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What Trump's decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years 12/22/2024 09:06am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown. The president-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison some spending A rocket from Yemen strikes Tel Aviv, injuring 16, and Palestinians mourn a dozen children in Gaza 12/21/2024 04:34pm • TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) ��� A rocket fired from Yemen hit an area of Tel Aviv overnight, leaving 16 people injured by shattered glass, the Israeli military said Saturday, days after Israeli airstrikes hit Houthi rebels who have been launching missiles in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Another Middle East latest: Israeli strike in Gaza kills at least 7 people, including 4 kids 12/20/2024 05:09pm • An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza killed at least seven Palestinians, including four children, and wounded 16 other people Friday afternoon, health officials said. Israel faces heavy international criticism over the unprecedented levels of civilian casualties and the dir EPA head Regan, who championed environmental justice, to leave office Dec. 31 12/20/2024 03:20pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Michael Regan, who championed environmental justice as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, will leave the agency Dec. 31, three weeks before the end of President Joe Biden's term. In a letter Friday to agency employees, Regan said he was proud of the EPA's work For thousands of Jews, Israel still doesn't feel safe after the Oct. 7 attacks. So they're leaving 12/20/2024 03:45am • LONDON (AP) ��� Leaving Israel is easier, Shira Z. Carmel thinks, by saying it's just for now. But she knows better. For the Israeli-born singer and an increasing number of relatively well-off Israelis, the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack shattered any sense of safety and along with it, Israel's founding For thousands of Jews, Israel still doesn't feel safe after the Oct. 7 attacks. So they're leaving 12/20/2024 03:44am • LONDON (AP) ��� Leaving Israel is easier, Shira Z. Carmel thinks, by saying it's just for now. But she knows better. For the Israeli-born singer and an increasing number of relatively well-off Israelis, the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack shattered any sense of safety and along with it, Israel's founding When Is It Time to Move From Independent to Assisted Living? 12/19/2024 07:00pm • Gary Girolimon and Jill Parenteau, siblings in New Hampshire, were providing care and support for their 82-year-old brother, Ron, who had Alzheimer's disease, until signs suggested they needed more help. "I would have loved to have kept him in his house," says Parenteau, who serves as power of attor Senate passes defense bill that will raise troop pay and aims to counter China's power 12/19/2024 12:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Senate passed a defense bill Wednesday that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China's growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion while also stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for ch US repatriates 3 Guantanamo Bay detainees, including one held 17 years without charge 12/19/2024 12:29am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The U.S. has transferred two Malaysian detainees at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. military prison to their home country, after they pleaded guilty to charges related to deadly 2002 bombings in Bali and agreed to testify against the alleged ringleader of that and other attacks, the Pent Editorial Roundup: United States 12/18/2024 03:34pm • Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Dec. 12 The Washington Post says Joe Biden shouldn't use preemptive pardons President Joe Biden used his pardon power on Thursday as the Constitution���s framers had intended: as a pre-Christmas act of mercy. He commuted the sente What Americans think of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his health stances 12/18/2024 01:54pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The kids seen by Dolores Mejia around suburban Phoenix have been growing heavier in recent years. Their parents, too, she says. Mejia, a 75-year-old retiree, says she's also had her own weight struggles on the scale. That's why Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pledge to ���Make America H The fate of the first-ever White House Gender Policy Council is uncertain in Trump's administration 12/18/2024 01:34pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� During the transition period between President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump, there has been at least some coordination on West Wing affairs. But not when it comes to Biden's Gender Policy Council, which has worked to defend reproductive health care in the face of gr Middle East latest: Israel plans an extended occupation of Syrian buffer zone 12/17/2024 11:35pm • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future. Israel���s recent capture of the buffer zone has sparked condemnation, with critics accusing Israel of violating the 1974 ceasefire and possibly exploiting the chaos in Sy Trump's picks for key positions in his second administration 12/17/2024 10:04pm • President-elect Donald Trump has filled the key posts for his second term in office, prioritizing loyalty after feeling bruised and hampered by internal squabbling during his first term. His first pick happened during the campaign: JD Vance as his vice presidential running mate, elevating a onetime Netanyahu says Israeli troops will occupy a buffer zone inside Syria for the foreseeable future 12/17/2024 08:17pm • JERUSALEM (AP) ��� Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israeli forces will stay in a buffer zone on the Syrian border, seized after the ouster of Syria's President Bashar Assad, until another arrangement is in place ���that ensures Israel's security.��� Netanyahu made the comments fr