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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North AmericaPresident Trump signed an executive order that puts some 8,000 high-ranking civil servants into a new category of employees who can be fired for any reason. -
Julia Demaree Nikhinson/APAdults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
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A sanded-down biopic about the King of pop and propaganda has resurfaced his music on the charts — along with questions about how his enduring magic became make-believe -
The show's new leader says he fired star Scott Pelley for insubordination. Pelley says he was defending the integrity of the show's journalism after three top executives and two reporters were fired. -
Actor Robert De Niro and producing partner Jane Rosenthal created the festival in the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. -
In 'My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein,' the narrator, a writer, actually spends one month trying to understand Stein's genius, how she invented herself, and her relationship with Alice B. Toklas.
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Linen scarves, cotton aprons and dishtowels adorn the entrances to souvenir shops, many of which are run by Bangladeshis whose home country shares Portugal's rich tradition of textile manufacturing.
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The site compares undocumented immigrants to extraterrestrials, refers to people as "it," and says "they do not belong here." -
Nearly 83, Barry Manilow is recovering from cancer, preparing for a series of concerts, and releasing his first album of new songs in nearly 15 years, What a Time. -
The Allen Institute in Seattle says scientists have now learned enough about how the brain works to start fixing it when it breaks. -
The value of copper is rising, and thieves can make money by stripping it from phone poles, streetlights and EV chargers. But those thefts cost the rest of us. -
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence committee, about mortgage chief Bill Pulte's move to acting director of national intelligence.
