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Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and many Jan. 6 allies
President Donald Trump has issued federal pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a long list of allies who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
The late-night announcement clears in advance virtually all the prominent engineers of the so-called Stop the Steal plot to keep Trump in power ...Read more
BBC apologizes as chiefs quit over editing of Trump speech
LONDON — The BBC apologized for a misleading edit of remarks by President Donald Trump that featured in a documentary last year, the latest scandal to raise questions about the future of Britain’s national broadcaster.
British Broadcasting Corp. Chairman Samir Shah acknowledged on Monday that the edited footage of Trump’s speech near the...Read more
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani tapping ex-de Blasio deputy Dean Fuleihan as top City Hall aide
NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has decided to appoint de Blasio administration alum Dean Fuleihan as his top City Hall aide, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Mamdani was expected to formally announce the appointment of Fuleihan as his first deputy mayor pick at a press conference in Manhattan on Monday morning, the ...Read more
Trump pardons supporters who tried to reverse his 2020 Michigan loss
LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 20 people who contributed to the push to overturn his loss in Michigan's 2020 election.
Late Sunday night, Ed Martin, who's working as the Republican president's pardon attorney, posted a list of dozens of names on X with the words, "Important pardon of alternate electors of 2020....Read more
Supreme Court dismisses long-shot challenge to right to marry for same-sex couples
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed without comment a long-shot challenge to the constitutional right to marry for same-sex couples.
The justices turned away an appeal petition from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who defied the court's landmark decision in 2015 and repeatedly refused to issue marriage licenses to ...Read more
BBC apologizes as chiefs quit over editing of Trump speech
British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the U.K. national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year.
The BBC on Monday apologized for the editing of the program, which aired in October 2024 and spliced together sections of a ...Read more
SNAP benefits end, and needy residents overwhelm Central Florida food banks
ORLANDO, Fla. — Shirley Laureano, a mother to two young children, relies on $700 a month in federal food stamp money to help buy her family’s groceries as her job at a tea house doesn’t pay enough to cover all her bills.
She expected November’s funds from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called SNAP or food stamps...Read more
In the West Bank's last Christian village, faith, fear and an uncertain future
TAYBEH, West Bank — "Come visit Taybeh," begins the brochure touting the touristic attractions here, the last entirely Palestinian Christian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Though it counts Jesus among its many visitors over the years, said Khaldoon Hanna, Taybeh's avuncular deputy mayor, these days "no one is coming."
He sighed ...Read more
Wielding obscure budget tools, Trump's 'reaper' Vought sows turmoil in public health
When President Donald Trump posted a satirical music video on social media in early October depicting his budget director, Russell Vought, as the Grim Reaper lording over Democrats in Congress, public health workers recognized a kernel of truth.
Vought has exerted extraordinary control over government spending this year, usurping congressional ...Read more
What happens when you donate your brain to science?
On a cutting surface inside a Scaife Hall laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh, Julia Kofler examines a brain, pointing out its weight, tiny specks of fatty plaque and other features visible even to the naked eye that provide clues to diseases. It is one of about 2,000 human brains to be processed into Pitt's Neurodegenerative Brain Bank, ...Read more
'A whole new outlook on life': These KY groups help people not return to prison
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Cathy Stewart was imprisoned at the state and local level for a drunk driving crash she caused that severely injured a man and his son in 2018.
The 47-year-old was previously in and out of rehab, on the run and pregnant before she ended up in the Franklin County Detention Center.
She held her young daughter for the first time...Read more
A new, potent street drug is causing severe withdrawal, and Philly doctors are scrambling to respond
PHILADELPHIA -- Dominic Cipriano couldn’t stop shaking.
A drug dealer on the streets of Kensington had sold him a bag of what he thought was fentanyl. But whatever Cipriano had taken didn’t produce the familiar rush of the opioids he’d been using on and off since he was a teenager.
And when he entered withdrawal, he started rocking from ...Read more
Amid 'a transparency desert,' states look likely to blow past Colorado River deadline. What's next?
Negotiators tasked with hammering out the future of the shrinking Colorado River — and the 40 million people who rely on it — are once again careening toward a deadline imposed by federal authorities, with little progress to show publicly.
Federal officials gave the seven states in the river basin a deadline that arrives Tuesday to present ...Read more
White House calls this 9/11-era fund 'wasteful.' Red and blue states rely on it.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate a federal disaster preparedness program threatens a fund used by state health systems from Republican-led Texas to the Democratic stronghold of California.
The Hospital Preparedness Program was created more than two decades ago in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist ...Read more
Democratic blowouts bode well for Shapiro in 2026, but GOP sees path for competitive governor's race
When Stacy Garrity rallied supporters in McCandless in late September, she acknowledged it "won't be easy" to oust Gov. Josh Shapiro.
The Republican state treasurer's uphill battle next year against a widely popular governor got even steeper on Tuesday, when Democrats racked up wins all over the ballot and across Pennsylvania and the U.S. — ...Read more
Minnesota cities, counties fund food aid after SNAP delays
Several Minnesota cities and counties are giving money to help local food shelves cover growing demand after federal food assistance guidelines have flip-flopped several times in the last week.
About 440,000 Minnesotans receive benefits each month from the Supplemental Nutritional Access Program (SNAP). The Minnesota Department of Children, ...Read more
Trump says Americans will receive $2,000 tariff dividend
President Trump said Sunday that most Americans would receive a $2,000 dividend payment as a result of his administration's tariffs levied against foreign countries.
Trump announced the potential payments on his Truth Social platform, calling opponents of his tariffs "FOOLS" in a post.
"We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin...Read more
Typhoons and other climate threats could cost Alaska billions. After Halong, advocates say it's time to act.
After a remnant typhoon hammered Indigenous communities in Western Alaska last month, the state's elected leaders have been fielding questions about how to protect the region that faces growing threats from storms as the climate warms.
At a news conference in late October, Gov. Mike Dunleavy answered the question with one of his own.
"It's a ...Read more
US offers to back Lebanese army to disarm Hezbollah, end impasse
The U.S. is ready to back Lebanon’s army to help implement a plan to disarm militant groups, which was announced in August but has yet to make tangible progress amid a spat with the Iranian-backed militia Hezbollah.
The U.S. officials, in a meeting with Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun, expressed readiness to help the war-battered country ...Read more
BBC leaders announce exit in spat with Trump over edited speech
British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the U.K. national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year.
The program, aired in October 2024, spliced together sections of a speech Trump gave in Washington on January 6 2021, the day ...Read more
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