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Appeals court clears way for DOGE to keep operating at USAID

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. The three-jud...

Mar 28, 2025

3 dead and more than 200 rescued in South Texas after severe storms flood streets

McALLEN, Texas (AP) - Drenching rain along the Texas-Mexico border let up Friday, but rescues were still ongoing a day after severe storms trapped residents in their homes, forced drivers to abandon t...

Mar 28, 2025

Brazil fires coach Dorival Júnior after worst defeat in World Cup qualifying

SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazil's soccer confederation has fired coach Dorival Jnior after 14 months amid poor results and disappointing performances from the national team. Jnior's sacking on Friday came thr...

Mar 28, 2025

Musk changes reason for visiting Wisconsin to hand out $2 million ahead of Supreme Court election

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the ...

Mar 28, 2025

Appeals court rules Trump can fire board members of independent labor agencies

WASHINGTON (AP) - An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent agencies handling labor issues from their respective posts in the federal governme...

Mar 28, 2025

Vance and wife tour US military base in Greenland after diplomatic spat over uninvited visit

NUUK, Greenland (AP) - Vice President JD Vance, his wife and other senior U.S. officials visited an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip that was scaled back after an uproar among G...

Mar 28, 2025

South Carolina inmate chooses to die by firing squad like the last condemned inmate before him

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi chose the firing squ...

Mar 28, 2025

Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to lift an order barring deportations under wartime law

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a cour...

Mar 28, 2025

Powerful earthquake rocks Thailand and Myanmar, killing at least 3 in Bangkok high-rise collapse

BANGKOK (AP) - A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collaps...

Mar 28, 2025

Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November. Associated Press reporters...

Mar 28, 2025