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State Department is laying off over 1,300 staffers under Trump administration plan
The State Department is firing over 1,300 career diplomats and civil servants on Friday in line with a dramatic ...
Tired of put-downs, Tennessee town corrects the record with play about the Scopes trial it hosted
A small town in eastern Tennessee courted national publicity and attention a century ago when local leaders planned a test ...
Trump wants mass deportations, but US views of immigration are more positive since he took office
Just months after President Donald Trump returned to office vowing mass deportations, the share of U.S. adults saying ...
German tourist found alive 12 days after she was lost in the Australian Outback
German tourist Carolina Wilga was found alive in Australia’s remote Outback on Friday, 12 days after she went missing and a ...
As Trump seeks to be a peacemaker, Netanyahu leaves Washington without breakthrough on Gaza deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Washington this week netted President Donald Trump another nomination for ...
Russian drones strike Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city, damaging a maternity hospital
A Russian drone barrage targeted the center of Kharkiv on Friday, injuring nine people and damaging a maternity hospital in Ukraine’s second-largest city, officials said.
US commander says China has failed to coerce rival states in South China Sea
China has failed to intimidate rival claimant states into surrendering their sovereign interests in the disputed South China Sea despite its intensifying “bullying ...
Singer Chris Brown pleads not guilty to 2 further charges over London nightclub assault case
Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown on Friday pleaded not guilty to two further charges related to the serious beating of a ...
Wyoming’s first new coal mine in decades to extract rare earths
The developer of what would be the first new coal mine in Wyoming in decades plans to process the fossil fuel to extract hard ...
Amanda Anisimova or Iga Swiatek will be Wimbledon’s eighth consecutive first-time women’s champion
Either Amanda Anisimova or Iga Swiatek will leave the All England Club’s grass courts as Wimbledon’s eighth consecutive first-time women’s champion. Why has there ...
Iran says a young French-German cyclist is in custody, a French newspaper reports
Iran’s foreign minister has confirmed that his country is detaining a teenage French-German cyclist who disappeared last month, French newspaper Le Monde reported Friday. The ...
Kurdish separatist fighters in Iraq begin laying down weapons as part of peace process with Turkey
Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony Friday in ...