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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...

Israeli soldiers operate tanks near the southern border with Gaza on Wednesday, March 19.

Hamas fires rockets at Israel for first time since truce collapses as toll mounts in Gaza

Dana Karni and Kareem Khadder March 20, 2025

(CNN) — Hamas fired rockets at Israel from Gaza Thursday, the militant group’s first response to Israel’s renewed offensive in the Strip that shattered the two-month-old ceasefire. Three projectiles...

Community members rally in front of the Department of Education with school desks to protest budget cuts on March 13 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on Thursday to start the process of dismantling the Department of Education.

Trump to sign order Thursday to begin dismantling of Education Department

Jeff Zeleny and Sunlen Serfaty, CNN March 20, 2025

(CNN) —President Donald Trump is poised to sign an executive order on Thursday to start the process of dismantling the Department of Education, two administration officials told CNN, a move that will...

People protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility after reports circulated that migrant activist Jeanette Vizguerra had been taken into custody by federal agents, in Aurora, Colorado, on Tuesday.

ICE defends arrest of high-profile undocumented mother of 4 as outraged supporters rally for her release

(CNN) — An undocumented mother of four who became a symbol of resistance as she fought for immigrant rights during the first Trump administration is now in federal custody, stoking fear and turmoil...

A Palestinian woman sits on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on March 18.

Israel has resumed the war in Gaza. Why now?

Mick Krever, CNN March 19, 2025

(CNN) — The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, just two months old, has been shaky for some time. But that was thoroughly shattered by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza starting in the early hours...

A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent walks down a street during a multi-agency targeted enforcement operation in Chicago, Illinois, US, on January, 26.

Trump administration deports hundreds of alleged gang members to El Salvador despite court ruling

(CNN) — Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members were deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador on Sunday, with the Trump administration invoking wartime powers to speed up...

A Forever 21 store in New York seen in February 2025.

Forever 21 is going out of business in the United States

Ramishah Maruf and Anna Cooban, CNN March 17, 2025

New York / London (CNN) — Forever 21 isn’t even cool enough to exist anymore. The retailer’s US operating company filed for bankruptcy Sunday — for the second time in six years — in a court...

A worker works at steel company in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.

Trump’s tariffs are inflicting serious economic damage and reigniting inflation, OECD says

David Goldman, CNN March 17, 2025

(CNN) — President Donald Trump’s tariff policies are slowing economic growth in the United States and around the world while sending prices higher again, creating a toxic stew for the global economy...

The US Department of Education building is pictured on August 21, 2024 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump could decide this week to take the first steps to eliminate the Department of Education, people familiar with the matter said, as he looks to dramatically shrink the size of the federal government.

Trump preparing to sign order to dismantle Education Department

Kevin Liptak and Tami Luhby March 6, 2025

(CNN) — President Donald Trump could decide this week to take the first steps to eliminate the Department of Education, people familiar with the matter said, as he looks to dramatically shrink the size...

A Somali internally-displaced person (IDP) looks out from her family's makeshift home in Maslah camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on February 5.

Trump administration terminated funding for aid programs it said were lifesaving

Jennifer Hansler, CNN March 4, 2025

(CNN) — When the Trump administration abruptly terminated ten thousand foreign assistance contracts and grants last week, it ended funding for programs around the world – including those that had...

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