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The "Made in America" ideal has become a luxury that working-class families can no longer afford, as they are forced to choose between supporting their own economy and providing for their families.
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Rural Coloradans mourn 6 people who died of suspected gas exposure at dairy farm
Six workers who died in what authorities suspect wasexposure to gas at a dairy farminclude a 50-year-old father and two sons, an incident that left rural Colorado communities in mourning.
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:Both Menendez brothers were denied parole. Here are 5 takeaways from their hearings
Erik and Lyle Menendezwere denied paroleby a California board this week after decades in prison forkilling their parents in 1989at their Beverly Hills mansion. The hearings marked the closest they have come to freedom since their convictions.
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:The gerrymandering wars is a flashing warning light for US democracy
After the extraordinary scene of Texas Democrats fleeing their state to forestall a rare mid-decade gerrymander, Texas Republicans nevertheless moved this week toapprove a new congressional map. It isdesigned to give their party five additional seats in Congress in next yearβs midterm elections,as requested byPresident Trump. California Democrats responded this week by rushing to advance...
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:Russian foreign minister says 'Ukraine has the right to exist' with territory-related caveat
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview Sunday that Ukraine βhas the right to existβ but added a caveat to that right related to territory. βMr. Foreign Minister, let me ask you about something that President Putin said in June. He said, quote, βI consider the Russian and Ukrainian people to be one...
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:Our immigration policy once served US foreign policy, and it can do so again
Todayβs immigration debate is often reduced to a binary: openness vs. security. But history shows there is a third way of viewing immigrants not only as people to protect but as partners in protecting us.
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:Republicans shift focus to states beyond Texas in redistricting fight
Republicans are plowing forward with plans for redistricting in several other states now that Texas is poised to approve its newly redrawn maps. The Lone Star State kicked off the redistricting arms race when Republicans in the state Legislature agreed to move forward with rewriting their congressional lines at the insistence of President Trump. Now,...
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:Israeli strikes hit Yemen’s capital, days after Houthi rebels fired cluster munitions at Israel
Israeli airstrikes hit Yemenβs capital on Sunday, just days after the Houthi rebels fired a missile toward Israel that its military described as the first cluster bomb the rebels had fired at it since 2023.
Published on: August 24, 2025 | Source:Homan says order to shutdown Alligator Alcatraz 'not going to stop' ICE operations
President Trumpβs border czar Tom Homan said on Saturday that a Florida judge's order to temporarily shut down some of Alligator Alcatraz is βnot going to stopβ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations, indicating that migrants apprehended by federal agents could be sent to other detention facilities. βThey're not going to stop us doing what...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Maher commends Newsom for strategy to βout-stupidβ Trump
Comedian Bill Maher praised California Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-Calif.) social media strategy of trying to βout-stupidβ President Trump. βGavin Newsom is now trolling Trump. Iβve never seen a Democrat do this. I think itβs very funnyβ¦ heβs imitating Trumpβs exact style,β Maher said Friday during his βReal Time With Bill Maherβ show. βThis is Newsom:...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Haley condemns Trump adminβs Intel deal as βwhat not to doβ
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley condemned the Trump administrationβs decision to take a 10 percent stake in Intel. βBiden was wrong to subsidize the private sector with the Chips Act using our tax dollars. The counter to Biden is not to lean in and have govt own part of Intel,β Haley, who was the...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:‘Purely in survival mode’: Aid worker shares conditions in Gaza City after famine declared
Officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 33 people, including Palestinians sheltering in tents and seeking scarce food. It comes a day after the IPC declared that Gaza City is in the grips of a famine and projected that famine will spread to much of the rest of Gaza by the end of September. John Yang speaks with Oxfamβs Chris McIntosh about conditions inside Gaza City.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:News Wrap: ICE seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda
In our news wrap Saturday, Kilmar Abrego Garciaβs lawyers say the U.S. government plans to deport him to Uganda, a redrawn Texas congressional map is on its way to Gov. Abbottβs desk, federal investigators arrived at the site of a deadly bus crash in New York, a California parole board denied Lyle Menendez early release, and confusion over a Trump tariff rule is delaying shipments from Europe.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Does Trump have the power to end mail-in voting? Legal scholar weighs in
With control of Congress at stake in the 2026 midterm elections, Trump is doubling down on efforts to end mail-in voting. In the 2024 election, nearly 30% of Americans who voted cast their ballots by mail. Despite a multimillion-dollar Republican push to encourage supporters to vote by mail, Trump says itβs a fraud. John Yang speaks with legal scholar Rick Hasen for more.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:As glaciers melt, scientists study potential for more violent volcanic eruptions
Scientists are flocking to Iceland to investigate an increasingly crucial question: Will melting glaciers accelerate and intensify earthquakes and volcanic eruptions? William Brangham reports.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Lyle Menendez denied parole after brotherβs denial the day before
"You have not been a model prisoner."
