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Updated April 19, 2025, at 1:02 a.m.

The White House had not intended to send its revised — and more aggressive — set of demands to Harvard on April 11, according to a report by the New York Times published Friday evening.

The demands — which were seen as excessive and il
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ROME (AP) — Iran and the United States began a second round of negotiations Saturday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program in Rome, U.S. and Iranian officials said.

The U.S. official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the closed-door negotiations at the Oma
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Amid the abandoned chemistry notes and other debris left behind after a deadly shooting at Florida State University are lingering questions about how the stepson of a beloved sheriff’s deputy tasked with school safety at a middle school became the acc
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Harvard University was told by an unidentified official on Trump’s antisemitism task force that a letter of demands had been sent to the university without authorization, the New York Times reports, citing two unidentified people familiar with the matter.

The letter included a
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A Tufts University student from Turkey being held in a Louisiana immigration facility must be returned to New England no later than May 1 to determine whether she was illegally detained for co-writing an op-ed piece in the student newspaper, a federal judge ruled Friday.

U.S. Di
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Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont AP NewsDetained Turkish student must be transferred from Louisiana for hearing, judge rules The GuardianUS judge rules Rumeysa Ozturk must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont Al JazeeraJudge o
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As multiple rounds of gunfire erupted near Florida State University’s student union minutes before noon on Thursday, students ran away from the campus trying to get to safety as the sound of emergency sirens grew louder.

Just two minutes after 911 calls reported the shooting,
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The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of a group of accused Venezuelan gang members.

A civil liberties group is suing the administration over planned deportations of Venezuelans detained in north Texas under an 18th-century wartime la
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida State University students returned to campus Friday — though not to classes — and retrieved books and belongings they’d left behind in panic when a gunman opened fire the day before. By early afternoon, a makeshift memorial to the two people killed a
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A federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports, as well as the changing of gender markers.

U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, who was appointed by former Presiden
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US: Trump says will 'pass' on Ukraine talks if too difficult

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Published 04/19/2025Published April 19, 2025

US President Donald Trump said the clock was ticking on closing a Ukraine peace deal. Meanwhile, the US will reduce the number o
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in the early hours of Saturday told the Trump administration not to take any action to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members currently based in Texas while litigation continues.

The court did not grant or deny an application filed by lawyers for
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Kilmar Abrego García, a father and husband who was mistakenly deported to a megaprison in El Salvador, was transferred to a different facility nine days ago after spending weeks in a cell with 25 other migrants, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) said on Friday.

Van Hollen spok
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The Trump administration has ramped up its war with Harvard University in an order demanding that the Ivy League school hand over its foreign financial disclosures as well as information on all foreign-born faculty.

In a Friday press release, the Department of Education (ED) acc
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Meanwhile, at a hastily called district-court hearing, a Justice Department lawyer said that no deportation flights were scheduled for Friday evening, and that the Department of Homeland Security was “not aware of any current plans” for deportation flights on Saturday.

But t
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Two people were killed and six others were injured when a gunman opened fire at Florida State University, sending students fleeing from the student union and putting the Tallahassee, Florida, campus under lockdown.

Authorities have identified the shoot
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BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

In an executive order signed in January, the president used
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A divided panel of judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily paused an effort by District Court Judge James Boasberg to further investigate whether the Trump administration engaged in criminal contempt by refusing to turn around two flights of alleged Venezuelan
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BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, who was appoint
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Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice but to take on the White House.

The university announced
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Auburn University students and staff have been caught up in President Donald Trump’s efforts to curb immigration.

Fifteen people have been notified their visas were revoked by the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, according to a cam
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Two Florida State University students recounted the horror of Thursday's deadly campus shooting, with one survivor saying the gunman told students, "Keep running."

On Friday, the two people killed in the attack were identified by family members and their representatives as Robert M
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In a dramatic turn from election night, Barbara Lee now leads the Oakland mayoral contest — with 53% of the vote after the ranked-choice runoff.

Dozens of workers have spent the three days since polls closed Tuesday night tallying about 44,000 ballots, which were added to roug
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President Donald Trump on Friday said negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are “coming to a head” and insisted that neither side is “playing” him in his push to end the grinding war.

