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CHINA, TRADE, TALKS, DEAL
Is the U.S. close to a yuge, game-changing trade deal with China? If you listen to officials from Team Trump, we very well may be. Here’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Sunday:
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.@SecScottBessent says there has been a "great deal of productivity"
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TRUMP, QATAR, FORCE, AIR
The luxury jumbo jet is to be used as Air Force One, sources told ABC News.
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
A 13-year-old private Boeing aircraft that President Donald Trump toured on Saturday
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Pope Leo XIV celebrated a private Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.
The Vatican said the pope was joined by the head of his Augustinian order, the Rev.
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PUTIN, TALKS, ZELENSKY, CEASEFIRE
Russia's Putin proposes direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15
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Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed restarting direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, "without preconditions," an offer that
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HAMAS, RELEASE, HOSTAGE, AMERICAN
Hamas issued a statement claiming it will release Edan Alexander, who is believed to be the last known living American being held hostage by the terrorist group, according to several reports.
In a statement, senior Hamas negotiator Khalil Al-Hayya explained
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Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she did not body slam anyone during the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at the Delaney Hall Detention Center last week.
Host Dana Bash said, “I want to go back to some of
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TRUMP, SIGN, EXECUTIVE, ORDER
President Donald Trump revealed that he would be signing an executive order on Monday reducing the cost of prescription and pharmaceutical drugs by 30 to 80 percent.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump pointed out that “for many years the World has wondered why”
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BUS, INJURED, DEAD, CRASH
A crash involving a tour bus and an S.U.V. in Los Angeles early on Sunday morning killed at least one person and left 32 other people injured, the authorities said.
The crash happened around 5 a.m. on the 60 Freeway in Hacienda Heights, which is about 20 miles
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10, BASELINE, LUTNICK, FUTURE
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a chart next to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick as Trump delivers remarks on tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that
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HOME, NJ, CAUGHT, KILLING
A New Jersey home exploded overnight, killing two people in a fiery flash that rocked a sleepy neighborhood, officials said.
The bodies of a woman and a man, who had not been publicly identified, were recovered from the remains of the home Sunday along Tranquility
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TRUMP, SOUTH, WHITE, REFUGEE
A U.S.-funded charter plane carrying dozens of white South Africans who claim to have been victims of discrimination in their home country left Johannesburg on Sunday, heading for the United States, where the Trump administration is welcoming them as refugees.
The
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Two Dem reps from New Jersey were caught on video “storming” a Newark immigration detention site last week, with one seen elbowing her way past ICE agents in an alleged “bizarre political stunt.”
North Jersey Reps. Robert Menendez, Jr. and LaMonica McIver
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IRAN, TALKS, NUCLEAR, ARRIVES
Iran and the United States wrapped up nuclear talks in Oman on Sunday with no apparent breakthrough in a public standoff over enrichment, but with both sides confirming plans for future negotiations.
This was the fourth round of talks that began nearly a month
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WITKOFF, TRUMP, NETANYAHU, FALLING
WASHINGTON, DC — Senior adviser and assistant to the president Steve Witkoff told Breitbart News that any reports of a rift between President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are fake news and “preposterous.”
“I’ll tell you, first
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USA, MISS, MAINE, JORDON
PORTLAND, Me. — Bill Belichick’s glammed-up gal-pal Jordon Hudson baited judges at the Miss Maine pageant with her local seafaring roots — sporting a fisherman-themed clutch and aquatic dress in the final round of the beauty competition Sunday.
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WEIGH, DEMOCRATS, DECIDE, 2028
Democrats will pick their next presidential nominee in 2028, but before that happens, the party will have to decide which state gets to go first on the nominating calendar
Before naming 2028 nominee, Democrats have to decide which state will weigh in first
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CORPUS, HABEAS, SUSPEND, BARRASSO
What is habeas corpus and why might Donald Trump want to suspend it?
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Getty Images White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller says Trump is considering suspending habeas corpus
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11, SEPT, EXTRADITE, FAMILIES
The families of some of the victims killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks who worked for the bond trading company of Howard Lutnick, now the commerce secretary, are urging him to help extradite a Saudi Arabian national potentially involved in the attacks as
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TRUMP, WAR, ECONOMY, LURE
A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the island attempts to strengthen its fragile economy
Tractor trailers and containers fill a shipping yard at the San Juan port in Puerto Rico, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo)
Tractor
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BIDEN, BOO, REMINDER, REVEALS
Joe Biden had a couple of interviews this past week, one with the BBC and one on ABC's "The View."
Biden is out there trying to rehab his reputation after dropping out of the 2024 race under a cloud of questions about his cognitive decline. However, the interviews
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FEET, CRASHES, MILITARY, 30
The Washington State Patrol said a military Humvee crashed and went over a retaining wall in Bellevue, Washington, on Saturday.
The Humvee was pulling a trailer when it was traveling eastbound on Interstate 90, Fox News reported. The outlet noted the vehicle
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