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One baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a plastic gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers in tactical vests labeled “ICE.” In another Chicago suburb, not far from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility that has drawn protests over detentions, a sign at the manger outside the Urban Village Church says “Due to ICE activity in our community the Holy Family is in hiding.” And more than a thousand miles away, the Christ

Church nativity scenes add zip ties, gas masks and ICE to protest immigration raids

Asian shares track US stock market's rise to record highs despite AI bubble worries

Trump led Republicans to power in 2024. But 2026 could be a different story

Spectacular loss by Honduras' governing party spurs reflection and criticism

For over 30 years, Javier Gámez and María Barahona worked, scrimped and studied to push their family ahead. Gámez filled bags with sand from the Choluteca River winding through the Honduran capital and shined shoes in a downtown park; Barahona sold bananas and oranges from a basket. They continued their education, becoming accountants and raising three children who are now adults on professional tracks. Working-class families like theirs formed the base of the governing Liberty and Refoundation Party, or LIBRE, a movement built on Honduras’ political left in the wake of the

New judicial panels to hear Wisconsin redistricting lawsuits for the first time

Abrego Garcia won release from detention. He must check in with immigration officials 14 hours later

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Lawmakers urge Education Department to add nursing to 'professional' programs list amid uproar

A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional,” adding to public outcry after nurses were omitted from a new agency definition. The Trump administration’s list of professional programs includes medicine, law and theology but leaves out nursing and some other fields that industry groups had asked to be included. The “professional” label would allow students to borrow larger amounts of federal loans to pursue graduate degrees in those fields. Under new rules p

Ryan Crosswell quit Trump's DOJ. Now his resignation letter is part of his stump speech for Congress

Black-market oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US seizure – starving Maduro of much-needed revenue

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Indiana Senate Republicans reject Trump’s redistricting push

The Indiana Senate on Thursday voted down a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts to produce two more GOP-friendly seats, rejecting President Donald Trump’s months-long campaign to pressure the Republican supermajority in the deep-red state to bend to his will.The 31-19 vote saw 21 Republicans join 10 Democrats in voting down the proposed map that would have positioned the GOP, which currently holds seven of Indiana’s nine US House seats, for a sweep of all nine seats in next year’s midterm elections.The vote comes with significant ramifications for the 2026 midterm electi

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Gas explosion in San Francisco Bay Area damages homes, 6 taken to hospitals

A gas explosion set off a major fire in a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood on Thursday after obliterating at least one home, blowing out windows and shaking nearby houses. Six people were taken to hospitals for injuries, fire officials said. Dramatic video footage showed a home in the Hayward area sitting under a blue sky when it suddenly exploded, spewing jagged wood and other debris into the air as smoke billowed. Brittany Maldonado, who lives across the street from the home, was in her bedroom with her husband when she heard the blast. “Box

Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin makes first in-person court appearance

Justice Department fails to reindict Letitia James for a second time

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Navy delivers report to Hegseth on potential of punishment for Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

The US Navy has submitted its recommendations on potential punishments, if any, for Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his participation in a video that reminded US troops they have a duty to refuse illegal orders, a Pentagon official told CNN on Thursday.Those recommendations have been submitted to the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel “where they are providing a legal review and input,” the official said.It was not immediately clear what recommendations were included in the report.A spokesperson for Kelly told CNN in a statement that the senator was “never notified or contacted” ab

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Trump administration adds militarized zone in California along southern US border

The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern U.S. border to support border security operations — this time in California. The Department of Interior on Wednesday said it would transfer jurisdiction along most of California's international border with Mexico to the Navy to reinforce “the historic role public lands have played in safeguarding national sovereignty." The newly designated militarized zone extends nearly from the Arizona state line to the Otay Mountain Wilderness, traversing the Imperial Valley and border communities in

Senators clash over Trump's National Guard deployments as military leaders face questioning

US proposes ‘free economic zone’ in parts of Donbas after Ukrainian pullback, Zelensky says

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Trump takes steps toward demolishing four federal buildings, preservationist alleges

After demolishing the White House’s East Wing, President Donald Trump is now eying four federal buildings for the same treatment and is circumventing a key government agency with his plans, according to a historic preservationist raising the alarm.Mydelle “Mina” Wright, a former senior official at the General Services Administration, wrote in a sworn court declaration this week that the White House is “acting on its own and not through the GSA,” which oversees government property, to solicit bids “to analyze and recommend for demolition four historic federal buildings in DC.” The

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White House officials abruptly postpone final meeting of Trump-created FEMA task force

White House officials abruptly postponed the final meeting of a Trump-created task force charged with shaping the future of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, roughly two hours before it was set to begin on Thursday, according to three sources familiar with the decision.Members of the FEMA Review Council, all appointed by the Trump administration, had been expected to vote on a final draft report recommending sweeping changes to FEMA, before sending it to the president for review. But in recent days, White House officials reviewed the report and objected to its recommendations, arguing i

Venezuelan opposition leader says US helped her travel to Norway to accept Nobel Prize

NATO chief warns European allies they could be Russia’s next target

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A day out in the Death Strip: How a symbol of communist paranoia became a wild paradise

Germany’s most peaceful landscape owes its existence to one of its most paranoid.The Grünes Band — the Green Belt threading 860 miles along the former border between West Germany and communist East Germany — is now a sweep of orchids, wetlands and bird-rich moorland.It began life as a fortified no-man’s land, wired with mines and patrolled day and night to keep citizens in the East from escaping.Walk it today, and the Cold War feels impossibly far away. There’s birdsong, frogs and a boardwalk over the Cheiner Torfmoor’s marsh orchids.But the quiet is only possible because people w

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Covid-19 vaccination substantially lowered risks for children last season, CDC report says

Children who were vaccinated against Covid-19 last season had a “substantially lower risk” of emergency department and urgent care visits related to the virus, according to a report published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The vaccines were about 76% effective in preventing these outcomes among healthy children ages 9 months to 4 years and about 56% effective among children ages 5 to 17 compared with those who did not receive an updated vaccine for the 2024-25 respiratory virus season, the report said.The federal analysis was based on data from about 98,000 c