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Department of Health and Human Services will cut 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will eliminate 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring plan. The agency made the announcement Thursday. The agency is responsibl...

Mar 27, 2025

Tourist submarine sinks off Egypt's coast, leaving 6 dead and 9 injured, officials say

CAIRO (AP) - Six people died and nine others were injured after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, two municipal officials said Thursday. They were speak...

Mar 27, 2025

World figure skating championships pause to remember those who died in plane crash

BOSTON (AP) - Before the skaters in their sequins and brightly coloured costumes took the ice at the world figure skating championships on Wednesday night, a choir dressed all in black sang a solemn h...

Mar 26, 2025

Pilot rescued with 2 girls from icy Alaska lake was not authorized to have passengers, official says

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A pilot rescued with two young family members after they survived a night on the wing of an airplane partially submerged in an Alaska lake is a student pilot who was not autho...

Mar 26, 2025

Extreme heat without AC in Texas prisons is unconstitutionally cruel punishment, judge rules

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditionin...

Mar 26, 2025

Ex-North Dakota lawmaker gets 10 years for going to Europe with intent to pay for sex with a minor

A once-powerful former North Dakota lawmaker was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor. Holmberg's attorney, Mark Friese, confir...

Mar 26, 2025

Appeals court won't halt order barring Trump administration from deportations under wartime law

WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law. A spl...

Mar 26, 2025

Macron says a proposed European force for Ukraine could 'respond' if attacked by Russia

PARIS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could "respond" to a Russian ...

Mar 26, 2025

Sudan’s army says it has recaptured Khartoum's airport as it seeks to liberate the capital

CAIRO (AP) - Sudan's military says it has retaken the international airport in the capital, Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting against a notorious paramilitary group. The military says its c...

Mar 26, 2025

4 American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been killed, NATO leader says

WARSAW, Poland (AP) - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have been killed, but that he did not yet know the details. ...

Mar 26, 2025