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Marlin Steel Wire Products, a Baltimore-based maker of wire racks and baskets, seen here on March 22, 2023. The company saw a surge of demand during COVID-19, which snarled supply chains for competitors overseas.

Biden bets big on bringing factories back to America, building on some Trump ideas

President Biden has embraced the idea of subsidies for key industries and measures to shut out Chinese competitors. Reviving manufacturing is a theme he's expected to run on in 2024.

2 people have died after a shooter in Louisville opened fire in a crowded park

An unidentified suspect fired a gun into a crowd of hundreds in a Kentucky park, leaving two people dead and four wounded Saturday night, police said.

Smoke is seen rising from Khartoum's skyline, Sudan, on Sunday. The Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group battled for control of the chaos-stricken nation for a second day Sunday, signaling they were unwilling.

Dozens of civilians are dead as rival military factions battle for control of Sudan

Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force battled fiercely in the capital and other areas, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict.

The three American sailors were expected to stop in Cabo San Lucas in Mexico's Baja California before returning to the United States.

U.S. Coast Guard and Mexican navy are searching for 3 missing American sailors

The U.S. Coast Guard said three sailors identified as Kerry O'Brien, Frank O'Brien and William Gross were last heard from on April 4. They were aboard a 44-foot boat due to stop in Cabo San Lucas.

Lady Gaga performs during President Biden's inauguration at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. She'll co-chair Biden's arts advisory committee.

Biden taps Lady Gaga to co-chair an arts advisory committee that dissolved under Trump

The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities will advise the president on cultural policy, and members were chosen due to their "serious commitment to the arts and humanities."

Journalist Evan Gershkovich, seen here on July 24, 2021, is scheduled to face trial on alleged espionage charges in Russia in May.

Journalist Evan Gershkovich tells family he's 'not losing hope' in Russian detention

The family of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich received a handwritten letter from him on Friday — the first direct contact with them since his arrest in the end of March.

John Riddle as Raoul, Laird Mackintosh as the Phantom and Emilie Kouatchou as Christine, take a bow at the end of the final performance of the <em>Phantom of the Opera</em> at the Majestic Theater in New York City on April 16, 2023.

'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances

On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.

Smoke is seen rising from a neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan, on Saturday. Fierce clashes between Sudan's military and the country's powerful paramilitary erupted in the capital and elsewhere in the African nation after weeks of escalating tensions between the two forces.

Gunfire and explosions erupt across Sudan's capital as military rivals clash

Fighting erupted Saturday morning in Khartoum and continued into the night. The violence between two rival factions of Sudan's armed forces has spread to other regions, including Darfur.

A bill to impose new limits on food assistance awaits Gov. Reynolds' signature

A bill that would deny food assistance to some Iowa households is on its way to Gov. Kim Reynold's desk.

Poet Maggie Smith on her new memoir 'You Could Make This Place Beautiful'

Maggie Smith's poem "Good Bones" went viral in 2016. She talks with NPR's Miles Parks about her work and her divorce, both subjects of her new memoir "You Could Make This Place Beautiful."

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