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President Donald Trump said Friday that he wants his new acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during his second term.
Fishermen in Gaza are using dinghies made of reclaimed fiberglass, wood, and doorframes salvaged from rubble.
There was surprising strength in the latest U.S. jobs report. Employers added 172,000 jobs in May, the third straight month of job gains. Overall, the labor market appears strong despite concerns about the Iran war, rising prices and artificial intelligence. Amna Nawaz speaks with Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG, a multinational accounting and advisory firm, for more analysis.
As U.S.-Iran talks show little sign of progress, commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains sharply reduced, raising concerns about global energy markets and supply chains. Geoff Bennett speaks with energy analyst Daniel Yergin, vice chairman of S&P Global, for more on what a prolonged disruption could mean around the world.
In our news wrap Friday, Senate Republicans passed a $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement, Trump said he wants his new acting director of national intelligence to slash the agency’s staffing, a federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s immigration processing freeze for 39 countries, and the International Space Station experienced an air leak.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is accusing Russia of choosing war over peace, after Russian President Putin rejected his request for an in-person meeting. Putin spoke at an annual economic forum in St. Petersburg, a city on edge after several Ukrainian airstrikes earlier this week. Nick Schifrin reports.
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including Republican defiance of President Donald Trump and fresh scandals in a key Senate race.
Women have played a vital role in building the technologies that shape modern life, but their contributions have at times been overlooked, minimized or left out of the historical record. A new art exhibition seeks to tell a fuller story. Special correspondent Mike Cerre reports from San Jose for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
With rising grocery prices, many Americans are struggling to provide healthy, complete meals for their families. One chef is teaching his TikTok followers how to eat well on a budget, one $5 meal at a time. Deema Zein reports.
The milestone occurs when a nuclear reactor achieves a self-sustaining chain reaction capable of producing a steady release of energy.
Trump seeks to shore up support among rural voters hard-hit by tariffs, economic fallout of war with Iran.
Millions are likely to lose coverage as states begin complying with the new federal rules.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has turned down an offer for in-person talks with the Ukrainian President.
A drone attack killed a young woman and injured 15 others near Khan Younis, reported the Wafa news agency.
For those aligned with Trump’s campaign promise for the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history, it all but guarantees an uninterrupted flow of money to carry out the administration’s immigration enforcement operations — and comes on top of some $170 billion Congress already approved for the department last summer, as part of Trump’s big tax breaks bill.
Families in Az-Zawayda, central Gaza, clear rubble after overnight Israeli strikes in Gaza
It warned that rapid advances in technology could soon allow AI systems to improve themselves faster than human control.
“We love the farmers, we love everything about your state,” President Donald Trump told his audience at a rally being held in a barn in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, on Friday.
With just five months to go before consequential midterm elections in the U.S., Americans have grown increasingly frustrated by rising costs, and it’s unclear if the strong job numbers this year will change their gloomy view of the economy.
Judge says restrictions put lives of immigrants in ‘indeterminate legal limbo’, motivated by ‘anti-immigrant sentiment’.