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Trump slams 'kangaroo court' as SCOTUS debates birthright citizenship

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President Donald Trump Thursday posted “Kangaroo Court!!!” in an apparent jab at the Supreme Court after it heard oral arguments in a case over birthright citizenship.

Although he didn’t elaborate, Trump’s two-word early morning outburst on his social media site seemed a reference to the conservative justices who sounded very skeptical ...Read more

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NASA's No. 1 priority: Artemis II toilet fixed before trip to moon

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The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission around the moon got some relief overnight after troubleshooting a malfunctioning toilet on the Orion spacecraft.

It’s not as if there was a plumbing backup on the toilet that will make history as the first ever in deep space. Instead, the crew reported a blinking fault light.

“We had a ...Read more

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Trump threats on Iran civilian sites raise escalation fears

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President Donald Trump’s repeated threat to destroy Iranian civilian infrastructure is the latest sign of the U.S. leader’s increasing detachment from international norms and the bounds of modern warfare, a trend that’s alienating traditional allies.

Trump has pushed into legally contested territory both abroad and at home in his second ...Read more

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Trump vows to pay DHS workers as Republicans plod towards shutdown-ending deal

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President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to pay all federal Department of Homeland Security workers as congressional Republicans struggled to end the record-setting partial goverment shutdown that is set to extend through Easter weekend.

“I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department of Homeland Security,” ...Read more

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A year after 'Liberation Day,' what did Trump's tariffs achieve?

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WASHINGTON — One year ago, Donald Trump stood in a sun-kissed, unpaved Rose Garden and defiantly announced a new era of global trade, raising tariffs on countries worldwide and sending shock waves through the global economy.

The president promised short-term pain rippling through American households would make way for a U.S. economy that ...Read more

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Coral Springs vice mayor dead; husband charged with murder

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Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was found dead at her home on Wednesday morning, and her husband, Stephen Bowen, has been charged with premeditated murder.

Officers found the vice mayor dead at her home in the 800 block of Northwest 127th Avenue at about 10 a.m. Wednesday while conducting an investigation into her “well-being,”...Read more

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Trump under pressure as oil surges on fears of prolonged war

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U.S. President Donald Trump is coming under increasing international pressure after he pledged in a primetime speech to continue the war on Iran, sparking further turmoil in energy markets, with little sign the Strait of Hormuz will be open soon.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said Trump’s demands for help reopening the vital ...Read more

NYC sees safest first quarter ever for pedestrian, car or truck fatalities

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NEW YORK — On the heels of record-low traffic fatalities during 2025, city data shows the first quarter of 2026 to have been among the safest on New York City streets on record.

So far this year, 42 people have been killed in traffic incidents in the city, the third safest start to the year since the city started keeping records more than 100...Read more

A statue of civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns is unveiled in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 16, 2025, in Washington.  Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did

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The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence isn’t the only important anniversary in 2026. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of an extraordinary case of student activism that helped lead to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregated schools.

In April 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized a ...Read more

Colin Gray enters the Barrow County courthouse on Sept. 6, 2024, in Winder, Ga.  AP Photo/Brynn Anderson

Irresponsible parental gun ownership could become a factor in custody disputes

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The first parents convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a mass school shooting committed by their child were Jennifer and James Crumbley. The Crumbleys were convicted in 2024, after their 15-year-old son Ethan killed four students at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021.

In March 2026, Colin Gray became the first parent ...Read more

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Better urban design could help save Florida’s threatened Big Cypress fox squirrel

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Florida is home to a host of diverse wildlife you can’t find anywhere else. Most people know of manatees and Florida panthers. But you might never have heard of the Big Cypress fox squirrel, a subspecies found only in southwest Florida.

At up to 2 feet, 3 inches (68.5 centimeters) long, including its tail, and weighing roughly 3 ...Read more

A nuclear bomb explodes at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in 1946, one of several U.S. test explosions. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Bypass the Strait of Hormuz with nuclear explosives? The US studied that in Panama and Colombia in the 1960s

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With the world struggling to get oil supplies moving from the Middle East, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich raised eyebrows with a social media post highlighting a radical idea: Use nuclear bombs to cut a new channel along a route that would avoid Iranian threats in the Strait of Hormuz.

Gingrich’s March 15, 2026, post linked to ...Read more

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AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains

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A friend in Indonesia recently told me about a conversation he had with ChatGPT. He had typed a question in Indonesian – Bahasa Indonesia – about how to handle a difficult family dispute. The chatbot responded fluently, in perfect Indonesian, with advice about communication strategies and conflict resolution. The grammar was flawless. The...Read more

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For adults with ADHD – or even those with just some symptoms – using smart strategies to start and complete tasks can make all the difference

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Do you ever find yourself at the end of a nonstop day feeling like you haven’t made progress on the things that are actually important to you? If so, you’re not alone.

If you are a person with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, you might find it even harder to direct your effort toward what’s most important – ...Read more

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Californians say democracy is in peril, state should enact voting rights protections, poll shows

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LOS ANGELES — Strong majorities of California voters believe American democracy is under attack and, in the wake of U.S. Supreme Court rulings narrowing federal protections, support enacting a new state Voting Rights Act to prohibit discrimination and efforts to suppress the ability to cast a ballot, a new poll showed.

The survey showed a ...Read more

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Iranians reel from US-Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure

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As the war on Iran enters its second month, reports from state media and residents in the Islamic Republic indicate mounting attacks on civilian infrastructure including homes, factories and electricity facilities.

Iran’s Red Crescent Society, part of the international humanitarian network, said on March 30 that U.S.-Israeli airstrikes had ...Read more

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Inside the high-stakes corporate fight over feeding preterm babies

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In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants.

The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement...Read more

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States pay Deloitte, others millions to comply with Trump law to cut Medicaid rolls

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States are paying contractors such as Deloitte, Accenture, and Optum millions of dollars to help them comply with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — a law that will strip safety-net health and food benefits from millions.

State governments rely on such companies to design and operate computer systems that assess whether low-income people ...Read more

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How Trump's expansion of federal power threatens states' authority

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As the United States of America marks its 250th anniversary this year, the relationship between the states and the federal government is approaching a breaking point.

Led by a bellicose president, the executive branch has moved to dominate states, resulting in more than a year of escalating confrontations between the two levels of government.

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Trump's hunt for undocumented Medicaid enrollees yields few violators

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Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration status.

But seven months later, findings from five states shared with KFF Health...Read more