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has now assembled a formidable air and naval presence in the region.

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stocks ended the day higher, the Dow closing up 230 points.

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economy grew at an annual rate of 1.4 percent in the final three months of last year, slowing down more than expected and slowing significantly from the 4.4 percent growth in the third quarter.

However, growth remained solid when measured for the whole of 2025, when the nation's gross domestic product grew 2.2 percent, that following 2.4 percent growth in 2024.

More than 30 states have some kind of cell phone ban for schools this year.

NPR's Sequoia Carrillo visited one school in Kentucky to see how things are going after the first semester of the ban.

NASA wants to shoot for the moon March 6.

Today, officials at Cape Canaveral in Florida said the space agency hoped to send up four astronauts around the moon and back next month on the Artemis II mission.

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President Trump's lambasting today's Supreme Court decision to strike down his global tariffs policy under an emergency economic powers law.

He says he's disappointed, but no matter, there are other ways to impose the levies, and he says he won't have to go to Congress, as the court's majority suggests under its current ruling, at least not at first.

NPR's Sam Greenglass says congressional Republicans are divided.

British police are expected to continue searching the former Prince Andrew's previous home, Royal Lodge.

And the BBC reports they're asking his protection officers what they saw or heard as his security detail.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is under investigation for allegedly sharing sensitive government information with his friend, the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

He was the first senior member of the royal family in centuries to be arrested.