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The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the state’s anti-hazing law this week in the first challenge to the constitutionality of the policy to reach that level.
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About 900 hikers, guides and other staff who were stranded by a weekend snowstorm on the Chinese side of Mount Everest have reached safety, state media said late Tuesday.
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Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering.
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Democrats and a federal union argue the Trump administration's language posted on federal agency websites and in some emails blaming the "Radical Left Democrats" for the government shutdown is in violation of a 1939 federal law.
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It's been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Israeli leaders promised a punishing offensive. Here are some numbers showing the war's toll.
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A new draft White House memo suggests a 2019 law signed by President Trump that guarantees that federal employees get paid after a shutdown ends would not apply to furloughed workers.
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A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.
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Tuesday marks two years since Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage. In response, Israeli forces launched a war in Gaza and have killed more than 67,000 Palestinians.
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On Oct. 7, 2023, both of Daniel Lifshitz's grandparents were kidnapped from their kibbutz in southern Israel and held hostage inside Gaza.
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Across the country, about one in five child care workers are immigrants. In D.C., it’s more like 40%.
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Latino Memphis CEO Mauricio Calvo talks about how Latinos in Memphis are divided on the use of federal officers to fight crime in Tennessee's second largest city.
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Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones.
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The Israel-Gaza war moves into its third year today. And, examining President Trump's power to deploy the National Guard.