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Trump will seek 'Department of War' rebrand for Pentagon

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Friday to rebrand the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his latest effort to project an image of toughness for A...

Sep 04, 2025

School changing ‘Thunderbirds’ to ‘T-Birds’ to comply with NY ban on Native American team names

BOHEMIA, N.Y. (AP) - A school district in New York City's suburbs agreed this week to change its "Thunderbirds" nickname to simply the "T-Birds" in order to comply with the state's mandate to retire a...

Sep 04, 2025

Appeals court panel stops order to wind down operations at 'Alligator Alcatraz' in Everglades

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A federal appeals court panel on Thursday put on hold a lower court judge's order to wind down operations of the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed "All...

Sep 04, 2025

Northwestern president announces resignation following tenure marked by White House tension

Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Tr...

Sep 04, 2025

Rubio says US is designating 2 more gangs as foreign terrorist groups

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thurday that the United States is designating two Ecuadorian gangs as foreign terrorist organizations in the Trump administration's lates...

Sep 04, 2025

Congo's health ministry announces a new Ebola outbreak

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Congo's health ministry on Thursday announced a new Ebola outbreak, the 16th in the central African country, after a case was confirmed in the southern Kasai province. "To date, ...

Sep 04, 2025

The District of Columbia sues over Trump's deployment of the National Guard

WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia on Thursday sued to stop President Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard during law enforcement intervention in Washington. The city's attorney general...

Sep 04, 2025

Lorena is downgraded to a tropical storm but still poses a flood and mudslide threat to Mexico

MIAMI (AP) - Hurricane Lorena has weakened to a tropical storm but forecasters said a life-threatening risk of flash flooding and mudslides was still present for parts of Mexico's Baja California peni...

Sep 04, 2025

Macron says 26 countries pledge troops as a reassurance force for Ukraine after fighting ends

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine's allies have pledged to deploy troops as a "reassurance force" for the war-torn country once fighting ends in th...

Sep 04, 2025

Palestinian death toll passes 64,000, health officials say, as Israel and Hamas dig in on demands

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - More than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said Thursday, as Hamas and Israel reiterated their...

Sep 04, 2025