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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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Claude's silent downgrade sparks uproar among power users

Anthropic's Claude is facing a credibility crisis among its most demanding users. Across GitHub, Reddit, and X, engineers and developers are documenting what they say is a noticeable drop in the mo...

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Democrats impeach Hegseth as Iran war powers gambit fails again in Senate

House Democrats filed six articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, targeting him for launching military operations against Iran without congressional authorizati...

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Hampshire College Shuts Down, Joining Hundreds of Liberal Arts Schools in Collapse

Hampshire College, which spent 56 years pioneering experimental undergraduate education rooted in progressive values, will close its doors permanently after the fall semester. The Massachusetts ins...

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Sanders forces Senate vote to block $447 million in US arms to Israel

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is pushing Congress to cut off military aid to Israel, filing formal resolutions this week to block weapons sales he says are fueling ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the...

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Concrete Beast Opens: LA's Divisive 20-Year Museum Gamble Finally Arrives

The David Geffen Galleries will open its doors to the public on May 4, marking the completion of a $724 million transformation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The project has taken two dec...

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Trump's Pope attack could backfire badly for Vance

Donald Trump has long cast himself as a messianic figure, a claim embraced by some devotees who draw explicit comparisons to Jesus Christ. The comparison crumbles under scrutiny, but it has become ...

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Trump Threatens to Unwind UK Trade Deal Over Iran Rift

Donald Trump has signaled he could reverse the trade agreement with Britain, weaponizing last year's economic pact as tensions flare over American military operations in the Middle East. The presid...

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Trump Threatens to Fire Powell as DOJ Probes Fed Chair, Pushes Kevin Warsh Replacement

Donald Trump escalated his pressure campaign against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday, threatening to remove him from office if he remains in the role beyond his May 15 departure date...

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US military strikes fifth suspected drug boat in a week, death toll hits 177

The U.S. military has struck a fifth alleged drug-trafficking vessel in seven days, killing three men and pushing the total death toll from such operations to at least 177 in recent weeks.U.S. Sout...

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Sanders loses arms sale fight, but Democrats show cracks in Israel support

Bernie Sanders tried for the fourth time to block weapons shipments to Israel in the Senate on Wednesday, and while he lost the vote, the tallies exposed a significant shift in how Democrats view m...

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Sotomayor breaks court silence with rare apology to Kavanaugh

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a formal apology Wednesday for public criticism she leveled at colleague Brett Kavanaugh, marking an unusual moment of contrition from the bench that re...

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Doctors now prescribe fishing trips, art classes, and hiking instead of pills

A fishing outing in Kent, England costs nothing at the point of use. Neither does membership in a walking club, a choir rehearsal, or an afternoon at an art studio. Yet all of these are now showing...

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France escalates push to free 86-year-old widow locked up by ICE

An elderly French widow is caught in immigration custody after overstaying her visa, prompting her government to launch a full diplomatic effort to secure her release from a Louisiana detention fac...

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Trump's Jesus Meme Mystery: Bill Pulte's Role in Easter Fury

President Trump discussed the controversial Christ-like healer image with Bill Pulte, his housing finance chief, before posting it to Truth Social on Easter Sunday, according to two advisers who sp...

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Democrats Turn on Israel's Iron Dome as Party Fractures Over U.S. Aid

The Democratic Party is undergoing a sharp realignment on Israel, with growing numbers of lawmakers now refusing to support even defensive military aid that was nearly universally backed just four ...

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Atlanta Man Charged in Deadly Spree That Killed DHS Worker

A 26-year-old Atlanta resident has been charged with two counts of murder following a series of violent attacks across suburban Georgia that claimed the life of a Department of Homeland Security em...

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AIDS activists storm Capitol as budget chief defends sweeping aid cuts

Russell Vought faced a hostile congressional hearing Wednesday when AIDS activists flooded into the room chanting slogans and holding signs condemning the Trump administration's evisceration of glo...

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Trump's Jesus Problem: The AI Obsession Nobody Asked For

Donald Trump posted an artificial intelligence image this week that showed him bathed in ethereal light, with translucent figures gazing down from the heavens. When critics erupted, including some ...

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Jackson blasts court's Trump emergency orders as hollow decisions

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson took aim at her conservative colleagues' emergency rulings benefiting the Trump administration on Monday, describing the orders as shallow decisions that...

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Trump gives green light to Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, officials confirm

President Trump has signaled openness to a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, according to a U.S. official, even as Israel's security cabinet prepares to weigh the proposal this week.The timing ...

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Bomb suspect faces new terrorism charges

A Virginia man accused of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters on January 5, 2021, is now facing additional felony charges, according to an indi...

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$Trump pushes clean FISA extension as Congress fractures over warrantless spying$

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Trump pushes clean FISA extension as Congress fractures over warrantless spying

Donald Trump is demanding House Republicans pass a straight renewal of Section 702, the surveillance law that expires next week, without any modifications. The push has exposed a rare fault line in...

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United CEO Pitches American Airlines Merger to Trump

Scott Kirby, the chief executive of United Airlines, raised the prospect of merging with American Airlines during a meeting with President Trump last month, according to reporting from multiple out...

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Trump's Diet Soda Theory Sparks Doctor Backlash

Donald Trump has suggested that diet soda might protect against cancer, a claim made public by Mehmet Oz during an appearance on his son's podcast. The remarks triggered swift pushback from medical...

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Trump Signals Iran Talks Could Resume Within Days

Donald Trump told a reporter in Islamabad on Tuesday that US-Iranian peace negotiations could restart within the next two days, urging her to remain in Pakistan's capital for what he suggested coul...

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Flu and Covid vaccines lose federal backing as Trump overhaul throws vaccine system into chaos

The vaccine landscape has fractured overnight. Federal recommendations for the current flu and Covid shots have disappeared from official guidance, and a new RSV vaccine for infants remains frozen ...

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McCormick: AI boom will reshape America, and we're not ready for the bill

Senator David McCormick warns that artificial intelligence represents the defining technological shift of this generation, but one that could hit Americans where it hurts most: their wallets and th...

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U.S., Iran edge closer to war-ending deal as clock ticks toward ceasefire deadline

Negotiations between Washington and Tehran picked up momentum this week, with U.S. officials reporting tangible progress toward a framework agreement to halt the conflict. The two sides are racing ...

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Principal Takes Bullets to Stop Armed Ex-Student Before Massacre

An Oklahoma high school principal charged an intruder armed with two semi-automatic handguns and tackled him before the gunman could open fire on students, an act caught on surveillance video that ...

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Eastern US braces for record-shattering April heat

An unseasonable surge of scorching air is bearing down on the eastern United States, with meteorologists warning that major cities from Atlanta to New York could shatter decades-old temperature rec...

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Democrats Launch Impeachment Push Against Hegseth

House Democrats are introducing five articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday, accusing him of abuse of power, war crimes, and misconduct. The effort carries no r...

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Supreme Court Must Rein In Trump's Pardon Spree Before Democracy Collapses

Donald Trump has unleashed the pardon power in ways the Constitution's architects never imagined. Since returning to office, he has granted over 1,800 pardons to financial fraudsters, drug traffick...

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Death in the Dust: Inside America's Sprawling Desert Detention Camp

Camp East Montana, a massive tent facility sprawling across the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso, has become a hotbed of disease, abuse allegations, and environmental degradation in just nine mo...

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China favorability surges among Americans, nearly doubles since 2023

American attitudes toward China are warming for the third consecutive year, with a significant shift away from the adversarial framing that dominated the past decade, according to new Pew Research ...

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