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A kabaddi club has helped Indian girls find new opportunities and become financially independent as adults.

More than 50 civil career servants and foreign service officers at the U.S. Agency for International Development were placed on administrative leave Monday afternoon effective immediately, two former USAID officials, a current agency official and a source directly familiar with the decision told NBC News.

In addition to striking at senior leadership in bureaus across the agency, the action specifically targeted senior attorneys, according to the two former USAID officials and a current official.

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Two people were shot and killed inside a grocery store in Indiana on Monday, officials told ABC News.

President Donald Trump said that the construction of an Iron Dome-like shield for the U.S. is a top priority for him on Monday, calling for "immediate" work to be done on the project before signing an executive order.

Trump made the remarks at a Republican dinner in Florida on Monday, while commending his recently-confirmed Secretary of Defense

House Republicans are calling on sanctuary city mayors to testify next month about the policy's impact on public safety and the refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement.

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Tenn., chair of the GOP-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Reform, said he was launching an investigation into sanctuary cities across the United States to determine whether they have complied with federal immigration enforcement laws.

In a letter, he asked Michelle Wu, Brandon Johnson, Mike Johnston and Eric Adams, the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City, respectively, to provide documents and information related to the

Several Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and other federal personnel waited in unmarked cars as they prepared to approach what they called their target, NBC News reported.

According to ICE, Christopher Fragoso Lara, a 25-year-old from Mexico, had been convicted of crimes including home invasion, aggravated battery, domestic battery and possession of a weapon. A surveillance team had spotted him Monday morning at the Chicago tire shop where he worked.

Agents shut down the street outside the business and arrested Fragoso Lara as he spoke...

Google on Monday said its maps will use names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico favored by President Donald Trump — Mount McKinley and Gulf of America — when federal maps make the switch.

In an executive order signed on his first day back in office on Jan. 20, the president ordered the Secretary of the Interior to make the changes within 30 days.

Trump's order said the new names would need to be reflected in the federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) run by the U.S. Geological Survey, which operates under the Department of the Interior...

Visa appointments at the U.S. Embassy in Colombia were canceled Monday following a dispute between President Donald Trump and his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro over deportation flights from the U.S. that nearly turned into a costly trade war between the two countries.

Dozens of Colombians arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Bogota and were handed letters by local staff that said their appointments had been canceled “due to the Colombian government’s refusal to accept repatriation flights of Colombian nationals” over the weekend.

Later on Monday...

Police say two people were fatally shot, two police officers were hurt and a person believed to be the shooter also died at a grocery store in northern Indiana

President Trump signed multiple executive orders Monday night that could reshape the management and composition of the military, with provisions addressing diversity measures, transgender service members, and troops who were discharged for refusing COVID vaccinations.

He also signed an executive order to establish a process to develop what the administration is calling an American Iron Dome — a missile defense shield for the homeland. (Iron Dome is the name often used for Israel's system for intercepting rockets, which was developed with U.S...

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The lawyers were part of former special counsel Jack Smith's team which brought two cases against the president.

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, John Nkengasong, sent a memo to senior leaders at the agency on Sunday night telling them that all staff who work with the WHO must immediately stop their collaborations and “await further guidance.”

Experts said the sudden stoppage was a surprise and would set back work on investigating and trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus and mpox in Africa, as well as brewing...

The administration has paused almost all U.S. assistance for 90 days.