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TRUMP, XI, CHINA, SUMMIT
President Donald Trump turned Chinese President Xi Jinping’s reported swipe at the West during the U.S. and China's high-stakes meetings in Beijing into a political attack on former President Joe Biden Thursday.
"When President Xi very elegantly referred
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COURT, SUPREME, VIRGINIA, ABORTION
An abortion rights activist holds a box of mifepristone pills during a rally outside the Supreme Court in 2024.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an antiabortion challenge
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CIA, CUBA, DIRECTOR, CASTRO
The United States is moving to indict Raúl Castro, the former Cuban president, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Fox News Digital.
The potential charges against Castro, 94, come after CIA Director John Ratcliffe met Thursday with counterparts
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NEWSOM, GAVIN, BUDGET, CALIFORNIA
Child advocates and lawmakers are furious with Gov. Gavin Newsom as California’s pediatric hearing aid program has spent tens of millions of dollars on administrative fees while delivering only a few hundred hearing aids.
Nearly five years after Newsom pushed
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NEW, MISTRIAL, WEINSTEIN, HARVEY
Public school teachers in New York City are seeing a big difference in students since cellphones were banned from their classrooms, the New York Post reported Thursday.
The ban affects nearly one million children in New York’s K-12 and charter schools, and
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PRATT, SPENCER, LA, BASS
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt responded to a report this week that he has been staying at the Hotel Bel Air, rather than the trailer he previously said he was living in after losing his home in the Palisades Fire last year.
According to a report
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BORDER, PATROL, CHIEF, BANKS
🚨 JUST NOW: US Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks has RETIRED, "effective immediately" after 37 YEARS of service
BILL MELUGIN: "He has overseen the quietest border in US history." 🇺🇸
BANKS: "It's just time. I feel like I got the ship back on course, from
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There he Zos again.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani again stoked fears he’s fostering an anti-business blitz in New York City after he tried pressure state regulators to block a $500 million merger deal, according to a new report.
Hizzoner urged the New York State Department
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POLICE, STUDENT, COLLEGE, MURDER
The 19-year-old victim was found stabbed in a laundry room Sunday night.
Man arrested in murder of transgender University of Washington student: Police
Police work the scene of a homicide at the University of Washington's off-campus housing complex, May 11,
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HANTAVIRUS, DEADLY, OUTBREAK, CRUISE
A "suspected" hantavirus case in upstate New York is being investigated, according to the Ontario County Public Health Department (OCPHD) based in Canandaigua.
The department announced in a Facebook post Thursday that it is currently "investigating a suspected
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BRANDON, EXCLUSIVE, GILL, PRATT
Wednesday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) talked about Democrats.
Gill said, “Taking a Marxist economic framework and putting it on top of civil society and culture more broadly…that has been their political strategy … It comes down to
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MAYORAL, NITHYA, RAMAN, LA
Lefty mayoral candidate Nithya Raman accused the incumbent Karen Bass of engaging in “pay-to-play politics” over a proposal that would expand who qualifies for short-term rentals in Los Angeles.
The blistering criticism came in a lengthy social media thread
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ILLEGAL, PROSECUTOR, DA, COUNTY
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) says Fairfax County, Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano (D) helped an illegal alien, accused of raping an underage teen, evade prison by offering him a deal with reduced charges and a suspended sentence.
During a hearing
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NEWS, BROADCAST, FOX, MEDICAL
Fox News Digital finished April as the No. 1 news organization in multiplatform minutes, views and total unique visitors as the brand continues to dominate the media landscape.
April saw the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner get interrupted
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PETERS, TINA, GOVERNOR, TRUMP
Colorado's Democratic governor will let Trump ally Tina Peters out of prison early
toggle caption Scott Crabtree/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel via AP/Pool
DENVER — Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has reduced the state prison sentence of Tina Peters,
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NEWSOM, GUILTY, AIDE, GAVIN
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former top aide Dana Williamson pled guilty to federal fraud and tax charges after reaching a deal with prosecutors.
Williamson, who was Newsom’s chief of staff from 2022 and 2024 and a top Sacramento power broker, appeared at Robert T.
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IRAQI, TERROR, IRAN, ATTACKS
Federal authorities charged an Iran-backed Iraqi militia commander accused of orchestrating a sweeping retaliation campaign targeting Americans and Jews, alleging he coordinated nearly 20 attacks abroad before authorities disrupted a plot targeting a prominent
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CAITLIN, CLARK, BRINK, SPARKS
Who would you rather start a WNBA franchise with: Caitlin Clark or Paige Bueckers? That was a question in this year’s annual general managers survey conducted by the league prior to the season opener.
Before the 2025 season, executives were asked which player
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PLANE, SMALL, CRASHES, OHIO
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A plane has
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EPSTEIN, LUTNICK, CALLED, BOYFRIEND
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies hearing on February 10, 2026 in Washington, DC. Lutnick is facing bipartisan calls for his resignation after
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DE, EXTRADITED, TREN, PATEL
WASHINGTON — The FBI hit back Thursday at an Associated Press report that Director Kash Patel participated in a “VIP snorkel” excursion at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii last year, noting that the trip was part of a “historical tour to honor heroes who died on the
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STEYER, VIDEO, TOM, PORTER
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is defending his campaign’s controversial use of paid social media influencers after state election regulators opened an investigation into whether online creators failed to properly disclose sponsored political
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How should you feel about the AI boom? In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel speaks with Chris Hayes about how to emotionally calibrate our response to this dizzying AI moment. Hayes describes why
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