America

WASHINGTON — The Trump White House issued a proclamation Friday recognizing February as Black History Month around the same time the U.S. Defense Department issued guidance declaring "identity months dead.” The conflicting messages came as…
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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to block $45 million in U.S. federal funding for over 400 Burmese students has left many in shock and dismay as their scholarships were abruptly canceled. The move also has raised concerns…
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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — At least seven people died when a medevac plane crashed in Philadelphia on Friday, including six Mexicans aboard the plane and one person who was on the ground, Mexico's president and Philadelphia's mayor said…
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NAIROBI, KENYA — Many people across Africa are shocked and worried about the 90-day pause on U.S.-funded foreign aid and a stop-work order on existing grants and contracts worldwide. While the orders have been modified to allow waivers for…
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Many people first learn about the horrors of the Holocaust through the diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish teenager who with seven others spent more than two years hiding from the Nazis inside a secret annex in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Recently,…
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to embark on his first official trip as the nation’s top diplomat on Saturday, with planned visits to Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic from…
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OXON HILL, MARYLAND — Democrats, seeking a new message and messengers to push back against the Trump administration, will elect a new leader Saturday in a low-profile Democratic National Committee election that could have big implications…
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday fired a group of prosecutors involved in the Jan. 6 criminal cases and demanded the names of FBI agents involved in those same probes so they can possibly be ousted, moves that reflect a White…
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Donald Trump said Friday that any collective bargaining agreements reached with federal workers within 30 days of his inauguration will not be approved, the latest salvo in the U.S. president's bid to remake the federal workforce. In a memo…
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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious disease known as the "strangling…
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