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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them struggling with conflict, according to the organization and officials who spoke to The Associated Press. The World Food Program, the largest provider of […]
The United States has lifted multimillion-dollar bounties on three senior Taliban officials, according to Afghan authorities and a senior American official. The move is a significant shift by the Trump administration toward militants who were behind some of the deadliest attacks during the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan but have refashioned themselves as a more moderate […]
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A major, disruptive winter storm was sweeping across the central US on Sunday, forecasters said, bringing with it a dreaded combination of snow, ice and plunging temperatures. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued winter storm warnings from Kansas and Missouri – where blizzard conditions are expected – to New . . .
Tens of millions of Americans are bracing for a huge winter storm that could bring the heaviest snowfall and coldest temperatures in over a decade. The storm, which started in the middle of the US, will move east in the next couple of days, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. Parts of the US not […]
Millions of people across the Midwest, Northeastern United States and southern Ontario, Canada, were under winter weather warnings Thursday morning as snow squalls moved through ahead of another blast of Arctic temperatures. After a week of bitterly cold temperatures and days of lake-effect snow, another shot of cold air was sweeping through the Northeast after […]
Discover how public forests supply vital food and medicine, supporting millions while highlighting the need for better management of these invaluable resources. ​​​​​​​Study: Provisioning Food and Medicine from Public Forests in the United States. Image Credit: Phanom Nuangchomphoo / Shutterstock Scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service have conducted a study to estimate […]
Millions of Americans are at risk of losing health coverage in 2025 under Donald Trump’s forthcoming administration. More than 20 million Americans rely on the individual private health insurance market for healthcare, private insurance which is subsidized by the federal government. These subsidies, programs that help lower the cost of health insurance premiums . . […]
Republicans are on track to win the popular vote in a presidential election for the first time in 20 years, with Donald Trump leading Kamala . . .
Tens of millions of voters went to the polls in the United States on Tuesday, see-sawing between anxiety and hope, to send one of the closest and most consequential presidential elections hurtling towards an uncertain finish. The Democrat Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent,