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Government shutdown hits Day 25 with no deal in sight
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and the head of the air traffic controllers’ union held a news conference at Philadelphia International Airport, where they highlighted the impact of the shutdown on air travel, reiterating points Duffy made at the Capitol on Thursday. “The stress level that our controllers are under right now I think is unacceptable,” Duffy said. Now I want…
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Shots fired after truck backs into Coast Guard base in California
A truck driver who backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area — the site of earlier protests against federal immigration agents — was shot by law enforcement officers and wounded, authorities said Friday. The driver was held for a mental health evaluation after “attempting to weaponize the vehicle to ram into Coast Guard Base…
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Pentagon deploys top aircraft carrier as Trump militarisation of Caribbean ratchets up | Trump administration
The Pentagon said on Friday that it was deploying the United States’s most advanced aircraft carrier to the Caribbean, a major escalation in the Trump administration’s war against drug cartels that provides the resources to start conducting strikes against targets on the ground. The move will bring the USS Gerald Ford carrier, with dozens of stealth fighter jets and surveillance…
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US sending aircraft carrier towards Caribbean as Trump increases pressure campaign
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an aircraft carrier strike group currently stationed in Europe to the Caribbean region amid a massive buildup of US military forces in the region. The Gerald R. Ford strike group and its associated air wing are being sent to “dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations and counter narco-terrorism,” Pentagon Press Secretary Sean Parnell said in a…
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‘He didn’t deserve that’: widow speaks out after husband’s violent death at ICE facility | US immigration
A few hours before the Texas sun set, Stephany Gauffeny held her newborn son close to her chest as she started walking in a cemetery. The grave she stopped at had no headstone, but Gauffeny, 32, had written her husband’s name on a red ribbon. She married Miguel García-Hernández in 2016, nearly 10 years before he was shot at an…
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Trump administration finalizes plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling : NPR
FILE – The Kaktovik Lagoon and the Brooks Range mountains of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge are seen in Kaktovik, Alaska, Oct. 15, 2024. Lindsey Wasson/AP hide caption toggle caption Lindsey Wasson/AP JUNEAU, Alaska — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing…
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Trump says Canada trade negotiations ‘terminated’ over advert
US President Donald Trump has said he is immediately ending all trade negotiations with Canada. He wrote on Truth Social that the country had run an advert featuring former President Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs. “Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED,” Trump wrote late on Thursday. The US president has imposed a…
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Trump administration OKs oil and gas drilling in Alaska wildlife refuge
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday finalized plans to open the coastal plain of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to potential oil and gas drilling, renewing a long-simmering debate over whether to drill in one of the nation’s environmental jewels. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the decision Thursday that paves the way for future lease sales…
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Two Florida coral species declared ‘functionally extinct’
Mydlarz added that no other Atlantic species grows as large or forms such an extensive lattice. “These are the only ones that provide that real sort of 3D structure,” she said. There are some pockets of coral survivors, including remnants to the north, near Miami and Broward County. However, the researchers think there’s little hope they will spur a comeback.…
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Government shutdown live updates as Senate readies vote on paying some federal workers
The Senate is set to vote Thursday on advancing a measure to pay federal employees who are working through the shutdown, as Republican leaders put pressure on Democrats who have largely remained opposed to efforts to restart funding. Senate Majority Leader John Thune earlier this week teed up consideration of the measure, which he said “essentially would pay anybody who’s…
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