Iraqi army fully takes over key base following US withdrawal
BAGHDAD — U.S. forces have fully withdrawn from an air base in western Iraq in implementation of an agreement with the Iraqi government, Iraqi officials said Saturday.
Washington and Baghdad agreed in 2024 to wind down a U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq by September 2025, with U.S. forces departing bases where they had been stationed.
How abortion coverage threatens to prevent a congressional deal on health care subsidies
WASHINGTON — There is broad bipartisan support in the House and Senate for reviving federal health care subsidies that expired at the beginning of the year. But long-standing disagreements over abortion coverage are threatening to block any compromise and leave millions of Americans with higher premiums.
Despite significant progress, bipartisan Senate negotiations on the subsidies seemed to be near collapse at the end of the week as the abortion dispute appears intractable.
US driver Kaillie Humphries Armbruster wins World Cup monobob race, building Olympic momentum
Kaillie Humphries Armbruster won Olympic gold when she was in her 20s. She won another Olympic gold in her 30s.
And now 40, she seems ready to chase even more gold.
Humphries Armbruster — who missed some of this Olympic cycle while becoming a mother for the first time — heds into next month’s Milan Cortina Games with a slew of momentum. She won the women’s monobob World Cup season finale at Altenberg, Germany, on Saturday, her third victory since December when adding in a pair of two-woman rac
