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TRUMP, CNN, HALL, TOWN
Former President Donald Trump holds a commanding lead over potential and current GOP presidential contenders among likely Iowa Republican caucus voters in a poll released last week by McLaughlin & Associates.
Trump earns the majority of the vote at 54% over
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BIDEN, TRUMP, HOUSE, DEBT
Mr. Lew added, “It left you with the real sense that this could just as easily have failed, and that was terrifying.”
Twelve years later, the government is again at risk of defaulting on its debt for the first time, and Republicans in the House are again demanding
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BIDEN, FAMILY, HOUSE, CORRUPTION
Wednesday has certainly not been a dull news day, and there’s still about half of it left as of this writing.
To start, we got the bombshell press conference by the House oversight committee detailing an alleged pay-to-play scheme run by the Biden Family.
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BORDER, 42, TITLE, BIDEN
Hundreds of migrants are already sleeping on downtown sidewalks of El Paso and overflowing the city's shelters as Title 42, which allows for easier expulsion of migrants, comes to an end.
Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Acting Asst Sec.
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SANTOS, GEORGE, REP, CHARGES
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is getting calls to expel Rep. George Santos after his indictment Wednesday..
Expulsion is not up to the speaker, but history plus the dynamics of the House make Santos' immediate expulsion unlikely.
The reason? Though he has
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BIDEN, DEBT, HOUSE, CEILING
Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich fact-checked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in real time during Tuesday’s White House press briefing when Jean-Pierre repeated several false claims about the debt limit.
Jean-Pierre was briefing reporters ahead of
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CARE, MISSOURI, BAN, CITY
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers approved significant restrictions on transgender people Wednesday, sending the Republican governor bills to ban gender-affirming health care and prevent transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams.
Transgender
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TWITTER, TUCKER, MUSK, CARLSON
Tucker Carlson says he'll take his show to Twitter
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Tucker Carlson, who was Fox News' biggest star until his abrupt firing last month, says he's taking his show to Twitter.
He
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LIGHT, BUD, ADMITS, SALES
One of the world’s biggest financial companies is advising its clients not to purchase Anheuser-Busch stock because of the “Bud Light crisis.”
HSBC stock analyst Carlos Laboy downgraded stock in AB InBev, Anheuser-Busch’s parent company, to “hold,” saying
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CITY, NEW, MIGRANTS, YORK
Texas officials sent a bus full of migrants to Philadelphia for the first time in months on Wednesday, as the state braces for the end of Title 42 and the influx of migrants that is expected to follow.
Philadelphia officials plan to hold a press conference
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PILL, BIRTH, CONTROL, COUNTER
FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md., on Aug. 2, 2018. via Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health advisers said Wednesday that a decades-old birth control
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COURT, SUPREME, JUSTICE, THOMAS
The moderates who ended up on the high court, to the occasional chagrin of conservatives who dreams of radical change being handed down by a more doctrinaire majority, helped mask a deeper rightward shift on the court from liberals’ point of view. The Rehnquist
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JORDAN, NEELY, ADAMS, MAYOR
"His death is a tragedy that never should have happened," Mayor Eric Adams said.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams condemned the death of Jordan Neely Wednesday, who died after a fellow subway passenger was captured on video putting him in a chokehold.
"Jordan
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TLAIB, EVENT, MCCARTHY, RASHIDA
A day after Israeli bombs ripped through residential buildings in the Gaza Strip, Rep. Rashida Tlaib introduced a resolution calling on Congress to recognize “the ongoing Nakba and Palestinian refugees rights.” Tlaib’s resolution comes ahead of the 75th anniversary
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Prosecutors are seeking at least 25 years in prison for a U.S. Army sergeant who fatally shot an armed man during a Black Lives Matter protest in Texas, saying his history of racist and provocative texts and social media posts expose a threat of violence likely
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AUTHOR, BOOK, HUSBAND, UTAH
A Utah children's book author had a contentious relationship with her husband and was troubled by financial disagreements before she allegedly killed him with fentanyl, according to court documents.
Prosecutors say Kouri Richins, 33, poisoned her husband of
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MOMMY, 47, BLOGGER, HEATHER
This image released by Peter Ashdown shows a selfie of mommy blogger Heather Armstrong in Salt Lake City on April 1, 2023. Armstrong, died by suicide, her boyfriend Pete Ashdown told The Associated Press, saying he found her Tuesday night, May 9, 2023, at their
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IMRAN, KHAN, PAKISTAN, ARREST
The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday issued a security alert canceling all consular meetings through the end of the week as protests over the arrest of former Prime Minister Imran Khan have turned violent.
The alert came as video footage showed
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INFLATION, POLL, PERCENT, APRIL
Forty percent of Americans say religion is “very important” in their lives, and nearly 30 percent say they “never” attend religious services, a The Economist/YouGov Poll found.
The results of the poll — which was conducted between May 6-9 with 1,500 U.S. adult
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ISRAEL, ROCKETS, GAZA, CEASEFIRE
The Iran-backed Palestinian terror organization known as Islamic Jihad continued to shoot rockets at Israel on Wednesday evening, despite earlier reports of an agreement to implement a ceasefire at 9 p.m. local time.
About 400 rockets fired at Israel from
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SHOT, TEACHER, YEAR, MOTHER
The mother of the 6-year-old boy in Newport News, Virginia, who police say shot his teacher in January, claimed her son really liked the woman, Abigail Zwerner, but the child felt she was ignoring him the week of the shooting.
However, Deja Taylor said she
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INFLATION, PRICES, APRIL, HIGH
Consumer prices in the United States accelerated in April after months of declines, with measures of underlying inflation suggesting that rising costs could persist for months to come.
Prices rose 0.4% from March to April, the government said Wednesday, up
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