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Pro-Palestinian protestors demonstrate in Lower Manhattan on Monday, after immigration officers arrested a leader of the protests at Columbia University against Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza. Mahmoud Khalil, one of the most prominent faces of the university's protest movement, was arrested on March 9.

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White House says immigration officials are seeking more pro-Palestinian protesters

Following the arrest of pro-Palestinian protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Department of Homeland Security is working to make additional arrests.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Elena Moore
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MARCH 11: Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on March 11, 2025 in New York City. Following the worst day for the markets this year, the Dow was down nearly 500 points in morning trading. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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  • Business

Stocks sink again, as Trump's tariff policies spark chaos

Trump has long boasted about the market's performance under him. But now he seems to have other priorities.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Maria Aspan
Columbia University faculty members hold a pro-Palestinian and pro-free speech rally on the Columbia University campus in 2023 in New York City.

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  • National

Green card holders' rights in spotlight after arrest of pro-Palestinian activist

A New York federal judge is set to hear pivotal questions in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of large Gaza solidarity protests at Columbia University who now faces deportation after his arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell and
  • Ximena Bustillo
A Southwest Airlines plane is unloaded at Denver International Airport on Thursday, Feb. 27. The airline announced that it would begin charging some passengers to check bags.

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  • Business

Bags fly for a fee: Southwest Airlines cancels its free checked luggage perk

The carrier announced Tuesday that it will begin charging certain passengers to check their luggage on flights, a significant shift at the company long prized by consumers for its perks.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Abdulwahab Omira, 28, stands in front of his destroyed family home in Damascus, Syria. Omira and his family fled Syria's civil war in 2012 when he was a teenager. Now a U.S. citizen and a graduate student at Stanford, Omira recently returned to his home country to look for ways the tech industry could help rebuild it.

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  • World

He fled Syria's war as a teenager. He went back to help launch a tech industry

Abdulwahab Omira escaped Syria's war with his family as a teenager. He recently returned as a Stanford graduate student and a budding entrepreneur, hoping to help jumpstart the country's tech industry.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Canadian and American flags fly on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, on March 8.

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  • Politics

Trump announces double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum

President Trump said he plans to put 50% tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada in an escalation of recent trade tensions between the countries.

March 11, 2025
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  • Danielle Kurtzleben

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  • Book News & Features

New books this week: A foodie memoir, a missing child, witches illustrated, and more

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective. Plus, Karen Russell's first full-length novel since Swamplandia!

March 11, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Book Reviews

From pointy hats to murder of innocents, 'The Story of Witches' revives the past

Willow Winsham's new book on witches, past and present, offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art.

March 11, 2025
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  • Gabino Iglesias
Campaign posters hang outside a polling station ahead of Greenland's March 11 election, in Ilulissat, Greenland. The island will elect the 31 members of its parliament, called the Inatsisartut. Greenland was due to hold elections by April 6, but Prime Minister Mute Egede called for an early vote amid the geopolitical tensions stoked by President  Trump's vow to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.

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  • World

Greenland elections are dominated by independence and Trump's interest in the island

Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede has framed today's vote as a "fateful choice." Polls show most support independence from Denmark, but the speed and timing of such a move are matters of debate.

March 11, 2025
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  • Willem Marx
Conservative Georgia State Election Board member Janelle King, second from left, voted Sept. 23 to have election board Executive Director Mike Coan. second from right, to look into the claims that led to the DeKalb County Republican Party alleging that several county election board’s are not following the law for reviewing voter eligibility complaints. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder (file photo)

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  • Politics

Senate panel to consider bill that hands Georgia lawmakers more say over State Election Board

A last-minute House election bill that advanced on Crossover Day last week would give new authority to the House speaker and Senate president to remove State Election Board members during the legislative offseason.

March 11, 2025
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Palestinians line up for water next to a distribution truck at a displacement camp in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan condemned Israel's decision to cut electricity supply to the war-battered Gaza Strip, calling in separate statements for the international community to take action.

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  • Middle East

Moving Palestinians out of Gaza? Trump's idea takes on a life of its own in Israel

Arab countries reject Gaza displacement as ethnic cleansing, but Israeli officials say they are working on plans to make it happen, and polls suggest most Israelis are open to the idea.

March 11, 2025
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  • Daniel Estrin
Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon (L), and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., (C) appear during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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  • Health

RFK says most vaccine advisers have conflicts of interest. A report shows they don't

The Health Secretary's assertion inaccurately characterizes the 2009 government report he cites, according to an NPR review and interviews with former committee members.

March 11, 2025
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  • Pien Huang
U.S. national security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio sit down with Saudi and Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday.

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  • World

Ukraine wants 'constructive, friendly' talks with the U.S. as they meet in Saudi Arabia

Diplomatic teams from Ukraine and the United States are holding talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday in steps toward ending a full-scale war started by Russia in 2022.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Eleanor Beardsley
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters on Tuesday that he expects Republicans will pass a partisan spending bill on Tuesday, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration before the Friday shutdown deadline.

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  • Politics

With deadline looming Speaker predicts GOP can pass spending bill without Democrats

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La, told reporters on Tuesday that he believes Republicans will be able to pass a partisan spending bill without the help of Democrats.

March 11, 2025
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By:
  • Deirdre Walsh and
  • Claudia Grisales
Queen Olori Atuwatse III of Warri, Delta State, Nigeria, is pictured during her visit to the Capitol with House Speaker Jon Burns on March 10, 2025. The queen consort visited to promote her "Elevate Africa" cause. Credit: Georgia House of Representatives

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  • Politics

'Lawmakers' Day 29: Senate focuses on banking; House honors Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia

The Senate took on a bill to clean up language in banking and financial laws; House members commemorated the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia.

March 11, 2025
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  • Sarah Kallis and
  • Tristan Smith
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