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President Donald Trump has promised to roll out a slew of new tariffs this week.

Wall Street is fed up with Trump’s tariffs. Stocks are off to their worst start to a year since 2022

John Towfighi, CNN March 31, 2025

New York (CNN) — As Wall Street heads into a new quarter, a flurry of President Donald Trump’s tariffs are set to go into effect. That has traders on edge and has helped put US stocks in their worst...

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions from reporters during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on March 19 in Washington, DC.

White House Correspondents Association says Trump administration is trying to pressure reporters

Brian Stelter, CNN March 31, 2025

(CNN) — The White House Correspondents’ Association says the Trump administration should abandon its “wrong-headed effort” to take control of the press briefing room seating chart. In a memo...

The US Department of Health and Human Services has canceled hundreds of grants related to vaccines and vaccine uptake.

‘The lives of individuals in the US are at stake,’ researchers warn after HHS cancels hundreds of vaccine grants

Brenda Goodman, CNN March 31, 2025

(CNN) — As preventable infections like measles threaten to become endemic again in the US, researchers whose government grants were recently terminated are warning about the consequences of throttling...

Kermit The Frog addressed the 1996 graduates of the former Southampton College of Long Island University in Southampton, New York.

The ‘world’s most famous amphibian’ will deliver commencement speech at the University of Maryland

Chris Boyette, CNN March 27, 2025

(CNN) — University commencement speakers are often notable members of the community or even famous celebrities that can inspire graduates with a blend of wisdom and humor. This spring, the University...

HHS will announce cuts to 10,000 jobs across several agencies on Thursday.

HHS cuts 10,000 employees in major overhaul of health agencies

(CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday it is cutting 10,000 full-time employees across health agencies, the department told CNN. This comes on top of 10,000 employees...

Rumeysa Ozturk, a  graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was taken into custody by federal agents near her home Tuesday, March 25, 2025, according to her lawyer.

What we know about the Tufts University PhD student detained by federal agents

Gloria Pazmino and Andy Rose March 27, 2025

(CNN) — As the sun began to set Tuesday over Somerville, Massachusetts, Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk was on her way to meet friends at an Iftar dinner where they would break their Ramadan fast. But...

National security adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, in Washington, DC.

‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN March 25, 2025

(CNN) — Several top Trump administration officials are facing scrutiny for sending detailed operational plans and other likely highly classified information about US military strikes on Yemen to...

President of World Athletics Sebastian Coe looks on during the Paris Grand Slam judo tournament in February.

World Athletics plans pre-clearance testing of female category track and field athletes

Thomas Schlachter, CNN March 25, 2025

(CNN) — World Athletics plans to introduce biological pre-clearance tests for track and field athletes before they can compete in the female category, the sport’s governing body announced Tuesday. These...

President Donald Trump listens to a reporter's question in the Cabinet Room of the White House on March 25 in Washington, DC.

Trump stands by Waltz as the president and his allies deploy a familiar playbook

Washington (CNN) —President Donald Trump not only stood by his embattled national security adviser on Tuesday, amid fever-pitch conversations about Mike Waltz’s fate in the wake of an extraordinary...

Palestinians leave Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip with their belongings, heading towards Gaza City following Israeli evacuation orders on March 19.

Israel approves controversial proposal to facilitate emigration of Palestinians from Gaza

(CNN) — Israel’s security cabinet has approved a controversial proposal to facilitate Palestinian emigration from Gaza, a move critics warn could amount to ethnic cleansing. Israeli Finance Minister...

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Stocks rally as Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ is looking like yet another tariff retreat

David Goldman, CNN March 24, 2025

New York (CNN) — For more than a month, President Donald Trump and his administration have been promoting April 2 as a kind of tariffs Super Bowl, during which all of his many promised import taxes...

FEMA rescue workers search a flood-damaged area along the Swannanoa River in Asheville, North Carolina, in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene last October.

As Trump works to cut FEMA, data shows there was a major disaster declaration every four days in 2024

Lauren Kent and Ella Nilsen, CNN March 24, 2025

(CNN) — Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the former chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency stepped down at the end of the...

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