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Why the Government Should Let Spirit Airlines Fail

Spirit Airlines faces a reckoning, and Washington should resist the urge to rescue it. The carrier's mounting financial troubles have sparked talk of federal intervention, but bailing out the strug...

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Patriots rally behind Vrabel as new photos surface in controversy

The New England Patriots issued a forceful statement of support for head coach Mike Vrabel on Thursday as fresh images emerged showing him with NFL reporter Dianna Russini at various locations over...

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Trump's Endorsement Freeze Could Backfire on Republicans

Donald Trump's reluctance to pick sides in contested Republican races is creating a vacuum that may ultimately weaken the party's slate of candidates.The former president has grown cautious about e...

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Justice Department Faces Audit Over Botched Epstein Files Release

The Justice Department's inspector general is launching a formal audit of how the department handled the legally mandated release of Jeffrey Epstein-related files, a move that signals serious conce...

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Rival groups open fire in Louisiana mall food court, 10 hurt

A midday shooting erupted inside the food court at Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge on Thursday, leaving at least 10 people hospitalized after two groups began exchanging gunfire following an argum...

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Warsh Outlines Path to Restore Fed's Credibility

Kevin Warsh, the former Federal Reserve official, is laying out a blueprint for the central bank to regain public trust through three key shifts in how it operates and communicates. The approach ce...

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Iran escalates mine campaign as Trump orders Navy to 'shoot and kill'

Iran's Revolutionary Guard naval forces deployed additional mines in the Strait of Hormuz this week, marking an escalation in the military standoff that now threatens to trigger the worst oil suppl...

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Ex-Cop Arrested in Florida Over Plot to Target New Orleans Festival

Federal authorities arrested a former police officer in Florida on charges that he had planned a violent attack targeting attendees at a New Orleans festival, according to court filings and law enf...

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Crash at LaGuardia Could Have Been Stopped, Safety Gaps Suggest

A firetruck involved in a runway collision at LaGuardia Airport received warning signals to halt, but the driver did not realize the alerts were directed at him, according to a preliminary report f...

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Tennis champs pushed to the back: White House photo stirs gender uproar

A championship moment for the University of Georgia women's tennis team turned into an optics disaster when a White House photograph showed the athletes relegated to the background while President ...

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Firefighter Never Knew Controller's Frantic Warning Was For Him Until Too Late

A firefighter in the truck that collided with an Air Canada jet at LaGuardia last month heard air traffic control warnings to stop but didn't initially realize the message was directed at his vehic...

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DOJ Inspector General to Probe Epstein File Secrecy

The Justice Department's inspector general has launched an audit into how the department handled the release and redaction of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, responding to mounting questions ...

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AI Finds Every Flaw in Your Computer. Now Who Controls What Happens Next?

Anthropic has built an AI system that does something remarkable and unsettling: it hunts down hidden security flaws in operating systems and browsers, then exploits them without human intervention....

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Trump administration targets 384 naturalized citizens for deportation through mass denaturalization push

The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born U.S. citizens whose citizenship it plans to revoke, signaling an aggressive new phase in the Trump administration's immigration enforcement st...

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Griffin's Penthouse in Spotlight as Billionaire Hedge Fund Chief Warns City on Investment

Ken Griffin is pushing back after a prominent activist featured his Manhattan luxury property in a video about wealth inequality. The Citadel founder's $238 million penthouse became the centerpiece...

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Singer charged in teen's killing held child abuse images, prosecutors say

A Los Angeles prosecutor revealed in court Thursday that police discovered a substantial collection of child sexual abuse material on the iCloud account of singer D4vd, who faces murder charges in ...

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Feds Bust Mexican Mafia Operation in Massive California Sweep

Federal agents arrested more than two dozen members and associates of the Mexican mafia Thursday morning in a coordinated crackdown across southern California, with prosecutors filing charges again...

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Georgia County Unveils Slavery's Hidden Price Tag: $903 Billion in Stolen Labor

Fulton County, Georgia's most populous jurisdiction and home to Atlanta, has released a sweeping 600-page report documenting how slavery and subsequent racist policies systematically stripped wealt...

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FBI Probed Times Reporter Over Patel Girlfriend Story, Director Denies Wrongdoing

The FBI opened an investigation into a New York Times reporter after she published an article questioning security arrangements around Kash Patel's girlfriend, the Times disclosed Wednesday. FBI ag...

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Trump declares total control of Hormuz as Iran seizes ships, mines threaten six-month delay

Donald Trump claimed Thursday that the United States maintains absolute control over the Strait of Hormuz, even as Iran's seizure of two container ships and the presence of sea mines undercut that ...

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Ex-Cop Arrested Over Plot to Target New Orleans Festival

A former police officer from North Carolina faces serious charges after authorities say he threatened violence at a major New Orleans festival. Christopher Gillum was arrested in Florida following ...

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Trump fires Navy secretary over shipbuilding clash, not Iran crisis

John Phelan, the Navy secretary and Trump donor, was fired Wednesday in a purge that has nothing to do with the Iranian seizure of container ships in the strait of Hormuz this week. Instead, the Pe...

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North Carolina man arrested in Florida with gun, 200 rounds, accused of plotting mass shooting at New Orleans festival

A Chapel Hill, North Carolina man was taken into custody Wednesday night at a Destin, Florida hotel after federal authorities identified him as a suspect in a planned mass shooting targeting a majo...

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Lockheed Martin CEO calls Trump Pentagon a 'golden opportunity' as contracts soar

Lockheed Martin's CEO is betting big on the Trump administration. In a quarterly earnings call Thursday, Jim Taiclet told investors the company is uniquely positioned to capture a wave of Pentagon ...

