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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the top U.N. human rights body and will not resume funding for the U.N.… Read More »Trump announces withdrawal from UN human rights body and halt to funding for Palestinian refugees 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Treasury Department official wrote a letter Tuesday to federal lawmakers saying that a tech executive working with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency will have “read-only… Read More »Treasury tells Congress that DOGE has ‘Read Only’ access to payment systems 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is preparing to gut the U.S. Education Department to the full extent of his power, directing his administration to slash spending while pressuring employees… Read More »In Trump’s quest to close the Education Department, Congress and his own agenda may get in the way 

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate was heading towards a confirmation vote for Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general Tuesday evening, potentially putting a longtime ally of Donald Trump at the… Read More »Senate vote on Pam Bondi as US attorney general could put Trump ally at Justice Department’s helm 

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador has offered to take in people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally and to house some of the country’s… Read More »El Salvador’s offer to take in US deportees and violent criminals is unlike any other migrant deal 

PARIS (AP) — The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire… Read More »The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world’s Ismaili Muslims and philanthropist, has died at 88 

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Donald Trump started the biggest trade war since the 1930s in his first term, his impulsive combination of threats and import taxes on U.S. trading partners… Read More »Trump’s tariff tactics carry higher economic risks than during his first term 

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Elon Musk’s lawyers faced off with OpenAI in court Tuesday as a federal judge weighed the billionaire’s request for a court order that would block the… Read More »Judge says Elon Musk’s claims of harm from OpenAI are a ‘stretch’ but welcomes possible trial 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him. “If they did that they would be obliterated,” Trump… Read More »Trump says he’s given advisers instructions for Iran to be ‘obliterated’ if it assassinates him 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to be President Donald Trump director of national intelligence cleared a key Senate committee Tuesday despite concerns raised about her past comments sympathetic to… Read More »Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick to oversee US spy agencies, clears Senate committee