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NFL Reporter Rescues Trapped Man Hours After Resigning Over Coach Photos

Dianna Russini pulled an older man and his dog from an overturned Jeep in New Jersey on Wednesday, just hours after stepping down from the Athletic over an internal investigation tied to published ...

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Court Clears Trump's $400M White House Ballroom Construction to Resume

A federal appeals court lifted a construction halt Friday, allowing the Trump administration to resume work on a $400 million ballroom at the White House site where the East Wing once stood. The mo...

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Planet's nights flicker with chaotic brightness as economy, war and rules reshape Earth's glow

Earth's nighttime landscape is growing brighter overall, but the transformation is wildly uneven. New research shows the planet's artificial light surged 16% between 2014 and 2022, yet the story is...

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Airlines bracing for brutal squeeze as fuel costs trigger industry upheaval

The U.S. airline industry is facing a reckoning. Surging fuel prices are forcing carriers to make stark choices: merge, cut routes, raise fares, or risk collapse. Energy costs have become the defin...

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SantaCon Boss Busted: Feds say he pocketed millions meant for charity

Stefan Pildes, the organizer behind New York City's infamous SantaCon bar crawl, was arrested Wednesday morning on wire fraud charges after federal prosecutors allege he diverted millions in charit...

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Trump's Church Home Was Hotbed of Anti-Catholic Politics

Donald Trump's recent attacks on Pope Francis gain historical context through the religious environment of his Manhattan childhood. The president attended Marble Collegiate Church as a young man, w...

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Iran Seals Hormuz Strait, Fires on Tankers as Trump Touts Deal

Iran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed to shipping on Saturday, escalating tensions just hours after President Trump predicted a breakthrough agreement was imminent. The announcement came with r...

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E-bikes flood hospitals as cities clash over who should pay the price

Traumatic brain injuries, lengthy hospital stays, and funerals. The surge in e-bike crashes is forcing American cities into a heated debate over whether the solution lies in registration laws, infr...

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Trump and Pope clash over what counts as morality

The feud between Donald Trump and Pope Francis over war and violence exposes a fundamental divide in how American political power wields religion. Where the pontiff sees moral questions, the Trump ...

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Beauty Industry's New Nightmare: Clients Chasing Impossible AI Dreams

Hair stylists and makeup artists are increasingly caught between client expectations shaped by artificial intelligence and the hard limits of reality. The problem has become so widespread that beau...

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Iron Worker Challenges Trump's Ally in High-Stakes Ohio House Race

Brian Poindexter grew up the son of a union machinist in Cleveland, one of six kids in a household where work ethic was non-negotiable. By junior year of high school, he was clocking 70-hour weeks ...

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How Trump's Iran strike became the best argument for green energy

Donald Trump set out to kill the renewable energy transition. Instead, he may have killed the case for fossil fuels entirely. The fossil fuel industry spent fortunes backing his campaign to stop th...

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Pardons for the Rich Drain Fund Built to Help Crime Victims

When Donald Trump pardoned the operators of the BitMEX crypto exchange in his second term, he wiped away a $100 million fine that was scheduled to be paid just hours later. That money was supposed ...

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Israel's support crumbles in America as Gaza war reshapes decades of bipartisan consensus

The rock-solid alliance between Washington and Jerusalem is fracturing in ways not seen for generations. Public backing for Israel has collapsed to historic lows, and the political earthquake is re...

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Arizona Judge Hands Election Power to Republican Official in Battleground County

A Maricopa County judge has ruled that Arizona's most populous election office must regain control over key voting operations it lost under a previous agreement, settling a high-stakes dispute that...

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$Congress punts on spying law as Republicans fracture over surveillance$

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Congress punts on spying law as Republicans fracture over surveillance

Congress passed a 10-day stopgap extension of a warrantless surveillance program early Friday morning after Republican leadership failed twice to push through a longer renewal, exposing deep divisi...

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Trump Needs Iran Deal More Than He Admits. Here's the Real Problem.

The brief diplomatic mission by Vice President JD Vance to Islamabad this month collapsed almost immediately, leaving Washington and Tehran further apart than before. Vance spent less than a day on...

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Democrats Plot Daily Iran War Powers Votes to Force GOP on Record

House Democrats are strategizing a relentless push to hold votes on Iran war powers resolutions day after day, hoping to either pass legislation blocking military operations or at least force Repub...

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26 million under tornado watch as midwest braces for baseball-sized hail

A massive weather system swept across the midwest Friday, forcing forecasters to issue severe thunderstorm warnings stretching from northwestern Oklahoma through western Missouri as tornadoes conti...

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Trump Declares Victory on Iran Strait as Tehran Hedges Its Bets

Donald Trump claimed a major diplomatic win Friday after Iran's foreign minister announced the Strait of Hormuz would be fully open to commercial shipping during a ceasefire period. The president c...

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Trump team in $20 billion uranium gambit with Iran

The Trump administration is actively pursuing a three-page agreement with Iran centered on a straightforward trade: $20 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets in exchange for Iran surrendering its enri...

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Family sues Kansas sheriff's office after deputy's knee pressed into handcuffed man's back for over a minute

The family of Charles Adair has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against Kansas authorities, seeking to force the release of video showing how the man died in police custody after a sheriff's...

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Pro-Israel regent's lewd messages surface days before election showdown

Jordan Acker, the University of Michigan regent who orchestrated a legal and surveillance campaign against pro-Palestinian student protesters, is now facing exposure of explicit sexual messages att...

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Trump's rare stumble: House GOP blocks FISA push

President Trump hit an unfamiliar wall Friday when more than two dozen House Republicans defied his push for a clean extension of the Section 702 surveillance program, handing him and Speaker Mike ...

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Bessent Joins White House Push to Thaw Anthropic Standoff

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sat down Friday with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in a closed-door meeting that signals a potential shift in the Trump admi...

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Philz Coffee Backs Down on Pride Flag Ban After Employee Revolt

Philz Coffee reversed course on a contentious policy to remove Pride flags from its stores, with the San Francisco-based chain's CEO issuing an apology just over a week after the initial announceme...

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PhD in hand, Turkish student deported for Gaza op-ed finally leaves America

Rümeysa Öztürk completed her doctorate this week and boarded a flight back to Turkey, ending a grueling chapter that began when immigration agents in masks arrested her at a Massachusetts bus stop ...

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U.S. Lands Historic Plane in Havana, Warns Castro Regime of Collapse Risk

American diplomats touched down in Havana last Friday in what marks the first official U.S. government flight to Cuba since President Obama's visit a decade ago, signaling a major shift in engageme...

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Pope Leo's Peace Message Wins Over Lapsed Catholics, Even the Skeptics

For decades, Margaret Sullivan kept one foot in Catholicism and one foot out the door. Raised in the faith, educated by Jesuits at Georgetown, she received the sacraments and attended mass. Her fat...

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Trump's 'Prohibited' Warning Leaves Netanyahu Scrambling for Clarity

President Trump's blunt declaration that Israel is barred from bombing Lebanon caught Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu off guard, triggering urgent behind-the-scenes negotiations to clarify what t...

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ICE chief Todd Lyons to exit after brutal year enforcing Trump crackdown

Todd Lyons is stepping down as acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, departing the agency at the end of May after leading one of the most controversial chapters in its recent h...

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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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