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April 5, 2025
case. The Department of Aging does not publish data involving deaths of older adults on its website. It also does not make that information available in its annual reports on protective services. Bens...
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April 5, 2025
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday said he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 75 days to give his administration more time to broke...
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April 5, 2025
Allegheny County Sheriff Kevin Kraus will host a license to carry a firearm satellite event from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at the Boston Spectrum at 6001 Smithfield St. in Elizabeth Township. The sheriff...
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By By JEFF MARTIN Associated Press 
April 2, 2025
Forecasters are warning of potentially deadly flash flooding and strong tornadoes as more rounds of thunderstorms are poised to strike parts of the Midwest and South. The potent storm system will brin...
Booker sets record with marathon Senate speech
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April 2, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a feat of determination, New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted all night and into Tuesday night, setting a historic mark ...
Appeals court clears way for DOGE to continue with USAID
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March 29, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Even be...
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March 29, 2025
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy will no longer consider race, ethnicity or sex as a factor for admission to the service institution, a response to an executive order by President Donald T...
Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close some agencies
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March 28, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a major overhaul, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and shut down entire agencies, including ones that oversee billions of dollars in fu...
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Trump talks about privatizing postal service
March 26, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Vice President JD Vance said that he’s joining his wife on a Friday trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake. “We’re going to check out ...
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March 22, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraord...
Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 immigrants
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March 22, 2025
MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for poten...