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April 7, 2025

Scientists genetically engineer wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf

A company that aims to bring back lost species say they have genetically engineered wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinc...

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April 7, 2025

Gov. Hochul announces release of detained family

Gov. Kathy Hochul announces the release of a family detained by ICE, following community protests in Sacketts Harbor.

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April 7, 2025

Army reenlists nearly two dozen soldiers ousted for refusing COVID-19 vaccine

Officials say the Army has reenlisted more than 23 soldiers who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine.

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April 7, 2025

Federal grants to fight child labor worldwide are axed in DOGE cuts

The Trump administrated has canceled millions of dollars in international grants that a Department of Labor division administered to combat...

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April 7, 2025

NY Legislature extends emergency spending amid budget negotiations

The State Legislature extends emergency spending to maintain state operations as budget negotiations continue.

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April 7, 2025

Supreme Court lifts order blocking deportations under 18th century wartime law

The Supreme Court has lifted a court order blocking the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under an 18th century wartim...

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April 7, 2025

RFK Jr. says he plans to tell CDC to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

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April 7, 2025

South Carolina's highest court refuses to stop second firing squad execution

South Carolina's highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad this week for th...

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April 7, 2025

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to block order to return Maryland man from El Salvador

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to block a court order requiring it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man w...

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April 7, 2025

Trump and Netanyahu will meet on tariffs, the war in Gaza and more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Donald Trump in Washington, becoming the first foreign leader to visit Trump s...

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April 7, 2025

Trump tariffs make Easter bittersweet for Swiss chocolatiers

At the Festichoc chocolate festival in Geneva over the weekend, Trump administration tariffs announced last week did little to sour the mood...

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April 7, 2025

An American is arrested in India after trying to make contact with an isolated tribe

Indian police have arrested a 24-year-old American Youtuber who visited an off-limits island in the Indian ocean to try to establish contact...

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April 7, 2025

Rescue efforts from Myanmar's deadly earthquake wind down as death toll exceeds 3,500

Long-shot efforts to find survivors from Myanmar's devastating March 28 earthquake are winding down, as rescue efforts get supplanted by inc...

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April 7, 2025

World markets plunge, with Japan's Nikkei diving nearly 8%, after the big meltdown on Wall St

The trade war has set off the markets' worst crisis since the COVID pandemic, and early Monday the future for the S&P 500 was down 3.4%.

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April 7, 2025

New York Democrats propose legislation to counter expected Trump cuts

In response to expected Trump funding cuts, New York Democrats propose a bill allowing the state to withhold payments to the federal governm...

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April 7, 2025

Former US Rep. Mia Love honored in Utah after brain cancer death

Family and friends of former U.S. Rep. Mia Love will gather in Salt Lake City to honor her life and legacy after she died of brain cancer in...

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April 7, 2025

Trump says he's not backing down on tariffs, calls them 'medicine' as markets reel

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said he didn't want global markets to fall, but also that he wasn't concerned about the ma...

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April 7, 2025

Swollen rivers flood towns in US South after dayslong deluge of rain

Rivers rose and flooding worsened across the U.S. South and Midwest, threatening communities already waterlogged and badly damaged by days o...

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April 7, 2025

Japanese emperor visits Iwo Jima to honor war dead 80 years after one of WWII's fiercest battles

Japan's Emperor Naruhito is visiting Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War II's harshest battles wa...

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April 7, 2025

Miami's 'Little Venezuela' fears Trump's moves against migration

On Feb. 3, the Trump administration ended two federal programs that together allowed more 700,000 Venezuelans to live and work legally in th...

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April 7, 2025

US blocks sea salt imports from South Korean salt farm over forced labor concerns

The United States has blocked imports of sea salt products from a major South Korean salt farm accused of using slave labor, becoming the fi...

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April 6, 2025

Jay North, TV's mischievous Dennis the Menace, dies at 73

Jay North, who starred as the towheaded mischief maker on TV's "Dennis the Menace" for four seasons starting in 1959, has died.

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April 6, 2025

World Trade Center Health Program cuts alarm Schumer, Gillibrand and 9/11 advocates

They spoke after the firing of the program's administrator was apparently reversed.

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April 6, 2025

Deadly car accident in coastal Georgia kills family of 5

A mother and her four children are dead after two vehicles collided in a deadly crash on the southbound I-95 in McIntosh County, Georgia.