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:5 things to know about California's special election on redistricting
California will ask voters this fall to decide whether to redraw this stateβs congressional lines after its Democratic-controlled Legislature formally approved a sweeping redistricting plan on Thursday, a response to GOP-led efforts in Texas. The plan, if voters give it the green light, could give Democrats five additional House seats, potentially nullifying the gains Republicans...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:US, India trade negotiations ongoing, foreign minister says
Trade negotiations between the U.S. and India are ongoing, although New Delhi has some βred linesβ that it will defend, according to India's foreign minister. βI mean, negotiations are still going on in the sense that nobody said the negotiations are off. You know? I mean, and people, people do talk to each other,β Indian...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Trucks carrying UN food aid to Sudan’s famine-hit Darfur region destroyed by drone attack
A drone attack on a 16-truck U.N. convoy carrying desperately needed food to Sudanβs famine-hit North Darfur region destroyed three vehicles that had caught fire, the World Food Program said. All drivers and personnel were safe.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Israeli airstrikes, gunfire kill 33 as Gaza City becomes focus of famine and military offensive
Israel's defense minister has warned thatGaza City could be destroyedin a new military operation perhaps just days away, even as famine spreads there.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Former CIA director on Bolton raid: βThereβs some targeting here going onβ
Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta weighed in on the FBIβs raid of President Trumpβs former national security adviser John Bolton, suggesting Friday night that thereβs βsome targeting here going on.β βWe donβt know all the facts here because we donβt know what the Justice Department said to a magistrate judge in order to get...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Congo’s prosecutor seeks death penalty for former President Kabila for war crimes
Congo's public prosecutor on Friday asked for the death penalty forformer President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentiain a treason case that includes war crimes charges related to his ties to the M23 rebel group.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:German foreign minister calls for Israel and Palestine two-state solution during Indonesia visit
Johann Wadephul and Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono said the humanitarian catastrophe resulting from theIsrael-Hamas warin Gaza is unbearable and a two-state solution is the sole means of ending the conflict.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Congress should create a public AI wealth fund
The U.S. should establish a Public AI Wealth Fund to ensure that the public benefits from the returns of AI, while using competition, data, labor and energy rules to keep the field open and the harms in check.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Mushroom ‘microdosing’ trend has led to increased poison control center calls and ER visits
Greater acceptance of mushrooms and psychedelics has led to a growing market for edible products containing non-hallucinogenic mushroom species with claims that these products improve mental function.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Trump sees growing disapproval rating among Americans, survey shows
President Trump is seeing a growing disapproval rating among Americans seven months into his second White House term, according to a Friday survey. The Economist/YouGov poll found that 40 percent of Americans βstrongly or somewhatβ approve of Trumpβs handling of the presidency. More than half of U.S. adults, 56 percent, said they βstrongly or somewhatβ...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Ozempic teeth: Dentists warn of new GLP-1 side effect
Dentists warn they're seeing cases of something nicknamed "Ozempic teeth."
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Greene issues scathing rebuke of conditions in Gaza: 'I will not be silent about it'
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) on Saturday upped her crusade against conditions in the Gaza Strip following a declaration of famine in the region by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. βU.S. taxpayers fund Israel $3.8 billion annually for military aid. That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israelβs military actions,β Greene...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Extreme heat in prisons brings more legal challenges and pressure to states
More lawsuits are likely as climate change drives hotter summers, experts say.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Former DHS official signals he could be next after Bolton FBI raid: βWe expect itβ
Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official, signaled Saturday that he could be the next target of President Trump's FBI after ex-national security adviser John Bolton's Washington-area home was raided by agents early Friday. Taylor, who served as a deputy chief of staff at DHS under Trump's first term, was asked by...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:US seeks to deport Abrego Garcia to Uganda
The federal government said it would deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined a plea deal, according to court filings. Federal prosecutors on Thursday offered Abrego Garcia the option to βlive freelyβ with refugee or residency status in Costa Rica after serving prison time for federal human smuggling charges in exchange for a...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Panama stands firm on Iranian, Russian sanctions and maritime security
Panama has taken substantial steps to uphold international sanctions and maritime security, and has demonstrated its commitment to transparency and international cooperation by delisting vessels flagged for sanctionable activities and implementing a ban on registering oil tankers and bulk carriers older than 15 years.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:California board denies Lyle Menendez parole after rejecting his brother Erik’s appeal
Lyle Menendez was denied parole Friday by the same board that a day earlier rejected his brother Erikβs appeal for freedom after serving decades in prison forkilling their parents in 1989at their Beverly Hills mansion. The reason was the same: misbehavior behind bars.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Trump lauds Dan Patrick for Texas GOP's 'HUGE VICTORY' in redistricting battle
President Trump on Saturday reupped his support for Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), just hours after the state legislature advanced new congressional maps that could give the GOP up to five more seats in the House during next year's midterms. Trump lauded Patrick as a "terrific and powerful" lieutenant governor and "incredible friend" to...
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source:Trump administration seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after his release from jail
Immigration officials said they intend to deportKilmar Abrego Garciato Uganda, after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges, according to a Saturday court filing.
Published on: August 23, 2025 | Source: