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ICE's Rapid Hiring Spree Loaded with Red Flags, Records Show

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement rushed to hire 12,000 new officers and special agents to double its workforce after Congress allocated $75 billion for the agency to execute the Trump admin...

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GOP Revolt Forces Last-Ditch Two-Week FISA Fix

House Republicans torpedoed a long-term renewal of a critical surveillance tool overnight, forcing Speaker Mike Johnson and the White House to settle for a bare-minimum two-week extension of Sectio...

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Supreme Court Hands Oil Giants a Lifeline in Louisiana Coastal Damage Case

The Supreme Court on Friday delivered a procedural victory to oil and gas companies battling environmental damage claims in Louisiana, voting 8-0 to move litigation back to federal court and potent...

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Strait of Hormuz Reopens After U.S. Blockade Gambit

Energy markets got a major reprieve Friday as Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz open for commercial traffic, effectively ending a blockade that had threatened to disrupt global oil supplies and ra...

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Senate Narrowly Clears Path for Copper Mine near Minnesota's Boundary Waters

The Senate voted 50-49 Thursday to tear down a two-decade mining moratorium that has protected Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, delivering a major win to Twin Metals Minnesota as ...

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Oil prices crash 10% on Hormuz opening claims

Oil markets staged a sharp reversal Friday after both President Trump and Iran's foreign minister declared the Strait of Hormuz fully open for commercial shipping, sending crude prices tumbling mor...

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Trump Says Iran Deal Coming 'in a Day or Two' as Negotiators Eye Weekend Talks

President Trump predicted a swift resolution to negotiations with Iran, telling Axios he expects U.S. and Iranian negotiators to meet over the weekend and reach a final agreement within days. "The ...

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Trump Broker Ceasefire in Lebanon, Sets Israeli-Lebanese Summit

Donald Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon that took effect at midnight local time, following what he described as separate "excellent conversations" with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun a...

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Border wall construction hits stride as Trump pushes ahead

The Trump administration is making tangible progress on its signature border wall project, with federal officials reporting construction is now moving faster and at lower cost than initially projec...

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Coral Reefs Face Extinction: 2026 Will Make or Break Them

The world's coral reefs are gasping. The most severe bleaching event on record stretched for 33 months into 2025, and the science is unforgiving: at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, up to 90% of cor...

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Texas rolls out the red carpet for AI data centers while Maine hits the brakes

Texas is racing to become the epicenter of America's artificial intelligence infrastructure boom, with 212 data centers already operational and another 651 announced as of 2024. Meanwhile, Maine is...

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Michelin's Twin Cities snub sparks fears for immigrant restaurants

Minneapolis is getting the Michelin Guide treatment. Saint Paul is not, and the decision has ignited concern that smaller and immigrant-owned restaurants could be locked out of one of the world's m...

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Surveillance Law Gets Reprieve as Republicans Fracture Over Warrantless Powers

The House voted early Friday to extend a controversial warrantless surveillance law through April 30, dealing a setback to Republican leadership's plans for a longer reauthorization. The brief exte...

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Trump Allies Signal Broader Push Beyond Curbs on Trans Youth

A senior official at a major Trump-aligned policy institute has openly acknowledged that restrictions on transgender medical care for children represent a stepping stone toward eliminating such tre...

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Anthropic CEO heads to White House for Pentagon peace talks

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, is walking into the West Wing on Friday to meet with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles in what marks a potential turning point in the company's escalating s...

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CDC in Crisis: 80% of Top Posts Empty, Work Grinds to Halt

Fourteen months into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s tenure as health secretary, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention faces a leadership crisis that current and former officials warn is crippling...

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Trump shifts deportation strategy: Less theater, same enforcement machine

The Trump administration has quietly shelved the aggressive publicity stunts that characterized its immigration crackdown, pivoting toward a more subdued public posture even as the deportation appa...

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Tiger Woods Mentioned Drones, 'The President' After Crash, Court Files Reveal

Tiger Woods told police he had consumed multiple prescription medications on the day he crashed his vehicle in Florida, according to court documents released Wednesday. The filings shed new light o...

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Inside the White House push to access Anthropic's powerful new AI despite Pentagon blacklist

The White House is in active negotiations with Anthropic to deploy the AI company's new Mythos Preview model across federal agencies, even as the Pentagon wages an ongoing legal battle to blacklist...

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Ex-Virginia Lt. Gov. Fairfax Kills Wife, Self in Divorce Dispute

Justin Fairfax, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose political ascent was derailed by sexual assault allegations, fatally shot his wife Cerina on Thursday and then took his own life at ...

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Pope Takes On Trump Over War, and the World Takes Notice

Pope Francis has waded into a public clash with Donald Trump, condemning warfare and materialism in language that has unexpectedly resonated far beyond the usual religious audiences. The pontiff's ...

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Democrats block path to Trump's Fed chair pick as criminal probes loom

Senate Democrats are moving to halt the confirmation of Kevin Warsh as Federal Reserve chair, citing the Trump administration's simultaneous criminal investigations into current Fed leadership and ...

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Trump's Inner Circle Embraces the Paranormal: Teleportation, Demon Aliens, and Cancer-Fighting Soda

House Democrats moved this week to create a commission under the 25th Amendment to evaluate whether President Trump remains fit for office. The legislation arrived as Trump's rhetoric has grown inc...

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R&B Star D4vd Arrested in Death of Missing Teen Found in His Tesla

Los Angeles police arrested musician D4vd on Thursday in connection with the death of a 14-year-old girl whose severely decomposed remains were discovered in his vehicle earlier this year. The arti...

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Lost for 67 Years: DNA finally solves Oregon family's vanishing act

Authorities have identified the remains of an Oregon family that disappeared in 1958 while on a Christmas greenery hunting trip. DNA analysis confirmed the remains belonged to Kenneth and Barbara M...

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Trump Seals 10-Day Lebanon Ceasefire as Israeli-Lebanese Summit Looms

A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon took effect just after midnight Thursday, brokered by the Trump administration as a stepping stone toward talks between the two nations' leaders next w...

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Top ICE Chief Exits as Agency Faces Deportation Firestorm

Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has resigned from his post, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Thursday. Lyons will remain in the role th...

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Eric Swalwell faces federal investigation after resigning over sexual assault claims

The Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Eric Swalwell following his abrupt departure from Congress, according to a source familiar with the matter. The federal probe arrives as...

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House Defies Trump, Votes to Protect 350,000 Haitians From Deportation

The House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday to shield 350,000 Haitians from deportation for three years, delivering a rare bipartisan blow to the Trump administration's mass deportatio...

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Kennedy Takes Fire Over Measles Surge, Stands Ground on Vaccine Stance

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a barrage of questions Thursday about measles outbreaks and staff reductions at federal health agencies during his first congressional appearance in ove...

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RFK Jr. and celebrity chef pitch grocery shopping as cure for America's food crisis

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his new podcast this week with a familiar refrain: Americans are paying too much for food because they don't know how to shop.The debut episode of th...

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Trump taps former deputy surgeon general to run CDC

President Trump announced Thursday that he will nominate Erica Schwartz, his former deputy surgeon general, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The move comes as the agency face...

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Kennedy grilled over vaccine cuts, measles surge, and racist remarks at contentious budget hearing

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a barrage of criticism during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing Thursday over his administration's vaccine rollbacks, public health messaging cut...

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Supreme Court Justices Launch Public Attack on Each Other as Major Rulings Loom

The Supreme Court's traditionally buttoned-up public image is cracking under the weight of its most divisive term in years. Justices are now openly criticizing one another, a stark departure from t...

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Trump taps Coast Guard officer to run troubled CDC

Donald Trump has named Dr. Erica Schwartz as his choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ending months of uncertainty about who would permanently helm the embattled health ag...

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Amazon's Secret Price-Fixing Playbook Exposed in Court Documents

Hundreds of newly unsealed court documents reveal how Amazon has systematically pressured independent sellers into raising prices on rival platforms like Walmart and Target, ensuring the e-commerce...

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ICE Agent Arrested for Brandishing Gun at Motorists on Minnesota Highway

A federal immigration officer has been charged with assault after pointing a firearm at occupants of a vehicle during a traffic incident on a Minneapolis highway, marking what prosecutors say is th...

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Democrats' Iran war powers bid collapses by one vote

The House rejected a measure Thursday that would have limited President Trump's authority to launch military strikes against Iran, marking the third consecutive failure for Democrats pushing the re...

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Trump pushes 'trade over aid' at UN, dismisses development assistance as corrupt

The Trump administration is mounting a formal diplomatic campaign to overturn decades of foreign aid policy, directing US envoys worldwide to recruit other governments behind a declaration promotin...

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Trump Forces Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Deal in Surprise White House Push

President Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon set to begin Thursday at 5 p.m. EST, the result of an unusually direct intervention that caught diplomats and security offici...

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Anthropic's New Claude Model Admits Defeat to Secret AI It Won't Release

Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.7 on Thursday, marketing the flagship model as a substantial leap forward with sharper vision and better code-writing abilities. Yet the company simultaneously ackn...

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Kennedy's Roadside Ritual: Cutting Penis From Dead Raccoon While Kids Watched

Robert F Kennedy Jr, now US health secretary, documented a peculiar moment on a New York highway in 2001 when he stopped to dissect the genitals of a road-killed raccoon while his children waited i...

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Young Men Suddenly Finding Religion, But Revival Talk is Overblown

A surprising shift is quietly reshaping the religious landscape among young American men. New polling shows that 42% of men aged 18 to 29 now say religion is "very important" in their lives, a jump...

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Only Licensed Punjabi Interpreter in Texas Held by ICE, Fears 'They Want to Make Me Disappear'

Meenu Batra spent 35 years building a life in Texas. She raised four children in south Texas after fleeing religious persecution in Punjab, arriving in the United States in 1991. An immigration jud...

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Kennedy Takes Capitol Heat with Political Stock Plummeting

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. returns to Congress this week for the first time in six months, but the Health Secretary arrives as a diminished force within the Trump administration and facing a hostile lin...

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Bars, Wine Nights, DJ Sets: How Activists Are Making Privacy Cool Again

Imani Thompson arrived at Wonderville Bar in Brooklyn dressed for a night out, but she was there to help people sever ties with Google. The 26-year-old cybersecurity organizer hosts what she calls ...

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Banker's Racist Email to Epstein Exposes the Real Divide in American Justice

A decade-old email from Jes Staley to Jeffrey Epstein has surfaced, and it cuts straight to the heart of how the powerful view the rest of us. Staley, who later became CEO of Barclays before being ...

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Gas prices crushing Americans' ability to work, visit sick kids, afford medicine

Americans are scrambling to cope with rising fuel costs that have left them unable to visit disabled relatives, access medications, or even afford to work. The strain on household budgets is forcin...

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