If Mamdani Moves To Arrest Netanyahu, the Mayor Could Be the One Guilty of Breaking the Law
Federal statute appears to preclude Hizzoner from siccing the NYPD on the premier of the Jewish state.
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Justice Department Investigates Harvard’s Financial Aid Program for Alleged Discrimination Against Americans
The review focuses on whether the university is illegally using foreign donations, particularly those from China, to provide financial aid to students on the basis of their national origin.
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Navratilova, Sports Legend and Gay Activist, Applauds Shift to Mandatory Genetic Testing in Women’s Tennis
The new sex-screening policy is intended ‘to preserve the integrity of women’s professional tennis and maintain fair competition conditions for all players.’
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Lululemon Sued Over ‘Phantom Discount’ Pricing on Its Website
The plaintiff says the athleisure company developed ‘fictitious’ regular prices to make it appear customers are getting a discount.
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|Smithsonian Executive Dodges Congressional Questions on Efforts To ‘Reshape’ History
A House subcommittee is trying to uncover examples of the museum using exhibits as a political tool to share a radical historical interpretation of America’s past.
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Truth Bomb: UnitedHealth Loses Defamation Suit Over Honest Telling of Forsaking Oldsters’ DNR Wishes for Bottom Line
The judge says the lawsuit failed to allege that the details report was ‘false,’ and that the insurance giant was merely upset it created what it called a ‘false impression.’
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Supreme Court To Hear Case Involving Plane Forfeiture Over a Six-Pack of Beer
Ken Jouppi is trying to keep Alaska officials from taking away his Cessna after a passenger tried transporting beer to a dry village.
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Orthodox Jews Have Objections to Plan for Permanent Daylight Savings Time in Congress
Advocates will be in Washington Tuesday to meet with senators, asking them to consider the unintended consequences of the change.
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Lebanon, Where Laws Ban Any Contact With Israelis, Is Seeking Peace With the Jewish State
President Aoun is eager to prove his army’s ability to combat and disarm Hezbollah, while Israelis skeptically stand by.
By BENNY AVNI
|State Department Names Liberal American Activists and Officials in Report Detailing Extensive Spying Campaign by Cuba
The State Department says Cuba has infiltrated U.S. institutions and influenced many of America’s celebrity and political classes with the goal of turning ‘America against itself.’
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|Britain’s New Prime Minister Promises the Panacea of a ‘Ten-Year Plan’ That Would Move the Country to the Left
Andy Burnham, on his first day in office and aware that voters are ‘fed up,’ promises to relieve ‘that pressure’ about finances.
By DONALD KIRK
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Rare 2,600-Year-Old Wooden Beams From Israel’s First Temple-Era Discovered at Jerusalem
Researchers say the ancient beams could help them date other findings with ‘much greater precision’ than ever before.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Florida’s Failed ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Inspires Israeli Crocodile Clink
‘Are you thinking of attempting to escape? Think again,’ National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Cuba’s Slow Collapse: Blackouts, Hunger, and a Regime Running Out of Road
With its power grid in collapse, its oil lifeline severed, and nearly a million citizens gone in five years, Cuba is facing what analysts call the worst economic crisis in its history and Washington is treating the darkness as leverage.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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New Jersey Governor Admits Hundreds of Non-Citizens Voted Due to ‘Software Error’
A computer problem at the state’s motor vehicle agency registered people to vote even after they stated that they were not citizens.
By LUKE FUNK
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Thune Says Fetterman Is ‘Welcome’ in the Senate GOP
The majority leader says ‘many’ Republican senators have talked to Fetterman about switching parties.
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Johnson Backs Banning Lawmakers From Sex, Dates With Congressional Staff
Members of Congress are currently only banned from cavorting with those who work directly for them.
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|Johnson Embarks on Ambitious Legislative Week, Hoping Conservatives Won’t Again Gum Up House’s Work
The speaker is trying to pass four critical bills before he sends his colleagues home for the summer recess.
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|Battle Lines Drawn in U.S. Senate Over Darline Graham’s Attempt To Hold Her Brother’s Seat
Graham, who has never before held elected office, is hoping to tap into her brother’s network of supporters across the Palmetto State as she seeks the GOP nomination in this year’s Senate race.
By MATTHEW RICE
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How ‘The Odyssey’ Conquered Elon Musk and the Digital Hordes
The box office success of the epic Homer adaptation proves that Christopher Nolan, far more than anyone in his star-studded cast, is now the biggest draw in cinema.
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In a Life of Glamour and Wit, Anything Goes
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National Debt Tops 106 Percent of GDP for First Time Since WWII
One budget expert calls it ‘a total bipartisan abdication of making hard choices’ on government spending and taxation.
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|Mission Not Accomplished: Fed Policy Tweaks Under New Chairman Aim To Nip Inflation in the Bud
The Federal Reserve chairman is giving two days of testimony on Capitol Hill as numbers show a slowdown in inflation in June largely due to a now-defunct peace deal in the Persian Gulf.
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Meta Faces Landmark Lawsuit Alleging AI Tools Targeted Disabled Workers for Layoffs
Because employees on protected leave had less activity for the systems to measure, the plaintiffs argue the AI tools effectively penalized them with lower scores.
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12 State Attorneys General Sue To Block Paramount’s $110 Billion Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery
The states allege the deal would combine two of Hollywood’s five major studios, giving the merged entity control of a massive amount of content.
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Trump Gutted the Education Department, Then Quietly Went on a Hiring Spree To Rebuild It
The administration that declared mass layoffs at the Education Department its ‘final mission’ is now scrambling to hire hundreds back — raising hard questions about whether the demolition was ever a plan at all.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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$3 Million Later, West Virginia’s New Center Aimed at Countering ‘Woke Indoctrination’ Has Enrolled Just One Student
Supporters of the center are not concerned by the low enrollment rate, but say the school should create a new degree program to boost participation.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Nearly 10 Percent of College Students Read and Do Math at a 4th-Grade Level, New Survey Finds
The survey conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development tested more than 150,000 people of all ages across its 38 member states.
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Date Set for Trump’s Bid To Resurrect Troubled Prosecutions Against James Comey and Letitia James
The Fourth United States Appeals Circuit will hear arguments in September over the fate of the two cases.
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Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks South Dakota Law Prohibiting the Advertising of Abortion Pills
The judge says that South Dakota failed to show the advertisements are ‘integral to criminal conduct.’
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The Justice Department will provide documents this week to a 30-year-old court recommended by Trump-blasted judge James Boasberg.
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Congressman Jim Jordan is weighing a referral of the prosecutor to the Department of Justice.
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