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Cuba sends doctors on medical missions. The U.S. isn't a fan

Cuban doctors hold their national flag upon arriving in Honduras for a medical mission in February 2024. Now the doctors are leaving Honduras as the U.S. urges countries to reconsider their agreements with Cuba.

It's a major source of revenue for the island. And it's controversial. Now countries are sending Cuban doctors home in response to pressure from the Trump administration.

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Senate confirms Trump's pick for new role of fraud enforcement at Justice Department

Colin McDonald speaks during his Senate Judiciary Committee nomination hearing on Feb. 25, 2026 in Washington, D.C.

The confirmation comes just days after the White House announced details of its own task force to pursue fraud in government programs.

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The Israeli military wants several more weeks to fight Iran war, officials say

An excavator clears rubble from destroyed residential buildings in northern Tehran, Iran, on Monday, as the U.S. and Israel

The Israeli military estimates it would need several more weeks of fighting to complete its war goals in Iran, at a time when President Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war.

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Congress loses a flying perk as DHS shutdown continues

Delta Airlines has announced it is temporarily suspending a specialty services program for members of Congress as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues.

Delta Airlines is temporarily suspending specialty services to member of Congress due to resource constraints from the ongoing shutdown of DHS.

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A professional cornhole player and quadruple amputee is arrested for murder

Dayton Webber, then 18, pictured at a baseball game in 2016. In the years before his arrest, he shared his experience playing sports — and turning pro in one of them — as a quadruple amputee.

Dayton Webber, 27, is accused of shooting a man in his car during an argument. He has shared his story of becoming a pro athlete after losing his arms and legs to a childhood bacterial infection.

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Will President Trump act on his threat to take Cuba?

New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson describes conditions in Cuba, why it's vulnerable now — and what regime change would mean — considering the Castro family's entrenchment in the Cuban government.

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Before running for Congress, Bobby Pulido was a Tejano music icon

Bobby Pulido at a campaign event in February.

Pulido has been a mainstay of Tejano music —a genre blending traditional regional Mexican elements with country, pop and conjunto influences — for more than three decades.

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Senate confirms Sen. Mullin as DHS secretary. And, Iran denies U.S. talks to end war

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) testifies during his confirmation hearing to be the next Homeland Security Secretary in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2026, in Washington, DC.

The Senate has confirmed Markwayne Mullin as the next Department of Homeland Security secretary. And, Iran has denied that it's in talks with the U.S. to end the war, which is now in its fourth week.

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Iran fires more missiles at Israel, dismisses Trump's talk as 'fake news'

Israeli security forces take cover during a siren alert while gathering at the site of a Hezbollah missile strike that targeted a bus in the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona on March 23, 2026.

Israeli health officials said Iranian missiles struck four sites across Israel Tuesday, including central Tel Aviv, injuring at least six people. Iranian authorities also said a gas supply line in southwest Iran was struck overnight.

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Kim vows to 'irreversibly' cement North Korea's nuclear status

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech during a session of the Supreme People

In his speech, Kim expressed pride in the country's rapid expansion of nuclear weapons and missiles in recent years, calling it the "right" choice.

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Asia boosts coal use as Iran war squeezes global LNG supplies

FILE - A worker throws his cigarette on a truck parked in front of a cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Dadong, Shanxi province, China, on Dec. 3, 2009.

Analysts say coal may stabilize supplies for now but they warn that continued reliance on the polluting fuel will worsen air pollution.

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Trump delivers farmers another financial blow with Iran war

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Some of President Trump's policies, the latest being the war in Iran, are testing his support among farmers who are being burdened with higher costs.

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Trump takes aim at windmills despite increasing energy costs

President Trump's mission to fight renewable wind energy comes at a time of rising energy costs.

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As parents age, their children face hard choices about when to take the car keys

Jacqueline Hamilton (left) and her mother, Jan Stubbs, at Hamilton

States have many policies to stop risky older drivers from renewing their licenses. But in practice, it's often adult children who must decide when to take the car keys away from an aging parent.

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Airstrikes may have destroyed Iran's last F-14s, ending a long, strange saga

The final catapult launch of the F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt on July 28, 2006. The U.S. military retired the plane that year.

