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Reporter's Notebook: Washington is no longer the center of politics – it's now New York City
Bob Menendez and former President Trump face criminal charges. While Menendez is accused of using his power for personal gain, Trump is accused of concealing hush money payments.
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State Department issues travel alert for LGBTQ people, events abroad
The U.S. State Department issued a caution alert, warning U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution related to violence against "LGBTQI+ persons and events.”
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Fox News Politics: The 'Jerry Springer' Congress
The latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content
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Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against joining UAW
Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against joining UAW, a blow to the union's expansion in the South.
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Man in custody for punching actor Steve Buscemi
A 50-year-old man has been taken into custody for allegedly assaulting actor Steve Buscemi on a New York City street, authorities said.
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Trump’s surge in polls with Black voters stuns CNN analyst: ‘Truly historic’
President Biden is struggling to attract support from Black voters, a data analyst said while pointing recent polling that shows Biden's support has plummeted compared to 2020.
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Subway commuters in Buenos Aires see fares spike by 360% as part of austerity campaign in Argentina
Subway commuters in Argentina's capital have been hit by a 360% increase in fares, a dramatic price hike in President Javier Milei's budget austerity campaign.
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Hundreds pack funeral for Roger Fortson, the airman killed in his home by a Florida deputy
Family, friends and hundreds of members of the Air Force paid their final respects to Roger Fortson at a suburban Atlanta megachurch, after he was shot and killed in Florida by a sheriff's deputy.
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Loved Ones Anticipate a Major Change in Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's Relationship Status Soon
Sources close to the couple say there could be a change in their relationship soon.
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Gunmen open fire and kill 4 people, including 3 foreigners, in Afghanistan's central Bamyan province
A Taliban spokesman said that at least 4 people were killed, including three foreign nationals, after gunmen opened fire in Afghanistan's Bamyan province; four suspects have been arrested.
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Owner Proudly Boasts About Her Dog Who Helps Other Pups 'Sit' at Day Care
The dog took what she had learned and passed it along to the other pups.
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How Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck Reunited in Support of The Actor's 15-Year-Old Child Fin
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck were seen together publicly for the first time in over a month.
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D.C. has a CFO for a reason. The council would be wise to remember it.
Since the days of the control board, the fiscal watchdog has helped keep city finances sound.
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Fani Willis Faces Another Test
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will face voters for the first time since indicting former President Donald Trump.
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State Department issues 'worldwide caution' alert for Americans overseas
The State Department urged Americans abroad to exercise increased caution citing the potential for "Terrorist attacks" and other violent actions.
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Why America’s kids need to learn from the Founders via ‘classical schooling’
The numbers are in: Parents are fed up with failing government-run schools. To have a future, we need to start learning from our past. 
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Trump promises tax cuts and fewer rules. CEOs shouldn’t fall for it.
To the former president, democracy is negotiable.
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Benedictine College grad describes crowd reaction to Harrison Butker speech: ‘Some of us did boo’
A Benedictine College graduate is speaking out after being present for the Chiefs' kicker's controversial commencement address. 
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Scottie Scheffler dazzles in second round of PGA Championship hours after arrest
Hours after Scottie Scheffler was arrested on his way to Valhalla Golf Club, the reigning Masters champion shot a 66 and entered the clubhouse two shots back of the lead.
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Shohei Ohtani Gets His Own Day as City of Los Angeles Honors Dodgers Superstar
The city of Los Angeles has officially pronounced May 17 as "Shohei Ohtani Day" to honor the Dodgers' superstar.
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I Lived for a Yearly Ritual That Told Me How Smart I Was. Then I Saw the Light.
I hated making talented competitors my sworn enemies.
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Jared Goff and model fiancée Christen Harper cap off wild week with SI Swimsuit launch date
The engaged couple smiled for photos on the red carpet as they celebrated the launch of SI Swimsuit's latest edition in NYC.
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Video of Barron Trump Receiving Diploma Goes Viral
Donald Trump's youngest son graduated from Oxbridge Academy, a prep school in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Music Biopics Keep Making the Same Mistake. The Terrible Amy Winehouse Movie Is Only the Latest Example.
The problem with this genre is more than just the clichés.
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Does an Upside-Down American Flag at Alito’s House Violate Judicial Ethics?
Judicial experts say an upside-down flag at the justice’s home raises thorny questions about potential ethics violations and what circumstances require recusal from cases.
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Las Vegas dad charged with murder after shooting neighbor who was accused of exposing himself to family
Las Vegas neighbors' heated argument turned deadly after one man allegedly exposed his genitals in front of Eddi Moreno, his wife and kids.
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US State Dept. issues worldwide alert amid threat of violence against LGBTQ+ community
WASHINGTON — The US State Department on Friday issued a worldwide caution security alert, saying it is aware of increased potential for foreign terrorist organization-inspired violence against LGBTQ+ people and events. “Due to the potential for terrorist attacks, demonstrations, or violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens overseas to exercise increased caution,” the department said in a statement. The...
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Judge to Rule Next Week on Whether to Dismiss Alec Baldwin Case
During a heated hearing, Mr. Baldwin’s lawyers claimed prosecutors had improperly presented evidence to the grand jury considering the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust.”
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Donald Trump's Chances of Flipping Minnesota, According to Polls
Trump is set to attend a fundraiser in St. Paul as Republicans hope to flip the Democratic-leaning state in November.
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Sen Durbin demands Justice Alito recuse from Trump cases after flying upside-down US flag
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election, including the matter of former President Donald Trump's immunity.
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Gaza recibe primera ayuda humanitaria a través de muelle construido por EEUU
Camiones cargados con ayuda humanitaria de primera necesidad recorrieron por primera vez el viernes el muelle flotante construido por Estados Unidos hasta el asediado enclave, en un momento en que las restricciones impuestas por Israel en los pasos fronterizos y los intensos combates dificultan la llegada de alimentos y otros productos básicos a la población.
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‘Kinds of Kindness’: Emma Stone’s Twisted New Film Makes ‘Poor Things’ Seem Normal
Searchlight PicturesYorgos Lanthimos’ most recent film, the Oscar-winning Poor Things, was ultimately a nice movie for the director. Yes, it was bizarre and filled with sex scenes, but when you really boil it down to its essence it was the uplifting story of a woman gaining her sense of self and thus unusual in his oeuvre, which is full of bleak comedies where fathers lie to their children to keep them imprisoned at home and a happy ending means blinding yourself.Now Lanthimos and his Poor Things star Emma Stone are back and at the Cannes Film Festival with Kinds of Kindness, a film of a much different outlook on humanity. This omnibus, consisting of three stories, is brimming with cruelty as it weaves tales of people who act out to appease the ones they love —or at least think they love. You see a limb chopped off, an organ removed, and Jesse Plemons licking a gunshot wound in Joe Alwyn’s hand, among other atrocities. The message of Kinds of Kindness is that to win the affections of their desires, humans will do the unspeakable and therefore are selfish and unredeemable. It’s great.It also feels like pure uncut Yorgos, working in tandem with Efthimis Filippou, with whom he also wrote the likes of Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, both of which have a lot in common with Kinds of Kindness given their interest in social experiments and moral quandaries. Lanthimos and Stone’s collaboration once again produces bold acting, but the film also acts as proof that the director has found another muse in Plemons, who anchors two installments.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Autistic Stop & Shop worker, 20, attacked on the job for a second time
The worker – who has not been named publicly – was allegedy roughed up by 62-year-old Alvin Martinez in the parking lot of the Rockaway Park store.
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Lawmakers brawl as Taiwan's parliament descends into chaos
Lawmakers in Taiwan began to physically fight on Friday as they disagreed over reforms proposed by the opposing party of the new president taking office on Monday.
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Attorney John Eastman pleads not guilty to felony charges in Arizona’s fake elector case
Former California law school dean John Eastman pleads not guilty to felony charges in the effort to overturn Trump’s 2020 loss to Biden in Arizona.
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Why a GOP governor’s pardon of a far-right murderer is so chilling
A vigil for Garrett Foster, who was murdered by Daniel Perry in the summer of 2020. | Sergio Flores/Getty Images A Texas man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 was pardoned yesterday. Here’s what it says about politics in 2024. Donald Trump advertises his authoritarianism like it’s a golf course adorned with his name. The presumptive GOP nominee has repeatedly promised to sic the Justice Department on his political adversaries, vowing to appoint “a real special prosecutor to go after” President Joe Biden, “the entire Biden crime family, and all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders and our country itself.” He has repeatedly praised the extrajudicial killing of looters and drug dealers, and implored police officers to brutalize criminal suspects. But Trump’s attitude toward lawbreakers who are aligned with his movement is decidedly more lenient. He has repeatedly assured those who commit violence on his behalf — like the January 6 rioters who tried to forestall the peaceful transfer of power in 2021 — that he will immunize them from legal accountability through presidential pardons. Thus, the frontrunner in America’s 2024 election has adopted a gangster’s mentality toward crime: the criminality of any given action is determined by its compatibility with his interests, not the law. In theory, the constitution — with its elaborate division of powers — should constrain Trump’s assaults on the rule of law. That’s surely true to a point. But if Trump’s authoritarian impulses are backed by his fellow Republicans, then the structural constraints on his power in a second term would be less than reliable. Unfortunately, two recent developments indicate that the long arc of Republican politics is bending toward lawlessness. Texas just let a far-right radical get away with murder First, in Texas, you can commit murder without suffering the legal consequences of that crime, so long as your victim’s politics are loathed by the right and your case is championed by conservative media. Or at least, this is the message sent by Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardoning of Daniel Perry. In the weeks after George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the proliferation of Black Lives Matter protests had filled Perry with apparent bloodlust. Then an active-duty Army officer, Perry texted and messaged friends, among other things: “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters.” “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work they are rioting outside my apartment complex … No protesters go near me or my car.” “I wonder if they will let [me] cut the ears off of