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Appeals court orders Trump administration to release $239 million to help L.A. homelessness

Los Angeles City Hall serves as a backdrop for a homeless encampment in downtown Los Angeles in August. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times)A federal appeals court has rebuffed a Trump administration e...

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Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg join a $2.2 trillion guest list for Trump-Xi dinner

ToplinePresident Donald Trump hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping at a state dinner Thursday night, where they’ll be joined by billionaire tech moguls collectively worth trillions of dollars amid a b...

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Israel's Netanyahu addresses U.N. as many leaders walk out

Tel Aviv — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as his country faces broad condemnation and growing isolation over Israel's actions in th...

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Iran war powers measure falls short in Senate, despite new GOP support

Shahid Beheshti University in the Velenjak district of Tehran, Iran, after a US military strike on 6 April.Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic effort t...

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Trump and Xi strike a warm tone as trade, Iran and AI loom over White House talks

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping stand in the Cross Hall of the White House before delivering remarks (Brendan SMIALOWSKI)Xi Jinping told Donald Trump on Thursday that Beijin...

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Netanyahu expected to criticize Mamdani in campaign-style U.N. speech

By Antoni Slodkowski and Maria Tsvetkova UNITED NATIONS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to use his UN address on Thursday to berate New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for calling him a ...

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White House restores access to media outlets banned by Trump after judge's order

CNN White House reporter Betsy Klein was reportedly denied access on Thursday [Reuters] CNN, Politico and MS NOW reporters have been allowed back into the White House after they sought an emergency co...

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U.S. and Iran discuss phased deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz, sources say

By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish Sept 24 (Reuters) - US and Iranian negotiators in New York are exploring a phased path out of war that would involve Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormu...

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Trump’s FDA pick says all U.S. vaccines are safe as GOP senator presses her

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Dr. Heidi Overton, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the embattled US FDA, told senators on Thursday that all vaccines on the US market are safe...

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5th grade teacher and 10-year-old student die during Iowa field trip

A fifth teacher and her student died during a field trip to an Iowa nature reserve this week, investigators and school officials said.Hannah Jorgensen, 24, a fifth-grade teacher at Borlaug Elementary ...

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Media outlets petition for emergency hearing after being denied White House access

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order on Thursday, ordering the White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters who had been banned by President...

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CNN and Politico reportedly barred from White House after court ruling restoring access

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Hawaii braces for up to 35 inches of rain as Tropical Storm Nolo approaches

Hawaii's Big Island was under a hurricane watch late Wednesday night after Tropical Storm Nolo formed in the Pacific Ocean earlier in the day, the National Hurricane Center said.Nolo is expected to be...

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Judge orders White House to restore access to news outlets Trump banned

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge early Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s move to ban three news outlets from the White House grounds and said CNN, MS NOW and Politico must have thei...

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Australia says OpenAI agent hacked into government website

By Renju Jose and Chris Thomas SYDNEY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorised access to files, in what co...

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Republicans rally around Susan Collins amid pay-to-play allegations

WASHINGTON – Maine Sen. Susan Collins' Republican colleagues swiftly came to her defense the day after the news outlet ProPublica published an investigative story that laid out evidence of alleged inv...

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Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes approved for halfway house move in 2027

Theranos founder and convicted felon Elizabeth Holmes has been approved for placement in a community correction center, or halfway house, and is scheduled to be placed there next year, according to an...

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8 sailors assigned to U.S. carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy says

Aircraft on the deck of the US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it docks for a rest stop at Laem Chabang Port, Thailand, on September 3, following a long deployment in the Mid...

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AI leaders warn U.N. of risks to humanity from the technology they are building

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save t...

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Iran's president backs diplomacy but rules out surrender after Trump’s threat

By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iran and the United States remain far apart on how to end their war but diplomacy must continue, a senior Ir...

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FBI probes breach of its jobs website as hackers claim to have sensitive data

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI is investigating an apparent breach of its jobs website as a criminal hacking group claimed to have accessed "very sensitive data" on nearly all agents and job applicants."Th...

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Iran's president rules out surrender as indirect talks with U.S. resume in New York

By Parisa Hafezi, Humeyra Pamuk and Jana Choukeir UNITED NATIONS/DUBAI, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech at the UN on Wednesday that Tehran would never surrende...

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Hegseth impeachment fight could put Democrats in a bind after the midterms

The impeachment effort against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posed a dilemma for Republican leaders ahead of the midterms. In the lame duck, it could be Democrats in the bind. Hegseth is leading an u...

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‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety concerns

In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated buil...

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NATO jets scrambled in Poland and Romania as Russia strikes Ukraine

NATO military aircraft were deployed in Polish and Romanian airspace overnight and on Wednesday morning, in response to the latest wave of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, officials in bo...

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Justice Department says Trump can deny journalists White House access

Three leading US news outlets went to court after being banned from the White House by President Donald Trump (Jim WATSON)CNN, MS NOW and Politico can be shut out from areas of the White House at Pres...

