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Trump warns Iran that time is running out as ships enter region

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President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

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State lawmakers stand ready to help ICE -- or impede it

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As lawmakers convene for this year’s state legislative sessions, immigration has surged to the top of the agenda. Across the country, dozens of bills touching on immigration enforcement, civil rights and the role of federal agents have been introduced this month.

The proposals range from measures that would restrict where federal immigration ...Read more

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Trump warns Iran that time is running out as ships enter region

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President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

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Bovino was the face of Trump's hardline immigration raids. Now his future is in question

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LOS ANGELES — For months, Gregory Bovino has been the public face of President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration raids across U.S. cities.

When the brash Border Patrol commander charged into Los Angeles last summer with the stated mission of arresting thousands of immigrants, he was unapologetic as agents smashed car windows, concealed ...Read more

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After switch from ULA, SpaceX knocks out speedy national security launch

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SpaceX launched its latest national security mission, yet another GPS satellite that was originally to have been launched by United Launch Alliance.

A Falcon 9 that was delayed from Monday because of weather lifted off Tuesday night on the GPS III-9 mission to bring the satellite to medium-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s...Read more

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How to talk to kids about ICE

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MINNEAPOLIS — Many families with children who could be directly affected by Immigration Customs Enforcement operations have been talking about the subject for weeks. Families who have not been impacted may not have discussed the subject, or know what to say. But all children have questions.

Katie Lingras, a child psychologist at the ...Read more

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Central Florida volunteers search for homeless as part of federal count

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ORLANDO, Fla. — The two volunteers spotted blue tarps hanging from trees in a wooded area off Orange Blossom Trail and pulled their car over hoping to count the people in the makeshift encampment near Apopka.

But as they approached on foot Monday, a pack of dogs bared their teeth and growled, so they quickly retreated from the area littered ...Read more

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National college enrollment records slight bump, but Minnesota schools fare better

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MINNEAPOLIS — Despite the often gloomy forecasts about unprecedented challenges in higher education, Minnesota saw small gains in college enrollment in fall 2025 compared with 2024, marking two consecutive years of increases and signaling that students have returned after plummeting pandemic-era enrollment.

According to newly released data, ...Read more

PFAS are now found in all of the Great Lakes, including Lake Superior, pictured. Mario Dias/iStock/Getty Images Plus

PFAS are turning up in the Great Lakes, putting fish and water supplies at risk – here’s how they get there

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No matter where you live in the United States, you have likely seen headlines about PFAS being detected in everything from drinking water to fish to milk to human bodies.

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of over 10,000 synthetic chemicals. They have been used for decades to make products waterproof and stain- ...Read more

President Donald Trump's America First policies have reshaped the nation's stance regarding global security and trade. AP Photo/Evan Vucci

The end of ‘Pax Americana’ and start of a ‘post-American’ era doesn’t necessarily mean the world will be less safe

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America’s role in the world is changing. If this wasn’t obvious before, it should be now, following President Donald Trump’s efforts to take over Greenland and his visibly strained relations with traditional allies in Europe and elsewhere.

But how much will the world change if America’s stance is different?

Some ...Read more

Mosques, as well as churches, in Nigeria are targets of insurgent groups.  Kola Sulaimon/AFP via Getty Images

Trump’s framing of Nigeria insurgency as a war on Christians risks undermining interfaith peacebuilding

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Nigeria “must do more to protect Christians,” a senior U.S. State Department official demanded on Jan. 22, 2026, during a high-level security meeting in the African nation’s capital, Abuja.

The comment followed an attack just days earlier in which more than 160 worshipers were kidnapped from three churches in Nigeria’s ...Read more

Innovations in asthma care can improve the health of Detroiters living with this chronic disease

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Researchers and doctors are beginning to modernize asthma treatment using innovative therapies.

Asthma is a common, chronic and treatable lung disease that touches nearly every family in America. It affects people of all ages and costs our health care system about US$82 billion each year.

In Michigan, the problem is acute. ...Read more

Reclassifying marijuana to a Schedule III drug would put it in a category with prescription drugs like ketamine.  LPETTET/iStock via Getty Images

Should medical marijuana be less stringently regulated? A drug policy expert explains what’s at stake

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Medical marijuana could soon be reclassified into a medical category that includes prescription drugs like Tylenol with codeine, ketamine and anabolic steroids.

That’s because in December 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a less restricted category, continuing a process initiated by ...Read more

Mindfulness practices can take many forms, depending on tradition and intention. Dingzeyu Li dingzeyuli via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY

Not all mindfulness is the same – here’s why it matters for health and happiness

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Over the past two decades, the concept of mindfulness has become hugely popular around the world. An increasingly ubiquitous part of society, it’s taught everywhere from workplaces and schools to sports programs and the military.

On social media, television and wellness apps, mindfulness is often shown as one simple thing – ...Read more

Trump warns Iran that time is running out as ships enter region

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President Donald Trump warned Iran that time is running out to make a deal with the U.S., noting that a fleet of U.S. warships entering to the region is ready to complete their mission “with speed and violence.”

Trump said in a social media post that he wants Iran to come to the table and negotiate a “fair and equitable deal — NO ...Read more

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California's iconic Highway 1 is fighting a losing battle against climate change. Can it survive?

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California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular cliffs of Big Sur.

The famed coastal road was closed for more than three years after two major landslides buried the two-lane highway, and it took unprecedented engineering might and precarious debris removal to once ...Read more

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Is California's proposed billionaire tax smart policy? History holds lessons

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In the roiling debate over California's proposed billionaire tax, supporters and critics agree that such policies haven't always worked in the past. But the lessons they've drawn from that history are wildly different.

The Billionaire Tax Act, which backers are pushing to get on the November ballot, would charge California's 200-plus ...Read more

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This Fort Lauderdale middle school is growing a mangrove forest to fight flooding

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MIAMI — Nearly every sunny windowsill at New River Middle School is occupied by a reused jar filled with a handful of pebbles, an inch or two of water and a few slender, brown, pen-like tubes.

They’re baby mangroves — propagules, to be exact — and they’re the future of this Fort Lauderdale school’s campus.

Mangroves are everywhere ...Read more

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As AI-generated fake content mars legal cases, states want guardrails

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Last spring, Illinois county judge Jeffrey Goffinet noticed something startling: A legal brief filed in his courtroom cited a case that did not exist.

Goffinet, an associate judge in Williamson County, looked through two legal research systems and then headed to the courthouse library — a place he hadn’t visited in years — to consult the ...Read more

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'People are forgetting:' Holocaust survivors recall their stories as antisemitism rises

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BALTIMORE — Martha Weiman’s parents told her and her brothers to stay in an upstairs bedroom the night of November 9, 1939, so they wouldn’t see what was about to happen in their beloved hometown of Bocholt, Germany. They peered out anyway.

They saw Nazi soldiers smashing the windows in the synagogue across the street and setting the ...Read more