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Pope Francis‘ condition isn’t life-threatening, but he’s not out of danger, his medical team said Friday, as the 88-year-old pontiff marked his first week in a hospital with pneumonia on top of chronic bronchitis. Francis’ doctors delivered their first in-person update on the pope’s condition, saying that he will remain hospitalized at least all of
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Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, has continued to slash through federal agencies, firing workers and canceling contracts. But as it tallies its savings online, there are continuing indications that the group, which President Trump has referred to as Musk’s team of “super geniuses,” is overstating its achievements. The latest sign of
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Berlin — German voters will cast ballots Sunday in a crucial federal election that could reshape the country’s political landscape. With the collapse of the previous coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Germans are expected to choose a new direction for Europe’s largest economy. The frontrunner to become the next German chancellor is Friedrich Merz,
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Smardan, Romania — Near Romania’s border with Ukraine this week, about 10,000 troops from NATO’s Allied Reaction Force (ARF) rehearsed how they’d respond to a sudden attack from an adversary like Russia. Tanks, fighter jets, bomb disposal squads and attack helicopters all took part in the live-fire drills, while medics set up mobile hospital units. Nine
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The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it had officially declared an end to the nationwide shortage of Ozempic and Wegovy, medications used for diabetes and weight loss. The agency first declared a shortage of semaglutide, the main ingredient used to make Ozempic and Wegovy, in 2022. The FDA’s announcement comes months after drugmaker Novo
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Washington — A federal judge on Thursday allowed President Trump’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce to continue moving forward while legal proceedings continue, declining a request from a group of labor unions to temporarily block his firing of federal employees and other actions targeting government workers. U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, who sits on
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On a sprawling farm in Connecticut, Bill Berloni has spent nearly five decades turning rescue dogs into stars of stage and screen. The Tony Award-winning animal trainer has worked with between 200-300 dogs since 1976, all of them rescued from shelters. “Someone told me they had cheap dogs at the animal shelter and I went
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The daughter of a murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013. In a Paris court on Thursday, Bethany Haines, 27, read out the last text message she would ever receive
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New York doctor faces criminal charges in Louisiana for prescribing abortion pills – CBS News Watch CBS News Dr. Margaret Carpenter, who legally practices in New York, is fighting extradition after Louisiana officials charged her for mailing abortion pills. As restrictive state laws clash with legal protections, Gov. Kathy Hochul vows to defend providers under
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More than 10% of the staff working for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration were fired this month as part of the government-wide cuts to recently hired federal workers ordered by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, task force. The cuts amounted to around 100 probationary workers, multiple current and
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