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Deportees from the US in Panama go embassy to embassy in desperate scramble to seek asylum

March 21, 2025, 4:21pm Latest News

Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran and China deported from the United States and dropped into limbo in Panama hopped door-to-door at embassies and consulates this week in a desperate attempt… Read story

Colleges cut ties with a little-known nonprofit targeted by the Trump administration over DEI

March 21, 2025, 1:16pm Nation & World

Until recently, it was a little-known program to help Black and Latino students pursue business degrees. Read story

South Korean family mysteriously disappears on drive from Grand Canyon to Las Vegas

March 21, 2025, 1:06pm Nation & World

A South Korean family that was traveling across the Southwest and expected to depart from a California airport this week is missing, authorities say. Read story

Texas measles outbreak expected to last for months, though vaccinations are up from last year

March 21, 2025, 11:47am Health

As measles cases in West Texas are still on the rise two months after the outbreak began, local public health officials say they expect the virus to keep spreading for at least several more months and that the official case number is likely an undercount. Read story

Trump has ordered the dismantling of the US Education Department. Here’s what that means

March 21, 2025, 11:41am Latest News

President Donald Trump’s order calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department has complex implications. Read story

Smoke rises from the North Hyde electrical substation, which caught fire last night, leading to the closure of the Heathrow Airport, in London, Friday March 21, 2025.

First plane lands at London’s Heathrow since a fire cut power to Europe’s busiest airport

March 21, 2025, 11:34am Latest News Updated 7 hours ago

The first plane landed at Heathrow Airport late Friday, about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub. Read story

The release of a 1961 plan to break up the CIA revives an old conspiracy theory about who killed JFK

FILE - Newly-elected President Kennedy posed for first pictures at his White House desk, Jan. 21, 1961, before plunging into a busy round of conferences.

March 21, 2025, 8:23am Latest News

A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State Department control of “all clandestine activities” and breaking up the CIA. Read story

Judge faults U.S. court filings as ‘woefully insufficient’ in Venezuela case

In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025.

March 21, 2025, 8:20am Nation & World

The federal judge handling a lawsuit over the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members blasted the Trump administration’s latest filing as “woefully insufficient,” further escalating a high-profile standoff between the White House and the courts. Read story

Russian drones strike Ukrainian city of Odesa, underlining challenges for even limited truce

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire at a storehouse following a Russian attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, March 21, 2025.

March 21, 2025, 8:15am Nation & World

Russian drones pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking massive fires, officials said Friday, an attack that underlined Moscow’s intention to pursue aerial strikes even as it agreed to temporarily halt strikes on energy facilities. Read story