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A recovering Pope Francis visits Rome prison to keep annual Holy Week appointment
Pope Francis visited Rome’s central prison Thursday and met with dozens of inmates as he kept an Easter season appointment to ...
Google’s digital ad network declared an illegal monopoly, joining its search engine in penalty box
Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for ...
Tennessee’s GOP leads the fight to deny public education to children without documents
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Damian Felipe Jimenez has many dreams about his future — he could be a restaurant owner, a scientist ...
Average US rate on a 30-year mortgage climbs to 6.83%, highest level since late February
Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, also rose. The average ...
Harvard says Trump’s push to strip tax-exempt status has ‘no legal basis’
Harvard University says there’s “no legal basis” to rescind its tax-exempt status, as President Trump pushes for the IRS to ...
Draft budget plan proposes deep cuts across federal health programs
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal officials are circulating a draft budget proposal that would make dramatic additional cuts to federal ...
Why Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven’t heard of
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the rooftop patio of the General Services Administration headquarters, an agency staffer recently ...
Global shares trade are mixed, US futures gain as investors await next steps in Trump’s trade war
On Wednesday, U.S. stocks fell after Nvidia warned new restrictions on exports to China will cost it billions of dollars. The ...
UnitedHealth cuts 2025 forecast after dealing with first-quarter care use spike
UnitedHealth chopped its 2025 forecast after being surprised by rising care use from its Medicare Advantage customers in a ...
UN nuclear watchdog says US-Iran talks at a ‘very crucial’ stage
Iran and the U.S. will meet again Saturday in Rome for a new round of talks after last weekend’s first meeting in Oman.
Trump administration takes aim at Harvard’s international students and tax-exempt status
President Donald Trump’s administration has escalated its ongoing battle with Harvard, threatening to revoke the university’s ...
Wednesday’s high school scores and highlights
ROUNDUP BASEBALL Michael DeMaino, Jaiden Driscoll, Nate Cutone and Kyle Doney came through with two hits each as St. Mary’s (Lynn) (6-0) rolled to a 10-0 Catholic Central League win over Cardinal ...