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Updated Apr 5, 2024 - Politics & Policy

House to vote on rebuking Biden's call for Gaza ceasefire

President Biden, wearing a blue puffer jacket, white and blue striped shirt and black hat with the presidential seal, stands in front of a soldier outside.
Updated Apr 5, 2024 - Business

Eclipse fever brings space-themed specials to restaurant menus

Doughnut with Oreo cookie on top with words Total Solar Eclipse Doughnut
Updated Apr 5, 2024 - Energy & Climate

4.8-magnitude earthquake felt across eastern U.S.

Apr 5, 2024 - World

Biden asks Egypt, Qatar to press Hamas to agree to hostage deal

Relatives and supporters of Israeli hostages held in Gaza since the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants demonstrate in Tel Aviv calling for their release, on April 4, 2024,
Updated Apr 5, 2024 - Politics & Policy

Biden visits Baltimore in aftermath of deadly bridge collapse

Marine One with US President Joe Biden onboard, makes an aerial tour of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge

Why the East Coast earthquake shook people who were states away

Apr 5, 2024 - World

"We won't support you": Inside Biden's ultimatum to Bibi

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the collapse of Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 26, 2024
Updated Apr 5, 2024 - Economy

The March jobs report was as good as it gets — here’s why

King family praises Beyoncé for "reaffirming" country album

Tesla stock seesaws as Musk denies report cheap EV will be scrapped

Elon Musk
Apr 5, 2024 - Technology

The looming threat of opening Apple's app ecosystem

Illustration of arrow cursors aimed at Apple's logo.
Updated Apr 5, 2024 - World

Israeli military finds strike on aid workers was "serious violation" of rules

Palestinians are standing next to a destroyed vehicle in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 2, 2024, where employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Apr 5, 2024 - Technology

Meta to broaden labeling of AI-made content

Illustration of a small Meta logo under a magnifying glass surrounded by a larger, out of focus version

2024 hurricane season's dark omens

Apr 5, 2024 - Economy

U.S. adds 303,000 jobs in March as unemployment rate dips

A "We're hiring" sign
Apr 5, 2024 - Economy

Climate hypocrisy takes center stage in the Amazon

Illustration of an oil barrel rolling through a rainforest and leaving a dirt path behind it

Exclusive: Republicans to face pro-Ukraine deluge on return to D.C.

A bus stop with a large billboard reading "DON'T LET PUTIN WIN."

Yellen: Cutting off economic relations with China isn't "practical"

Yellen in China speaks at a podium
Apr 5, 2024 - Health

The only ones not feeling eclipse mania: hospitals

Illustration of x-rays showing stages of a solar eclipse

Biden's 2024 goody bags: Laws pump billions into Republican and swing states

Apr 5, 2024 - Technology

For AI firms, anything "public" is fair game

Illustration of a pair of quotation marks in the form of half-lidded side-looking eyes over a background of binary code

New celebrity must-have: An alcohol brand

Illustration of a cocktail with a star-shaped lime, pearls, and a boa
Updated Apr 5, 2024 - Business

U.S. Army Corps plans to reopen Port of Baltimore channel by end of May

A Wallenius Wilhelmsen ship in the Port of Baltimore as salvage workers dismantle the wreckage of the the Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed into the Patapsco River after being struck by the Dali container vessel in Baltimore, Maryland, US, on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Updated Apr 5, 2024 - Energy & Climate

Deadly Northeast storm disrupts travel and causes widespread outages

Satellite image of a powerful spring storm hitting the Northeast.

Trump DOJ official likely broke ethics rules, D.C. Bar panel finds

 Jeffrey Clark, former Acting Assistant Attorney General, on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.
Updated Apr 4, 2024 - World

CIA director to travel to Cairo for Gaza hostage talks this weekend

Facebook: ?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign= Central Intelligence Agency director William Burns testifies during the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on worldwide threats in the Hart Senate Office Building on Monday, March 11, 2024.
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