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California Legislature to back proposal to freeze health care access for some immigrants
California lawmakers will vote Friday on a budget proposal to freeze enrollment in a state-funded health care program for ...
South African president to visit flood sites with death toll at 78 and expected to climb
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will visit the sites Friday of devastating floods that have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the country as ...
Man arrested for allegedly giving out face shields to ‘suspected rioters’ at LA protest
Federal authorities arrested a man in East Los Angeles on Thursday who allegedly handed out face shields during an ...
Trump moves to merge wildland firefighting into single force, despite ex-officials warning of chaos
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered government agencies to consolidate their wildland firefighting into a single ...
Jury finds New Orleans police officer who shot and killed puppy violated rights but has immunity
A jury in federal court ruled that a New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy had violated its owners’ ...
Trump administration tells immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela they have to leave
The Department of Homeland Security said Thursday that it has begun notifying hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, ...
Ex-congressman Billy Long confirmed as commissioner of the IRS, an agency he once sought to abolish
Former U.S. Rep. Billy Long of Missouri was confirmed on Thursday to lead the Internal Revenue Service, giving the ...
The Latest: A single passenger survived the Air India crash, hospital says
An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern ...
Space station sensor helps detect water pollutants off California coast
NASA’s EMIT sensor on the International Space Station was able to track water contaminants off the San Diego coast.
When it comes to reporting on mass killings, some in Europe take a different approach from Americans
When a 21-year-old former student opened fire inside his school in Austria’s second-biggest city earlier this week, killing ...
Trump signs measure blocking California’s ban on new sales of gas-powered cars
President Donald Trump signed a resolution on Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of ...
Israel’s attack on Iran was years in the making. How did they get here?
Israel’s massive strike on Iran on Friday morning came after decades of hostilities between the bitter enemies. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long ...