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Republicans ram through $140B immigration enforcement plan as DHS shutdown drags on

Senate Republicans muscled a budget blueprint through the chamber early Thursday that would unleash up to $140 billion for immigration enforcement agencies frozen out since mid-February, when the D...

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Navy Minesweeper Pulled from Hormuz Mission After Monkey Scratch in Thailand

A U.S. Navy electronics technician assigned to the USS Chief, a minesweeping vessel bound for the Strait of Hormuz, was evacuated to Japan after a monkey attack during shore leave in Thailand. The ...

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White House warns of Chinese AI theft operation targeting U.S. tech giants

The Trump administration leveled explicit accusations Thursday that China-based actors are systematically stealing American artificial intelligence technology through what a top White House officia...

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How Trump's Iran gambit backfired and made Tehran stronger

Donald Trump's war against Iran will be studied as a strategic disaster that produced the opposite of its intended effect. With the fighting now in indefinite ceasefire, the results are unmistakabl...

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JetBlue hit with class action over 'surveillance pricing' claims

A federal lawsuit filed in Brooklyn accuses JetBlue of using customer personal data to adjust ticket prices dynamically, escalating concerns about so-called surveillance pricing in the airline indu...

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Law Schools Caught in DEI Crossfire as Accreditors Stay Silent

American law schools are charting wildly different courses on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, leaving institutions scrambling for guidance from the organizations that accredit them. Th...

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Italy's Sports Minister Slams Trump Envoy's World Cup Rescue Plan

Italy will not be getting a World Cup lifeline, its sports minister made clear on Wednesday, shooting down a proposal floated by a Donald Trump associate to grant the Azzurri a spot at next year's ...

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Bones of Three Young Children Found in Tennessee Woods

Memphis police are investigating the discovery of human remains belonging to three children found in a wooded drainage area south of the city. The bones, located in the Hickory Hill neighborhood, h...

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Trump's Psychedelic Gambit: Fast-Track Research Order Sparks Hope and Caution

In a move that caught even seasoned observers off guard, Donald Trump signed an executive order this week to accelerate psychedelic drug research and expand access, marking the most significant fed...

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California's Homicide Plunge Reveals Progress and Peril

California's murder rate has collapsed to its lowest point in recorded history, with killings plummeting 35 percent in just two years. The state recorded 1,768 homicides in 2024 compared to 2,304 i...

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Trump Hosts Exclusive Crypto Gala for Coin Buyers at Mar-a-Lago

Donald Trump is scheduled to headline a cryptocurrency event on April 25 at Mar-a-Lago for the largest purchasers of his memecoin $Trump, reigniting fierce criticism from Democratic lawmakers and e...

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Trump Pardons Strip $113M From Crime Victims' Programs, Lawmakers Warn

President Trump's use of the pardon power has diverted at least $113 million in fines and penalties away from victim services, according to reporting shared with the Guardian. The 117 pardons issue...

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Trump moves marijuana down drug hierarchy with schedule III reclassification

The Trump administration has formally reclassified marijuana from schedule I to schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act, fulfilling a promise made by Donald Trump through executive order m...

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Oil's Sweeping Shield: GOP Lawmakers Push to Block Climate Lawsuits

Republican lawmakers are moving to grant oil and gas companies sweeping protection from climate liability, introducing federal bills that would block legal action against the industry and invalidat...

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Seniors Face 10X Wait Times as Social Security Staffing Collapses

Millions of older Americans and people with disabilities are caught in a deepening service crisis at the Social Security Administration, where phone wait times have skyrocketed far beyond what the ...

James Rodriguez April 23, 2026 0 comments 9 min read

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Iran Blocks Hormuz Strait as US Tightens Naval Blockade, Peace Talks Stall

Iranian forces have seized two vessels transiting the strait of Hormuz, escalating a standoff that threatens one of the world's most vital shipping corridors. Through this narrow waterway flows rou...

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Inside America's Goriest Tourist Trap: The Serial Killer Museum Nobody Asked For

The waiver at the entrance to Mind of a Serial Killer: the Experience in New York asked visitors to acknowledge potential emotional distress. It did not adequately prepare anyone for what awaited i...

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Federal judge strikes down Trump administration's gender-affirming care ban for minors

A federal judge in Oregon has overturned the Trump administration's effort to strip federal funding from hospitals and health systems that provide gender-affirming care to children, dealing another...

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Press Pals with Trump: Why Journalists Dining with Their Antagonist Sends the Wrong Message

The White House correspondents' dinner has long been an uncomfortable ritual. Journalists and their bosses socialize with the government officials they cover, raising questions about whether proxim...

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Senate GOP Rams Through $70B Border Security Plan Without a Single Democratic Vote

The Senate early Thursday morning passed a $70 billion budget resolution to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol, using a procedural maneuver that allowed Republicans to b...

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China's Oil Fortress: How Beijing Outmaneuvered the World Before Iran Crisis

China has accumulated more crude oil reserves than any other nation on Earth, positioning itself as a major winner as global energy markets convulse from conflict in the Middle East. New U.S. gover...

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Draft chaos looms: which stars will slip, which teams will swing for the fences

Fernando Mendoza is locked in at quarterback for Las Vegas. Beyond that single certainty, the 2026 NFL draft becomes a high-stakes guessing game where even the sharpest evaluators disagree on which...

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Two American Soccer Icons, Two Vastly Different Paths to Glory

Landon Donovan and Clint Dempsey tied for the USMNT all-time scoring record at 57 goals, but their journeys to that summit could not have been more different. Now, with Donovan's memoir and Dempsey...

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Trump's Border Wall Team Gives West Texas Landowners a Take-It-or-Else Choice

The Trump administration faced off with angry property owners in tiny Redford, Texas on Tuesday, delivering a stark ultimatum: cooperate on the border wall, or the government will take your land an...

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