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Global Camps Africa works on rescue

Historians may settle on President Donald Trump’s demolition of the United States Agency for International Development as the perfect exemplar of America’s precipitous plunge: the nullification of the best and most idealistic of what we have to offer by those whose values are the worst and most cynical we’ve ever experienced. Founded by John Kennedy in the early days of his administration, it was eliminated by Trump in the first days of his. Its mission, as USAID’s former Assistant Administrator Atul Gawande has written in his Foreword to a recent book on the agency, was ...

Job market rebounds with 162K openings

WASHINGTON — The U.S. labor market bounced back in August as employers added a surprising 162,000 jobs, ending a summer of lackluster hiring with a bang. The unemployment rate remained at a low 4.1%. Hiring far exceeded the 65,000 jobs that forecasters had expected, according to a poll by FactSet. Labor Department revisions also looked good, adding 55,000 to June and July payrolls. Employers created 21,000 jobs in July; the Labor Department had originally reported that they’d cut 23,000. Two months before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump welcomed the strong hiring ...

Mistrial declared in Clancy child murder case

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — A judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial declared a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in a case that sharply divided many Americans over whether the Massachusetts woman should be criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The trial generated intense interest for more than a month, drawing attention to issues around maternal mental health after childbirth. Clancy, a 36-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, never disputed that she killed the children. But her attorney said she had a rare condition called postpartum ...

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Nation Judge extends block on mail ballot order A federal judge on Friday extended her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to limit mail voting during the midterms. The decision from U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in Boston to issue a preliminary injunction replaces a temporary order she had granted blocking the Postal Service’s plan until Sept. 10. Texas ICE officer pleads not guilty to lying to FBI McALLEN — A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer was ordered released from ...

Kyiv bombarded day and night

KYIV, Ukraine — For much of the war, Russian drone and missile attacks in Kyiv followed a particular rhythm. They almost always came at night. The warnings would begin on monitoring channels on Telegram in the late evening. They announced drones moving south, missiles being launched, air defenses working. Ukrainian civilians judged whether it was prudent to stay indoors or make for shelter in the metro based on the severity of the threat. Now, Russia has changed tactics with the use of fast-flying, jet-powered drones, and the expectation that daylight brings a return to normal life ...

Trump admin scrubs data on gender-based bullying from survey

The Trump administration this week quietly released an update to a major survey on civil rights in schools that was scrubbed of all data related to nonbinary students or bullying based on gender identity. The numbers come from the Education Department’s Civil Rights Data Collection, a federal survey of nearly every public school in the nation. The release this week covers the 2023-2024 school year, when the survey included “nonbinary” as a gender category alongside male and female. However, an Associated Press analysis shows that in every column for information related to ...