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The seven Western states that depend on the Colorado River missed a deadline for the second time Saturday to agree on a plan addressing record drought and water shortages. Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo released a joint statement calling on Upper Basin states to offer more concessions. Those states include Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. “The Colorado River is essential to our communities and economies, and our states have conserved large volumes of water in recent years to stabilize the basin’s water

States reliant on Colorado River fail to meet the latest deadline to find consensus

New careers, relocations and medical problems: How ex-federal workers’ lives have been upended since DOGE

Fight breaks out between No. 17 St. John's and Providence and six players are ejected

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US, Iran to hold new round of nuclear talks in Geneva this week, Swiss government says

Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program next week, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said Saturday. Oman, which welcomed the first round of indirect talks on Feb. 6, will host the talks in Geneva, the Swiss ministry said, without specifying which days. After the first discussions, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Tehran that failure to reach an agreement with his administration would be “very traumatic.” Similar talks last year broke down in June as Israel launched what became a 12-day war on Iran

Rubio reassures Europe’s leaders of US backing — but only if they change course

US military reports a series of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria

Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis

Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take down” the pontiff, according to newly released files from the US Department of Justice.Messages sent between the pair in 2019, released in the massive document dump last month, reveal Bannon courted the late financier in his attempts to undermine the former pontiff after leaving the first Trump administration.Bannon had been highly critical of Francis whom he saw as an opponent to his

Russian opposition figure Navalny killed by toxin found in poison dart frogs, Europeans say

States ready to seize Supreme Court redistricting decision amid countdown to midterm elections

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Obama compares ICE’s ‘rogue behavior’ in Minnesota to dictatorships

Former President Barack Obama criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ conduct in Minnesota as dangerous, saying “the rogue behavior” is akin to what “we’ve seen in authoritarian countries” and “in dictatorships.”The comments, which came during a wide-ranging interview with liberal podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen out Saturday, are the latest example of the former president reneging on his long-standing strategy of minimizing his public presence to allow the next generation of Democrats to emerge. He deliberately took a back-seat role during former President Joe Biden�

Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say

Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn’t let go.He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned the video depicting the Obamas as apes, questioning the lawmakers’ loyalty and vowing consequences, sources familiar with his comments told CNN.The president railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott — the sole Black Republican senator and chair of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm — throughout the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, arguing one of his top congressional allies was out of line to

Hundreds of agents search for Nancy Guthrie as her case spotlights other families left behind

Law enforcement block road near Nancy Guthrie's home during investigation into her disappearance

Trump says change in power in Iran 'would be the best thing that could happen'

President Donald Trump said Friday that a change in power in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen” as the U.S. administration weighs whether to take military action against Tehran. Trump made the comments shortly after visiting with troops at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, and after he confirmed earlier in the day that he’s deploying a second aircraft carrier group to the Mideast. “It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump said in an exchange with reporters when asked about pressing for the ouster of the Islamic clerical

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Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools

Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military and sponsoring “troublesome partnerships with foreign adversaries.”The uncertainty about tuition assistance and eligible programs for Defense Department funding has led to confusion and concern amongst service members who have already applied or been accepted to these schools. Officials also said they were concerned it amounted

Behind the scenes sorting through tips in cases like the Nancy Guthrie disappearance

Trump administration files new lawsuit against Harvard in long-running funding battle

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Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis

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Lindsey Vonn hopes to go home after another surgery following crash in Olympic downhill

Lindsey Vonn will have another surgery on her broken left leg Saturday at the Italian hospital treating her “and then I can potentially leave and go back home.” Vonn posted a video message on Instagram on Friday following her horrific crash in the Olympic downhill race at the Milan Cortina Games. “Hey guys, I just wanted to give you a little update and say thank you so much to everyone that has been sending me flowers and letters,” Vonn said, adding that she has also received stuffed animals, including a shark pillow that she was resting her head on in the

Four new astronauts arrive at the International Space Station to replace NASA's evacuated crew

There’s a real life ‘Heated Rivalry’ at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics

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The mental hurdle of ‘The Moment’ affects even the greats like Ilia Malinin and Mikaela Shiffrin

The great ones make it look so easy that we forget how hard it is to be exceptional.Secretariat running like a machine in the Belmont and Michael Phelps gobbling up gold medals in 2008; Tom Brady engineering seven Super Bowl victories and Simone Biles coming back for more golds after battling the twisties; Carl Lewis winning golds in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996 and Katie Ledecky lapping Olympians like she’s out for a rec league swim.There is, however, a fragility to true excellence. As thin, you might say, as a skate blade or a ski’s edge.What Ilia Malinin failed to do in his free skate at

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Brazil’s Lucas Pinheiro Braathen wins giant slalom, earns South America’s 1st medal at Winter Games

There was dancing, plenty of dancing, for Brazilian ski racer Lucas Pinheiro Braathen as he performed samba steps over and over. To no real music, either. There were emotions, too, especially when they played his national anthem. And reflection, for knowing what this moment meant now and could mean later. Once a racer for Norway, Pinheiro Braathen switched to Brazil, his mother's home country, and with two powerful runs Saturday to win the Olympic giant slalom he earned the distinction of picking up South America’s first medal at a Winter Games. “