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May 5, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump “shows an openness” to work requirements for Medicaid, Jason Smith, chair of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, s...

May 5, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

CAIRO — Hamas has executed a number of alleged looters after several incidents in which heavily armed gangs attacked food stores and community kitchens in the Gaza Strip this week, sourc...

May 5, 2025 | 3 MIN READ

Ukraine is getting more help in its war with Russia.

May 5, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Trump directs Federal Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz

May 4, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — For those tens of millions of Americans who regard President Donald Trump’s bull-in-a-china-shop decade of political life as a waking nightmare, what may be hardest to...

May 4, 2025 | 2 MIN READ

Warren E. Buffett has been at the forefront of American capitalism for decades as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, the conglomerate he built into a $1.1 trillion colossus.

May 4, 2025 | 1 MIN READ

Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling on...

May 4, 2025 | 5 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk and SpaceX are big winners in President Donald Trump’s 2026 spending plan.

May 4, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

SYDNEY — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia has won a second term, completing a stunning turnaround for his governing center-left Labor Party that trailed in the polls for mont...

May 4, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

JERUSALEM — Israel will mobilize thousands of reserve soldiers to bolster its campaign against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the military announced Saturday night, as the country appeared poi...

May 3, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday proposed slashing $163 billion in federal spending next fiscal year, a drastic retrenchment in the role and reach of government that, if ena...

May 3, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

The Trump administration on Friday officially eliminated a loophole that had allowed American shoppers to buy cheap goods from China without paying tariffs. The move will help U.S. manufacture...

May 3, 2025 | 7 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — More companies are starting to warn that they will have to pass on higher costs to American consumers, raising prices for products like strollers, mattresses, power tools an...

May 3, 2025 | 6 MIN READ

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s announcement that he planned to change the name of Veterans Day, on Nov. 11, to “Victory Day for World War I” prompted a backlash...

May 3, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

With the United States facing its largest single measles outbreak in 25 years, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potentia...

May 3, 2025 | 4 MIN READ

A ship carrying 16 people and humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip was rocked by explosions early Friday off the coast of Malta, setting the vessel on fire and putting it at risk of sinking, acc...