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Trump’s Move to Take over the Fed Adds More Uncertainty to the Economy

President Donald Trump’s bid to oust Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook marks his boldest move ye...

August 27, 2025

Social Security Official Says DOGE Compromised Americans’ Data

The U.S. DOGE Service uploaded a copy of Americans’ Social Security data to the digital cloud, ri...

August 27, 2025

How Pakistan’s Solar Energy Boom Led to Higher Power Bills for the Poor

DHAKU, Pakistan - In Pakistan’s agricultural heartland, the solar energy boom is hard to miss.

August 25, 2025

On Whatsapp, Palestinians in the U.S. Look for Food for Gaza — and Mourn

As famine has descended on Gaza, hundreds of Palestinian Americans have gathered on a WhatsApp gr...

August 25, 2025

At Harvard, Trump Administration Cuts Hit Young Scientists Hard

BOSTON - When Tal Scully wanted to inspire visitors to her lab at Harvard Medical School, she wou...

August 25, 2025

South Korea Promises Trump to ‘Make American Shipbuilding Great Again’

ULSAN, South Korea - When South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meets with President Donald Trump ...

August 25, 2025

Could Syria Unravel? Fearful Minorities Resist New Leader’s Bid for Control.

ARNAH, Syria - A wall of fear is rising around this scenic town in the foothills of Mount Hermon....

August 24, 2025

Land for Peace? Ukrainians Weigh Frozen Front Line to Placate Russia.

DONETSK REGION, Ukraine - Svitlana Batiukh and Alla Khoruzha have lived on opposite sides of the ...

August 24, 2025

National Guard Troops Are in D.C. We Went to See What They’re up to.

Commuters and tourists leaving D.C.’s Union Station this week stepped out to an unusual scene: tw...

August 24, 2025

This Conservative County Lost Teachers after Administration Cut Key Grant

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, N.C. - Kylie Blankenship is everything this rural school district said it need...

August 24, 2025

Trump Rolls Back Rules Meant to Keep Politics out of Climate Research

Ahead of President Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, scientists and advocates sought...

August 23, 2025

Trump Seeks Funding to Clean up D.C. in Latest Effort to Control City

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he would request funding from Congress to beautify W...

August 23, 2025

This 1848 Painting Has Uncanny Insight into American Conspiracy Thinking

Even thinking about conspiracy theories can feel, well, conspiratorial. One would be a fool to de...

August 23, 2025

As Trump Tightens Grip on D.C., Officers Say Their Chief Is Absent

D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith walked into the Seventh District station Tuesday night to take ...

August 23, 2025

On Migration, Greece Takes a Trumpian Turn

AMYGDALEZA, Greece - Decrying an “invasion” of migrants - and praising the crackdown in the Unite...

August 23, 2025