The visit comes as his administration is formally requesting that Congress allocate funds to pay for the entire cost of rebuilding a new span.
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Another month of robust U.S. job growth points to continued economic strength
Friday’s report from the Labor Department also showed that the unemployment rate dipped from 3.9% to 3.8%.
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Russian officials again try to link Moscow concert attack with Ukraine despite Kyiv’s denials
Authorities, including President Vladimir Putin, have provided no evidence for the link as they sought to shift the narrative from the failure of security services to prevent the attack.
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Earthquake shakes New York City area
NEW YORK — An earthquake shook the densely populated New York City metropolitan area Friday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said, with residents reporting they felt rumbling across the Eastern Seaboard. The agency reported a quake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7, centered near Lebanon, New Jersey. The Fire Department of New York said there […]
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Israel dismisses 2 officers over deadly drone strikes on aid workers in Gaza
Palestinians, aid groups and human rights organizations have repeatedly accused Israeli forces of firing recklessly at civilians throughout the conflict – a charge Israel denies.
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Another endangered right whale dies after a collision with a ship off the East Coast
The whales have suffered high mortality in recent years, and several have died already this year off Georgia and Massachusetts.
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New York demanding more information on Trump’s $175 million appeal bond in civil fraud case
New York state lawyers are demanding more information on the bona fides of the $175 million bond that former President Donald Trump posted to block the imminent collection of a huge civil fraud judgment
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John Barth, novelist who orchestrated literary fantasies, dies at 93
His comic novels and metafictional stories made him a giant of postmodernism.
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American killed in Israeli strike in Gaza was father, military veteran
Jacob Flickinger was born and spent most of his childhood in Quebec, the son of a Canadian mother and an American father.
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No Labels won’t run third-party campaign after spending millions trying to recruit a candidate
About 800 Maine voters rescinded their enrollment after Secretary of State Bellows sent letters to nearly 7,000 people who had agreed to change their party affiliation, telling them how to unenroll if they did not understand what they had signed.