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College enrollment is falling at a 'concerning' rate, new data reveals

Sun 8 Dec 2024 07.00 EST College enrollment is dropping at a “concerning” rate, according to new data. Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows enrollment of 18-year-old freshmen has dropped by 5% this fall semester. The data reflects enrollments reported for 1.4 million 18-year-old freshmen as of 31 October 2024. The decline is most significant at both public and private, non-profit four-year colleges, which have seen a more than 6% decline in enrollment. For 46 st ...

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GOP wants 'mandatory training' of government workers to follow Trump's agenda: report

Tom Boggioni December 8, 2024 9:43AM ET In a deep dive by the Washington Post on the drastic measures government workers are undergoing to protect their jobs, or the possibility of legal harassment from president-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration, Republicans are also making plans to make them fall in line with the president-elect's agenda. According to the report, panicked staffers are looking for jobs in the private sector, seeking to move to different departments that may no ...

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Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported

Dec. 8, 2024, 9:00 AM EST President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that “you have no choice” but to deport everyone who is illegally in the United States, including possibly removing the American citizen family members of those deported. Trump also said he will move to end birthright citizenship — long enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution — which would strip rights from those born in the country to undocumented parents. B ...

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Trump Still Only Has 'Concepts of a Plan' for Health Care

Updated Dec. 8 2024 2:46PM EST / Published Dec. 8 2024 10:56AM EST Donald Trump promised in September he had “concepts of a plan” to deal with health care. Three months and a successful election later, that’s still all he has. Trump told NBC’s Kristen Welker on Meet the Press that he had “concepts of a plan that would be better” than Obamacare, though he offered few specifics on what they would look like. Instead, he tried to take credit for the law’s resilience. “We have the biggest healt ...

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Israel captures Syrian territory after Assad regime collapse

3 hours ago The Israeli military captured territory on the Syrian side of the border in the Golan Heights on Sunday after the Assad regime collapsed, the IDF said in a statement. Why it matters: This is the first time Israel has captured territory in Syria since the war in 1973. Israel notified the U.S. in advance about its operation to take control of the buffer zone on the border with Syria and several other key locations on the Syrian side of the border, an Israeli official told me. ...

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McConnell takes indirect swipe at Trump on America's role in the world

12/07/2024 04:19 PM EST SIMI VALLEY, California — Outgoing Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell took aim at the isolationist faction of the Republican Party — and an implicit swipe at President-elect Donald Trump’s policies — in a speech Saturday, arguing the U.S. must double down on its commitments to alliances and hard military power to maintain its credibility on the international stage. Speaking at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, after whic ...

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Leaked video shows UnitedHealth Group chief complaining about 'vitriolic' coverage of Brian Thompson shooting

Saturday 07 December 2024 22:04 GMT Three days after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally gunned down by a masked man lying in wait outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the head of the insurer’s parent company addressed anxious staff in a video sent to all US employees. In it, UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty told underlings that their work was “critical” in preventing the US medical system from providing “unnecessary” care he claimed would eventually drive up costs to an “unsusta ...

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UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Suspect's backpack had Monopoly money: Sources

December 7, 2024, 7:13 PM The backpack recovered by the NYPD that allegedly belonged to the suspect wanted in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, only had two items inside: a Tommy Hilfiger jacket and Monopoly money, sources with knowledge of the ongoing investigation told ABC News Saturday. The NYPD believes it is making good progress toward identifying the suspect but, as of Saturday evening, no identification has been made, sources told ABC News. Investigators continued t ...

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Russia Says Syria's Assad Has Left Country and Gave Orders for Peaceful Power Handover

Dec. 8, 2024, at 6:49 a.m. MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had left office and departed the country after giving orders there be a peaceful handover of power. In a statement, the ministry did not say where Assad was now and said Russia has not taken part in the talks around his departure. "As a result of negotiations between B. Assad and a number of participants in the armed conflict on the territory of the Syrian Ara ...

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Man who climbed onto the backs of rioters and used pole to strike at cops on Jan. 6 is going to prison

Dec 7th, 2024, 6:25 pm A Connecticut man who climbed onto the backs and shoulders of rioters and repeatedly swung a pole at cops guarding a tunnel at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots is going to prison. Richard Markey, 38, was sentenced on Friday to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta, a Barack Obama appointee, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced in a press release. Markey pleaded guilty in August to a felony charge of assaulting officers with a deadly or dangero ...

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The spiritual heart of Paris awakens: Notre Dame hosts first Mass since 2019 fire

2 hrs ago - By THOMAS ADAMSON and SYLVIE CORBET Updated 5:26 PM CST, December 8, 2024 PARIS (AP) — Notre Dame Cathedral, its air thick with the smell of incense, hosted its first Mass on Sunday since the catastrophic fire of 2019, a moment that transcended ... (AP)

Trump taps his attorney Alina Habba to serve as counselor to the president

4 hrs ago - Updated 8:21 PM EST, December 8, 2024 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing one of his defense attorneys in the New York hush money case as counselor to the president. Alina Habba, 40, def ... (AP)

Map Shows US Cities That Could Be Underwater in 2050

4 hrs ago - Published Dec 08, 2024 at 4:00 AM EST | Updated Dec 08, 2024 at 12:11 PM EST A map shows the growing threat to coastal cities across the United States due to rising sea levels. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s ... (Newsweek)

