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US filings for jobless aid, a proxy for layoffs, inch down modestly last week as uncertainty lingers
The number of Americans filing unemployment claims last week fell slightly as businesses continue to retain employees despite growing economic uncertainty over U.S. trade policy.
An urban guerrilla group in Myanmar claims responsibility for assassinating a retired army officer
A retired high-ranking officer in Myanmar’s military was shot dead by a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla group on Thursday near his home in the country’s biggest city, marking the ...
Mothers and their babies face starvation in Gaza, where hospitals are overwhelmed
Grabbing her daughter’s feeble arm, Asmaa al-Arja pulls a shirt over the 2-year-old’s protruding ribs and swollen belly. The child lies on a hospital ...
Liver donation brings two families together
Sometimes out of our worst pain, can come the most beautiful beginnings. That’s exactly what happened to two women here in the Miami Valley, who came together in the ...
One Tech Tip: These are the apps that can now avoid Apple’s in-app payment system
Apple users are starting to get ways out of the iPhone maker’s so-called “walled garden.” For years, the company blocked app developers from informing people about how to pay ...
Why Kamala Harris could run for California governor and bypass another White House bid
Many of Kamala Harris’ supporters and detractors alike think she’d have better odds running for California governor rather than president a third time. There are several ...
Iran’s top diplomat says ‘special measures’ may be taken to defend nuclear sites from Israel
Iran’s top diplomat warned Thursday that his country would take “special measures in defense of our nuclear facilities” if Israel continues to threaten ...
The Latest: House passes Trump’s big tax bill in overnight session
House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald ...
Global leaders are condemning the fatal attack on 2 Israeli Embassy staffers. Here’s what they said
Global reactions poured in Thursday in the hours after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a ...
Germany’s Merz inaugurates a historic new brigade in Lithuania and pushes for security spending
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared that “the security of our Baltic allies is also our security” as he traveled to NATO partner Lithuania Thursday to inaugurate a ...
Fewer study and work visas lead to halving in net migration in the UK in 2024
Fewer work and study visas contributed to a near-halving in net migration into the U.K. — the number of people moving to the U.K. minus the number of those moving abroad — in 2024, ...
Trump’s big tax bill has passed the House. Here’s what’s inside it
House Republicans early Thursday took a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda, approving a legislative package that combines tax breaks, spending cuts, border ...