What happened Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday night that faced with two “terrible” options, he will vote for a House Republican stopgap spending bill, and he reportedly said he had enough Democratic votes to overcome a filibuster […]
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What happened Southwest Airlines said Tuesday it will start charging most passengers for checked baggage, ending a longtime free-luggage policy that the company had touted as an important differentiator as recently as last fall. The new policy, which follows other
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What happened President Donald Trump said Sunday he did not want to predict if the U.S. will fall into recession this year, as some economists and investment banks now forecast. But on a flight back from Mar-a-Lago and in an
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What happened Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia University graduate student, Mahmoud Khalil, at his New York apartment Saturday night, his lawyer said Sunday. The ICE agents said they were revoking Khalil’s student visa,
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What happened Canada’s Liberal Party Sunday chose Mark Carney, a former central bank chief in Canada and the U.K., as its party leader and the nation’s 24th prime minister. Carney, a political novice, won 85.9% of the vote from party
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What happened President Donald Trump said he told his Cabinet secretaries Thursday that they were in charge of staffing decisions and policies at their agencies, not Elon Musk and his DOGE team. Trump’s comments, after a closed-door Cabinet meeting that
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What happened South Carolina is scheduled to execute double murderer Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday evening, barring a last-minute intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court or Gov. Henry McMaster (R). Sigmon, 67, would be the first U.S. death row
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What happened Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Texas), a former Houston mayor and longtime state legislator, died Wednesday morning, hours after attending President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. Turner, 70, died from “enduring health complications,” his family said. He was elected in
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What happened President Donald Trump has halted intelligence sharing with Ukraine’s military, days after he froze military assistance to Kyiv, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and national security adviser Mike Waltz said Wednesday. They described the decision as a temporary measure
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What happened President Donald Trump celebrated the upheaval he has brought to Washington and global trade in a televised speech before Congress Tuesday night. Speaking for a record 99 minutes, Trump drew cheers from Republicans for saying he was “just
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