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FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Supreme Court will take up state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case

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The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case.

FILE - President Donald Trump pumps his fist before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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The Latest: Trump downplays tariff concerns as US stock sell-off worsens

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President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices and isn’t ruling out the possibility of a recession this year.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
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Secretary of State Rubio says purge of USAID programs complete, with 83% of agency's programs gone

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio is signaling that the Trump administration has finished its six-week dismantling of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development.

FILE - President Donald Trump pumps his fist before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Young people who aspired to government service dismayed by Trump ending the federal fellows program

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Young people who aspired to federal government service are dismayed by President Donald Trump ending a program created to entice highly qualified workers to join the government.

FILE - U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
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Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many

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In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s.

Karen Ortiz, an administrative judge at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, poses for photos, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’

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To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen Ortiz may just be one of many faceless bureaucrats.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., right, speaks to an overflow crowd outside Lincoln High School as he talks about "Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here", Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)
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Drawing huge crowds, Bernie Sanders steps into leadership of the anti-Trump resistance

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At 83 years old, Bernie Sanders has emerged as an unlikely leader of the Democratic resistance to Donald Trump.

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This Week In South Florida podcast: March 9, 2025

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Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Florida Sen. Ben Albritton, the Florida Senate’s president since November; Florida Rep. Daniel Perez, the Florida House of Representatives speaker since November; and Florida Rep. Wallace Aristide, a Democrat elected to represent District 107 in the Florida House of Representatives. 

President Donald Trump waves from his limousine as he arrives at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday, March 8, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Air Force intercepts aircraft flying in a restricted zone near Mar-a-Lago

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Air Force fighter jets on Sunday intercepted a civilian aircraft flying in the temporarily restricted airspace near President Donald Trump’s Florida home, bringing the number of violations to more than 20 since Trump took office on Jan. 20.

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This Week In South Florida episode: March 9, 2025

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Local 10 News This Week In South Florida Anchor Glenna Milberg interviews Florida Sen. Ben Albritton, the Florida Senate’s president since November; Florida Rep. Daniel Perez, the Florida House of Representatives speaker since November; and Florida Rep. Wallace Aristide, a Democrat elected to represent District 107 in the Florida House of Representatives. 

FILE - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Noem taps new ICE leaders and moves to identify leakers

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced new immigration enforcement leadership as she pledged to step of polygraph tests on employees to identify those who may be leaking information about immigration operations to the media.

President Donald Trump waves before departing on Marine One from the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Trump downplays business concerns about uncertainty from his tariffs and prospect of higher prices

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President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walks to the House Chamber before President Donald Trump addresses to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees

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Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as a $25,000 payment.

Elon Musk, center left, operating with a directive from President Donald Trump to slash government spending, walks with Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., right, as he arrives to meet with Republican senators, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Musk and DOGE try to slash government by cutting out those who answer to voters

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Conservatives have long talked about cutting government, but Republicans in Congress have shied away from approving deep reductions because of fear of how voters would react.

FILE - A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
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Facing competition from Big Tech, states dangle incentives and loosen laws to attract power plants

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Facing spiking energy demand, U.S. states are pressing for ways to build new power plants faster as policymakers try to protect residents from higher electric bills and keep their economies on track.

FILE - A sign reading "Property rights matter, no CO2" stands by a highway near Strasburg, N.D., Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Jack Dura, File)
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South Dakota law raises questions about future of massive Midwest pipeline

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A new law in South Dakota prohibiting the use of eminent domain to acquire land for carbon capture pipelines challenges the viability of a proposed project snaking through five Midwest states.

FILE - President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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China learned from Trump's first trade war and changed its tactics when tariffs came again

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The leaders of both Canada and Mexico got on the phone with President Donald Trump this past week to seek solutions after he slapped tariffs on their countries, but China’s president appears unlikely to make a similar call soon.

FILE - President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk with Jason Hing, chief deputy of emergency services at the Los Angles Fire Department, left, and Capt. Jeff Brown, chief of Station 69, as they tour the Pacific Palisades neighborhood affected by recent wildfires in Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts

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The National Fire Academy, the country's preeminent federal fire training academy, has canceled classes effective immediately amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by President Donald Trump’s administration.

FILE - Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., attends a meeting of the House GOP conference, Nov. 13, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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House GOP campaign chairman says voters will 'reward us' for the Trump-Musk DOGE cuts

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The chairman of the House Republican campaign committee is already predicting his party will pick up seats in the midterm election that are some 20 months away.

Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., speaks to Stephen Feinberg, President Donald Trump's choice to be deputy secretary of defense, as he appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his confirmation hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Trump is forcing a generational shift in GOP foreign policy. Here's how Republicans are responding

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Republicans in Congress have long been intent on countering America’s rivals and spreading U.S. influence abroad.

FILE - A Social Security card is displayed Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
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Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans

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A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to stop Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing the sensitive Social Security data of millions of Americans.

Duke University pharmacology and cancer biology professor Donald McDonnell talks during a tour, Tuesday, March 4, 2025, in Durham, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
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Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it's a time for 'damage control'

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Facing the potential loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding, Duke University is preparing for the worst.

FILE - Trucks loaded with avocados are seen reflected on a rear view mirror as they are escorted by the police on their way to the city of Uruapan, in Santa Ana Zirosto, Michoacan state, Mexico, Jan. 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Armando Solis, File)
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Trump has begun another trade war. Here's a timeline of how we got here

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Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into a trade war abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.