Trump spoke after Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned earlier in the day that the U
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WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security released a Homeland Security Investigations’ Combined Intelligence Unit (CIU) Investigative Referral report on Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The report details the traffic stop encounter that led law enforcement officers to sus
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Trump ranted to aides about washing his hands of Russia-Ukraine AxiosTrump Administration Bolsters Putin With Hint of Abandoning Ukraine Talks The New York TimesTrump says US will 'take a pass' on Ukraine peace efforts if Russia refuses to play ball Fox NewsUS Offers to Ease San
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Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union pressed on multiple fronts late Friday to stop the Trump administration from deporting another group of Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members under the expansive powers of a rarely invoked wartime law.

More than 50 Venez
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A federal judge on Friday ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana to be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper.
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered an immediate halt to the planned firings of nearly 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and is ordering the Trump administration to hand over communications and make top officials available for testimony to
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A U.S. official tells ABC News that there is planning underway for an imminent U.S. military deportation flight under the Alien Enemies Act.

The development comes as attorneys for several Venezuelan migrants who are being held in a detention center in Texas said they believe the
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Two of the victims of the deadly shooting on Florida State University’s campus Thursday have been identified.

Former Leon High assistant football coach Robert Morales and Tiru Chabba of Greenville, South Carolina, lost their lives Thursday after 20-y
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Vatican City, Apr 18, 2025 / 12:05 pm

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his family attended the Vatican’s Liturgy for the Lord’s Passion in St. Peter’s Basilica on Good Friday during the first day of an April 18–20 visit to Rome.

On his trip, Vance — who is a convert to
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Ricardo and Robert Morales parted ways in 1982 after a gunshot killed their father, a Cuban-American exile turned CIA informant in Miami known as "Monkey," and tore their family apart.

It took over three decades for the brothers to reconnect after finding each other online. But on
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Wrongly deported Ábrego García traumatized at El Salvador's CECOT megaprison: Van Hollen AxiosSen. Chris Van Hollen says Abrego Garcia described being ‘traumatized’ at CECOT, has been moved to different detention center CNNWhat we know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, man mista
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon.

Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Dari
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Defense secretary’s chief of staff to leave top job in wake of DOD turmoil PoliticoView Full Coverage on Google News
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Maryland senator says Kilmar Abrego Garcia was traumatized in El Salvador after mistaken deportation NBC NewsSen. Chris Van Hollen says Abrego Garcia described being ‘traumatized’ at CECOT, has been moved to different detention center CNNWhat we know about Kilmar Abrego Gar
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen joined the wife and mother of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the migrant who the government said in court was erroneously deported to El Salvador, Friday afternoon after he returned from his trip to the country and demanded the Trump administration bring him home and
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President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States could walk away from the negotiating table to end the Russia-Ukraine war, echoing warnings from Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

In a press conference from the Oval Office, Trump repeated his desire to get the war in Ukrai
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Van Hollen on Thursday secured a face-to-face meeting with Abrego Garcia, who was illegally deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador and held in the country’s CECOT mega-prison for the past month. The Maryland senator has led the charge for Democrats pushing for acco
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A Florida State University graduate student shared with ABC News the harrowing moments she was shot on campus and forced to play dead as the gunman reloaded.

Madison Askins, 23, one of seven people shot near FSU's student union on Thursday, said she was walking with a friend when
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Harvard is receiving an average of 88 online donations an hour as alumni rally behind University President Alan M. Garber ’76’s resounding rebuke of the White House’s demands on Monday.

Between Garber’s email and 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Harvard received nearly 4,000 online
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The Trump administration on Thursday accused Harvard University of failing to report large foreign donations to the federal government as required by law, part of a widening effort to target the institution after it refused to comply with President Trump’s demands.

In a letter
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ROME (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance met with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Friday for a second day of talks on tariffs and then attended Good Friday services at the Vatican amid speculation of a possible pope greeting this weekend.

“I’ve been missing you,
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Gary Shapley, whom President Donald Trump named acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service earlier this week, will no longer serve in the role, according to a White House official and a source briefed on the matter.

Michael Faulkender, the deputy secretary of the Treasu
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Legal battles between the Trump administration and advocates for deportees flown to prison in El Salvador have turned into conflicts between the government and the judges overseeing those cases. One federal judge, James Boasberg, accused Trump administration lawyers of the “wil
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Democratic governor of Wisconsin’s creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The 4-3 ruling from the liberal-controlled court affirms the partial veto power o
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An escaped U.S. inmate, who was wanted for killing a member of a Mexican police unit known as the "Gringo Hunters" during a shootout last week, has been caught in Tijuana, officials said.

Cesar Hernandez, who had been convicted and sentenced for murder in California, allegedly kil
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April 18 (Reuters) - Two Venezuelan men detained in Texas were told by a U.S. official that they will be deported imminently under an 18th century American wartime law, lawyers for some Venezuelan migrants told a U.S. federal court on Friday.

