Trump’s Washington, D.C., takeover targets a host of groups, many of them vulnerable
A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent talks with a Metropolitan Police Department officer while patrolling near the Washington Monument on…
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Delivery drones are coming to more US neighborhoods after getting off to a slow start
Delivery drones are so fast they can zip a pint of ice cream to a customer’s driveway before it melts….
Hennepin County commissioners will vote on HCMC oversight takeover
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Kenyan farmers use bees and sesame to keep away marauding elephants
TAITA TAVETA, Kenya — For farmers in the Taita hills in southern Kenya, elephants are a menace: they raid crops…
Trump taps conservative economist to lead statistics agency
President Trump plans to name conservative economist E.J. Antoni to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Trump fired the bureau's…
Scientists search for DNA of an endangered salamander in Mexico City’s canals
MEXICO CITY — Sixty years ago, residents of a canal-crossed borough in Mexico City could pluck axolotls — the large…
A top Federal Reserve official says dour jobs data backs the case for 3 rate cuts
A top official at the Federal Reserve said Saturday that this month's stunning, weaker-than-expected report on the U.S. job market is strengthening…
We get asked about tariffs all the time. Here’s what we say
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Closure of Midwest-based newspaper chain leaves dozens of communities without a news source
Dozens of communities in the Midwest and West learned Thursday they had lost their newspapers after an Illinois-based publisher announced…
The changing media landscape: How streaming, social media and big mergers are reshaping what we watch, read and listen to
From TikTok trends to Hollywood mergers, the media world is evolving fast. Most Americans — 83 percent of U.S. adults…