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Harvey Weinstein set to be sentenced for sexual assault after 6-year legal odyssey

NEW YORK (AP) — The first time Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to prison, reporters, advocates and the curious public crammed the courtroom to witness the disgraced Hollywood honcho’s #MeToo reckoning....

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Missouri congressional map returns to Supreme Court for a 3rd time

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fight over Missouri's congressional map returned to the U.S. Supreme Court for a third time late Tuesday, after an appeals court ordered the revival of new districts backed by Pr...

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Macron says situation in Strait of Hormuz 'was probably underestimated'

In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with ABC News' David Muir, French President Emmanuel Macron said the "main objective" of his meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday was "to find the right ...

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Trump confronts CNN's Kaitlan Collins over his media ban: ‘You shouldn’t be covering me’

NEW YORK (AP) — On a day of high-stakes diplomacy on the global stage, President Donald Trump began his United Nations visit by telling a prominent U.S. journalist, “You should not be here.” “It’s an ...

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Agency says it canceled 315,000 Obamacare health plans last month

By Bo Erickson and Christy Santhosh WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is halting enrollment in Obamacare health plans for more than 760,000 enrollees it believes were fraudulent...

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Trump floats banning U.S. diesel exports as prices hit a record $6.52

President Trump said Tuesday that he would support banning exports of diesel fuel."I've said let's not send out the diesel," the president said on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. "We make a ...

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Man shot by ICE being detained with bullet still in his back, lawyer says

A Venezuelan man who was shot by an immigration officer while delivering a DoorDash order in Austin, Texas, was transferred from the hospital to a detention center with a bullet still in his back, his...

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GOP senator calls for Judiciary Committee to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden

Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ranking Member Dick Dubin, D-Ill., to subpoena both Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden as ...

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Trump, Greenland and Denmark sign deal in bid to end Arctic standoff

By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that permits a larger...

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Trump tells U.N. he could 'annihilate' Iran's regime but predicts a deal

Washington — President Trump defended his handling of conflicts around the world in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, saying he could "annihilate" Iran while predicting t...

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Trump, Greenland and Denmark to sign deal in bid to end Arctic standoff

By Gram Slattery and Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump and the leaders of ‌Greenland and Denmark signed an agreement on Tuesday that ‌permits a larg...

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U.S. broadcaster boycott against Trump faced 1st test at ribbon cutting ceremony

The fallout from President Trump’s decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House continued on Monday, with the news organizations filing a federal lawsuit, other outlets drop...

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Trump tells CNN reporter ahead of U.N. speech, 'you shouldn't be here' amid media ban

President Donald Trump lashed out at CNN‘s Kaitlan Collins before his address the U.N. General Assembly in New York amid the White House ban to deny CNN, MS NOW and Politico access.Those three news ou...

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Trump faces U.N. spotlight as Iran war, oil pressure and diplomacy collide

Last year's speech was characterized by Trump's extraordinary accusations of UN sabotage when an escalator in the New York headquarters briefly stopped working and the teleprompter glitched (TIMOTHY A...

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U.S. broadcaster boycott against Trump faces 1st test at ribbon cutting ceremony

A network boycott affected live TV coverage of Trump's ribbon-cutting event at the White House [EPA]When Donald Trump unveiled a helipad at the White House on Monday, his remarks were barely audible i...

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Trump's plan to militarize proposed arch raises new concerns

President Donald Trump's push to convert his planned triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery into a military complex has complicated a required federal review process and raised new legal and ...

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Houthis accuse Saudis of deadly strikes as thousands flee escalating conflict

Infographic with map showing route of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipelineYemen's Houthis on Tuesday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out a spate of deadly strikes that killed civilians and prison inmate...

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Autumnal equinox marks the start of fall, but heat could stick around

Our long, hot summer is finally coming to an end this evening with the autumnal equinox, which marks the beginning of fall here in the Northern Hemisphere. At a precise moment each September, usually ...

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Grand jury finds no criminal charges warranted in Nolan Wells's death

The grand jury reviewing the evidence in the death of Nolan Wells has found that no criminal charges are warranted at this point, according to the Jackson County Grand Jury Report released late Monday...

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Trump detours to visit with New York's Mamdani ahead of U.N. speech

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's trip to New York for a speech at the United Nations started Monday with a detour to Gracie Mansion for an hourlong chat — and a trip down memory lane — with......

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4,000 delays reported after FAA issues ground stops at Northeast airports

Flyers across the United States are facing massive disruptions to their travel plans on Monday after equipment outages stopped flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Philade...

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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.

Tyler Hassen’s initiation into Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, started as a series of tests. The Houston oil executive says he was given vague instructions to show up at an u...

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Major TV networks suspend W.H. pool coverage of Trump in response to his networks ban

Three news organizations whose journalists were banned from the White House last week are suing President Trump and three of his top advisers in federal court, demanding that access for their reporter...

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Houthis push for control of Yemen highlands as Trump reportedly calls off airstrikes

By Mohammed Ghobari and Jana Choukeir DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Houthi fighters pushed to seize strategic heights in Yemen on Monday to cut off the Red Sea coast from remaining areas held by Saudi-ba...

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