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Democrats eye 2028 for bigger health care push

WASHINGTON – As Democrats vie to take control of Congress in the midterms this fall, their main message on health care policy is fairly straightforward: undo Republicans’ Medicaid cuts and restore the health care subsidies that lapsed at the end of last year.
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Dozens Killed in Haiti Massacre as International Force Trickles In

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Ilres Théophile, a farmer living north of Haiti's capital, said he woke in the middle of the night last Sunday to the unmistakable sound of heavy gunfire. Gran Grif, a feared gang in the area, had warned for days that it planned to attack a nearby community.
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Iran says Iraqi ships are allowed to use Strait of Hormuz

The Iranian military said major oil producer Iraq is exempt from shipping restrictions in the Strait of Hormuz, a potentially significant move for global crude supplies. “Brotherly Iraq is exempt from any restrictions we have imposed on the Strait of Hormuz,” Iran’s military spokesman said in an Arabic-language video statement published by state-run Islamic Republic News Agency. The ...
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Ukraine expects top U.S. envoys in Kyiv this month to reboot talks

Ukraine expects top envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to lead a U.S. delegation to Kyiv this month, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff said, as efforts to resume peace talks get underway. The team may arrive shortly after Orthodox Easter, which is celebrated on April 12, Kyrylo Budanov told Bloomberg. While special envoy Witkoff and Kushner, President Donald Trump’s ...
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Trump weighs broader Cabinet shake-up as Iran war pressure grows

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump is considering a broader Cabinet shake-up in the wake of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s removal this week as he grows increasingly frustrated with the political fallout from the war with Iran, five people familiar with internal White House discussions said.
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FEMA official says he teleported to Waffle House. Experts are dubious

Shastoni Burge has worked for a decade as a Waffle House server in Rome, Georgia, much of it on the night shift. She said she was once punched in the face by a customer. She saw someone overdose in the bathroom. One night, a man took all the steak knives and threatened the staff with them.
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Justice Dept. says the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional

The Justice Department has concluded that a federal law requiring the preservation of presidential records is unconstitutional, which could effectively permit White House lawyers to try to set their own voluntary presidential recordkeeping policy and, potentially, upend decades-old legal precedent established in response to Richard M. Nixon’s effort to keep control of records upon his resignation from the Oval Office.
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