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Month: April 2025

Republicans are going public with their growing worries about Trump’s tariffs

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Manufacturers struggling to make long-term plans. Farmers facing retaliation from Chinese buyers. U.S. households burdened with higher prices. Republican senators are confronting the Trump administration with those worries and many more as they fret about the economic impact of the president’s sweeping tariff strategy that went into

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Attorney General Bondi blasts judge who blocked executive order targeting law firm Trump sought to punish

By Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — Attorney General Pam Bondi railed against a federal judge who partially blocked enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting the Jenner & Block law firm, telling government agencies to stop enforcing the order despite the “blatant overstepping of the judicial power,” while suggesting that the agencies are still

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Lafayette continues growing pains in first boys volleyball season with loss to East (Kansas City)

The gym is now alive with many sounds and sights, as the Fighting Irish are in the midst of their inaugural MSHSAA-sanctioned boys volleyball season.

The program’s growing pains continued Tuesday evening, as visiting East (Kansas City) handed Lafayette its fourth straight loss, sweeping the match 25-17, 25-18, 25-8. The Bears improved to 4-3, while the Irish dropped to 3-9-1.

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Displaced people fleeing from Boko Haram incursions into Niger attend a World Food Programme (WFP) and USAID food distribution at the Asanga refugee camp near Diffa in June 2016.

USAID reverses course and restores some humanitarian aid contracts after WFP warning of possible deadly consequences

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US Agency for International Development (USAID) reversed course Tuesday and restored several of the World Food Programme’s lifesaving humanitarian aid contracts after canceling them over the weekend, a source familiar told CNN. The reversal comes after the World Food Programme warned Monday that the cuts could “amount to

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