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TRUMP, BILL, SENATE, BIG
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) walks after the Senate passes U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 1, 2025.
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska cast a critical vote Tuesday for
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MAMDANI, TRUMP, ZOHRAN, MAYOR
Self-avowed communist Zohran Mamdani, who is currently the favorite to become the next Mayor of New York City, has a brilliant plan for reducing food prices: Government-owned grocery stores. Because if there's anything the government is good at, it's running
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TRUMP, ISRAEL, FIRE, CEASE
Critics of President Trump may have cheered the defamation lawsuit filed by Gov. Gavin Newsom against Fox News for giving the White House a spoonful of its own litigious medicine.
Newsom is suing the conservative-leaning network alleging it intentionally distorted
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TRUMP, MUSK, DOGE, FEUD
US President Donald Trump once again targeted former aide Elon Musk Tuesday, attacking the amount of government subsidies the entrepreneur is receiving, after the tech billionaire renewed criticism of the president's flagship spending bill.
"Elon may get more
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TRUMP, NEW, CUBA, MUSK
It all came down to Murkowski: Inside the final passage of Trump's 'big, beautiful bill'
Sen. Susan Collins walks from the chamber to the office of Majority Leader John Thune at the Capitol in Washington, July 1, 2025.
Sen. Susan Collins walks from the chamber
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TRUMP, BILL, SENATE, RECORD
Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA), who just announced his bid to rejoin the U.S. Senate by running for retiring Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s (D-NH) seat, blasted his far-left opponent for making “AOC look like Rush Limbaugh” during an appearance on the latest episode
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ALLIGATOR, ALCATRAZ, TRUMP, FLORIDA
Trump plans to visit Florida's new migrant detention center, 'Alligator Alcatraz'
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President Trump is due in Florida on Tuesday to visit what's been dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," a controversial migrant
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MAMDANI, MAYOR, ZOHRAN, TRUMP
The mayor of Dallas issued an open invitation for “concerned” New Yorkers to flee the Big Apple for the Lone Star state over Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary victory.
“Dear Concerned New York City Resident or Business Owner: Don’t panic! Just move to Dallas,
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KOHBERGER, BRYAN, DEAL, PLEA
What to know about the Bryan Kohberger case as a plea deal emerges over Idaho murders
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Bryan Kohberger is poised to accept a plea agreement in the stabbing murders of four University of Idaho students in 2022,
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TRIAL, DIDDY, COMBS, SEAN
A jury in Manhattan reached a partial verdict on Tuesday in the federal case against the music mogul Sean Combs after deliberating for more than 12 hours, saying that it was deadlocked on a charge of racketeering conspiracy.
At about 4:05 p.m., the jury sent
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LIA, UPENN, THOMAS, SWIMMER
UPenn to ban trans athletes after probe stemming from swimmer Lia Thomas
Lia Thomas (left) accepts the trophy at the NCAA championships in 2022
Thomas became the first trans athlete to win the highest US national college title in March 2022.
The university
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HOUSE, PENN, BROWN, CALLED
The University of Pennsylvania and Brown University were issued subpoenas by the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into alleged tuition coordination among Ivy League universities, Politico reported on Tuesday.
The subpoenas request documents
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RATE, POWELL, TRUMP, CUT
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, defended on Tuesday the central bank’s wait-and-see approach to cutting interest rates, in the face of intense pressure from President Trump to follow central banks around the world that have acted faster.
Decisions
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HOUSING, BACK, CALIFORNIA, ACCESSIBLE
California legislators took a rare step in the right direction on Monday when they passed a law rolling back the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) restrictions on building housing in urban “infill” areas.
Calmatters.org explained:
With the passage
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MEXICAN, BROOKLYN, BRIDGE, NAVY
Officials are sharing more details about the moments leading up to a Mexican Navy tall ship hitting the Brooklyn Bridge in May, an incident that left two crew members dead and 19 others hurt.
Authorities said the ship was sailing backwards, then picked up
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DISNEY, CRUISE, FATHER, SAVE
A Disney cruise passenger described the harrowing sound made when a young girl fell off the ship and smacked into the ocean before her father bravely dove in and saved her.
The passenger, named Chandler, recalled the frightening screams and the moment the
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is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s launch in 2014, and before that, he worked as a research assistant at the New Yorker’s Washington,
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BODIES, LEAVES, CARTEL, VIOLENCE
Cartel violence in Sinaloa, Mexico, leaves 20 dead, including 4 decapitated bodies
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MEXICO CITY — Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state on Monday, part of a surge
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USAID, ANNOUNCES, DEEP, RUN
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, there has been a great deal of attention focused on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). With the DOGE team empowered to ferret out government waste and fraud, USAID landed under
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KRISTI, REVEALS, NOEM, CANNIBAL
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem revealed a bizarre and sickening account Tuesday of how federal agents nabbed a cannibal illegal migrant who started to eat his own arms during a deportation flight.
Noem shared the disturbing anecdote while visiting
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SURCHARGE, DROPS, WAFFLE, EGG
Waffle House drops egg surcharge as prices fall back to Earth
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In a welcome sign that sky-high egg prices are coming home to roost, Waffle House is dropping its 50 cent per egg surcharge.
"Egg-cellent
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RUSSIA, UKRAINE, DEEP, BACKED
Russia has taken full control of Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, more than three years after President Vladimir Putin ordered thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian-backed head of the region told Russian state television.
Luhansk,
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OPENINGS, JOB, INCREASED, UNEXPECTEDLY
U.S. job openings rose more than expected in May, led by strong demand in the private sector, even as federal job postings and hires fell sharply—suggesting a labor market rebalancing in line with the Trump administration’s push to shrink the government’s economic
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