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Trump's Kennedy Center 'Peace Prize' Bash Led to Rushed Repairs, Whistleblowers Claim

The Kennedy Center pushed through hastily planned renovations to prepare for Donald Trump's December appearance at the venue, disregarding federal contracting standards and congressional commitment...

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US Congressman Detained by Armed Settlers in West Bank, Calls It Wake-Up Call

A California congressman held by Israeli settlers armed with US-made rifles during a West Bank visit says the detention gave him a stark window into the daily reality Palestinians face under occupa...

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America's Farmland Faces New Threat: The Data Center Land Grab

Agricultural interests are sounding alarms over a creeping threat to the nation's food production capacity: artificial intelligence data centers consuming vast swaths of prime farmland and draining...

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Ryu Torches Historic 60 to Seize Evian Championship Lead

Haeran Ryu fired an 11-under 60 on Saturday at the Evian Championship, shattering the scoring record for LPGA majors and taking a commanding three-shot lead into the final round. The South Korean s...

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Trump Rules Aim to Suffocate Federal Science from Within

The new regulatory blueprint unveiled by the Trump administration contains a troubling pattern: administrative obstacles that could make federally funded research so difficult that scientists simpl...

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Mother demands answers as Black teenager's death on Mississippi island sparks outcry

Christine Wonsley stood before cameras Friday fighting back tears, her voice steady as she made one simple request: someone tell her what happened to her son. Nolan Wells, 18, traveled to Horn Isla...

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Heat Teammates Clash in Vegas, Young Shrugs Off Wizards Skeptics

Two former Miami Heat players got into a physical scuffle at an NBA Summer League practice facility in Las Vegas on Friday, marking an awkward public rupture between teammates separated by a shocki...

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Trump team subpoenas Times reporters over Air Force One exposé

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to several New York Times journalists following the newspaper's reporting on security vulnerabilities in the president's newly acquired aircraft, accordi...

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Hunter Biden wins $1.7m defamation verdict against Trump ally over Iran bribery hoax

A federal judge in California handed Hunter Biden a significant legal victory on Friday, awarding him $1.7 million in punitive damages in a defamation case against Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of ...

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Trump's USDA cuts leave small farmers scrambling: fellowship programs halted, funding frozen

Lawrencia Rogers was six months into her dream when the rug got pulled out. The 33-year-old Iowan had just started a fellowship that gave her land, equipment, mentorship and a living wage to learn ...

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Iran's New Leader Vows Revenge, Trump Warns of Massive Retaliation

Iran's new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei declared Saturday that revenge for his father's death will unfold, signaling continued escalation in a standoff that has prompted extraordinary security m...

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How Democrats Got Burned by Graham Platner: A Timeline of Vetting Failures and Red Flags Ignored

Graham Platner's campaign collapsed this week when a woman accused him of sexual assault, but Maine Democrats say the real disaster began long before that crucial moment. The question haunting the ...

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200 campers airlifted as Missouri's Black River rages out of control

More than 200 children and staff from Camp Taum Sauk in southeastern Missouri were evacuated by Black Hawk helicopter Friday as heavy rain turned roads impassable and trapped them at the facility n...

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AI 'Actor' Lands Feature Film Deal. Here's Why That Should Worry You

Tilly Norwood is not an actress. She is a collection of pixels and code designed to look like a woman in the coveted 18-to-49 demographic. Yet the company Particle6 has just announced that this dig...

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Big Tech's Carbon Footprint Balloons as AI Datacentre Craze Explodes

Microsoft, Amazon and Google collectively pumped 119 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere in their most recent financial year, a jump of nearly 20 percent from the...

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How Beckham Became America's Invisible Billionaire

David Beckham has achieved something no other British athlete has managed: total saturation of American culture without actually doing anything. Flip on US television during the World Cup and somew...

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McConnell's vanishing act: where is the senator?

Mitch McConnell has been missing from public view for nearly a month, and nobody seems willing to say plainly what's happening to him. On June 14, the 84-year-old Kentucky senator was hospitalized ...

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Kane and Haaland Face Off in Miami as England-Norway Quarter-Final Looms

Harry Kane insists the comparison is futile, but the narrative writes itself. England's captain and Norway's Erling Haaland will collide in a World Cup quarter-final that has been billed as a clash...

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Inside the Fear Machine: How Trump's DHS Weaponized Polygraphs and Reassignments

Career staff at the Department of Homeland Security faced an extraordinary campaign of intimidation over the past year, according to interviews with more than three dozen current and former officia...

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McConnell vanishes from Capitol as health blackout fuels wild theories

Senator Mitch McConnell has not been seen publicly since June 14, when he was admitted to a Washington-area hospital. Nearly a month into his absence, the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican remains ho...

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World Cup Exposes the Myth of Superpower Control

The men's World Cup is delivering a geopolitical lesson that no amount of White House meddling or FIFA corruption can suppress: traditional power hierarchies don't always prevail when the stakes ar...

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Trump Dismantles Election Commission, Democrats Face Reckoning

President Trump has dissolved a federal election board, triggering alarm among Democratic officials and election advocates who viewed the agency as a crucial check on voting system irregularities. ...

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Trump Judge Dismisses Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy Case, Citing Political Reality

A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump during his first administration reluctantly dismantled seditious conspiracy convictions against three Proud Boys leaders on Friday, even as he openly ackno...

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GOP nervous about shutdown showdown before midterms

Senate Republicans are bracing for a messy funding fight that could trap them in a pre-election crisis. Behind closed doors, GOP senators have aired deep anxieties about Democrats weaponizing the a...

