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Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Newly unsealed documents reveal more details of prosecutors' evidence in 9/11 attacks

Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including how …

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
12 states to sue over DOGE access to government payment systems containing personal data

Democratic attorneys general in several states vowed Thursday to file a lawsuit to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency's from accessing federa…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out 'anti-Christian bias' and urges 'bring God back'

Trump said Bondi would also work to “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of …

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Second type of bird flu detected in US dairy cows

A version of the H5N1 bird flu virus known as B3.13 was confirmed in March after being introduced to cattle in late 2023, scientists said. It has infected more…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Trump signs executive order intended to bar transgender athletes from girls' and women's sports

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the order “upholds the promise of Title IX” and will require “immediate action, including enforcement actions…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
A luxury house is close to tumbling into Cape Cod Bay. Will anyone stop it?

The owner knew it. He removed the deck and other parts of the house, including a small tower that held the primary bedroom, before stopping work and falling in…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judge

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone bor…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
What USAID does, and why Trump and Musk want to get rid of it

Over the last two weeks, President Donald Trump's administration has made significant changes to the U.S. agency charged with delivering humanitarian assistanc…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
First military flight to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay is set to depart, official says

The first U.S. military flight to deport migrants from the United States to Guantanamo Bay was set to depart Tuesday, a U.S. official said.

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Recovery work resumes at the site of the deadly plane and chopper collision near Washington

Crews worked Tuesday to try to recover the plane's cockpit and the rest of the remains of the 67 people who died in last week's midair collision between a pass…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Neighbors in dispute: After Trump declares a trade war, Canadians grapple with a sense of betrayal

The ties between the two countries are without parallel. Nearly $3.6 billion Canadian worth of goods and services cross the border each day. Canada is the top …

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Tariff threats take aim at fentanyl trafficking. Here's how the drug reaches the US

Neither Canada nor China has signaled major changes to tackle the flow of fentanyl into the U.S., and each has said it would retaliate for any U.S. tariffs.

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Trump imposes tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China

President Donald Trump on Saturday signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China — fulfilling one of his post-campaign commi…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
With plans in the works and troops on the way, military assumes a mostly familiar role on the border

Dozens of Marines unfurled coils of concertina wire — one on the ground and one slightly above — making it more difficult to climb a border wall separating Tij…

Updated 1 year, 7 months ago
Officials: Seven dead, 19 injured in air ambulance crash in Philadelphia

Authorities sifted through burned cars and charred debris Saturday to gather clues that might explain why an air ambulance exploded into a fiery ball as it cra…