More lawsuits are barreling toward Trump over Jan. 6

5 hrs ago - Sun, December 8, 2024 at 2:00 PM EST Donald Trump isn’t off the hook for Jan. 6 just yet. Though the criminal cases against him are all but dead, Trump is likely to be fighting eight civil lawsuits — from members of Congress and injured po ... (Yahoo! News/Politico)

Rep. Ro Khanna: US should be moving toward Medicare for all to cure inequities

5 hrs ago - December 8, 2024, 11:36 AM After an onslaught of criticism toward the insurance industry following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., expressed sympathy for the victim, but acknowledged the debate it sparked ... (ABC News)

Trump says RFK Jr. will investigate the discredited link between vaccines and autism: 'Somebody has to find out'

6 hrs ago - Dec. 8, 2024, 9:00 AM EST President-elect Donald Trump suggested that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick to run Health and Human Services, will investigate supposed links between autism and childhood vaccines, a discredited connection that has eroded tr ... (NBC News)

Biden adds to the nation's list of national monuments during his term. There's an appetite for more

6 hrs ago - Updated 9:08 AM EST, December 8, 2024 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt did in 1906 what Congress was unwilling to do through legislation: He used his new authority under the Antiquities Act to designate Devils Tower in ... (AP)

US pounds ISIS camps in Syria after Assad flees

7 hrs ago - 12/08/2024 01:39 PM EST Updated: 12/08/2024 03:29 PM EST The U.S. carried out a major round of airstrikes on Islamic State targets on Sunday, and warned the terror group against trying to regain strength in the country after rebels took over the gov ... (Politico)

Trump says he doesn't plan to remove Fed chairman Jerome Powell

7 hrs ago - Published 12:38 PM EST, Sun December 8, 2024 CNN — President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on Sunday that he has no plans to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press with Kr ... (CNN Business)

College enrollment is falling at a 'concerning' rate, new data reveals

8 hrs ago - Sun 8 Dec 2024 07.00 EST College enrollment is dropping at a “concerning” rate, according to new data. Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows enrollment of 18-year-old freshmen has dropped by 5% this fall semest ... (The Guardian)

Trump Still Only Has 'Concepts of a Plan' for Health Care

8 hrs ago - Updated Dec. 8 2024 2:46PM EST / Published Dec. 8 2024 10:56AM EST Donald Trump promised in September he had “concepts of a plan” to deal with health care. Three months and a successful election later, that’s still all he has. Trump ... (Daily Beast)

Trump calls for immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and says a US withdrawal from NATO is possible

8 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump on Sunday pushed Russian leader Vladimir Putin to act to reach an immediate ceasefire with Ukraine, describing it as part of his active efforts as president-elect to end the war despite being weeks from taking offi ... (AP)

Israel captures Syrian territory after Assad regime collapse

9 hrs ago - 3 hours ago The Israeli military captured territory on the Syrian side of the border in the Golan Heights on Sunday after the Assad regime collapsed, the IDF said in a statement. Why it matters: This is the first time Israel has captured territory i ... (Axios)

New Jersey's Andy Kim is named to the Senate early

9 hrs ago - 12/08/2024 01:51 PM EST Andy Kim, a three-term congressmember who upended New Jersey’s political landscape in his quest for higher office, was appointed to the U.S. Senate Sunday. Kim, 42, takes office following the resignation of interim Sen. G ... (Politico)

A Sidelined Sitting President: South Korea's Leader Won't Run the Country

9 hrs ago - SEOUL—South Korea’s embattled president will no longer be involved in running the country or diplomacy, according to the ruling party’s leader, who argued the move was made to stabilize state affairs after Yoon Suk Yeol briefly institu ... (Wall Street Journal (gift link))

Biden calls Assad's fall "moment of historic opportunity"

10 hrs ago - Updated on: December 8, 2024 / 2:26 PM EST Washington — President Biden on Sunday called the fall of Syrian leader Bashar Assad a "moment of historic opportunity," and he pledged to support the country and its neighbors against any threats. "At ... (CBS News)

GOP wants 'mandatory training' of government workers to follow Trump's agenda: report

10 hrs ago - Tom Boggioni December 8, 2024 9:43AM ET In a deep dive by the Washington Post on the drastic measures government workers are undergoing to protect their jobs, or the possibility of legal harassment from president-elect Donald Trump's incoming admin ... (raw story)

Trump aims to end birthright citizenship, says American citizens with family here illegally may be deported

10 hrs ago - Dec. 8, 2024, 9:00 AM EST President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker that “you have no choice” but to deport everyone who is illegally in the United States, including possibly ... (NBC News)

'I Want Some Detail!' ABC's Raddatz Grills Trump Ally On Specific Plans For Military At Border

11 hrs ago - Dec 8th, 2024, 11:57 am ABC News anchor Martha Raddatz pressed Trump ally Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), repeatedly demanding “details” on President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to use the military at the border. Trump and his team have made ... (MEDIAite)

Russian state news agencies say ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad is in Moscow and given asylum

11 hrs ago - DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Russian state news agencies are reporting that ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad has arrived in Moscow with his family and given asylum. The agencies, Tass and RIA, cited an unidentified Kremlin source. The Associated P ... (Associated Press)

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