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DOGE cut jobs, but did it cut government spending? 12/19/2025 09:21pm • Did the Department of Government Efficiency deliver on its promise to cut government spending? President Donald Trump's DOGE has disbanded, but not before it cut hundreds of thousands of federal jobs in record time. But while the number of positions cut is one for the record books, Cato Institute Brown University attack suspect died 2 days before his body was found, autopsy finds 12/19/2025 08:32pm • An autopsy determined that the man suspected in last weekend's attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when his body was found, New Hampshire's attorney general's office said Friday Authorities found A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown and MIT shootings 12/19/2025 07:19pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier. The drive to Providence was short, and in the days that followed, the 48-year-old Portuguese national returned to the 2025 Major League Baseball Luxury Tax Payrolls List 12/19/2025 07:11pm • Final 2025 payrolls for the 30 major league teams for purposes of the luxury tax, as defined by baseball���s collective bargaining agreement and sent to clubs by the commissioner���s office. Figures are for 40-man rosters and include the average annual values of contracts and $17,209,029 per club fo Texas judge orders Attorney General Ken Paxton's divorce records unsealed amid heated Senate primary 12/19/2025 06:47pm • McKINNEY, Texas (AP) ��� Court documents detailing the divorce of Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, were released Friday by order of a judge, months after she filed citing ���biblical grounds.��� The initial filing showed t Trump suspends green card lottery program that let Brown University, MIT shootings suspect into US 12/19/2025 06:16pm • President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump���s direction, she is ordering t Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter calls TSA 'unconstitutional' after pat-down 12/19/2025 03:21pm • One of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughters said she experienced an ���absurdly invasive��� pat-down Thursday at an airport security checkpoint and suggested her father would limit or eliminate the Transportation Security Administration if it was under his authority. Evita Duffy-Alfo Wisconsin Republicans demand Judge Dugan resign or face impeachment after felony conviction 12/19/2025 02:24pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Wisconsin Republicans threatened Friday to impeach embattled judge Hannah Dugan if she doesn't resign immediately after she was convicted of obstruction for helping an immigrant evade federal officers, saying her time serving the people of the state is over. Federal prosecutor Putin tells his annual news conference that the Kremlin's military goals in Ukraine will be met 12/19/2025 09:30am • MOSCOW (AP) ��� President Vladimir Putin emphasized Friday that Moscow���s troops were advancing across the battlefield in Ukraine and voiced confidence the Kremlin would achieve its goals militarily if Kyiv doesn't agree to Russia's conditions in peace talks. Speaking at his tightly orchestrated an PSG goalkeeper Safonov has fractured hand after penalty shootout heroics 12/19/2025 09:07am • PARIS (AP) ��� Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Matvey Safonov has been left with a fractured hand following his penalty shootout heroics to win the Intercontinental Cup. Safonov made four straight penalty saves as PSG beat Brazil's Flamengo 2-1 in the shootout on Wednesday to secure the club's first Trump gave an unusually partisan White House address. Should networks have given him the TV time? 12/19/2025 08:25am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� When Donald Trump delivered the first White House address of his second presidency Wednesday night, all major U.S. networks beamed his image and voice onto their airwaves, cable feeds and online platforms. Americans ended up watching the Republican president stand in the Diplomatic Trump's handpicked board votes to rename Washington performing arts center the Trump Kennedy Center 12/18/2025 09:11pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Donald Trump���s handpicked board voted Thursday to rename Washington���s leading performing arts center as the Trump Kennedy Center, the White House said, in a move that made Democrats fume, saying the board had overstepped its legal authority. Congress named the ce TikTok signs deal to form new US unit with investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake 12/18/2025 07:46pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� TikTok has signed agreements with three major investors ��� Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX ��� to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture, ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States. The deal is expected to close on Jan. 22, according to a The Latest: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children 12/18/2025 07:41pm • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump administration restrictions on transgender Americans. The sweeping proposals ��� the most significant moves th Coast Guard drops references to swastikas and nooses being 'potentially divisive' 12/18/2025 07:35pm • References in U.S. Coast Guard policy calling hate symbols ���potentially divisive" were removed Thursday, and a U.S. senator said she was lifting a hold she had placed on a nomination for the service's top job. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees the Coast Guard, said on