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Judge orders Trump administration to speed payment of USAID and State Dept. debts - The Associated Press
A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Monday to speed up payment toward some of nearly $2 billion owed to partners of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department. Thursday's decision thaws the administration’s six…

‘Two sessions’ 2025: China hits out at US Pacific policy ‘failure’, tariffs war – as it happened - South China Morning Post
Foreign minister answers questions about strained US ties, the Ukraine war and China’s strategy in Middle East.
Surviving roommate in house where Idaho college students were slain was 'freaking out,' texts show - The Associated Press
New court documents show two surviving roommates in the home where four University of Idaho students were stabbed to death texted each other that morning about a masked man in the house. Court documents released Thursday show one roommate texting that they we…
John Schneider: Seahawks are talking to "a ton of teams" about a D.K. Metcalf trade - NBC Sports
Seahawks G.M. calls keeping Metcalf the "worst-case scenario."

Kennedy touts unconventional therapies for measles linked to disciplined Texas doctor - CNN
A team from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention arrived in Texas this week to aid in the response to a growing measles outbreak, and US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged that they would talk to “front-line doctors…

Trump grants one-month tariff reprieve to some goods from Mexico, Canada - The Washington Post
President Donald Trump signs an order postponing tariffs for one month on certain Mexican and Canadian goods that fall under an existing free-trade agreement.

Moonshot goes sideways as Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander seemingly falls over - The Register
Space is hard. Hopefully not so hard the three rovers on this spaceship are lost
Pixel 9a’s new purple color and tiny camera bump shown off in latest leaks [Gallery] - 9to5Google
Yet another Pixel 9a leak has hit the web, this time showing off the purple color and the tiny camera bump on Google's device.

SpaceX Starship rocket explodes minutes after launch - Financial Times
Second straight incident is setback to Elon Musk’s ambitions to build vessel capable of reaching Mars
Trump tells Cabinet members that they're in charge, not Musk: Sources - ABC News

Trump tells Cabinet members they’re in charge of staffing as business leaders and Republicans complain about Musk - CNN
One week after Elon Musk held court before the cameras during President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, many of the Senate-confirmed leaders of government departments and agencies reconvened in the Cabinet Room on Thursday for a different kind of discus…
SpaceX rocket explodes, causing some flight delays - The Hill

‘Just do it’: Trump committed to dismantling Education Department as order looms - POLITICO
“The decision of whether to abolish the department is one that only Congress can make," said Sen. Susan Collins, the chamber's top appropriator.
Medical plane’s voice recorder likely wasn’t working for years before Philadelphia crash - The Associated Press
The National Transportation Safety Board says a cockpit voice recorder was not working on a medical transport plane that crashed in Philadelphia in January and likely had not been working for several years. In a preliminary report issued Thursday, the NTSB al…
Judge says plans to release a woman in Slender Man case can go forward - The Associated Press
A Wisconsin judge has rejected state health officials’ attempt to keep a woman who stabbed her sixth-grade classmate to please horror character Slender Man more than a decade ago committed to a psychiatric hospital. The woman, Morgan Geyser, and her friend we…

Live updates: Trump will delay some tariffs on Mexico and Canada for a month amid economic fears - The Associated Press
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he has postponed 25% tariffs on most goods from Mexico and some imports from Canada for a month.

US judge orders Trump admin to pay portion of $2B in foreign aid by Monday - Fox News
A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to pay at least a portion of the nearly $2 billion in owed foreign aid for previously completed projects by 6 p.m. Monday.

Donald Trump says he asked 'a favor' of Elon Musk to bring back astronauts from ISS - AOL
President Donald Trump said that he asked "a favor" of Elon Musk to retrieve astronauts on the ISS. The plan to bring them back has been in place since September.

New Zealand fires top diplomat in London over Trump remarks - The Hill
New Zealand’s top diplomat in the United Kingdom was fired after making comments about President Trump in London earlier this week. New Zealand’s high commissioner to the U.K., Phil Goff, was terminated from his role after questioning Trump’s knowledge of his…