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JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban government this week rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan left the sprawling military facility in the Taliban’s hands. Trump last week renewed his call to reestablish an American presence at Bagram, even saying “we’re talking now to [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The State Department last week announced it will refocus its foreign health-assistance strategy around multiyear bilateral deals with recipient countries, making aid dependent on negotiations that officials say will help reduce waste and advance American priorities. “We must keep what is good about our health foreign assistance programs while rapidly fixing [...]
Tax incentives that saved residents thousands of dollars on home efficiency upgrades, clean-energy installations and electric vehicles are expiring this year, which means people who want to take advantage of them before they disappear have to act quickly. “There is still time, but the clock is ticking,” said Zach Pierce, head of policy at Rewiring [...]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is following through on his threat to force Delta and Aeromexico to dissolve their longtime partnership because of his concerns that Mexico isn’t being fair to United States airlines. Duffy earlier this week announced that the Transportation Department is revoking the antitrust immunity the airlines have had since 2016 that allowed [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats say they are planning to force two Senate votes on President Donald Trump’s tariffs in the coming weeks, keeping pressure on Senate Republicans as many of them have voiced frustration with the policies. Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine says he will soon introduce two separate bipartisan resolutions that would terminate the national [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A pair of Iranian financiers and more than a dozen people and firms across Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates were sanctioned by the federal government this week for allegedly coordinating $100 million worth of cryptocurrency transfers from the sale of Iranian oil for the benefit of Iran’s government and military. [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump formally extended the deadline to keep the social media app TikTok available in the United States until Dec. 16, giving time to complete the framework of the deal announced earlier this week after talks between American and Chinese government officials. The executive order signed by Trump was the fourth [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of the service. While commanders are still able to issue service members exemptions from shaving — a policy that has existed for decades — they will [...]
President Donald Trump wants to do away with the quarterly earnings report issued by publicly traded companies. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said securities regulators should stop requiring companies to issue financial reports every three months and instead switch to a six-month reporting period. The Securities and Exchange Commission has required publicly traded [...]
Democratic lawmakers are questioning whether a Boar’s Head deli meat plant at the center of last year’s deadly listeria outbreak will be fit to reopen. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, of Connecticut, sent a letter this week asking company officials to appear before the Congressional Food Safety Caucus to discuss “a repeated pattern of food safety negligence [...]