Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration From Distributing ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
The order also prevents the administration from considering claims from alleged victims.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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AARP Warns of Rising Costs for Seniors, Social Security Insolvency
The organization representing the interests of older Americans is concerned about congressional inaction.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Shake-Up at CBS as ‘60 Minutes’ Executive Producer Tanya Simon Is Fired, Sharyn Alfonsi Ousted
A former New York Times columnist and documentarian will be the show’s new executive producer.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Supreme Court, by Reversing E. Jean Carroll Verdict, Could Halt Character Assassination Campaign Against Trump
BETSY McCAUGHEY
Democrats, Pushing a Boycott of College Teams Over Redistricting, Find Few Willing To Play Ball
DEAN KARAYANIS
Ken Paxton’s Trump-Aligned Messaging in Victory Over John Cornyn Points Way to GOP Midterm Victories
NEWT GINGRICH
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North Carolina Legislature Considers Amendment Allowing Use of Deadly Force To Stop an Abortion
The bill states that ‘any person has the right to defend his or her own life or the life of another person, even by the use of deadly force if necessary.’
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
|Ex-Border Patrol Commander Bovino Offers To ‘Handle’ Protests Outside Newark ICE Facility
He is taking potshots at DHS leadership over clashes outside Delaney Hall, suggesting the agency was putting federal agents’ lives at risk during days of unrest.
By DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN
|No Tax Hikes, No First Responders, No Party: Massachusetts Town, Citing Policing Shortage, Cancels July 4th Celebration
The town of Rutland says it will not refund donations intended for the celebration that will no longer take place.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Federal Judge Rejects Democrats’ Bid To Block Trump’s Mail-In Voting Plan
Judge Carl Nichols says the legislators can’t sue over a policy that hasn’t been created, but leaves the door open to a new lawsuit once the policy is laid out.
By LUKE FUNK
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NASA To Spend Nearly $1 Billion in Gear-up Phase of ‘Moon Base’ Mega Project
The US space agency is ordering next-gen lunar landers, rovers, and drones ahead of its mission to send humans back to the Moon.
By LUKE FUNK
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Congress Takes Another Swing at Stabilizing Chaos Created by NIL
Bipartisan bill to regulate payments, limit portal transfers, and restrict coach movement fills holes in the NCAA’s attempt to stabilize sports teams.
By GEORGE WILLIS
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Chicago Mayor Fails to Win Pope Leo XIV’s Support for Reparations
Mayor Brandon Johnson is on a three-day trip to Italy to promote Chicago.
By LUKE FUNK
|Putin, Blocked in Ukraine, Looks West to the Baltics
Tyrant needs a war to distract from Russia’s failures.
By JAMES BROOKE
|Israel Severs Ties With UN Chief Guterres After the Jewish State’s Inclusion in a Rape Blacklist
‘We are done with this secretary general,’ Jerusalem’s UN ambassador said in response to the accusations.
By BENNY AVNI
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Japan, Philippines Cement Defense and Intel Ties, Burying Brutal WWII History
Emperor Naruhito skipped the bloody history of Japanese imperialism and slaughter during World War II at a banquet honoring President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. of the Philippines.
By DONALD KIRK
|Israel’s ‘Ceasefire War’ Against Hezbollah Is Weakened by Trump’s Iran Diplomacy
‘Iran is trying to drive a wedge between Jerusalem and Washington, and we cannot allow the Iranians to succeed in this strategy,’ a former Israeli diplomat tells the Sun.
