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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday heard oral arguments in a major challenge to an executive order that seeks to narrow birthright citizenship, a case that could reshape citizenship…
DOHA — Qatari mediators returned to Tehran on Friday, 30 October 2026, in a renewed push for a deal between the United States and Iran, according to an official briefed…
KINSHASA — The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed 10,000 cases, according to Congolese Ministry of Health data reported by the United Nations on 28 October…
WASHINGTON — A multistate outbreak of Salmonella linked to raw oysters from Virginia’s Little Wicomico River has sickened dozens of people across the United States, prompted a recall and a…
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has proposed the first comprehensive update to infant-formula nutrient requirements since 1998, in a rule published on 29 October 2026 that would change…
WASHINGTON — Four days before the midterm elections, the polling, forecasting and betting-market evidence points in the same broad direction, but with a spread that should caution anyone against treating…
WASHINGTON — Congress returns on 9 November 2026 for a lame-duck session with a hard date circled on its calendar: 11 December, the day the current government funding law expires.…
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has approved updated labelling for three more menopausal hormone therapy products, removing the same outdated risk statements from their boxed warnings that were…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has restored the Kansas and Iowa rallies he cancelled a day earlier, in a final-weekend reversal that captures the frantic, stop-start rhythm of the last…
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Federal and state agents executed search warrants on Thursday, 29 October 2026, at two Twin Cities autism service providers as part of Medicaid-fraud investigations, in an…