What happened President Donald Trump Thursday signed an executive order to shut down the Education Department “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law.” He said he was “going to eliminate” the department, a longstanding goal of many conservatives […]
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What happened Scientists with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), an international research collaboration, presented new evidence Wednesday that bolstered its recent finding that dark energy is not inexorably pushing the universe apart at a constant rate of acceleration but
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What happened Texas authorities arrested a Houston-area midwife for allegedly attempting to perform abortions, state Attorney General Ken Paxton said Monday. The charges against Maria Margarita Rojas and an employee at one of her clinics, Jose Ley, marked the “first
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What happened Israel Tuesday morning launched what it called “extensive strikes” on Hamas “terror targets” across Gaza, its first major attack on the Palestinian enclave since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government signed a ceasefire agreement with Hamas two months ago.
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What happened The Trump administration said Sunday it had deported dozens of Venezuelans to El Salvador on Saturday under an executive proclamation President Donald Trump quietly signed Friday, claiming wartime powers under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to summarily expel
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What happened Yemen’s Houthi-run health ministry said Sunday that large-scale U.S. airstrikes over the weekend killed at least 53 people, including women and children. Houthi leaders vowed retaliation and targeted U.S. warships, though their drones and missiles were intercepted. President
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What happened At least 40 people were killed over the weekend in a complex of powerful tornadoes, wind-fueled wildfires and dust storms across the Midwest and South. Mississippi was whipped by 32 of the 81 tornadoes, and Missouri recorded at
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What happened Pakistan’s military said Wednesday it had freed hundreds of passengers from a train hijacked by separatist militants in Balochistan province on Tuesday. Security forces killed 33 hijackers during the rescue operation, the army said, and four military personnel
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What happened An Oklahoma grand jury Wednesday indicted Robert Morris, the founder of a prominent Dallas-area megachurch and former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, on five counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child. Morris, 63, resigned as
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What happened Federal judges in Maryland and California Thursday ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers they said were improperly fired across 19 agencies. Thursday was also President Donald Trump’s deadline for federal agencies to submit plans
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