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Troubled Developer Faces New Lawsuit Over Crumbling Tribeca Tower

MetroLoft, the developer behind a Manhattan high rise that made headlines for structural buckling, is now defending itself against fresh legal claims over another residential conversion project. Th...

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Trump's Reflecting Pool Gets Another Draining as Costs Soar Past $16 Million

Workers drained the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool once again Friday, the latest setback in the Trump administration's effort to transform the 104-year-old landmark into what the president has en...

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How Democrats ended up with Graham Platner

Graham Platner's Senate campaign in Maine collapsed this week after a former partner accused him of sexual assault. The oyster farmer and combat veteran denied the allegation but announced Wednesda...

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Yale Braces for Pressure as Trump Officials Circle

Yale University faces mounting internal resistance to any potential settlement with the Trump administration, with influential alumni and campus figures pushing back against compromise.U.S. Senator...

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Alito Rewrites Conservative Blueprint, Blends Trump Movement Into Court's Future

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has emerged as an architect of a transformed conservatism that marries establishment jurisprudence with the energy of the Trump movement, creating a legal framewo...

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Maine Democrat Pulls Out of Senate Race After Sexual Assault Accusations

Graham Platner's tumultuous campaign for U.S. Senate in Maine came to an official end Friday when he filed withdrawal paperwork, formally removing his name from the November ballot just two days af...

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Trump EPA Strips Habitat Protections from Endangered Species Act

The Trump administration has finalized a rule that fundamentally reshapes how the Endangered Species Act protects wildlife, removing long-standing safeguards that prevented development, logging, an...

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Apple Takes Aim at OpenAI Over Alleged Employee Poaching and Trade Secret Theft

Apple has filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically recruiting its employees to extract confidential information about unreleased technologies and hardware designs. The complaint centers on...

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Maine Democrat Platner bows out of Collins race, clears path for replacement

Graham Platner officially withdrew from Maine's Senate race Friday, filing paperwork with the state to remove his name from the ballot ahead of the Monday deadline. His exit hands Democrats a final...

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California's Pot Problem: Black Market Thrives Despite Big Busts

California's illegal marijuana market continues to explode even as Governor Gavin Newsom celebrates major drug seizures, revealing a stubborn disconnect between law enforcement victories and the st...

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Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Texas Man Killed in ICE Operation He Wasn't Even the Target Of

A fatal shooting during a federal immigration enforcement operation in Texas has ignited demands for investigation after authorities acknowledged the slain man was not the intended subject of the m...

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Putin's Inner Circle Fractures as War Drags On

Cracks are widening within Russia's power structure as the conflict in Ukraine grinds toward a critical juncture, with voices once locked in silence now testing the limits of dissent inside the Kre...

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Trump Names Climate Skeptic to Lead US Government's Top Climate Report

The Trump administration has appointed Matthew Wielicki, a former geochemist who publicly disputes mainstream climate science, to oversee the Global Change Research Program, the federal government'...

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Fetterman Teams Up With GOP Senator on Joint Fundraising, Sparking Party Switch Speculation

Pennsylvania's two US senators have created an unusual cross-party fundraising partnership, a development that is reigniting talk about the Democratic senator's political future and his increasingl...

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U.S. Demands Iran Publicly Admit Hormuz Mistake by Saturday

The Trump administration is pressing Iran to issue a public statement by Saturday acknowledging that the Strait of Hormuz remains open and pledging to halt attacks on commercial shipping. The ultim...

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Google Proposes Industry Watchdog for AI Rules, but Courts May Have Final Say

Google is pushing for a self-regulatory approach to artificial intelligence, advocating that industry bodies take the lead in setting rules rather than government mandates. The tech giant's pitch c...

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The Hidden Cost of Convenience

The paradox of modern life keeps getting sharper: as technology removes friction from nearly everything we do, loneliness appears to be spreading. The connection between these two trends may be mor...

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Missouri braces for continued deluge as flooding emergency declared

Missouri activated its state emergency operations plan Friday after severe storms unleashed dangerous flash flooding across central and southern portions of the state, with heavier rain forecast th...

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Witnesses contradict feds' story in Texas ICE shooting death

Three men who were inside a van when federal immigration agents opened fire and killed a Houston driver this week are rejecting the government's account of what happened, according to their attorne...

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NAACP Pushes to Dismantle Trump's Memphis Crime Task Force After Deaths of Two Black Men

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is demanding that the acting attorney general shut down the Memphis Safe Task Force and launch a federal investigation into the unit's...

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Rubio deports Minnesota man days after state pardon

A Laotian immigrant pardoned by Minnesota officials just months ago has been removed from the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday, escalating a fierce political clash bet...

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Johnson's House in Chaos as GOP Rebels Block Votes Over Voter ID Push

Speaker Mike Johnson is trapped in a destructive loop. For the second consecutive week, a handful of Republican rebels shut down the House floor by tanking a procedural rule vote, this time killing...

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World in flames, chaos, and spectacle: the week's defining moments

A week of upheaval swept the globe, captured through the lens of photographers documenting everything from state funerals to natural disaster, political theater to environmental catastrophe. The im...

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Police Face New Challenge: How to Stop a Driverless Taxi

Law enforcement agencies are grappling with an unfamiliar enforcement problem as autonomous taxis proliferate on city streets: how to pull over, redirect, or penalize vehicles with no driver behind...

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