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Latest News • Jul 17

How WA lawmakers vote on switch to permanent daylight saving time

The U.S. House voted to make daylight saving time permanent. But if that passes the Senate, states can opt out — and there are reasons Washington might want...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Why Trump’s move to gut the Endangered Species Act likely won’t hold up in court

The Trump administration has decided that destroying the habitat of endangered species is not harmful. Think about that. Habitat loss is the No.

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Latest News • Jul 17

Capitol agenda: Trump leans in on his SAVE America pitch

President Donald Trump made a prime time pitch to lawmakers Thursday night to pass his election security bill as a salvo to his claims U.S. election systems...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Nasdaq, S&P 500 drop 1% after China’s latest AI breakthrough rattles tech stocks

Stocks in Asia and the United States fell Friday after technological advances announced by a Chinese artificial intelligence company intensified concerns...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Chicago Air Quality Alert in effect, extended through Saturday night with index at unhealthy levels from Canadian wildfire smoke

An Air Quality Alert remained in effect for the Chicago area Friday, and it was extended through Saturday night due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.

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Latest News • Jul 17

‘Laws were broken’: multistate effort to stop Paramount’s $111bn merger heads to court

Attorneys general from 12 states are suing to block the Paramount-Warner Bros deal they say violates antitrust law.

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Latest News • Jul 17

Pro-Kremlin blogger who turned on Putin is arrested as Russia steps up crackdown

The news of Ilya Remeslo's arrest came just as a court hearing was being held for another critic, Boris Nadezhdin, in a sign of an intensified response to...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Transit advocates mourn Boston transportation planner killed while biking, demand action

Hundreds of transit advocates gathered at Boston City Hall Plaza Thursday evening to honor Louisa Gag, a transportation planner who was killed while riding...

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Latest News • Jul 17

‘We gotta go’: Brothers tell of harrowing wilderness escape as wildfires closed in

It started out as a normal fishing trip for Tom and John Connelly. The brothers put in on Saturday for what was supposed to be 10 days of paddling,...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Iran says civilian infrastructure hit by latest U.S. strikes, expands attacks to Syria, Bahrain

The escalating standoff comes as the fragile truce signed by the U.S. and Iran last month showed further signs of unravelling.

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Latest News • Jul 17

Rubio convenes countries on left-wing political violence

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened leaders from more than 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration's latest effort to quell...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Japan revises law on royals, keeps blocking women from throne

Japan's upper house of parliament has voted to pass controversial revisions to a law governing who can inherit the throne in the world's oldest continuous...

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Latest News • Jul 17

July 16, 2026

An exchange yesterday between Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA) and Jay Clayton, Trump's nominee to oversee the U.S. intelligence community as director of national...

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Latest News • Jul 17

US and Iran target infrastructure as strait shipping comes under further attack

The United States on Friday launched a seventh straight night of attacks on Iran, which in ‌turn struck U.S. allies in the Gulf, as both sides targeted...

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Latest News • Jul 17

5 takeaways from Trump’s primetime speech on elections

President Donald Trump's primetime address from the White House on Thursday night didn't make huge news. But the speech about potential vulnerabilities in...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Here’s how the TV networks handled Trump’s highly unusual prime-time address

Some major TV networks showed President Donald Trump's prime-time address live on Thursday night while others pointedly did not — a divide that highlighted...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Lettuce supplier identified as potential source of cyclosporiasis outbreak

The CDC has linked the Taylor Farms produce supplied to Taco Bell to the outbreak of the parasitic illness, according to two persons familiar with the...

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Latest News • Jul 17

Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity

The president harshly criticized the networks and said without evidence that they were complicit in perpetuating election fraud.

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Latest News • Jul 17

Trump gives primetime speech on elections as White House alleges Chinese access to voter data

President Trump gave a primetime address on elections tonight, as he remains focused on the 2020 race.

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Latest News • Jul 17

Trump rails against China in new 2020 election claims disputed by critics

President Trump alleged China stole millions of U.S. voter files, compromising the 2020 election, while Democrats and intelligence officials dismissed the...

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