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Ashley Judd and Aloe Blacc help the White House unveil its national suicide prevention strategy

April 25, 2024, 3:13pm Health

Actor Ashley Judd and singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc, who both lost loved ones to suicide, on Tuesday helped the Biden administration promote its new national strategy to prevent suicide. Read story

NASA astronauts arrive for Boeing’s first human spaceflight

April 25, 2024, 3:12pm Latest News

The two NASA astronauts assigned to Boeing’s first human spaceflight arrived at their launch site Thursday, just over a week before their scheduled liftoff. Read story

Nonprofits take a hit in ‘seismic shift’ in House earmark rules

April 25, 2024, 5:21pm Nation & World

House appropriators have made it more difficult for members to secure fiscal 2025 earmarks for some social services programs in their districts, according to new guidance Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, R-Okla., announced Thursday. Read story

Mike Pinder, Moody Blues’ last surviving original member, dies at 82

April 25, 2024, 5:20pm Nation & World

Mike Pinder, a founding member and keyboardist of prog rock band the Moody Blues, has died. He was 82. Pinder was the last surviving original member of the band. Read story

Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case

April 25, 2024, 3:12pm Nation & World

A federal judge in New York rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial on Thursday after a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages to a longtime magazine columnist who sued the former president for defamation for calling her claim that he had sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department… Read story

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Putin said he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after he extended his rule by six more years in an election that offered voters little real choice. Putin&rsquo;s inauguration is scheduled for May 7.

Putin announces plans to visit China in May

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a cabinet meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. Putin said he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after he extended his rule by six more years in an election that offered voters little real choice. Putin&rsquo;s inauguration is scheduled for May 7.

April 25, 2024, 3:10pm Nation & World

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he plans to visit China in May, in what could become the first foreign trip for the Russian leader after he extended his rule by six more years in an election that offered voters little real choice. Read story

FILE - A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, April 23, 2024, in Washington.  TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban. A battle in the courts will almost certainly be backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young Americans to connect online.

The TikTok law kicks off a new showdown between Beijing and Washington. What’s coming next?

FILE - A TikTok content creator, sits outside the U.S. Capitol, April 23, 2024, in Washington.  TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban. A battle in the courts will almost certainly be backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young Americans to connect online.

April 25, 2024, 1:09pm Business

TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company, a move almost certainly backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young… Read story

FILE - A make-shift memorial lines Main Street, Nov. 3, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. The Maine Legislature has approved sweeping gun safety legislation early Thursday, April 18, 2024, nearly six months after the deadliest shooting in state history.

Fellow reservists who served with Maine killer before mass shootings say they warned of his decline

FILE - A make-shift memorial lines Main Street, Nov. 3, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine. The Maine Legislature has approved sweeping gun safety legislation early Thursday, April 18, 2024, nearly six months after the deadliest shooting in state history.

April 25, 2024, 1:00pm Nation & World

A U.S. Army reservist who sounded the clearest warning ahead of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting is answering questions Thursday from the commission investigating the tragedy. Read story

New York Times journalist David Montgomery is walked to be medically evaluated after accidentally being knocked over during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, Wednesday April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas.

Some campuses call in police to break up pro-Palestinian demonstrations, while others wait it out

New York Times journalist David Montgomery is walked to be medically evaluated after accidentally being knocked over during a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas, Wednesday April 24, 2024, in Austin, Texas.

April 25, 2024, 12:55pm Nation & World

With graduations looming, student protesters doubled down early Thursday on their discontent of the Israel-Hamas war on campuses across the country, with multiple arrests made at campuses in Massachusetts and California as universities have become quick to call in the police to end the demonstrations and make arrests. Read story

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024.(Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

Former tabloid publisher testifies about scheme to shield his old friend Trump from damaging stories

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court before his trial in New York, Thursday, April 25, 2024.(Spencer Platt/Pool Photo via AP)

April 25, 2024, 12:47pm Latest News

As Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, his old friend at the National Enquirer was scooping up potentially damaging stories about the candidate and paying out tens of thousands of dollars to keep them from the public eye. Read story