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TRUMP, COURT, SUPREME, NEW
World Liberty Financial (WLFI), the crypto venture cofounded by President Donald Trump’s sons, filed a defamation lawsuit Monday against the Hong Kong-based crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun, stating that Sun is engaging in a “scorched-earth pressure campaign
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IRAN, TRUMP, HORMUZ, DEAL
Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz near Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 4, 2026.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is pausing "Project Freedom," the U.S. military's effort to guide commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, one day after the operation began.
Trump,
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TRUMP, INDIANA, OHIO, PRIMARY
Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy easily waltzed to victory over business owner Casey Putsch in the GOP primary for Ohio governor, teeing up a November showdown against Democrat Dr. Amy Acton, where polls show a close race.
Buoyed by his 2024 presidential
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SECRET, SUSPECT, SERVICE, WHITE
Correspondents' dinner shooting suspect indicted by a grand jury; 'no doubt' he fired at Secret Service agent, U.S. attorney says
The xc released an image on April 29, 2026, it said was of suspect Cole Allen taking a selfie of himself in his hotel room before
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CRUISE, HANTAVIRUS, SHIP, OUTBREAK
Rare human-to-human transmission of the hantavirus may have happened aboard a cruise ship of nearly 150 passengers, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday, after three passengers died and at least four others were left sickened.
The U.N. health
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TRUMP, WHITE, HOUSE, EVENT
Republicans want to add $1 billion for Trump's ballroom security to ICE funding plan
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After last week's bipartisan vote in Congress to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history and fund the Department
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TRUMP, KASH, PATEL, FBI
It's a bit bemusing to note that it was 10 years ago, now, that the entire "Russian collusion" thing sprang up around the 2016 election: Democrats, panicked by the ascent of Trump, pulled out all the stops, including the accusation of then-candidate Trump being
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KAREN, BASS, PRATT, SPENCER
Left to right: Karen Bass on Friday, April 8, 2022; Spencer Pratt on April 16, 2025; Nithya Raman on March 3, 2026
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Three of the leading candidates for Los Angeles mayor
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MAMDANI, KEN, GRIFFIN, NYC
While campaigning under the banner of democratic socialism for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani made a plethora of pithy promises of “free stuff” for millions of New York City residents. Yet a little less than five months into his term, Mamdani is already
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OBAMA, COLBERT, TRUMP, CANCELLATION
The White House called former President Barack Obama "a classless moron" suffering from "a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome" after Obama launched a thinly veiled criticism at President Donald Trump by saying a president should not
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SYNAGOGUE, ANTI, ISRAEL, NYC
A roving real-estate expo for land sales in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories is set to hold an event at a New York synagogue on Tuesday, drawing a rebuke from Mayor Zohran Mamdani over the potential for land sales that violate international law
The
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PORTER, KATIE, DEBATE, NEW
Experts are mixed over whether she should have raised outbursts that went viral.
Katie Porter participates in a California gubernatorial debate hosted by CNN at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, Calif., on May 5, 2026.
Katie Porter participates in
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RUBIO, MARCO, PRESS, BRIEFING
In his first turn at the White House briefing room podium, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared that Operation Epic Fury in Iran is "over" and that the U.S. is moving on to "Project Freedom" and efforts to move traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.
ABC
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FBI, KASH, PATEL, DIRECTOR
FBI Director Kash Patel at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats in the Hart Senate Office Building on March 18, 2026. Win McNamee/Getty Images
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about
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WOMEN, COLLEGE, ADMITTING, BOYS
Some might think that being a highly ranked national collegiate women’s soccer powerhouse would mean you could defeat a high school boys’ team.
They would be wrong.
The University of Washington Lady Huskies, a team that won a Big 10 tournament game and qualified
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TRUMP, PRESIDENTIAL, FITNESS, TEST
LIV Golf star Bryson DeChambeau would probably beat most 90-year-olds handily in a pushup contest, but not Gary Player.
Player, 90, took on DeChambeau in a pushup contest on the White House lawn as President Trump watched Tuesday.
The nine-time major champion
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UNITED, NEW, AIRPORT, TRUCK
Newly-released camera footage gives the clearest view yet of the packed United jet that walloped a bakery truck while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport, injuring the driver.
The footage shows United 169 coming in low over the New Jersey Turnpike,
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EPSTEIN, LUTNICK, HOWARD, HOUSE
The House Oversight Committee’s probe into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is turning focus to another high-profile Trump administration figure this week.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is voluntarily appearing before the congressional panel on Wednesday
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DEATH, SENTENCED, STRAND, FEDEX
During the courtroom proceedings, Athena Strand's uncle, Elijah Strand, told the court that relatives had been left with "an emptiness that can never be filled".
"You destroyed a family," he said, speaking to Tanner Horner. "You will feel the wrath of God".
Horner,
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SHOOTING, TEXAS, INJURED, POLICE
A Texas father fatally shot a would-be carjacker who tried stealing his car — with his family, including his young children, still inside — after the suspect fled the scene of a multi-vehicle crash across the street.
The chaos began Sunday afternoon when a
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FBI, OFFICE, DEMOCRAT, RAIDS
There's a big story breaking in Virginia this Wednesday morning as reports are surfacing on social media that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is raiding the offices of Democrat Sen. Louise Lucas, who is president pro tempore of the Virginia state
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CRIME, OFFICIALS, POLICE, DC
President Donald Trump warned nearly a year ago that the District of Columbia may have been reporting "fake crime numbers" when he deployed the National Guard to the nation’s capital.
Now, the Metropolitan Police Department is embroiled in scandal, as 13
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A poll of 806 New York voters shows that 67 percent believe the state’s cost of living is “out of control,” the New York Post reports.
When asked if the state’s cost of living was on the right or wrong track, only 27 percent said it was on the right track,
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DRUG, STRIKE, BOAT, KILLS
The US military said it launched another strike on a boat accused of ferrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea, killing two people Monday.
The Trump administration’s campaign of blowing up alleged drug-trafficking vessels in Latin American waters has persisted since
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