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On March 10, a member of civil defense canine unit searches for Sudiksha Konanki, a university student from the U.S. who disappeared on a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the prior week.

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  • World

What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic

Sudiksha Konanki is a Virginia resident and a student at the University of Pittsburgh. She was vacationing in Punta Cana with five others when she went missing last week.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
The gold ring was uncovered in 2019.

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  • Europe

A medieval Bishop's ring from more than 800 years ago goes to auction

The ring, discovered by a metal detectorist in the U.K., is estimated to sell for between $19,000 and $23,000 at auction.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Manuela López Restrepo
President Trump, through orders, firings and other changes, is remaking the existing system of checks on the president. Supporters say that is exactly the point.

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  • Politics

Trump is trying to remake the presidency. Here's why

The Trump administration has shuttered, fired or targeted for resignation individuals, offices and agencies that could serve as a check on President Trump. Supporters say that is exactly the point.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Susan Davis and
  • Carrie Johnson
President Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office on March 6, including the order against the law firm Perkins Coie.

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  • Law

Judge blocks Trump from enforcing 'chilling' order against law firm

While Trump's executive order takes aim at Perkins Coie, the judge said it "casts a chilling harm of blizzard proportion across the entire legal profession."

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Supporters of Mahmoud Khalil rally outside the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan on March 12, 2025.

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  • National

Federal judge hears challenge to Mahmoud Khalil's detention

The Trump administration has accused Khalil of engaging in anti-Semitic activity and support of Hamas. The administration wants Khalil deported. But he's a legal permanent resident, and his attorneys deny any involvement with the terrorist group.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Sergio Martínez-Beltrán and
  • Adrian Florido
Harvard University is one of more than a dozen institutions of higher learning nationwide that recently announced a hiring freeze, citing uncertainties around federal funding.

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  • Education

Universities across the U.S. freeze hiring as federal funding hangs in the balance

With uncertainties around federal funding for higher education, some schools are cutting back. Experts say that could hurt not only students and faculty, but ultimately make the U.S. less competitive.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Civil rights demonstrators, led by Dr. Martin Luther King (5th R), civil rights activist Ralph Abernathy (5th L), John Lewis (3rd L) and other civil and religious leaders, make their way from Selma to Montgomery on March 22, 1965 in Alabama.

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  • Race

60 years after Bloody Sunday in Alabama, elusive racial progress in Selma

Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott and
  • Marisa Peñaloza
Chloe Kienzle of Arlington, Va., holds a sign as she stands outside the U.S. Department of Education, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday – the day after the Trump administration announced widespread job cuts at the agency.

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  • Education

What parents, teachers and school choice groups think of Education Department cuts

Teacher unions and some parent groups condemned the cuts, while school choice advocates celebrated them.

March 12, 2025
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  • Nicole Cohen
A worker manipulates a block of aluminum in a French smelter in 2022. President Trump has increased tariffs on imported aluminum from 10% to 25%, while also removing exceptions from tariffs on steel. Both metals are crucial raw materials for the automotive sector.

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  • Business

Automakers brace for higher costs as steel and aluminum tariffs kick in

Tariffs on steel and aluminum are increasing to 25% — not the 50% that President Trump had recently threatened, but high enough to be a headache for automakers.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Camila Domonoske
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a senate inquiry on the so-called war on drugs during his administration at the Philippine Senate, Oct. 28, 2024, in Manila, Philippines.

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  • Asia

Rodrigo Duterte is in custody in The Hague for crimes against humanity trial

The former Philippine president is the first former leader from Asia to face charges at the International Criminal Court. Human rights groups say his violent crackdowns left up to 30,000 dead.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Willem Marx
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman.

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  • Politics

Congress reignites a bipartisan effort to ban hair discrimination

Previous attempts to pass the legislation banning hair discrimination have stalled in Congress.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
President Trump and White House senior adviser, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk depart after looking at Tesla vehicles on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday.

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  • Politics

Trump buys a Tesla with Elon Musk in tow, at the White House

The president perused a series of Teslas with the company's CEO, who also serves as Trump's adviser.

March 12, 2025
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  • Deepa Shivaram
Elon Musk's DOGE team has sought sweeping access to government databases that store personal information on millions of Americans.

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  • National

The government already knows a lot about you. DOGE is trying to access all of it

Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Laurel Wamsley
President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on March 6, including the order terminating the security clearances of those who work at the law firm Perkins Coie.

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  • Law

Law firm says Trump order targeting it specifically is attack on rule of law

Perkins Coie's lawsuit is in response to President Trump's executive order that accused the firm of "dishonest and dangerous activity" that sought to overturn laws and elections and of allegedly discriminatory DEI policies.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas
Steve Witkoff, President Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, speaks outside the White House last week before leaving to Qatar to begin ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.

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  • Middle East

Mediators seek a new deal to release more than half of the hostages in Gaza

President Trump's Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff is taking part in ceasefire talks in Qatar, the most serious Israel-Hamas talks since Trump took office.

March 12, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin
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