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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the Renaissance Phoenix Downtown Hotel on August 23, 2024, in Phoenix, Arizona. President Trump has nominated Kennedy to lead the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Watch live: RFK Jr., Trump's health secretary pick, grilled about vaccines and abortion

Senators grill Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines, abortion and Medicaid in his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin,
  • Will Stone,
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A student at Longwood Middle School in Middle Island, N.Y., takes a math test.

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  • Education

Nearly 5 years after schools closed, the nation gets a new report card

There's some good news in math, mostly bad news in reading and lots of questions about why students are still struggling.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Cory Turner and
  • Jonaki Mehta
A view of <em>Moving Objects: Learning from Local and Global Communities</em> on show at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

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  • Art & Design

A museum's confession: Why we have looted objects

An exhibition at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum points to a burgeoning trend: museums are engaging the public more openly around efforts to repatriate artifacts looted from other countries.

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
The U.S. Department of Justice is seen on June 20, 2023 in Washington, D.C. At least 12 officials who worked with the special counsel Jack Smith to investigate President Trump have been fired from the department.

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  • Politics

Justice Department moves to fire at least 12 officials who investigated Trump

In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they "could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda."

January 28, 2025
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By:
  • Ryan Lucas and
  • Carrie Johnson
A Trump executive order temporarily pauses leases and permits for onshore and offshore wind projects.

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  • Climate

Here's how Trump's pause on wind projects could threaten jobs and climate goals

A Trump executive order temporarily pauses leases and permits for offshore and onshore wind projects. Wind advocates say an offshore wind freeze could threaten states' climate goals and jobs.

January 27, 2025
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  • Julia Simon
President Trump speaks at a rally at Circa Resort & Casino on Saturday. The event focused on Trump's first week in office, including his proposed policy to eliminate taxes on tips for service industry employees.

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  • Politics

In Las Vegas, Trump once again pitches no taxes on tips

President Trump's pitch to stop taxing tips is popular with everyone -- except for economists.

January 27, 2025
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  • Asma Khalid
People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025.

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  • Africa

Rwanda-backed rebels claim to have seized key city in Congo

Rwandan backed rebels have entered the city of Goma, a key city in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Could the mineral rich region be in danger of tipping into all out regional conflict?

January 27, 2025
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  • Emmet Livingstone
The U.S. has accused an Israeli private investigator of orchestrating a hacking campaign that targeted American climate activists. Extradition hearings for the private investigator, Amit Forlit, were held at Westminster Magistrates' Court in London.

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  • Climate

The U.S. is trying to unravel a hacking plot that targeted climate activists

The U.S. claims the hacking was commissioned by a lobbying firm working on behalf of one of the world's biggest oil companies.

January 25, 2025
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  • Michael Copley
Students walk across the campus of the University of Maryland. A new round of data shows that college enrollment in the U.S. has surpassed pre-pandemic levels.

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  • Education

In a surprise, U.S. colleges saw higher enrollment last fall

The number of students in undergraduate and graduate programs rose above pre-pandemic levels for the first time.

January 24, 2025
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  • Elissa Nadworny
Bad Bunny on stage in Miami in May 2024. The Puerto Rican singer's latest album, <em>Debí Tirar Más Fotos</em>, topped <em>Billboard</em>'s album chart this week.

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  • Music

Bad Bunny blessed with Billboard's biggest boosts (and Bruno bolsters his bona fides)

Bad Bunny, who had the most-streamed album of both 2022 and 2023, seems to have another potential juggernaut on his hands. But to top the chart this week he had to hold off an unlikely challenger.

January 24, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding how climate change is affecting communities. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has erased the line between his job and his life.

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  • Climate

This scientist studies climate change. Then the Los Angeles fire destroyed his home

Climate scientist Ben Hamlington works on understanding the impacts of climate change. Losing his house in the Eaton Fire has given that work new meaning.

January 24, 2025
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By:
  • Lauren Sommer
In his new album, <em>Amours Interdites</em>, French pianist David Kadouch highlights music by gay composers whose concealed their sexuality because it wasn't accepted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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  • Music

Pianist David Kadouch probes gay composers' hidden loves, through music

In his album Amours Interdites (Forbidden Love) French pianist David Kadouch explores music by gay composers who concealed their sexuality in societies that wouldn't otherwise accept them.

January 24, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton
British singer Petula Clark's single "Downtown" hit the number one spot on the U.S. billboard charts in 1965. At 92, she's planning a concert in London.

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  • Music

Petula Clark teases London show 60 years after 'Downtown' made her a star in the U.S.

Petula Clark's single "Downtown" hit the number one spot on the US billboard charts 60 years ago, on January 23, 1965, and stayed there for two weeks. At 92, she's planning a concert in London.

January 23, 2025
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  • Olivia Hampton
Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson speaks at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. last month. She goes on trial Monday for interfering with the police investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black jogger chased and killed by three white men in February 2020. No arrests were made until months later, and only after video of the crime came out.

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  • Law

Ex-Georgia prosecutor on trial for hindering Ahmaud Arbery's murder investigation

Former district attorney Jackie Johnson is accused of interfering with the police investigation into the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery, nearly five years after he was murdered while jogging.

January 23, 2025
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  • Debbie Elliott
From left, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., talk to reporters about the Laken Riley Act, a bill to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 9.

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  • Politics

Congress clears GOP-led immigration enforcement bill, with Democrats on board

The Laken Riley Act would make it easier for federal immigration officials to detain and deport those without legal status who are charged with specific crimes.

January 23, 2025
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  • Deirdre Walsh
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