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TRUMP, OHIO, GOP, PRIMARY
Primary elections in Ohio, Indiana offer latest temperature check on Trump popularity
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Two very different decisions Republicans made about gerrymandering will be on display in Tuesday's primary contests in Indiana and
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TRUMP, FAA, EMPLOYEE, THREATENING
There have always been leftists who oppose Republican presidents. But as is usually the case, Donald Trump is special. He appears to have broken the Democrat Party for sure. But because he is not worried about reelection, he is enjoying a kind of freedom where
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TRUMP, IRAN, HORMUZ, PROJECT
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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HEGSETH, PROJECT, STRAIT, FREEDOM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine speak at a press briefing Tuesday.
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The United States has launched a new military
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SECRET, SERVICE, SUSPECT, AGENT
Fox News has learned the name of the suspect shot by U.S. Secret Service officers near the White House this week.
Michael Marx, a 45-year-old Texan, has been identified as the individual seen allegedly carrying a firearm just blocks from the White House
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RUBIO, PRESS, MARCO, 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.
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AIRPORT, UNITED, FEET, SHOWS
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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DEAD, TEXAS, INJURED, POLICE
Chaos erupted at an Oklahoma park over the weekend when gunfire left nearly two dozen people injured — and police say new details are shedding light on what sparked the violence.
Authorities say the shots rang out after a group of people began arguing at
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DRUG, STRIKE, BOAT, KILLS
The United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) announced on Monday that U.S. forces carried out a new “lethal kinetic strike” against a drug-trafficking vessel in Caribbean waters, killing two men identified as narco-terrorists.
Monday’s strike is the first
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FITNESS, TRUMP, OBAMA, TEST
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on national recognition for youth sports and fitness, and a memorandum to restore a revised and revitalized Presidential Fitness Test Award.
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In July 2025, Trump signed an executive order
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CALIFORNIA, FARM, STATE, INSURANCE
Eaton and Palisades Fire survivors have demanded action for 16 months. And the California Department of Insurance has finally released its market conduct exam of State Farm.
The findings are damning. And they confirm what survivors have been saying since January
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WOMEN, COLLEGE, STUDENTS, ADMITTING
The argument that men belong in women's sports took another shocking blow last week when the University of Washington's women's soccer team had a match against a men's team.
Well, not a men's team, per se. It was an under-14 boys soccer team.
Surely, the
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PATEL, KASH, FBI, DIRECTOR
FBI Director Kash Patel said he found the agency's "burn bag" room full of sensitive documents tied to the "Russiagate" investigation, but nobody was able to get inside at first — in fact, the room wasn't on the building map at all.
Patel appeared on Tuesday's
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TRUMP, ALLEN, COLE, ATTEMPT
The initially released surveillance video of the recent attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump was blurry and incomplete. Posted a short time after the incident, it showed Cole Allen, the accused would-be assassin, charging a security site at the April
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CEASEFIRE, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, CYNICISM
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian drone and missile strikes targeting Ukraine’s power grid during the night killed at least five people and wounded 39 others, Ukrainian authorities said Tuesday, less than a day before Kyiv said that it would enact a ceasefire and
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PRATT, SPENCER, PALISADES, KAREN
In an exclusive interview with the Ruthless Podcast released on Tuesday morning, Los Angeles mayoral candidate and former reality star Spencer Pratt spoke of the growing dissatisfaction with the city’s political leadership. The litany of angry residents includes
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OBAMA, CENTER, PRESIDENTIAL, DEATH
Former President Barack Obama’s presidential library is hocking pricey merch shaped like the unsightly Chicago tower — as the project’s architects revealed the former commander-in-chief himself was behind the “Death Star” design that’s been widely mocked since
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POLL, 67, BORDERS, AHEAD
A survey of likely Republican runoff voters in Texas shows a narrow margin between Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn, with a small share of voters still undecided as the May contest approaches.
The poll was conducted by the University of Houston
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PRAGERU, CEO, EXCLUSIVE, EDUCATION
Sunday on “The Alex Marlow Show,” PragerU CEO Marissa Streit talked about state education.
Streit said, “Standards are quite broad, and what happens is, many of the schools and the publishers, as I explained, are the ones who are pushing a lot of this stuff.”
The
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OFFICIALS, CRIME, POLICE, DATA
The Washington Post reported Monday that multiple high-ranking D.C. police officials have been notified that they are soon to be served their walking papers amid allegations that they fudged crime data to make themselves look better.
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House Oversight
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IRANIAN, AMENDMENT, TRUMP, GRAHAM
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called on President Donald Trump to arm the Iranian people to aid efforts to overthrow Iran’s government.
Graham said, “I love the idea of a Second Amendment solution for the Iranian people.
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ELECTION, FULTON, COUNTY, WORKERS
The Justice Department is seeking the names of every person who worked in the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold Donald Trump has accused of widespread voter fraud he says cost him victory against Joe Biden in the state t...
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SENTENCED, DEATH, YEAR, STRAND
Killer FedEx driver Tanner Horner has been sentenced to death for the murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand by a jury in Texas.
The confessed killer learned his sentence at a court in Fort Worth, Texas, some 40 miles southeast of where Strand’s naked body was
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