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- Today in History: July 17, Disneyland’s opening day
- Trump’s approval rating on immigration and government spending has slipped, new poll finds
- Army veteran and US citizen arrested in California immigration raid warns it could happen to anyone
- Republican senators caution Trump against firing Fed chair Jerome Powell
- US retail sales bounce around in a whipsaw trade environment
- US applications for jobless benefits fall for fifth straight week, hitting lowest level since April
- 1.4M of the nation’s poorest renters risk losing their homes with Trump’s proposed HUD time limit
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- AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison
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- Israeli strike hits Gaza church, killing 3 and wounding priest who was close to Pope Francis
- MAGA turns on Trump
- Wall Street cruises to more records as PepsiCo and tech stocks rally
- Looking sensibly at State Department cuts
- At least 4 dead and 1,300 evacuated after heavy rain in South Korea
- Puerto Rico bans hormone therapy and gender surgery for transgender youth
- Judge OKs release plan for woman who stabbed a classmate to please Slender Man
- 5 ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ changes to marketplace insurance
- Healthy babies born in Britain after scientists used DNA from three people to avoid genetic disease
- Connie Francis, whose hit songs included ‘Who’s Sorry Now?’ and ‘Pretty Little Baby,’ dies at 87
- Recipe: Panzanella is a fresh and tasty answer to stale bread
- Nationwide protests begin against Trump’s immigration crackdown and health care cuts
- ‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, once upon an early COVID time in the West
- Urban League declares a ‘state of emergency’ for civil rights in the US in response to Trump
- ‘Code of Silence’ review: A deaf woman helps police crack a jewel heist
- Juul gets FDA’s OK to keep selling tobacco and menthol e-cigarettes
- Average long-term US mortgage rate rises to 6.75%, second straight uptick
- Border Patrol hiring spree offers lessons as another immigration agency embarks on massive growth
- Trump administration hands over Medicaid recipients’ personal data, including addresses, to ICE
- Zelenskyy appoints a new prime minister for a war-weary nation
- Britain will lower its voting age to 16 in a bid to strengthen democracy
- Consultant, claiming White House backing, called Colorado clerks to gain access to voting machines
- Why is the Los Angeles Innocence Project trying to free Scott Peterson?
- State Department layoffs affect key Trump priorities like intelligence, energy and China
- An Idaho judge has lifted a sweeping gag order in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder case
- Congress approves Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid
- Can artificial reefs in Lake Michigan slow erosion and boost fish population? Researchers aim to find out.
- Ground squirrels are taking over a North Dakota city and officials are not amused
- ‘Fear is the tool of a tyrant,’ fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey tells colleagues
- Caitlin Clark pulls out of All-Star weekend because of groin injury
- Researchers try new ways of preserving more hearts for transplants
- Settlement reached in investors’ lawsuit against Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other company leaders
- Trump is checked for lower leg swelling, diagnosed with a common condition in older adults
- US Justice Department wants no prison time for ex-officer convicted in Breonna Taylor raid
- House sends bill regulating stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, to Trump
- Interior Secretary Burgum must personally approve all wind and solar projects, a new order says
- The rise of masked officers is controversial new ground in American life
- Emails show DeSantis administration blindsided county officials with plans for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
- AG Bondi, Interior Secretary Burgum tour Alcatraz to advance Trump’s plans to reopen former prison
- Trump mired in Epstein controversy as Wall Street Journal reports on 2003 letter
- Beef prices have soared in the US — and not just during grilling season
- Here’s what to know about chronic venous insufficiency
- Maryland man charged with threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and her family
- US says it destroyed 500 metric tons of expired food aid but it won’t affect future distribution
- Trump says Coke will shift to cane sugar. But increasingly, shoppers want no sugar in their sodas
- Attorneys sue to restore deportation protections for abused and neglected migrant children
- Federal Reserve says building renovation complies with law, defends costs
- Questions about surrogacy are raised in case of California couple with house brimming with kids
- Searching for pennies: With the cut in federal funding public broadcasters are looking to cope
- Stephen Colbert’s ‘Late Show’ is canceled by CBS and will end in May 2026
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