Seventh graders sit together in the cafeteria during their lunch break at a public school, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farmers and producers.
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President Donald Trump, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin and U.S. lawmakers celebrated the "strong" and "unbreakable" friendship between the United States and Ireland Wednesday during the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon on Capitol Hill.
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President Donald Trump welcomed Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Wednesday for the annual St.
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The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Eduction, which were ordered closed for the day for what officials described as security reasons amid large-scale layoffs, are seen Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands
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A sign and about 2,849 white silk roses, planted by South Florida members of Moms Demand Action to symbolize Floridians shot and killed last year, in front of the Old Capitol, March 9, 2023 at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Phil Sears, file)
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