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Two Congress Members Resign Under Fire as Expulsion Looms

Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales ended their congressional careers on Tuesday, submitting resignations as lawmakers from both parties prepared expulsion resolutions over sexual misconduct allegation...

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Orbán Falls, Hungary Awakens: Can Europe Help Pull Off the Impossible?

Budapest erupted in celebration this past weekend as Viktor Orbán's grip on power finally broke. Crowds gathered by the thousands along the Danube, chanting for Europe and democracy while the parli...

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Hampshire College shutters after 58 years, cites enrollment collapse and debt crisis

Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, will close permanently at the end of this fall semester, the liberal arts institution announced this week. Founded in 1965, the college has succumbed to...

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Trump's 'DoorDash Grandma' Was a Paid Stunt, Company Admits After Old Lobbying Ties Surface

A viral White House moment on Monday featuring a delivery driver handing Donald Trump a McDonald's order unraveled quickly after observers noticed the woman had previously testified before Congress...

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Conservative women fill the void as MAGA media splinters

A fracturing right-wing media landscape is creating unexpected opportunities for female voices to reshape conservative politics. As infighting within the MAGA ecosystem intensifies, women are stepp...

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Trump Says Iran Talks Could Restart in Days as Pakistan Pushes for Deal

Donald Trump signaled that US-Iranian negotiations could resume within 48 hours, citing progress under Pakistan's military leadership as the two sides work against a ticking clock to reach agreemen...

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Apple's Quiet Bet: Let Others Burn Cash on AI

While Microsoft, Amazon, and other tech giants are pouring billions into GPUs and partnerships with frontier AI labs, Apple is conspicuously absent from the arms race. The company isn't racing to b...

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Collins Calls Six Cabinet Secretaries to the Hill, Pushes for Budget Deal Before Summer

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins is summoning six Trump administration Cabinet members to testify next week, signaling an aggressive effort to move spending bills through Congress before t...

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Storm system batters heartland with tornadoes, floods, and mass blackouts

A dangerous weather system hammered the Plains and Midwest on Monday, leaving thousands without power and forcing schools to shut down as forecasters prepared residents for another round of severe ...

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Two House Members Exit Congress After Sex Misconduct Claims

Two congressional representatives stepped down Tuesday following separate sexual misconduct controversies that had threatened to trigger expulsion proceedings.Democrat Eric Swalwell of California a...

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House Democrats push for panel to strip Trump under 25th amendment

House Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday that would establish a commission empowered to work with Vice President JD Vance to remove President Trump from office if deemed unfit to serve. The p...

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New accuser confronts Swalwell as congressman prepares to leave Congress

A California woman stepped forward Tuesday to accuse Rep. Eric Swalwell of drugging and sexually assaulting her at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2018, adding to mounting allegations against the Democrat...

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The meme wars: How AI turned propaganda into viral gold

A LEGO man rapping about Trump's taco trades. The president depicted as a Jesus figure healing crowds. These are not fringe internet oddities. They are symptoms of a coordinated information warfare...

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Trump lifts Venezuela bank sanctions to stabilize new regime and unlock oil billions

The Trump administration on Tuesday eased financial sanctions against Venezuela's state banking system, allowing the country's central bank and major financial institutions to legally use U.S. doll...

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Khanna Pushes Ban on Gas Exports as Iran War Sends Prices Soaring

California Democrat Ro Khanna plans to introduce legislation Tuesday that would prohibit the export of gasoline whenever domestic prices spike, a direct response to fuel costs that have surged past...

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Democrats Introduce 25th Amendment Commission Bill to Challenge Trump

House Democrats rolled out legislation Tuesday to establish a 17-member commission empowered to evaluate whether President Trump should be removed from office under the 25th Amendment. The move mar...

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Feds Deny Kidnapping After US Citizen Dragged from Home in Underwear During ICE Raid

Minnesota prosecutors are treating the January detention of a naturalized US citizen by federal immigration agents as a potential criminal matter, examining whether the warrantless removal from his...

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Spring Inferno Scorches Cattle Country, Shatters Nebraska Fire Records

The Great Plains were supposed to green this spring. Instead, fire consumed more than a million acres across Nebraska in a season that shattered records and left ranching communities reeling from l...

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Rubio Brings Israeli, Lebanese Envoys to Direct Talks Table

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will convene the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors in Washington on Tuesday to begin direct negotiations between the two nations, marking a significant diplomatic shif...

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IMF slashes growth outlook as Iran war stalls global economy, inflation surges

The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that the Middle East conflict has derailed what appeared to be a strengthening global economy, revising its forecasts sharply downward for growth whil...

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Trump: hero or devil of the modern age?

Republicans or Democrats? Years go by, people come and go, the same questions are asked, the same battles are fought.As has become customary, Democrats, during their mandate, have always led some w...

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White Supremacist Admits to Torching Historic Civil Rights Center

A man with ties to white supremacist movements pleaded guilty Monday to firebombing the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, a landmark institution that trained civil rights pione...

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Climate Deniers Toast Their Power as EPA Chief Zeldin Takes Center Stage

While scientists confirmed that March marked the hottest month on record for the United States, a conference in Washington celebrated the ascendancy of climate denial in federal policy. The gatheri...

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AI Trained on Text, Not Talk. Here's How That Rewires Human Speech

Large language models learn from a curated diet of human expression: textbooks, social media, movies, and television. What they almost never encounter is the vast majority of actual human communica...

