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- Years Active
- 2025
Saturday, July 19, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As Russia’s aggression escalates, many in Finland are taking national security into their own hands. Some citizens are attending courses on shooting pistols and practicing driving trucks to support m…
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Friday, July 18, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
White House budget director Russell Vought told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast that it is “very, very substantial” that the Trump administration is getting to claw back spending t…
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Now that the Trump administration has the money to significantly expand its mass deportation efforts, the question is how quickly it can reach its goal of deporting 1 million unauthorized immigrants …
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Wednesday, July 16, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
By one estimate, 233,000 people, including 19,000 Americans, have lost their jobs either with the U.S. Agency for International Development, as USAID is formally known, or with its contractors. The M…
Wed 16 Jul 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As we approach the half-year mark into President Donald Trump’s second term, it’s worth considering this question: Could Americans and U.S. businesses see better times ahead despite the uncertainty a…
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Saturday, July 12, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Even as emergency responders continue to comb through debris a week after a flash flood surged on the Guadalupe River north of San Antonio, Texas, an analysis is beginning on how similar tragedies co…
Sat 12 Jul 2025
Friday, July 11, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Floods, fires, raids, protests, and now lawsuits. Our reporters take a look at how Los Angeles is faring with this drumbeat of challenges, including the recent pressure from the Trump administration,…
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As Texas experiences torrential floods leaving more than 100 dead, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s ability to provide timely aid to states is essential. Just weeks earlier, President Donald…
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As Texas experiences torrential floods leaving more than 100 dead, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s ability to provide timely aid to states is essential. Just weeks earlier, President Donald…
Wed 09 Jul 2025
Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
Nations have until August 1st to make trade deals with the United States, the Trump administration says. But having heard President Donald Trump’s bark before, some world leaders may be losing their …
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
As Texans continue to process one of the deadliest natural disasters in state history, the unity around a will to recover remains unquestioned.
Also: today’s stories, including unity between Trump an…
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Monday, July 7, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
In March of 1925, the state of Tennessee passed a bill banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. A century later, the Scopes “Monkey Trial” still resonates in modern cultural debates over …
Mon 07 Jul 2025
Thursday, July 3, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The Middle East may be on the cusp of historic change. United States President Donald Trump has called for a 60-day truce in the war in Gaza while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to e…
Thu 03 Jul 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
President Donald Trump is touting Florida’s effort to build an immigration detention facility at an old airfield in the Everglades. The new site points to a wider effort underway to find spaces to ho…
Wed 02 Jul 2025
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
In the New York mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani demonstrated a remarkable crossover appeal for a Democratic Socialist. Mr. Mamdani – who could become the city’s first Muslim mayor – won large majori…
Tue 01 Jul 2025
Monday, June 30, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
On Friday, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump Administration to limit the power of federal judges to issue nationwide procedural rulings. While some see the decision as necessary to curb nationwi…
Mon 30 Jun 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The shooting between Iran and Israel may be stopping, for now, but the conflict is far from over. Among key uncertainties is the fate of Iran’s stockpile of 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of uranium enri…
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
In his second term, and in particular over the past two weeks, President Donald Trump has unleashed on friend and foe alike a diplomatic style that jettisons all the norms of traditional diplomacy – …
Thu 26 Jun 2025
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
With the approval to expand third country deportations, the Trump administration takes another step toward removing immigrants in the U.S. without authorization.
Also: today’s stories, including a d…
Wed 25 Jun 2025
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - The Christian Science Monitor Daily
The summit of NATO leaders that opened Tuesday at The Hague began beneath a new cloud of war in Iran. Yet among Europe’s architects of shared security, a cautious optimism obtains.
Also: today’s stor…
Tue 24 Jun 2025
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