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2025-02-21 | "The Department of Education is a big con job." That's just one of the things President Trump has said about one of the most high profile departments in federal government โ a department Trump says he wants to eliminate.Trump says he wants to save mone... | |
2025-02-20 |
The fate of Ukraine hangs in the balance as Trump sides with Russia Earlier this week, President Donald Trump accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. Three years ago Russian troops poured over Ukraine's border, and Russian missiles and drones continue to bombard Ukrainian cities.Besides being untrue, the comme... |
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2025-02-19 | Is the United States headed toward autocracy?That's a question prompted by a steady stream of executive orders seeking to consolidate power in the White House and upend long held policies and norms.New York Times Opinion writer M. Gessen lived through ... | |
2025-02-18 | New York Governor Kathy Hochul, along withother top officials spent much of Tuesday weighing whether to use her power to remove New York City Mayor Eric Adams from office.It's a power that no New York Governor has ever used before.Adams faces growing c... | |
2025-02-17 | An Israeli delegation is in Cairo to hash out details for the second phase of a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Under the first phase of the deal, Hamas agreed to release a total of 33 Israeli hostages โ and Israel said it would free around 1,900 Palestinia... | |
2025-02-16 |
After weeks of chaos, the future is uncertain for thousands of federal workers Across the country and around the world, tens of thousands of federal workers face uncertainty amid an unprecedented reduction and restructuring of the federal workforce.President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders โ freezing hiring, ... |
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2025-02-15 | There are at least two million people in America who have thoughts and ideas they can't put into words. People who have had strokes or traumatic brain injuries often live with aphasia: difficulty using language, both written and spoken. But music mostl... | |
2025-02-14 |
Ousted Kennedy Center president says artists must feel "welcome and safe" President Donald Trump is now chairman of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Trump replaced 18 members of the board with allies who then elected him into the position. There is no precedent for this move โ most presidents h... |
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2025-02-13 | Panama has been looking for solutions to a long-term problem. Every time a ship passes through the Panama Canal, more than 50 million gallons of fresh water from Lake Gatun pour out into the ocean. Nobody ever thought Panama could run out of water. It ... | |
2025-02-12 |
Trump says the U.S. will 'own' Gaza โ what that could mean for the Middle East The Gaza Strip โ ground zero of Israel's war with Hamas โ is only about twice the size of Washington, DC. It has about 25 miles of coastline along the Mediterranean Sea, with a population of about 2 million people. Last week, President Trump proposed r... |