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Republicans race ahead on AI for campaigns, Democrats drag their feet

As the 2024 midterms heat up, Republicans are deploying artificial intelligence across nearly every function of their campaign machinery, from voter targeting to ad creation to real-time sentiment ...

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Inside the Secretive Power Summit Where Global Elite Plot in the Shadows

The Bilderberg group held its 72nd annual meeting over the weekend in Washington DC, drawing prime ministers, military commanders, tech billionaires, and investment titans behind the security perim...

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Two House members resign as scandals rock Capitol Hill

The House convened Monday following a recess to confront a series of ethical crises that have ensnared lawmakers from both parties. Two representatives announced their departures on the same day, w...

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Trump's Coalition Crumbles as He Wars With His Own Base

Donald Trump swept back into the White House on the strength of an unusually broad political alliance: MAGA loyalists, crypto entrepreneurs, young podcast audiences, anti-war populists, evangelical...

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Charles Walks Into a Minefield: What Happens When a King Meets Trump

King Charles is scheduled to visit Donald Trump's White House in two weeks, and the diplomatic math has become genuinely difficult. The president has spent recent months insulting everyone from the...

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Trump administration backs down on Stonewall Pride flag fight

The Trump administration agreed Monday to permanently fly a Pride flag at the Stonewall national monument in New York, reversing its decision to remove the banner just two months earlier. The rever...

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OpenAI Chief's Home Firebombed in AI Terror Attack

A 20-year-old Texas man has been charged with hurling a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's San Francisco home and attempting to torch OpenAI's headquarters in what federal prosecutors are treating as...

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UCLA Smashes Record as Fudd Goes No. 1, Johnson Dealt in Trade-Filled Night

Azzi Fudd heard her name called first on draft night, capping a stunning rise that took her from a quiet tournament finish to the top of the 2026 WNBA draft. The UConn guard, selected by the Dallas...

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Two House members exit to escape expulsion votes as ethics backlog fuels Capitol Hill frustration

Two House members announced their departures Monday rather than face potential expulsion, capping weeks of scandal that have left lawmakers demanding faster action on ethics investigations stalled ...

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Cruise Ship Murder: Teenager Charged As Adult in Stepsister's Death

A 16-year-old boy faces federal murder and sexual abuse charges in the November death of his 18-year-old stepsister aboard a Carnival cruise ship, federal prosecutors announced Monday after a judge...

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Military confirms deadly boat strike in Pacific, offers no proof of trafficking link

The US military announced Monday that it killed two people in a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, describing them as operatives involved in drug smuggling. The Southern Command said ...

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OpenAI breaks free from Microsoft, leans hard into Amazon as AI wars heat up

OpenAI is reshaping its corporate partnerships, signaling that its long relationship with Microsoft has become a constraint rather than an asset. The ChatGPT maker is doubling down on Amazon Web Se...

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What 300 Hours in the Cockpit Taught Me About Living Better

After crossing the 300-hour mark as a recreational pilot, flying two- and four-seater piston-powered aircraft, I've noticed something curious: the skills that keep you alive at altitude translate d...

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Trump's Gulf Gamble Blows Back on Everyone Else

Europe wanted no part of it. For weeks, the continent maintained a sensible distance from the conflict in Iran, arguing it bore no responsibility for a war it didn't start and couldn't control. Kei...

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Trump loses major defamation case against Wall Street Journal

A federal judge on Monday dismissed President Trump's $20 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, ruling that the president failed to meet the legal threshold required to prove ...

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Companies Racing to Deploy AI Without Building Safety Nets

Corporate America is deploying artificial intelligence at breakneck speed, but the guardrails to keep it in check are nowhere near ready. A new survey from Grant Thornton reveals a stunning gap bet...

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Trump posts then deletes AI image of himself as Jesus, sparks uproar among Christian base

Donald Trump managed to do something rare on Sunday: alienate a core slice of his own coalition. The president posted an artificial intelligence-generated image to Truth Social showing himself bath...

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Trump's Jesus-Like Image Triggers Backlash From Own Christian Base

A social media post showing President Trump in white and red robes, hand glowing as he touched a sick man's forehead, has ignited sharp criticism from prominent Christian voices, including those wh...

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Trump Administration Fires Two Immigration Judges Who Blocked Student Deportations

The Department of Justice has terminated six immigration judges, including two who ruled against the Trump administration in high-profile cases involving pro-Palestinian university students arreste...

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Trump's Iran gamble backfires as Tehran gains leverage in tense talks

Weekend negotiations in Pakistan have revealed an uncomfortable truth for the Trump administration: its military campaign has failed to weaken Iran and may have inadvertently strengthened Tehran's ...

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Texas Republican Gonzales bails from Congress after misconduct allegations

Rep. Tony Gonzales announced Monday night he will file for early retirement from Congress, stepping away amid sexual misconduct allegations that had triggered bipartisan calls for his ouster.Gonzal...

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Texas Republican Tony Gonzales exits Congress, dodging expulsion vote

Rep. Tony Gonzales announced Monday that he will resign from Congress, filing his retirement papers the following day. The Texas Republican's decision comes as lawmakers prepared to move forward wi...

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Swalwell Quits Congress Over Sexual Assault Allegations

California Democrat Eric Swalwell announced Monday he will resign from Congress, stepping away after sexual assault and misconduct allegations derailed his campaign for governor and triggered a Hou...

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Swalwell quits Congress over harassment allegations

Rep. Eric Swalwell announced Monday he will step down from his House seat following sexual harassment and assault allegations from four women.The California Democrat said the distraction to his con...

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