By BENNY AVNI
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Social Media Saves Blonde Buffalo Dubbed ‘Donald Trump’ From Death on Islamic Holiday
The animal is a ‘clear testament to the President’s uncanny charisma,’ wrote one X user.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Trump Officials Designing $250 Bill With Trump’s Face on It
The head of the printing bureau was reassigned after she pushed back, according to a report.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Talarico Announces Largest Single-Day Fundraising Haul in the Wake of Paxton’s Primary Victory
The state representative’s campaign says it raised $3 million in the 24 hours after Paxton’s win.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Blue States Plan To Fight Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund With a 100 Percent Tax
New York and California will consider legislation to confiscate any money received by their citizens.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Jill Biden Says She Feared Her Husband Was Having a Stroke During Disastrous 2024 Debate Performance
‘I don’t know what happened,’ the former first lady, who is promoting a new memoir, says.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Spencer Pratt Has God’s Endorsement for Mayor of Los Angeles, He Says
The reality TV star says a post-debate epiphany sealed his mayoral ambitions.
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
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Opinion
Meloni Scores Electoral Wins in Local Elections, Postponing Yet Again the ‘Much-Heralded Collapse of the Center-Right’
By ROSARIO IACONIS
Mamdani Faces Refusal of Far-Left Activists To Allow Private Investment Needed To Repair City’s Public Housing
By HOWARD HUSOCK
Push To Create Affordable Housing for Artists Could Backfire for New York City
By SAMUEL ABRAMS
Jeff Bezos Emerges as an Imperfect Champion for Capitalism
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Four Californian Teenage Girls Come of Age With Music, Charm and Chance
There is a refreshing absence of microaggression or triggering references in Eisa Davis’s tuneful ‘||: Girls :||: Chance :||: Music :||.’
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‘Risings’ Tells the Story of How a Mix of Yeats and Bullets Inspired Irish Independence
A joint production of the New York Public Library and the Grolier Club gathers a trove of treasures from the Emerald Isle.
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Gustav Klimt’s ‘Women’ Serves Up a Refreshing Reminder of Artistic Freedom
A new exhibition at Gladstone of the Austrian painter’s erotic drawings explains why he remains such an auction house heavyweight.
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Economy
Fed Governor Lisa Cook Warns Elevated Inflation Could Force Interest Rate Increases
Chairman Kevin Warsh could struggle to find support for rate cuts that President Trump desires.
By LUKE FUNK
|High Gas Prices Have Cost American Drivers Extra $25 Billion, Study Finds
With record numbers hitting the road for the Memorial Day weekend, the national average for regular gasoline has skyrocketed by 51.6 percent since the Iran war began.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Trump To Swear in Warsh as Fed Chairman Friday at White House
Kevin Warsh has faced pressure to detail more than $100 million in investments he is selling to assume the central bank’s leadership.
By LUKE FUNK
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House Republicans Aim To Strip Key Provision From Senate Housing Bill
Conservatives and industry leaders say the plan to limit home ownership by institutional investors has discouraged new construction.
By LUKE FUNK
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Harvard Faculty Vote to Cap A Grades Despite Strong Student Opposition
The dean of undergraduate education described the result as ‘consequential.’
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
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American Bar Association Panel Calls for End to DEI Requirement at Law Schools
Facing loss of its status as the nation’s sole law school accreditor, the association’s council on legal education and bar admissions is promoting compliance with anti-discrimination laws instead.
By SHARON KEHNEMUI
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Seattle Teacher in Lead for Top Union Post Faces Police Review Amid Child Abuse Allegations
The accusations against the special education teacher stem from the parents of a third-grade student with autism.
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Tax Professionals Suggest Trump May Owe Taxes on ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
A tax law professor says the funds ‘should be taxable as income to the president.’
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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E. Jean Carroll, Tantalizingly Close to Collecting $100 Million From Trump, Now Subject of Criminal Perjury Probe
Investigators are evaluating the relevance of her initially withholding that LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman helped fund her lawsuit against the president.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|Divided Supreme Court Rules Mississippi Death Row Inmate Faced Racial Bias at Trial
The split decision — citing racially motivated jury selection by the prosecutor — throws out a capital murder conviction of a black inmate accused of killing a white store owner.
By LUKE FUNK
|James Comey Secures Delay in His Trial for Threatening Trump With Seashells — and Buys Time To Try To Get Case Dismissed
The former FBI director is expected to claim that the case against him is ‘selective and vindictive.’
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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