In a court filing, lawyers for the A
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The Florida State University community is reeling and police are searching for a motive after a gunman opened fire on the Tallahassee campus on Thursday, killing two and injuring six.

When the suspect, 20-year-old FSU student Phoenix Ikner, was confronted by responders, he didn't
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A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from deporting noncitizens to countries other than their place of origin without due process.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy issued an injunction that bars the Trump administration from deporting any noncitizen to a co
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Gary Shapley, the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approached President Donald Trump to say that Shapley was placed into the agency without his knowledge and at Elon Musk’s direction, according to a so
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WASHINGTON, April 18 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration said on Friday it sought Harvard University's records on foreign funding going back a decade and on some foreign ties, in the government's latest escalation against the educational institution.

The Trump admin
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The Internal Revenue Service is considering revoking Harvard University’s tax-exempt status and a decision could be made in the coming days, sources told ABC News on Thursday.

The White House has already put a freeze on $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in mult
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled Friday that the bureau can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees.

U.S. District Judge Amy
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Two people were killed and at least six others wounded during a mass shooting at Florida State University (FSU) on Thursday, according to investigators in the United States.

Here is what we know so far about the suspect, victims and the investigation into the incident:

What hap
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The sentence, dull but clear, was buried 158 pages into Wisconsin’s budget.

“For the limit for the 2023-24 school year and the 2024-25 school year,” the sentence read when it was passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature, “add $325” to the amount school districts
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When a gunman opened fire near the student union at Florida State University on Thursday, killing two and wounding six, for student Robbie Alhadeff, the tragedy on his Tallahassee campus brought him back to another school shooting.

Alhadeff's sister, 14-year-old Alyssa, was one o
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The Pocatello Police Department has released body camera footage of the shooting of 17-year-old Victor Perez. Warning to viewers, the content is difficult to watch and contains graphic images and language.

The shooting, which has drawn national attention and already , drew insta
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The United States has unveiled plans to impose new port fees on Chinese ships, saying it aims to revive American shipbuilding against China’s dominance in the industry.

President Donald Trump has embarked on a sweeping trade war with China, a move his administration portrays a
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April 18 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport hundreds if not thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted, tortur
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Two people died and six others were injured at Florida State University in Tallahassee on Thursday when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire near the student union, law enforcement officials said.

The suspect was shot and wounded by police officers after he disregarded their command
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New Trump policy to speed deportations cannot be implemented, US judge rules ReutersTrump Administration Blames Boasberg for Escalating Tensions Between Courts and White House The New York TimesTrue to the Last National ReviewJudge says Trump officials could be found in contem
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he was blocked Thursday from entering the El Salvador prison that is holding the Maryland resident whom the courts say was erroneously deported from the United States last month.

The Maryland senator, who flew to the country on Wednesday, share
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POCATELLO — The city has released additional footage of a police shooting that has brought national attention to Pocatello.

Mayor Brian Blad and Police Chief Roger Schei add
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Democratic governor of Wisconsin’s creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The 4-3 ruling from the liberal-controlled court affirms the partial veto power o
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The Trump administration’s argument that the mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of MS-13 is based largely on a confidential tip long disputed by him and his family.

The Trump administration’s claims rely on the findings of an immigration court judge who dec
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After attacking judges and repeatedly sidestepping their orders, the Trump administration has accused a federal judge in Washington of escalating tensions between the judicial and executive branches by seeking to hold the White House accountable for its courtroom behavior.

The a
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WASHINGTON — A controversial deportation case has opened up a rift within the Democratic Party over how aggressively to go after President Donald Trump on an issue that has been one of his biggest political strengths.

Some members of the party are leaning heavily into Maryland
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President Trump said on Thursday that the shooting at Florida State University in Tallahassee that killed two people and injured six was a “shame,” but suggested that it would not prompt him to support any new gun control legislation.

“These things are terrible, but the gu
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April 17 (Reuters) - Ukraine and the United States on Thursday signed a memorandum as an initial step towards the clinching of an agreement on developing minerals in Ukraine, Yulia Svyrydenko, Ukraine's first deputy prime minister and economy minister, said.

"We are happy to annou
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A federal judge has once again blocked Department of Government Efficiency staffers who are operating inside the Social Security Administration (SSA) from accessing sensitive personal information of millions of Americans.

