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...
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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
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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 ...
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Labor Department won’t release full
November 20, 2025
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state’s largest city, the U.S. Department of Hom...
Trump administration takes step toward dismantling Education Department
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November 19, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department...
U.S. may have discussions with Maduro as aircraft carrier arrives in Caribbean
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November 17, 2025
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. “may be having some discussions” with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a potential diplomatic avenue as the U.S. fu...
States scramble to send full SNAP food benefits to millions of people
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November 14, 2025
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press With the longest U.S. government shutdown over, state officials said Thursday that they are working quickly to get full SNAP food benefits to mill...