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June 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Bill Moyers, a key member of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson’s inner circle and later a guiding force in American journalism during more than 40 years in public television, has died...

June 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to deport migrant Kilmar Abrego for a second time, but does not plan to send him back to El Salvador, where he was...

June 27, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Summer started barely a week ago, and already the United States has been smothered in a record-breaking “heat dome.” Alaska saw its first-ever heat advisory this month. And all of...

June 27, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

TENNESSEE RIDGE, Tenn. — They were just drills, but each felt urgent and real. A group of volunteers searched a wooded area for someone who had been injured and stranded, ready to provid...

June 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

NEW YORK — The dollar hit a three-and-a-half-year low against the euro and sterling on Thursday in a broad selloff as traders priced in the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will cut r...

June 27, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

NEW YORK — In their closing argument at the sex-trafficking and racketeering trial of Sean Combs, federal prosecutors on Thursday depicted the music mogul as a brazen criminal who abused...

June 27, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Planned Parenthood and one of its patients cannot sue South Carolina over its effort to deny funding to the group, reasoning that the r...

June 26, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

In 1947, against the best navigational advice, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set sail from Peru on a balsa wood raft to test his theory that ancient South American cu...

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

President Donald Trump compared the impact of American strikes on Iranian nuclear sites to the end of World War II on Wednesday, arguing that the damage was severe even though available intell...

June 26, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

President Donald Trump hailed the swift end to war between Iran and Israel and said Washington would likely seek a commitment from Tehran to end its nuclear ambitions at talks with Iranian off...

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

NEW YORK — In a soaring speech on a Queens rooftop in the early minutes of Wednesday morning, Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City,...

June 26, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Meta fends off authors’ US copyright lawsuit over AI

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax-cut legislation would effectively transfer wealth from younger Americans to older generations, nonpartisan analysts say....

June 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Nvidia’s stock hit a record high on Wednesday, and the chipmaker reclaimed the crown as the world’s most valuable company after an analyst said the chipmaker was set to ride a &ldq...

June 26, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

CHICAGO — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s newly reconstituted vaccine advisory panel said during its first meeting on Wednesday that it would study the schedule of ch...

June 26, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is creating two additional expanded military zones at the southwestern border, to be patrolled by U.S. soldiers, in the Trump administration’s latest step...