The issuing of a preliminary injunction comes in a lawsui
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President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order 14176, Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on January 23, 2025. Records relating to the assassination of S
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Police in Idaho released body-worn and security camera recordings Thursday showing officers fatally shooting a knife-wielding, intellectually disabled teenage boy from the other side of a chain link fence, confirming that they made no effort to de-escalate the situation before op
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Members of the Florida State University community will return to the areas in and around the student union building on Friday for the first time since Thursday's shooting.

They are being allowed there to retrieve the personal belongings they left behind -- items abandoned in the
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'It could have been me': FSU student who saw gunman fire first few shots recounts harrowing shooting ABC NewsWhat we know about the Florida State University shooting suspect CNNDeputy's son kills 2, injures 6 in shooting at Florida State University, police say: Updates USA TodayW
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Among the threats tariffs pose to the U.S. economy, none may be as strange as the sell-off in the dollar.

The likeness of George Washington is seen on a U.S. one dollar bill, March 13, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Currencies rise and fall all the ti
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The Trump administration has unveiled its plan to impose port fees on Chinese ships as it tries to revive shipbuilding in the US and challenge China's dominance of the industry.

The US Trade Representative's (USTR) announcement is less severe than a plan floated in February to hit
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‘It could have been me’: FSU student who saw gunman fire first few shots recounts harrowing shooting ABC NewsMore details emerge about Florida State University shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner as motive remains a mystery Fox NewsFlorida State shooting latest: 2 confirmed dead
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Harvard University’s finances have become the latest target of the Trump administration – and experts say the hits could hurt.

In the past week, the administration has threatened Harvard University’s funding from multiple angles: freezing billions in federal funds, and pot
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Days after an arson attack damaged his official residence, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro sat down with Good Morning America co-anchor George Stephanopoulos for an exclusive interview and a tour of the charred rooms.

"This is sadly a real part of our society today. And it needs t
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The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for two key federal programs that help millions of low-income Americans educate their young children and heat their homes.

A draft of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year calls for endin
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“Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng brutally checked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday after the health secretary made several claims about what people living with autism can’t do.

“Enough about RFK, let’s move on to Elon Musk, living proof th
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — When a 20-year-old opened fire at Florida State University, terrified students barricaded doors and fled across campus, abandoning chemistry notes and even shoes, in a shooting that investigators said killed two men and wounded at least six others.

By
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Wife of man erroneously deported defends him amid domestic violence claim AxiosWhat we know about Kilmar Abrego Garcia and MS-13 allegations BBCNew documents detail government's case that mistakenly deported man was a gang member NBC NewsAbrego Garcia’s wife responds to Trump
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The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia - a 29-year-old from El Salvador who was deported from the US in March - has prompted a legal
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A US-born man initially charged with being an “unauthorized alien” in Florida has been released after spending the night in jail on a 48-hour hold requested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, 20, was arrested by Florida Highway Patrol Wednesd
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President Donald Trump said Thursday that he expects an agreement "over the next three to four weeks" that would end the escalating trade war with China.

"I believe we're going to have a deal with China," said Trump during an executive order signing session in the Oval Office alongsi
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Ukraine's government has announced the signing of the outline of a minerals deal between the war-torn country and the US.

Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said the memorandum of intent paved the way for what she called an economic partnership agreement.

She said a final deal wo
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It took Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni exactly two sentences in the Oval Office on Thursday to signal to her host she was a kindred spirit.

“We both share another fight, which is the fight against the woke and DEI ideology that would like to erase our history,” she
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It was an ordinary afternoon for Jayden D’Onofrio, who was spending time with a friend at their apartment complex when they received a text that made their blood run cold.

An active shooter was on campus, and their friend was hiding in the library.

Without a second thought, t
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The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear expedited oral arguments next month over President Donald Trump's emergency request to rollback nationwide injunctions against his executive order to end birthright citizenship.

The nation's highest court set arguments for May 15 at
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The suspect accused of gunning down two people and injuring five others at Florida State University on Thursday is the son of a local sheriff’s deputy, authorities say, and spent time training with law enforcement and serving on a sheriff’s advisory council in the years befor
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A highly anticipated resentencing hearing for convicted killers Erik and Lyle Menendez kicked off on Thursday before unravelling and being postponed by a judge.

The hearing was set to decide whether the brothers, serving life without the possibility of parole, should receive a n
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BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday imposed new restrictions on billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, limiting its access to Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a
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WASHINGTON, April 17 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signaled a potential end to the tit-for-tat tariff hikes between the U.S. and China that shocked markets, and that a deal over the fate of social media platform TikTok may have to wait.

"I don't want them to
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