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New York temporarily shutters bird markets after seven cases of avian flu are detected in NYC
New York on Friday ordered a weeklong shutdown of all live bird markets in New York City, Westchester and Long Island after seven cases of avian flu were detected at bird markets in th ...
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A federal judge is to consider whether to block DOGE access to the US Labor Department
A federal judge will consider Friday whether to block Trump adviser Elon Musk ’s team from accessing systems at the Labor Department, which has investigated the billionaire’s compani ...
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Forced leaves start for thousands at USAID under a Trump plan to gut the foreign aid agency
Forced leaves began in Washington and worldwide Friday for most employees of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as federal workers associations turned to the courts to tr ...
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Musk team’s access to student loan systems raises alarms over personal information for millions
Democrats are pushing back against Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as it turns its attention to the Education Department, with lawmakers raising concerns about DOGE’s ...
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Stock market today: Wall Street drifts lower as U.S. consumers get more worried about inflation
U.S. stock indexes are holding relatively steady on Friday following a mixed report on the U.S. job market that analysts said may not change much for financial markets.
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Zelenskyy to lead Ukraine’s delegation at Munich Security Conference which JD Vance will attend
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will lead Ukraine’s delegation at the Munich Security Conference next week, which U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance and special envoy for Ukraine and Ru ...
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Kash Patel had a roster of foreign clients. Their interests could clash with FBI he hopes to lead
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, holds more than $1 million of stock in a fashion company founded in China. He established a nonprofit that spent big on pro ...
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Trump promotes misleading claims about federal government’s media subscriptions
Federal government payments to news outlets like Politico, The New York Times and The Associated Press for subscriptions or to license content are in the crosshairs of Trump administra ...
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Washington governor rescinds wildlife commission appointments
The latest appointments to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission were sent back to the governor’s office on Wednesday, stalling the confirmation process before hearings were scheduled.
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One of the victims of Sweden’s deadliest mass shooting called his fiancée to say he loved her
Wounded and bleeding, Salim Karim Iskef managed to video-call his fiancée to tell her he loved her one last time before he died this week in what was Sweden’s deadliest mass shoo ...
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Treatment for HIV, AIDS in Haiti hit by U.S. foreign aid halt despite waivers from Rubio
When growing gang violence and the kidnappings of health care workers forced Haiti’s leading organization in the treatment of HIV and AIDS-related illnesses to relocate operations from its main site i ...
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Trump signs order imposing sanctions on International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel
President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court over investigations of Israel, a close U.S. ally.