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As President Donald Trump continues to insist that the United States must take control of Greenland, federal officials are quietly preparing to pour tens of millions of dollars of upgrades into the sole American military base on the icy Arctic island.Among the upgrades American military officials are planning are improvements to Pituffik Space Base’s two-mile-long […]

US prosecutors have charged 26 people in an alleged scheme designed to enrich sports gamblers, involving university basketball players.The scheme allegedly involved 39 players, and 17 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball teams attempting to fix or fixing 29 US games, and two Chinese Basketball Association games."This was a massive scheme," US Attorney David […]

news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeIn a rebuff of the Trump administration’s proposal to drastically cut funding for federal science agencies, the Senate voted on Thursday to provide billions of dollars more to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the National Science Foundation than the president had asked for.In an […]

news AlertsThere are no new alerts at this timeMINNEAPOLIS — The federal officers arrived weeks ago. But since the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good, their numbers have swelled — and people here say the weight of it all is inescapable. Federal officers are flooding the sidewalks of their neighborhoods, honks and whistles sound when […]

Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday, offering "mediation and urging de-escalation" of tensions around Iran.The UN Security Council held a meeting on Thursday to discuss the Iran situation. Addressing the meeting, the US envoy called Trump "a man of action" and said […]