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April 6, 2025

Judge again orders Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison

A federal judge is for the second time ordering the Trump administration to return a Maryland man who was mistakenly sent to a notorious pri...

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April 6, 2025

Former German president warns of far right at 80th anniversary of Buchenwald liberation

Germany has marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi's Buchenwald concentration camp, with warnings against global "radical...

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April 6, 2025

At least 16 dead in flooding and tornadoes as storms slash US South and Midwest

A storm system sweeping over large areas of the U.S. South and Midwest has resulted in at least 16 weather-related deaths, with overnight to...

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April 6, 2025

Second child died from measles-related causes in West Texas, where cases are nearing 500

A second school-aged child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness.

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April 6, 2025

State Supreme Courts have become an electoral battleground. But some states choose a different path

The recent election that determined control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court saw millions of dollars flooding in from billionaires, featured a...

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April 6, 2025

Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted

A recent immigration enforcement action that resulted in the arrests of employees and owners at a Texas bakery has shocked residents of the...

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April 6, 2025

Trump's sweeping tariff plan prompts pushback in Congress

Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have started to propose restoring congressional authority over tariffs.

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April 6, 2025

Queens and Bronx casino proposals require land conversion

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April 6, 2025

Yemen's Houthi rebels say US airstrikes kill 2 as Trump's bombing video suggests higher death toll

Suspected U.S. airstrikes have killed at least two people overnight in a stronghold of Yemen's Houthi rebels.

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April 6, 2025

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are still held by Russia with uncertain hope of release

In its 3-year-old war, Russia has detained what human rights activists say are thousands of Ukrainian civilians and has charged them with va...

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April 5, 2025

Rubio says US is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the United States is revoking all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders, accusing the African na...

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April 5, 2025

Boy's death in Kentucky flooding raises questions about why school district didn't cancel classes

A 9-year-old boy was found dead in Kentucky after officials say he was swept away by floodwaters while walking to his school bus stop.

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April 5, 2025

Trump administration argues judge can't order return of man mistakenly deported to El Salvador

The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to suspend a judge's order for the government to broker the return of a Maryland man who...

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April 5, 2025

Long Island weather: Rainy, chilly weekend

Showers are expected to begin Saturday afternoon and continue in patches through Monday, according to the National Weather Service.

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April 5, 2025

Trump goes all in with bet that the heavy price of tariffs will pay off for Americans

President Donald Trump's new tariffs mark an all-in bet that his economic vision will pay off for Americans.

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April 5, 2025

Phone footage appears to contradict Israel's account in troops' killing of 15 Palestinian medics

A video on the phone of one of 15 Palestinian medics killed by Israeli forces in Gaza shows that their emergency vehicles had their lights a...

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April 5, 2025

Death toll in Russian missile strike in central Ukraine reaches 18

The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has risen to 18, including nine children, regional...

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April 5, 2025

New York budget delay: Discovery law change is key snag, lawmakers say

New York's budget is delayed over changes to the 'discovery' law for criminal trials, lawmakers say. Other Hochul proposals include tax reba...

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April 5, 2025

Voices from coal country say closures of MSHA offices will endanger mine safety

Stanley "Goose" Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, calls a recommen...

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April 5, 2025

More torrential rain and flash flooding expected in heavily waterlogged South and Midwest

Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding was expected in parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of re...

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April 5, 2025

'Hands Off!' protests against Trump and Musk are planned across the US

Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk plan to rally across the U.S. to protest the administration's actions on gover...

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April 5, 2025

US consumers rush to buy big-ticket items before Trump's tariffs kick in

U.S. consumers are rushing to buy big-ticket items before President Donald Trump's tariffs kick in.

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April 5, 2025

In the race to save lives after the Myanmar quake, US rescuers are notable by their absence

Day after day, Chinese rescue teams haul children and elderly people from collapsed buildings.

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April 4, 2025

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April 4, 2025

A tsunami warning has been issued for Papua New Guinea after a strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake

A tsunami warning has been issued for Papua New Guinea after a strong magnitude 6.9 earthquake Saturday morning, according to the U.S. Geolo...

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April 4, 2025

Jason McGuire convicted of misuse of campaign funds

Jason McGuire, a Conservative Party official, pleads guilty to misusing over $16,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses, according to t...