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Trump's MMA Night While Iran Talks Collapse: War Risk Climbs

Diplomacy between the United States and Iran hit a wall this week, with Vice President JD Vance departing Pakistan empty-handed after 21 hours of negotiations. The failure to reach any agreement on...

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Oil vaults past $100 as Trump threats collide with failed Iran talks

Crude surged more than 7% when markets opened Sunday evening, with Brent crude jumping over $7 per barrel to $102.29 and U.S. West Texas Intermediate rising roughly $8 to $104.56. The sharp move re...

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Iran war stalemate splits Congress sharply: Republicans demand action, Democrats sound alarm

The collapse of diplomatic efforts to resolve the ongoing conflict with Iran has triggered a fierce partisan divide on Capitol Hill, with Republicans pushing for military escalation and Democrats b...

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Trump catches UFC fights in Miami as Iran diplomacy collapses

Donald Trump spent Saturday night ringside at a Miami arena watching mixed martial arts fights, the same evening that peace negotiations with Iran fell apart on the international stage.The presiden...

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Bipartisan push to oust Swalwell picks up speed

Lawmakers from both parties are escalating calls for California Democrat Eric Swalwell to step down from Congress, with some signaling they may force his removal before he can resign voluntarily.Sw...

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Hungary's Shocking Rejection: Orbán Falls After 16 Years

Hungarian voters have removed Viktor Orbán from power after more than a decade and a half of control, delivering a decisive blow to one of Europe's most durable populist leaders and upending the ge...

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Class of 2024 hits the wall: entry-level jobs vanish as AI reshapes hiring

Recent college graduates are confronting the toughest employment landscape in years, with underemployment now at 42.5% for this cohort, the highest since the pandemic struck in 2020.The contraction...

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How a former NYPD chief's taskforce finally caught the Gilgo Beach killer

Rodney Harrison wasn't in the courtroom when Rex Heuermann confessed to killing seven women and admitted to an eighth murder on Long Island last week. But the ex-New York police commissioner played...

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Trump Pitches U.S. Oil as Iran Blockade Cure, but Math Doesn't Add Up

President Trump is coupling his Iran strategy with a direct pitch to global oil buyers: pivot away from the Strait of Hormuz and purchase American crude instead.The sales tactic hinges on America's...

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Kansas City Mayor Blames State Republicans for Police Control Dispute

Kansas City's Democratic mayor is escalating his criticism of the city's police structure, describing the department as a

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Ex-CIA Chief Brennan: 25th Amendment 'Written for Trump'

Former CIA Director John Brennan has joined voices calling for President Donald Trump's removal, suggesting the constitutional mechanism for presidential ouster was essentially designed with Trump ...

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Seattle's Punk Rock Flea Market Fights to Keep the City Weird

A converted supermarket in Capitol Hill has become an unlikely cultural flashpoint as Seattle grapples with its transformation from scrappy arts hub to tech-money playground.The Punk Rock flea mark...

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One killed, five wounded in New Jersey fast-food shooting

A shooting at a Chick-fil-A in Union Township, New Jersey, left one person dead and five others injured Saturday night, marking a grim milestone for gun violence in the nation this year.The inciden...

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House poised for expulsion showdown: Four members face potential ouster

Congress returns from recess next week to what could become a watershed moment for internal accountability. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) plans to force a vote to expel Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Cali...

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Trump orders naval blockade on Iran after peace talks implode

President Trump moved swiftly to military action after negotiations with Iran collapsed in Pakistan, announcing a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz designed to strip away Tehran's leverag...

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Veteran Offers Psilocybin Retreats for PTSD, Racing the FDA

An Army ranger is running retreats using psilocybin to treat combat veterans before the psychedelic gains formal regulatory approval, capitalizing on growing scientific interest in the compound's p...

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Inflation Isn't Going Away: The Economic Headache That's Breaking America's Patience

What started as a temporary price spike five years ago now looks like something far more durable: the defining economic struggle of the 2020s. As gasoline costs soared 21.2% in a single month,the l...

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Trump Budget Cuts Health Spending While Military Gets $1.5 Trillion Boost

President Trump's budget proposal would slash the health department by 12 percent while directing $1.5 trillion to military spending, a 42 percent increase from current levels.The disparity undersc...

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Black and Indigenous groups stake claim on land through communal living

Across the country, from rural California to Alabama, communities of color are purchasing and stewarding land together, building tight-knit settlements organized around shared principles and collec...

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Government in Freefall: How One Administration Is Dismantling the Federal Machine

The steady drumbeat of news reports about individual agency failures masks a larger crisis unfolding across the entire federal government. What appears as scattered dysfunction is actually systemat...

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Boy Band's Shocking Handbook: Record Label Handed 98 Degrees State-by-State Consent Guide

A new documentary exposes an uncomfortable reality from the height of 1990s pop stardom: record labels went to unusual lengths to protect boy bands from legal trouble while on the road.In the upcom...

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Scheffler Roars Back With Masters Masterpiece, Serves Notice He's Still the One to Beat

Scottie Scheffler needed a reminder of what he was capable of, and he gave himself one on Saturday at Augusta National.After two forgettable rounds that left him even par and 12 shots adrift, the w...

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America's Hidden Military Sprawl Across Britain

Tensions with Iran have thrust 15 American military installations across the British countryside into public consciousness, revealing the extent of U.S. military infrastructure operating on allied ...

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Young Closes In on McIlroy as Masters Drama Intensifies

Cameron Young fired a 65 to pull level with Rory McIlroy atop the leaderboard at 11-under par, setting up a tense final round at Augusta National. The pair will play together Sunday as McIlroy atte...

