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Public health advocates in Georgia have canceled a major annual conference, more than 100 public health workers have been let go and state agencies are now limiting other spending as the Trump administration last week ...Read more

The Israeli army carried out multiple airstrikes in different parts of Syria on Wednesday, including the capital Damascus, and “almost completely destroyed” a military airport in another major city as Israel continues ...Read more

ATLANTA — After a decade of fierce debate, Georgia approved one of the most divisive bills in recent state history by passing a “religious liberty” measure that supporters say protects faith-based beliefs from ...Read more

For a brief moment, it looked like Wall Street’s worst fears about President Donald Trump’s tariff plans were misplaced — and a relief rally started rippling through markets.

Then, as he stood in the White House ...Read more

The U.K. refrained from retaliation and said it would maintain its push for a U.S. trade deal after President Donald Trump slapped tariffs of 10% on all imports from Britain as part of a wider global package which he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump did not blink Wednesday while resurrecting an economic policy approach last used 95 years ago, a move that will shape his second term and help decide the fate of his “Make America ...Read more

The 2028 presidential election is a long way off, but Americans already have thoughts on who they might be willing to support, new polling shows.

In the latest YouGov/Economist poll, most Democrats said they’d consider ...Read more

After Andrea Martinez gave birth to her daughter, she could take only four weeks of leave — two weeks paid, two weeks unpaid. As a single mother with one income, she returned to work quickly to support her three ...Read more

Defense appropriators in Congress have recommended adding nearly $15 billion the Pentagon did not request in fiscal 2025 for several hundred military research and procurement programs, a new database shows.

In most cases,...Read more

NEW YORK — A group of Columbia University students on Wednesday afternoon chained themselves to locked campus gates to protest the arrest of pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil.

“We demand to know the names of ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The number of people seriously hurt falling off the U.S.-Mexico border wall in San Diego County has dropped sharply since the Trump administration intensified security measures, according to the two trauma ...Read more

CHICAGO — Two days before Tuesday’s local elections, the Illinois Republican Party sent out an email to supporters declaring it to be “a do or die moment for us.”

The email was just another in a series of ...Read more

Crop prices tend to spike when there’s a shock to the global economy.

President Donald Trump’s new round of tariffs announced Wednesday will certainly act like a defibrillator across farm country, but experts say it ...Read more

Apple Inc. is finding itself squarely in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, even after a yearslong effort to insulate the iPhone maker from trade wars and supply chain disruptions.

A long list of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Four Republicans joined Democrats in the Senate to pass, 51-48, a joint resolution Wednesday that would effectively end President Donald Trump’s steep tariffs on Canadian goods in a vote that revealed GOP ...Read more

MIAMI — The Trump administration will resume housing detained immigrants in Glades County Detention Center, just three years after the facility’s use was limited for what the federal government said were “persistent ...Read more

NEW YORK — Pussy Riot, the provocative, political Russian punk band, came to Washington Square Park Wednesday to deliver a stern warning: “Wake up, America!”

Their faces hidden behind red ski masks, six members of ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan Supreme Court knocked down a 25-year-old precedent Wednesday, deciding that the smell of marijuana should no longer independently provide law enforcement with probable cause to search a ...Read more