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WASHINGTON — The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a let...
July 18, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump's request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday as Repub...
July 18, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday signed into law new regulations for a type of cryptocurrency, a major milestone for an industry that has spent heavily to st...
July 18, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — House Republicans were grasping late Thursday to formulate a response to the Trump administration’s handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex traffickin...
July 18, 2025 National News
NEW YORK — When limits on liquids were introduced at TSA checkpoints across the country in 2006, bins overflowed with bottled water, toothpaste, shaving cream and so much...
July 18, 2025 National News
NEW YORK — CBS is axing “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in May 2026, the host told an audience at a taping Thursday. The announcement came two days after Colbert sp...
July 17, 2025 Arts & Entertainment
WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will be given access to the personal data of the nation’s 79 million Medicaid enrollees, including home address...
July 17, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — The House was preparing late Thursday to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid as Re...
July 17, 2025 National News
Andrea Gibson, a celebrated poet and performance artist who through their verse explored gender identity, politics and their 4-year battle with terminal ovarian cancer, d...
July 17, 2025 National News
A group of immigrants and legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants w...
July 16, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the cases agai...
July 16, 2025 National News
The weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday was showing a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression as it moves toward the northern Gulf Co...
July 16, 2025 National News
OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska is suing Colorado over the amount of water it draws from the South Platte River, the latest in a long history of water rights disputes between the ...
July 16, 2025 National News
Twenty Democratic-led states, including Pennsylvania, filed suit Wednesday against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, challenging the elimination of a long-running ...
July 16, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — Travelers giddy about being able to keep their shoes on while walking through TSA checkpoints at the airport again may have something else to look forward to...
July 16, 2025 National News
WEST PITTSTON, Luzerne County — Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday made the Trump administration’s first big pitch to sell the public on President Donald Trump’s sweepi...
July 16, 2025 National News
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, whil...
July 16, 2025 National News
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was “highly unlikely” to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a public statement made less than 24 hours a...
July 16, 2025 National News
The tropical weather system moving across the Florida Panhandle on Wednesday was showing a greater chance of becoming a tropical depression as it moves toward the norther...
July 16, 2025 National News
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Crews fighting a wildfire that destroyed the nearly century-old Grand Canyon Lodge were focused Tuesday on stopping the flames from co...
July 15, 2025 National News
MINNEAPOLIS — A federal grand jury indicted a Minnesota man Tuesday on charges that he fatally shot a prominent Minnesota state representative and her husband and serious...
July 15, 2025 National News
NEW YORK — Two people in New Jersey were killed after their vehicle was swept up in floodwaters during a storm that moved across the U.S. Northeast overnight, authorities...
July 15, 2025 National News
NEW YORK — The lights are on at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau across the street from the White House, and employees still get paid. But in practice, the bureau...
July 15, 2025 Business
NEW YORK — Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immig...
July 14, 2025 Business
Major U.S. trading partners rattled
Major U.S. trading partners rattled
July 14, 2025 Business
DENVER — A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own parking lot. It came fro...
July 12, 2025 National News
Officials discuss its impact
Officials discuss its impact
July 12, 2025 Pennsylvania News
While much attention over the past year has been focused on Corey Comperatore — who was killed last year at the Butler Farm Show grounds during a campaign rally for then-...
July 12, 2025 National News
David Gergen, a veteran of Washington politics and an adviser to four presidents in a career spanning decades in government, academia and media, has died. He was 83. Gerg...
July 12, 2025 National News
KERRVILLE, Texas — President Donald Trump on Friday toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that the...
July 11, 2025 National News
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