The F-14 was made famous in Top Gun. The U.S. sold the planes to Iran in the 1970s, only for the two countries to become enemies. Iran kept its F-14s flying for decades in the face of U.S. sanctions.

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ICE deployments created chaos for cities and cost them millions, NPR analysis finds

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Local leaders report already-strapped police departments racked up overtime bills in the millions while others report a multi-million dollar hit to business during the worst ICE surges.

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Denmark holds early elections spurred by Trump's threats to take Greenland

Parliamentary election campaign posters line the streets leading up to the Parliament building in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Denmark's prime minister called early parliamentary elections after gaining a popularity boost from standing up to President Trump over his threat to seize Greenland.

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Trump says the U.S. is negotiating an end to the war in Iran, postponing threatened strikes on its power plants, but Iran denies such talks happened; ICE agents were deployed to U.S. airports Monday.

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At least 66 killed in military plane crash in Colombia, head of armed forces says

People stand around a military cargo plane that crashed after taking off from Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, a remote municipality in the Amazonian province of Putumayo, Monday, March 23, 2026.

Colombian officials say that a military cargo plane with 128 people on board, most of them soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off Monday in southwestern Colombia.

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UK police probe possible Iran link after Jewish charity ambulances set on fire

View at burnt Ambulances in a car park at Golders Green in London, Monday, March 23, 2026 after an apparent arson attack on four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service, Hatzola Northwest, in London.

Police in London are investigating a suspected antisemitic hate crime attack after four vehicles belonging to a Jewish ambulance service were set on fire.

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Despite state bans and restrictions, the number of abortions in the U.S. holds steady

The 53rd annual March for Life rally was held in Washington, DC, on Jan. 23. There were about 1.1 million abortions in the U.S. both in 2024 and 2025, says a new report.

The Guttmacher Institute has a new analysis on how many abortions happened in 2025.

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Markwayne Mullin confirmed as the next secretary of Homeland Security

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., seen here at his confirmation hearing on March 18, was confirmed to run the Department of Homeland Security.

The Oklahoma Republican comes to the helm in the midst of a shutdown that has left some 100,000 of the department's more than a quarter-million employees working without pay.

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Trump administration places Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds

A statue of the explorer Christopher Columbus stands on White House grounds at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2026.

The Trump administration placed a statue of Christopher Columbus on the White House grounds. Some people are not happy about it.

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Trump administration to pay French company $1B to drop U.S. offshore wind leases

A sign for the French company TotalEnergies is displayed at headquarters March 21, 2025, in La Defense business district outside of Paris.

TotalEnergies has agreed to what's essentially a refund of its leases for projects off the coasts of North Carolina and New York, and will invest the money in fossil fuel projects instead, the Department of Interior announced.

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Supreme Court skeptical of laws counting mail-in ballots after election day

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The Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case that tests whether states should be allowed to count ballots that are mailed on time but arrive after Election Day. The case could have broad implications.

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8 architecture and culture groups sue Trump and the Kennedy Center board

A view of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in February. On Monday, a group of eight architecture and culture groups filed a federal lawsuit against President Trump and the arts complex

The groups, which include the American Institute of Architects, are asking for compliance with historic preservation laws and to secure approval from Congress.

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Supreme Court declines to review press freedom case

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At issue was the 2017 arrest in Texas of a journalist who published news stories about a border agent's public suicide and a car crash.

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Voice of America staffers sue, alleging Kari Lake put on propaganda

Trump administration official Kari Lake praised President Trump effusively in a January 2026 appearance on Voice of America

Voice of America staffers are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, alleging she put pro-Trump propaganda on its airwaves. She has lost numerous rulings of late.

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Trump delays strikes on Iran's power plants for 5 days. And, ICE deploys to airports

Cargo vessel, Ali 25, in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz on March 22, 2026 in northern Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

Trump says he will deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports to help address delays. And, the president said he would delay strikes on Iranian power plants for five days.

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Iran threatens strikes on Gulf power plants following Trump's Strait of Hormuz ultimatum

Commercial vessels in the Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz on March 22, 2026 in northern Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates.

Iran warned it could start striking power plants across the Gulf region, after President Trump threatened to hit Iran's energy infrastructure unless Tehran opens the Strait of Hormuz when his 48 hour ultimatum expires on Monday.

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