Vice May Be Tightening on Jack Smith as GOP Senators Expose Staggering Scope of His Secret Surveillance of Trump Allies
New disclosures offer a behind the scenes look at both prosecutions of President Trump.
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Tennessee Senate Passes Bill Allowing Malpractice Lawsuits Against Doctors for 30-Year-Old Gender Reassignment Procedures
The bill would let patients sue if they alleged they underwent transgender procedures as a result of what is described as coercion.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Iran’s Ayatollah Is Tweeting With New, Verified Checkmark Without Being Verified as Alive
If Ayatollah Khamenei’s son is dead, why further the fiction that he’s alive?
By DEAN KARAYANIS
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Value of Triple Crown Questioned Amid Prep Races in Florida, Arkansas
Are modern trainers breeding horses to run, or running them to breed?
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|Ole Miss Approves Center To Address Gambling Among College Students
Counselors say sports betting boom on campus poses public health concern.
By GEORGE WILLIS
|Democrat Cory Booker’s ‘View’ Segment Is Show’s First Political Guest in 40 Days After FCC Warned Against Booking Only Liberals
A source close to the show insists that there have been no changes, despite the co-hosts not interviewing a political guest in more than a month.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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New WNBA Deal Reshapes Salaries, Power and the Future
Players finally get their share of leagues’ unprecedented boom in popularity
By GEORGE WILLIS
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Midwives Face Felony Charges For Assisting With Home Births as States Grapple With ‘Maternity Care Deserts’
Prosecutors in Nebraska and beyond are threatening criminal penalties against centuries-old birthing practices even as rural America faces a hospital shortage.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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String of Fraudsters Mars Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ List, but Does Little To Deter Investors
For would-be, high-level scammers, the gamble of a windfall from a feature spot in the magazine outweighs the fear of ending up in federal court.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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Air Canada Chief Executive Faces Firestorm for Condolence Video About LaGuardia Crash Recorded Almost Entirely in English
The chief executive is being summoned to Ottawa to explain why he did not deliver his message in French.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
|Volkswagen Could Switch Plant From Building Cars To Military Systems For Israel’s Iron Dome Maker
The struggling automaker could save 2,300 jobs with a return to its military past.
By LUKE FUNK
|Can an Internally Divided Iranian Regime Meet Trump’s Demands for a War-Ending Deal?
They might open Hormuz Strait and concede uranium, but will not freeze enrichment, limit missiles reach, end support for regional proxies, or end the mass killing of opponents, an Iran watcher tells the Sun.
By BENNY AVNI
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Taliban Frees American Academic Held More Than Year
The Trump administration is pressuring the Afghan government to release Americans it considers held without justification.
By LUKE FUNK
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Belgium Deploys Troops To Protect Jewish Sites as Iran-Linked Group Claims Attacks Across Europe
The deployment follows a string of attacks on Jewish sites in Belgium and neighboring countries.
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
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Epic Fury: What New Arms Are in Play
‘Advanced AI tools can turn processes that used to take hours and sometimes even days into seconds.’
By BENNY AVNI
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Decline Sets In at MS NOW as It Slides to Eleventh Place Among Younger Viewers After Minneapolis ICE Story Dies Down
The left-wing network has a smaller 25-54-year-old audience compared to CNN and Fox.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Texas Lieutenant Governor Forms Religious Liberty Committee To Help Americans ‘Fully Understand’ First Amendment
Dan Patrick says the Senate panel will focus on protecting First Amendment rights of Texans.
By LUKE FUNK
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House Conservatives Rage Against Potential DHS Funding Deal Negotiated by Trump, Senate Republicans
‘The American people are not stupid and will not accept more failure theater from Republicans in Congress,’ the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus says.
By MATTHEW RICE
|California Governor Debate Abruptly Canceled After Participation Rules Exclude All Non-White Candidates
The debate was scheduled to include only the six leading candidates in the race, all of whom happen to be white.
By MATTHEW RICE
|Vance Leads 2028 GOP Presidential Contenders in Polling, but Rubio’s Star Is Rising in First-in-the-Nation Primary State
A new poll of New Hampshire GOP voters finds the vice president leading the pack, but Rubio’s support has jumped 18 points since November.
By CAROLINE McCAUGHEY
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Trump Foils Democrats’ Tactic of Using Air Travelers as Leverage in Immigration Debate
By DANIEL McCARTHY
The Shadow War on the Right Against President Trump
By JOSH HAMMER
Overplayed ‘Surf and Turf’ Allegations in the Press Reflect Widening Divide Between Civilians, Military
By SALENA ZITO
Senate Democrats Put America Last, Signaling Support for Open Borders by Inflicting Pain on Travelers
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Fani Willis Refuses To Pay Trump Millions in Legal Fees as She Clings to Case From Which She Was Disqualified
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A Life Devoted to Faith, Hope, and Mystery
A new biography chronicles Elizabeth Jordan — reporter, novelist, women’s suffrage campaigner and lover of Frances Hodgson Burnett.
By CARL ROLLYSON
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Two Memorable Tributes Strike Up the Centennial of Tony Bennett
Two top tier male vocalists and instrumentalists honored a music legend who made singing look easy.
By WILL FRIEDWALD
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How Joan Miró and America Were Made for Each Other
A new exhibition depicts a cultural lovefest between the Spanish painter and the American art world, with a Sun critic among the matchmakers.
By ALICE GAUVIN
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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.
By LUKE FUNK
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Trump Administration Plans Jones Act Waivers in Effort To Lower Skyrocketing Fuel Costs
The administration is trying to speed American oil to refiners as oil and gas prices surge amid the war with Iran.
By LUKE FUNK
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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.
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
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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.
By HOLLIE McKAY
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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.’
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
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Fani Willis Refuses To Pay Trump Millions in Legal Fees as She Clings to Case From Which She Was Disqualified
The prosecutor will argue her case to the court that barred her following a secret romance with a deputy.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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Prosecutors’ Subpoena of Comey Suggests Criminal Probe Into What Trump Calls Russia Collusion ‘Hoax’ Is Gathering Speed
Judge Aileen Cannon in South Florida is presiding over a grand jury that has issued a subpoena to the former FBI director.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|Conservative Justices Appear Skeptical of States Allowing Ballots That Arrive After Election Day To Be Counted
The Supreme Court will decide on a case involving a Mississippi rule that allows ballots to arrive up to five days after an election.
By LUKE FUNK
|Ex-Counterterrorism Official Joe Kent Makes Fresh Claims That FBI Blocked Probe Into Foreign Influence in Charlie Kirk’s Murder
Law enforcement source rejects claims of obstruction, says Kent lacked authority to access files.
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Jefferson Siegel - Pool/Getty Images ‘She Got Money’: Harvey Weinstein’s Defense Quarrels With Prosecutors on His 74th Birthday Over How To Explain $500,000 Award to Accuser
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|‘Stalin Would Be Proud’: Jack Smith Compared to ‘Secret Police’ as More Surveillance of Trump-Supporting Lawmakers Exposed
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