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April 5, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

An American tourist set off alone last week on an inflatable boat for the remote island of North Sentinel in the Indian Ocean. He had packed a Diet Coke and a coconut as an offering for the hi...

April 5, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military pressed deeper into northern Gaza by ground on Friday after issuing a series of evacuation orders calling on Palestinians to flee, part of its escalating...

April 5, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

GREENBELT, Md. — A federal judge gave the Trump administration until the end of Monday to return to the United States a Maryland man who was inadvertently deported to El Salvador last mo...

April 5, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian missile strike Friday on Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine, killed at least 16 people, including six children, and wounded more than 50, local officials sai...

April 5, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

Over the past few days, more than 30 tornadoes have shredded a vast stretch of the central United States, and relentless rain has pushed creeks and streams beyond their banks. In Kentucky, flo...

April 5, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

The Trump administration on Friday rejected a Biden administration plan that would have required Medicare and Medicaid to cover obesity drugs and expanded access for millions of people....

April 4, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

For three years, the U.S. economy has been buffeted by rapid inflation, high interest rates and political instability at home and abroad. Yet it has proved surprisingly resilient, supported by...

April 4, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

Laptop computers from Taiwan, wine from Italy, frozen shrimp from India, Nike sneakers from Vietnam and Irish butter.

April 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Forecasters predict above-average 2025 Atlantic hurricane season

April 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

A deadly spring storm killed at least seven people and spawned tornadoes and drenching thunderstorms in a swath of the U.S. stretching from Texas to Ohio for a second day on Thursday, raising...

April 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

BOSTON — Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order that compels voters to prove they are U.S. citizen...

April 4, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

At least six White House National Security Council officials have been fired or reassigned, according to several people familiar with the matter, in what appears to be the first significant pu...

April 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans took a procedural step forward on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cut agenda on Thursday, overcoming concerns among some Republican lawma...

April 4, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s Inspector General’s office announced on Thursday it was opening a probe into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of an unclassified commerc...

April 4, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

CAIRO/GAZA — Hundreds of thousands of fleeing Gazans sought shelter on Thursday in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war, as Israeli forces advanced into the ruins of the city...

April 3, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would impose a 10% baseline tariff on all imports to the United States and higher duties on some of the country’s biggest trading partners, drawing de...