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Trump hints at sweeping new pardons; Vance breaks from Pakistan as Iran talks stall

President Trump suggested he may grant additional pardons beyond the 1,500 he issued for Capitol rioters on his first day back in office, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal citing ...

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Lavelle marks 100th start with goal as US women top Japan

Rose Lavelle made her 100th appearance for the United States count Saturday, scoring early and setting up another goal to lead the USMNT women past Japan 2-1 in San Jose.Lavelle struck in the ninth...

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McIlroy Squanders Six-Shot Lead, Heads to Masters Final Round Tied

Rory McIlroy's commanding position at the Masters crumbled Saturday as he shot a one-over par 73, surrendering his six-stroke advantage and entering Sunday's final round deadlocked with Cameron You...

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Fox Host Turned Pentagon Chief Struggles in New Role

Pete Hegseth's transition from cable news anchor to the nation's top defense official has been marked by missteps that raise serious questions about his fitness for the position.The former Fox News...

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Vance walks away from Iran talks empty-handed, warns of ceasefire collapse

Vice President JD Vance said Saturday that the U.S. and Iran failed to reach an agreement after more than 21 hours of intense negotiations in Islamabad, leaving a fragile two-week ceasefire in seri...

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Manhattan DA opens investigation into Swalwell sexual assault claim

The Manhattan district attorney's office is now investigating a sexual assault allegation against California Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell, who is running for governor.The probe was announce...

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Trump's Iran Gamble: How Threats and Bloodshed Led to a Fragile Ceasefire

The administration's pivot on Iran has left observers struggling to track the logic. President Trump threatened to obliterate Iran's civilization, then announced a ceasefire hours later, suggesting...

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Melania's Gambit Backfires: How a Denial Made Things Worse

The first lady's attempt to shut down speculation about her connection to Jeffrey Epstein has achieved the opposite result, turning a lingering question into urgent renewed scrutiny.In a surprise p...

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Swalwell's gubernatorial campaign implodes as final Democratic backers flee

Rep. Eric Swalwell's bid for California governor collapsed Saturday when the last of his congressional endorsements vanished, capping a stunning 24-hour political meltdown triggered by allegations ...

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Moon mission triumph collides with brutal budget cuts at NASA

NASA celebrated a historic milestone Friday as the Artemis II crew returned safely from the moon, marking humanity's first crewed lunar journey in over five decades. Administrator Jared Isaacman ha...

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Mystery solved: Dead animals on Washington beach were foxes used for legal fishing bait

A Washington sheriff's office has resolved questions that unsettled residents after nearly two dozen dead canines washed onto a local beach.The Skagit County Sheriff's Office confirmed Friday that ...

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Desert Art Festival's Explosive Growth Tests Its Rebellious Soul

A decade into its existence, the Bombay Beach Biennale faces an unexpected crisis: success is threatening to destroy the scrappy, unconventional spirit that made it matter.The festival started as a...

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Georgia midwife faces criminal charges for doing her job

A lawsuit challenging Georgia's restrictions on midwifery highlights an uncomfortable contradiction: the state criminalizes the very practitioners that many women, particularly Black women, turn to...

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Gunfire erupts at Grand Central: Three stabbed, suspect critical after NYPD response

A violent confrontation on a Manhattan subway platform left three people wounded and sent the suspect into critical condition after police discharged their weapons at Grand Central station.The stab...

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State Department yanks green cards of three Iranians with regime ties, feds move in

Federal agents arrested three Iranian nationals over the weekend after the State Department stripped their legal residency status, citing connections to senior figures within Tehran's government.Th...

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Swalwell faces expulsion vote as Democrats prepare revenge move against Gonzales

House Republicans are set to force a vote next week on expelling Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) following sexual assault and misconduct allegations that have unraveled his political standing in just...

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Louisiana GOP moves to shut down office won by exonerated prisoner

Calvin Duncan spent 28 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. After his exoneration, he ran for a local judicial position and won decisively. Now Republican leadership in Louisiana is mov...

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Trump Vows Wave of Pardons for Inner Circle Before Term Ends

President Trump has told associates he plans to issue sweeping pardons for his closest advisers as his second term winds down, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal.In casual conversa...

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Pope breaks with Trump over Iran war and immigration in sharpest Vatican clash in decades

Pope Leo XIV and President Trump have collided head-on over military action in Iran and immigration policy, triggering one of the most visible rifts between the Vatican and the White House in recen...

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Democrats See Opening to Remake Foreign Policy as Trump Escalates Iran Threats

Donald Trump's inflammatory threat to destroy Iran has reignited a fundamental debate within the Democratic Party about America's role on the world stage, with progressives now pushing their collea...

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U.S. and Iran break decades of silence with talks in Pakistan

Delegations from Washington and Tehran sat down together Saturday in Islamabad for direct negotiations, marking the highest-level diplomatic contact between the two nations since the 1979 revolutio...

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Navy breaks through: First U.S. warships cross Hormuz since Iran conflict erupted

A flotilla of U.S. Navy vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday without prior coordination with Iran, marking the first passage by American warships through the critical chokepoint since...

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LA Stadium Workers Threaten World Cup Walkout Over ICE Presence

Thousands of hospitality workers at SoFi Stadium are preparing to strike during this summer's World Cup matches unless FIFA addresses their demands on labor conditions and immigration enforcement.U...

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Fading Memories: Fight to Save Times Square's Last Real Dive Bar

David Gladman held his phone flashlight up to the laminated tabletops at Jimmy's Corner, examining the photographs trapped beneath yellowing plastic. Some images dated to the 1970s, capturing decad...

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