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Minnesota student Joshua Riibe has not been named as a suspect but is believed to be the last person to see her.

Education Department officials insist the staff reductions will not affect civil rights investigations and the layoffs were “strategic decisions.”

El Salvador already agreed this week to take up to 300 migrants that the Trump administration designated as gang members.

The Chicago River is once again glowing kelly green as the city opens its annual St. Patrick’s Day celebrations.

If prices remain high, it will be the third year in a row that consumers have faced sticker shock ahead of Easter on April 20 and Passover, which starts on the evening of April 12.

The beloved annual tradition that is the NCAA Tournament will begin next week.

Ron Nessen, a veteran broadcast journalist who was press secretary for President Gerald Ford and sought to restore the integrity the position had lost during the Nixon administration, has died. He was 90.

An appeals court lifted a block on executive orders seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure.

The Education Department announced the new investigations Friday, one month after issuing a memo warning America’s schools and colleges that they could lose federal money.

Helicopters will be permanently restricted from flying near Washington, D.C.‘s airport on the same route where a passenger jet and an Army helicopter collided in midair, killing 67 people.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer relented Thursday rather than risking a government shutdown.

Debates over funding the federal government routinely erupt in deadline moments but this year it’s showing the political leverage of Republicans.

The case is among multiple lawsuits challenging the mass firings.

In a federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Massachusetts, 20 states and Washington, D.C., say the layoffs are so severe that the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory requirements.”

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a series of actions Wednesday to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.

Investigators continue to search for a college student from Virginia who vanished earlier this month while visiting the Dominican Republic.

The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products.

President Donald Trump’s spate of tax increases on imports and plans for more have roiled the stock market and stirred up recession risks.

The Education Department plans to lay off over 1,300 of its more than 4,000 employees as part of a reorganization.