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Defiant Jimmy Kimmel Doubles Down on ‘Plumber’ Jokes About Markwayne Mullin, Draws in AOC
The late-night host says conservatives should apologize for their criticism of Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s background.
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Debut of Crypto-Backed Mortgages Offers Younger Buyers a Pathway to Home Ownership
Fannie Mae says that, for the first time, it will start accepting mortgages that are backed by digital currencies.
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New York City BillsTo Protect Synagogues and Schools From Protesters Leave Mamdani in Awkward Spot
The mayor has not yet indicated whether he will sign or veto either bill, though both have received fierce pushback from the far left-corners of his base.
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A Colorado bill would eliminate the statute of limitations for lawsuits over conversion therapy while gender-affirming care is targeted elsewhere.
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Some people are once again calling for the comedian to lose his job.
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Mike Lindell’s Legal Woes Mount as He Shifts Focus to Pursuit of Minnesota Governor’s Office
A judge this week held the MyPillow founder in contempt over his failure to pay sanctions for a frivolous election claims lawsuit.
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San Francisco Votes To Teach Algebra in Middle School a Decade After Scrapping the Course in the Name of Equity
San Francisco’s mayor says the plan will ensure the city’s schools are ‘preparing every student for success in high school and beyond.’
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Timeline Shrinks in Social Security’s Looming Bankruptcy Crisis
The Senate is discussing several solutions but has made no concrete decisions.
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Castro or Castro? Family Members Volley With Trump Team for Best Deal on Cuba
With Cuba’s population pitched in darkness — the result of fuel shortages from a de-facto American blockade — its future may rely on Cuba’s best negotiator at the table, whether that be an old or a new revolutionary.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|Just When World Needs Oil, Ukraine Fights To Shut Down Russia’s Exports
Kyiv’s long-range drone campaign follows Trump’s softening American sanctions on Moscow’s foreign oil sales.
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|ISIS Exploits Syria’s Chaos as Fighter Numbers Balloon Fivefold
The Iran war also threatens to unravel the coalition partnerships that have kept ISIS in check.
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America’s Syria Withdrawal Has a New Reckoning: Iran
The quiet second purpose of America’s Syria footprint: containing, monitoring, and obstructing Iranian power projection across the Levant, is receiving the scrutiny it long deserved.
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Four Years Into Ukraine, War, Kyiv Relies on Technology To Counter Russia’s Artillery Superiority
Some 12,000 North Korean workers are in Russia building attack drones and gaining skills that could alter the balance of power in Northeast Asia.
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America Prepares Military Options Even as Trump Says Iran Is ‘Begging’ for a Deal
‘War is negotiation by other means,’ the Secretary of Defense said at a Cabinet meeting Thursday.
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Bipartisan House Panel Finds Democratic Congresswoman Guilty of 25 Ethics Violations
The full Ethics Committee must now decide the fate of Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who faces federal charges of embezzling $5 million in Covid relief funds.
By LUKE FUNK
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Indicted Democratic Congresswoman Grilled by Colleagues on Both Sides of the Aisle During Rare Public Ethics Committee Hearing
Members of the panel, who usually conduct business behind closed doors, seem to be inclined to find that their colleague violated House rules.
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Senate Passes DHS Funding Bill To End Airport Chaos After Trump Announces ‘Emergency’ Measure To Pay TSA Agents
The bill will not fund ICE deportation operations.
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|City Council Advances Watered-Down ‘Buffer Zone’ Plan Near Synagogues, Schools
Revised bill leaves enforcement to NYPD as Democratic Socialists decry threat to free speech.
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|Democrats Introduce Bill To Block Potential Military Action in Cuba
‘The United States cannot bomb Cuba out of economic collapse or political repression,’ the top Democrat on the Foreign Affairs Committee says.
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Democrats Bet Their Political Future on the Myth of Class Warfare
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Trump Foils Democrats’ Tactic of Using Air Travelers as Leverage in Immigration Debate
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Hectic Gun Violence Satire Benefits From Not Shooting Straight
Two fantastic performances elevate the disturbing, and uproarious ‘Our Hero, Balthazar’ to dark comedy heights.
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Raphael, ‘Greatest Influencer of All Time,’ Lands a Generational Show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Some 175 works by the genius of the High Renaissance unfold an artist every bit the equal of da Vinci and Michelangelo.
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Reagan-Era Economist Warns Treasury That Figures Show America Is Insolvent
The government’s fiscal year 2025 financial statement shows $47.78 trillion in liabilities against just $6 trillion in assets.
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|Oil Market Trades Executed Minutes Before Trump Iran Announcement Net Mystery Buyers $580 Million in Profits
‘The White House does not tolerate any administration official illegally profiteering off of insider knowledge,’ a Trump spokesman says.
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Oil Gets the Headlines, but a Whole Host of Goods Shipped Via Strait of Hormuz Face Global Disruption
Fertilizers for farmers and generic prescriptions of consumers are among the products facing potential shortages and rising costs because of the war in Iran.
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Trump Administration Plans Jones Act Waivers in Effort To Lower Skyrocketing Fuel Costs
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Education Department, Accusing Harvard of ‘Stonewalling’ Data Requests, Launches Two New Civil Rights Probes
The department is investigating allegations of racially discriminatory admissions practices and antisemitism.
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Garbage In, Garbage Out: Scientific Publishing Faces Pandemic-Like Spread of Fake Studies
Fake science is big business, and it’s spreading faster than the real thing.
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DOJ Sues Harvard Alleging Civil Rights Violations Against Jewish and Israeli Students
A leading authority on antisemitism and civil rights in higher education calls the suit ‘precisely’ the kind of action that ‘motivates higher education to comply with their civil rights responsibilities.’
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Did Attorney General Pam Bondi Violate Judge Aileen Cannon’s Command That Jack Smith’s Mar-a-Lago Case Stay Secret?
Congressman Jamie Raskin alleges that the Trump Administration released some of the very facts they sought to bury.
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Trump Renews Criticism of ‘Moron’ Jerome Powell as Justice Department Pursues Criminal Probe of Fed Chairman
The United States attorney in Washington D.C. is asking a judge to reconsider a ruling quashing subpoenas over Mr. Powell’s testimony to a congressional panel.
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‘I am not going to dismiss the case,’ the judge, 92, tells the defense.
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Wilkins claims prominent conservatives like Candace Owens and Joe Kent are being used to deepen fractures in the Republican Party.
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