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One Week In, Will Trump and Netanyahu Have Time To Finish Reshaping the Mideast and the World?
‘Khamenei said once that if the leadership is hit, anyone with a weapon would be authorized to shoot as they see fit — and that’s happening now,’ an Iran watcher tells the Sun.
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Trump, Once a Harsh Critic, Schmoozes With Yankees Legend A-Rod
The former Yankee slugger had a front-row seat for this week’s White House ceremony honoring Lionel Messi and Inter Miami.
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Florida Senate Advances Bill To Let State Leaders Designate Groups as Terrorists After Federal Judge Blocks Effort by DeSantis
Though the federal government has never designated CAIR as a terrorist organization, Florida lawmakers want to give the state’s executive the authority to brand organizations as terror tied.
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|Virginia Legislature Advances Bill That Prevents Schools From Teaching Students January 6 Was Peaceful
The bill requires schools to teach students that the riot was an ‘unprecedented, violent attack.’
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In a Pew Research study, America was the only country among 25 surveyed where a majority of respondents said their fellow citizens lack good morals.
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New York Legislature Advances Bill To Prevent AI Chatbots From Providing Medical, Legal Advice to Users
Critics say AI chatbots can ‘democratize’ information and make it easier for people to receive advice they may not otherwise have the means to access.
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Lawsuit Seeks To Block Constitutional Amendment Enshrining Abortion Access From Virginia Ballot in November
The plaintiffs say the amendment should be invalidated because the state legislature failed to follow the process for putting an amendment on the ballot.
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Georgia Lawmakers Advance Bill That Would Let Property Owners Sue Local Governments for Not Enforcing Anti-Homeless Laws
Lawmakers want to ‘hit’ local governments’ ‘pocketbook’ if they do not enforce anti-camping laws.
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State Department Says Charter Flights Are Evacuating Hundreds of Americans Stranded in Middle East
The Trump administration is defending its efforts to get Americans home from the war zone.
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Outside a Persian core there are a welter of non-Persian minorities who could emerge and cripple Iran.
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|Iran’s Ally Hezbollah Is Pummeled in Lebanon While the Houthis Sit on Their Hands in Yemen
Riyadh officials sent warnings to Houthi leaders that if they join the war, the Saudis will hit them hard, a Western diplomat tells the Sun.
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300,000 Flee Southern Lebanon as Hezbollah Increases Attacks Against Israel
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Mossad, CIA Worked With Iranian Kurds ‘For Months’, Source Says
An Iranian-Kurdish source told New York Sun that Iranian Kurds residing in northern Iraq are preparing to cross the border to confront the Iranian regime.
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From Libya, Ukraine Launches Drones Against Russian Ships
A liquefied natural gas tanker is sunk for the first time in a war.
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Newsom Says He’d Meet With Socialist Twitch Streamer Who Believes America ‘Deserved 9/11’
Hasan Piker has also said Hamas is ‘a thousand times better’ than Israel.
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Congressional Democrats Demand Investigation Into Alleged Spying by Homeland Security Using Data From Popular Phone Apps
An internal document shows Customs and Border Protection bought online advertising data to be able to track people’s precise movements over time.
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Anthropic CEO Apologizes to Administration Over Leaked Memo Even as the Company Prepares Court Challenge Following Ouster From Pentagon
Dario Amodei says it was wrong to write a ‘casual’ memo to venting about the Trump administration declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk.
By SHARON KEHNEMUI
|Congressman Accused of Sexually Harassing Aide Who Later Set Herself on Fire Abandons Re-Election Campaign
Top House Republicans said in a statement Thursday that he should step aside.
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|Deluge of Public Feedback Blasts ‘Ugly’ White House Ballroom Plan
An overwhelming majority of the 32,000 public comments to the planning commission tasked with approving the design were against Trump’s massive project.
By LUKE FUNK
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Some cities are seeing 60-cent increases in gas compared to the previous week.
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Trump Formally Names Kevin Warsh To Head Federal Reserve, but Nomination Faces Uncertain Future
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Trump To ‘Cut Off All Trade’ With Spain After It Rejects Use of Its Military Bases for Attacks on Iran
Spain says it is blocking America from launching attacks on Iran from its military bases.
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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks California Rules Preventing Schools From Telling Parents About Their Children’s Gender Transitions
A lawyer for the plaintiffs says the ruling is a ‘watershed moment for parental rights in America.’
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Jewish Groups Sue California, Charging ‘Unchecked Antisemitism’ in State’s Public School System
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Exclusive: FBI Turning to New Agents from Quantico to Patrol D.C. Streets, as Ex-Agents Question Shift Toward Police Work
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