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Hungarian opposition leader Magyar vows to pull Hungary back toward the West in campaign launch
55+ min ago (666+ words) Magyar, a former insider in Orb'n's nationalist Fidesz party, burst onto Hungary's political scene in 2024 after breaking with his political community and quickly forming the center-right Tisza party. After taking around 30% of the vote in European Parliament elections in June…...
Israel resumes contentious West Bank land registration in new step to deepen control
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (596+ words) The decision paves the way for the resumption of "settlement of land title" processes, which had been frozen in the West Bank since the Mideast War in 1967. It means that when Israel begins the land registration process for a certain…...
Gaza's Nasser Hospital condemns move by MSF to suspend most services
8+ hour, 2+ min ago (567+ words) Doctors Without Borders, also known by its acronym MSF, said in a statement Saturday that all its noncritical medical operations at Nasser Hospital were suspended due to security breaches that posed "serious" threats to its teams and patients. MSF said…...
States reliant on Colorado River fail to meet the latest deadline to find consensus
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (277+ words) States reliant on Colorado River fail to meet the latest deadline to find consensus'Midland Daily News Katie Hobbs, California Gov Gavin Newsom and Nevada Gov Joe Lombardo released a joint statement calling on Upper Basin states to offer more concessions…...
A lawsuit seeks to stop Trump's overhaul of a 100-year-old public golf course in Washington
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (607+ words) Two golfers in Washington, D.C., sued the federal government on Friday to try to prevent the Trump administration from overhauling a more than 100-year-old public golf course, accusing the administration of violating environmental laws and polluting a park that is on…...
A judge says she'll rule that the US still cannot force states to provide data on SNAP recipients
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (248+ words) A judge says she'll rule that the US still cannot force states to provide data on SNAP recipients'Midland Daily News President Donald Trump's administration cannot force states to hand over detailed information on people who have applied for or received…...
Newsom takes his anti-Trump arguments to Europe during Munich Security Conference
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (745+ words) All the world's a stage for California Gov. Gavin Newsom. The second-term governor and likely 2028 presidential candidate has taken his Donald Trump-bashing tour to the Munich Security Conference, weeks after he was in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum....
Trump's Harvard move reflects one of his go-to tactics: Lawsuits
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (989+ words) Another part has been constant through all of them: plaintiff. Trump both threatens lawsuits and files them with aplomb " against individuals, institutions, even the people who elected him. Sometimes the threats are just that, and no lawsuit materializes. And, certainly,…...
Justice Department sues Harvard for data as it investigates how race factors into admissions
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (278+ words) Justice Department sues Harvard for data as it investigates how race factors into admissions'Midland Daily News In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Massachusetts, the Justice Department said Harvard has "thwarted" efforts to investigate potential discrimination It accused…...
Trump's push for Greenland reveals a political weak spot, new AP-NORC poll finds
2+ day, 8+ min ago (565+ words) Even Republicans aren't thrilled. About half disapprove of his attempt to turn the icebound landmass into American territory, something that Trump has insisted is critical for national security in the Arctic, while about half approve. The poll was conducted Feb....