rubio has held many titles during Donald Trump’s presidency. He may have just acquired his most challenging one yet: Viceroy of Venezuela. The secretary of state, national security adviser, acting archivist and administrator of the now-defunct...
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Authorities open criminal investigation into fatal Swiss fire
People comfort each other outside the constellation bar at switzerland’s cransMontana resort on friday. After watching footage of the incident, officials said the fire that killed 40 people attending a new year’s party was started by sparklers on...
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Portraits of a Palestinian diaspora
The dream of return has animated the Palestinian struggle for more than seven decades. In 1948, more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes during the violence surrounding the creation of Israel. That foundational trauma —...
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