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Astronauts Suni Williams (lower) and Butch Wilmore (left) were originally supposed to return to Earth in June of last year. Instead, they've been part of the latest crew of the International Space Station, along with astronaut Nick Hague (right).

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  • Space

NASA's latest space launch: 'Stranded' astronauts and messy politics

President Trump and Elon Musk claim the Biden administration abandoned two astronauts in space. But the publicly available evidence suggests a different story.

March 12, 2025
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
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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  • 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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  • 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
Georgia U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock pictured at the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection on February 26, 2025, to highlight the importance of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Credit: Senator Raphael Warnock

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  • Politics

Taxpayer dollars at work: Assistance for farmers, food access for service members, federal prisons

For the week ending March 7, the senators worked on efforts including providing service members with healthy food on military bases, and pushing the Trump administration on federal prison security and economic assistance for Georgia farmers.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Ambria Burton
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. Matt Hatchett, the House’s top budget writer, said “things are tight” right now. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder

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  • Politics

Georgia House signs off on $37.7 billion budget, increasing spending on prisons and education

House lawmakers signed off on a revised $37.7 billion budget for next year that includes increases in spending for education, prisons and housing but lacked the splashy infusion of one-time spending that made this year’s spending plan swell to more than $40 billion.

March 12, 2025
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By:
  • Jill Nolin
A pair of gloved hands holds a clear, plastic bag with fentanyl.

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  • Politics

A new Georgia bill would add mandatory minimum sentences to fentanyl-related crimes and deaths

A bill called the Fentanyl Eradication and Removal Act that passed out of Georgia’s Senate last week would create mandatory minimum sentences for those trafficking in fentanyl if passed by the House and signed by the governor.

March 12, 2025
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  • Ellen Eldridge
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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  • Chandelis Duster
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