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Senate bill would increase $10,000 thresholds for financial transactions banks must report to feds
Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to increase the reporting thresholds for currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports under the Bank Secrecy Act.
Senate Democrats shoot down GOP bill to pay essential federal workers during shutdown
Senate Democrats blocked a bill Thursday to pay federal employees who are working during the shutdown.
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Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class, according to an Associated Press analysis.
Backing Israel was considered mandatory for New York politicians. Then came Zohran Mamdani
A few weeks before his stunning loss to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forth a political calculus long accepted as fact in New York: "Being a Democrat," he said, "it's synonymous that you support Israel."
Satellite images show before and after of demolition of White House East Wing
New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at the White House.
What to know about Coast Guard Island in California, where federal agents have headed
Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests Thursday in the San Francisco Bay Area on their way out to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base.
Trump calls off federal deployment plans for San Francisco
President Trump said he's backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking with Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie.
British ex-soldier acquitted of murder in 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre
A former British paratrooper was found not guilty Thursday on murder charges relating to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland that saw 13 people killed in a flurry of bullets.
Winsome Earle-Sears embraces Trump’s tepid Va. governor endorsement: ‘The president wants me to win’
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears welcomed President Trump's tepid endorsement of her gubernatorial campaign this week, saying he made clear he "wants me to win."
Trump mulls asking Israel to free Palestinian leader Barghouti as U.S. looks to Gaza rule post-Hamas
President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, as the United States aims to fill a leadership vacuum in postwar Gaza.
FBI offers clearer footage of suspect placing pipe bombs near DNC, RNC headquarters in 2021
The FBI has released new video footage of a suspect in the placing of two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican national headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021.
