Politics, World Briefly
December 12, 2025
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana’s Republican-led senate voted against a redrawn congressional map Thursday that would have favored their party in the 2026 elections, despite months of pressure by Presiden...
Trump says the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
Politics, World Briefly
December 11, 2025
By AAMER MADHANI AND KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions ...
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December 9, 2025
Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett launched a campaign Monday for the U.S. Senate in Texas, bringing a national profile to a race that may be critical to Democrats’ long-shot hopes of reclaiming a Senat...
Trump giving $12B in aid to American farmers
World Briefly
December 9, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package on Monday — a boost to farmers who have struggled to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs after the pres...
World Briefly
December 5, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump praised the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda for their courage as they signed onto a deal on Thursday aimed at ending the conflict in eas...
Pentagon watchdog finds Hegseth’s use of Signal posed risk to U.S. personnel
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December 4, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon’s watchdog found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information a...
World Briefly
December 4, 2025
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal agents began hitting the streets of New Orleans on Wednesday in the Trump administration’s latest immigration crackdown across the U.S., looking to round up immigrants accus...
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December 3, 2025
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republican Matt Van Epps won a nationally watched special election in Tennessee for a seat in the U.S. House on Tuesday, maintaining his party’s grip on the district with help ...
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December 1, 2025
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in California appealed to the public for tips, even rumors, as they searched Sunday for a suspect in the killing of three children and an adult during a mass shooti...
U.S. halts all asylum decisions after shooting of National Guard members
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December 1, 2025
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports, seizing on the National Guard shooting in the natio...
Trump: One of the National Guard members shot by Afghan national has died
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November 28, 2025
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died, calling the suspect, who ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor, former Trump loyalist, says she is resigning
Politics, World Briefly
November 22, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a once-loyal supporter of President Donald Trump who has become a critic, said Friday she is resigning from Congress in January. Greene, in a ...