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Melania Trump unveils a spinoff of Trump Accounts for children in foster care
First lady Melania Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday announced the launch of Fostering the Future Accounts, a spinoff of the Trump Accounts investment funds meant to give $1,000 to every newborn whose parent opens one.
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Trump plans to nominate US Attorney Jay Clayton to be national intelligence director
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence.
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US slaps sanctions against Cuban oil and gas company as tensions rise
The U.S. government on Thursday announced sanctions against Cuba’s state-owned oil and gas company in a move expected to increase tensions between the two countries.
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Iran’s Kharg Island is key to its oil exports. Targeting it carries major risks
Iran's Kharg Island, home to a terminal through which the country exports most of its oil, has emerged as a focus of the war…
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Trump calls off latest threats to strike Iran, citing progress in negotiations
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he had called off new military strikes on Iran, suggesting progress had…
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El Nino is here and scientists fear it’ll be big, bad and costly with heat, floods, droughts, fires
El Nino, Nature's chaotic climate agent, has formed in a warmed-up Pacific Ocean and is expected to grow to historic strength, meteorologists announced Thursday.
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Pope slams world’s indifference to migrants while visiting onetime ‘dock of shame’ in Canary Islands
Pope Leo XIV traveled to a once-notorious epicenter of the European migration debate on Thursday, challenging countries to uphold migrants’ rights while shaming those leaders, including Christians, who turn them away with indifference.
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Wall Street recovers some of the week’s losses after AI stocks swing back upward
The U.S. stock market is recovering some of its losses for the week on Thursday, as the roller coaster for artificial-intelligence companies turns back upward. Oil prices and Treasury yields, meanwhile, remain near where they were the day before, even though worries are rising about the war with Iran and accelerating inflation.
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Alabama asks US Supreme Court to allow Thursday’s blocked nitrogen gas execution
Alabama is waging a last-minute legal fight to execute a man with nitrogen gas on Thursday night, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to set aside a judge's finding that the method violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.
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FDA’s e-cigarette authorization: Fruity vapes not significantly better than tobacco ones
Fruit-flavored e-cigarettes recently authorized by the Food and Drug Administration were not significantly better at helping smokers quit than tobacco-flavored e-cigarettes, according to a new memo that’s likely to stir new questions about the agency’s decision.
