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North Korea will convene a major political conference later this month, the country’s state media said Sunday, where leader Kim Jong Un is expected to outline his domestic and foreign policies for the next five years. The ruling Workers’ Party congress, which Kim previously held in 2016 and 2021, comes after years of accelerated nuclear and missile development and deepening ties with Moscow over the war in Ukraine that have increased his standoffs with the United States and South Korea. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said the party’s pol

Kim expected to issue major policy goals at North Korea party congress in late February

WNBA's newest offer makes small revenue sharing increases, housing concessions AP sources say

Thailand votes in early election with 3 main parties vying for power

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Washington Post publisher Will Lewis says he's stepping down, days after big layoffs at the paper

Washington Post publisher Will Lewis said Saturday that he’s stepping down, ending a troubled tenure three days after the newspaper said that it was laying off one-third of its staff. Lewis announced his departure in a two-paragraph email to the newspaper's staff, saying that after two years of transformation, “now is the right time for me to step aside.” The Post's chief financial officer, Jeff D'Onofrio, was appointed temporary publisher. Neither Lewis nor the newspaper's billionaire owner Jeff Bezos participated in the meeting with staff memb

Baltimore Orioles beat Keegan Akin in arbitration, first win this year for clubs who trail 5-1

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi hopes for big win as polls open in national elections

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Appeals court affirms Trump policy of jailing immigrants without bond

President Donald Trump's administration can continue to detain immigrants without bond, marking a major legal victory for the federal immigration agenda and countering a slew of recent lower court decisions across the country that argued the practice is illegal. A panel of judges on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday evening that the Department of Homeland Security's decision to deny bond hearings to immigrants arrested across the country is consistent with the constitution and federal immigration law. Specifically, circuit judge Edith

Police arrest protesters at Minneapolis federal building on 1-month anniversary of woman's death

Republicans rarely criticize Trump in his second term. A racist post briefly changed that

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Congressional Black Caucus chair says Trump's post on the Obamas shows a 'bigoted and racist regime'

Ever since a racist video was posted on President Donald Trump's social media account, the White House has offered shifting responses. First it dismissed “fake outrage," then it deleted the post and blamed a staff member. Trump later told reporters Friday that “I didn't make a mistake." The Republican president insisted that before the video was posted, no one saw the part that depicted former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as primates in the jungle. But the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus had a different expl

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'We will pay,' Savannah Guthrie says in desperate video plea to potential kidnappers of her mother

Savannah Guthrie told the potential kidnappers of her mother Nancy Guthrie on Saturday that the family is prepared to pay for her safe return, as the frantic search for the 84-year-old Arizona resident has entered a seventh day. “We received your message, and we understand. We beg you now to return our mother to us so that we can celebrate with her,” she said in a video posted on social media, flanked by her siblings. “This is the only way we will have peace. This is very valuable to us, and we will pay.” The “Today” show host was referencing a message

Judge grants continuance in the asylum case of Liam Conejo Ramos and his family

Trump turns to US military leaders for diplomatic efforts on Iran and Ukraine

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A defiant Thomas Massie takes on the MAGA machine in heated Kentucky primary

Kentucky may be the last place in America where you can take on President Donald Trump as a hard-right Republican and carry a GOP voting card in Congress. At least for now.A pair of twangy Kentucky rebels – Rep. Thomas Massie and Sen. Rand Paul – are teaming up to defend Massie in the biggest fight of his political career as Trump intensifies efforts to oust the seven-term Republican from Washington next year.Massie is facing the full might of Trump’s political operation in a nasty GOP primary in northeast Kentucky, where MAGA world has poured millions to support the president’s prefer

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Calls for accountability over feds’ deadly use of force in Minneapolis have not relented. Here’s why that’s complicated

The killings of anti-ICE protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti prompted outrage in Minneapolis, both for their deaths and the immediate response of federal officials to call both terrorists.The political backlash that resulted lowered the temperature from the Trump administration – with even the president himself saying, “Maybe we could use a little bit of a softer touch” – along with seesawing promises from federal officials over how they would investigate the deaths.But looming is the question of whether the federal immigration officers who pulled the triggers in both cases actually

US gave Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach agreement to end war, Zelenskyy says

Democratic governors disinvited from traditionally bipartisan White House gatherings

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Confusion at reopening of Rafah crossing leaves Palestinians stranded

The first week of the partial reopening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt was marked by confusion, and logistical hurdles, according to Palestinians attempting to cross and multiple sources who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity.The disorder resulted in far fewer Palestinians traversing the border between Egypt and Gaza than was expected, nearly two years after Israel seized and shut the crossing.When the partial reopening was announced last week, an Israeli security official told CNN that 150 Palestinians per day would be allowed to leave Gaza, while only 50 would be permitted

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A rift between Trump’s favorite lawyers exposes a broader MAGA divide in the administration

A rift between two of President Donald Trump’s favorite prosecutors came to a head at the start of the year, when Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the president’s former personal lawyer, removed MAGA firebrand Ed Martin from a key post investigating the president’s political enemies.The move to bench Martin — perhaps the official most publicly committed to targeting Trump’s political foes in the courts — has revealed a schism between two distinct factions within the administration.One is a group that celebrates Blanche for what they consider as honoring guardrails around the

Zelensky says US wants Ukraine-Russia peace deal by June, despite failure to reach breakthrough so far

Anti-Olympics protest in Milan turns violent as Italy investigates suspected railway sabotage

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Costco’s CEO is an unlikely risk taker

Ron Vachris does not fit the profile of a typical risk-taking executive.Vachris started at Costco as a forklift driver in 1982 while he attended community college. He went on to manage Costco’s warehouses on the West Coast before he was tapped to lead the company’s real estate division in 2015.“I was quite shocked” about being asked to run the real estate division, Vachris later said in a rare interview. “All my experience was in operations and running warehouses.”In 2024, more than 40 years after Vachris started at Costco, he became the company’s third-ever CEO.“I’m not the

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Mikaela Shiffrin arrives at her fourth Olympics hardly burdened by the ghosts of Beijing

The vibes never get old for Mikaela Shiffrin. Even now, four Olympics in. There they were on Saturday, right where they've always been, as the most decorated skier of all time made the familiar trip into the upscale northern Italy resort town that's long brought a sense of comfort. Reminders of what's at stake for Shiffrin over the next two weeks are everywhere. It's hard to turn around without seeing Olympic branding splashed across something. Even, perhaps inadvertently, the moments you'd think she'd like to forget. As the 30-year-old spoke about st