people who’s decided to commit suicide by me.” When a friend of Perry asked him if he could “catch me a negro daddy,” Perry replied, “That is what I am hoping.” Weeks later, Perry was driving an Uber in Austin, Texas, when he came upon a Black Lives Matter march. According to prosecutors, Perry ran a red light and drove his vehicle into the crowd, almost hitting several protesters. Activists gathered angrily around Perry’s car. Garrett Foster, a 28-year-old Air Force veteran who was openly carrying an AK-47 rifle, approached Perry’s window. Perry then shot Foster dead. At trial, Perry’s defense team alleged that Foster had pointed his rifle at the defendant. But witnesses testified that Foster never brandished his weapon, only carried it, which is legal in Texas. And Perry corroborated that account in his initial statement to the police, saying, “I believe he was going to aim at me. I didn’t want to give him a chance to aim at me.” A jury convicted Perry of murder last year. But this week, the governor of Texas used his pardoning power to release Perry from prison. In a statement, Abbott said, “Texas has one of the strongest ‘stand your ground’ laws of self-defense that cannot be nullified by a jury or a progressive district attorney.” He noted that in the Lone Star State, a person is justified in using deadly force against another if they “reasonably believe the deadly force is immediately necessary” for averting one’s own violent death. The Texas governor argued that it was reasonable for Perry to believe his life was at stake since Foster had held his gun in the “low-ready firing position.” Yet this claim is inconsistent with Perry’s own remarks to the police, which indicated that Foster did not aim a rifle at his killer, but merely carried it. Needless to say, seeing a person lawfully carrying a firearm cannot give one a legal right to kill them. But pesky realities like this carry less weight than conservative media’s delusional grievances. Shortly after Perry’s conviction in April 2023, then-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson aired a segment portraying Perry as a helpless victim of “a mob of rioters” and a “Soros-funded” district attorney. Carlson decried the jury’s verdict as a “legal atrocity” and lambasted Abbott for standing idly by while his state invalidated conservatives’ right to defend themselves. “So that is Greg Abbott’s position,” he said. “There is no right of self-defense in Texas.” The next day, Abbott pledged to work “as swiftly as Texas law allows regarding the pardon of Sgt. Perry.” Republicans are making it clear they can’t be trusted to check Trump’s most lawless impulses During a second Trump presidency, the independent power of Democratic officials might limit the reach of his authoritarian machinations. A Democratic House or Senate would serve as a check on illiberal legislation, while blue states could leverage their own constitutional authority to impede legally dubious executive orders. But as Abbott’s conduct shows, we should not trust Republican politicians to defend the rule of law. Like Trump, many in the conservative movement believe that its supporters should be held to a more lenient legal standard than its enemies. And they also evince some sympathy for political violence aimed at abetting right-wing power. Crucially, this illiberal faction of the GOP seems to include some Supreme Court justices. To this point, the Roberts Court has checked some of Trump’s more egregious affronts to the constitutional order. Should the GOP secure the opportunity to build an even larger conservative majority, however, that could change. This week, Americans received a reminder of just how radical the Supreme Court’s most right-wing justices have become. In the weeks following the January 6 insurrection, die-hard Trump supporters across the country hung upside-down flags in protest of Biden’s supposed theft of the election. On Thursday, the New York Times reported that one such flag had hung outside the home of Justice Samuel Alito, even as he was presiding over judicial challenges to the 2020 election’s results. Alito claims he had no involvement in the flying of the flag, which his wife had hung upside down in response to “a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.” Notably, this explanation does not deny the political meaning of that symbol in January 2021. Alito joined Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch in dissenting from the court’s decision not to hear a challenge to election procedures in Pennsylvania. Thomas’s wife, the conservative activist Ginni Thomas, had also publicly signaled support for the January 6 demonstrators. If Trump secures the opportunity to appoint additional Supreme Court justices, it is all but certain that they will be at least as sympathetic to his extremism as Alito or the Thomas family. None of this means that Trump’s election would mark the end of the American republic. But it does suggest that both Trump and the conservative movement arrayed behind him pose an intolerable threat to the most liberal and democratic features of our system of government.
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Why Patton Oswalt is relieved there isn’t a ‘Ratatouille’ sequel in the works
The "King of Queens" alum voiced Remy, a culinary-gifted rodent who helps a hapless French chef in the beloved 2007 Pixar toon.
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Biden's privilege claim to keep special counsel interview under wraps a 'crude politics' move: experts
President Biden's assertion of executive privilege to avoid letting audio recordings of his interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur be made public is raising eyebrows among some legal experts.
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Israeli army finds bodies of 3 hostages in Gaza killed at Oct. 7 music festival
The bodies of three Israeli hostages killed by Hamas on Oct. 7 have been found by the Israeli military's troops in Gaza; the victims included Amit Buskila, Shani Louk and Itzhak Gelerenter.
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Potential Trump running mate rips Biden's outreach to Black voters: 'Always pandering'
Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, an ally of Donald Trump who's on the former president's running mate short-list, charges that Biden's weekend of Black voter outreach is 'pandering' by the Democrats
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Here are 7 tips to save money on groceries, according to experts
The cost of groceries has risen, and it's expected to continue to increase.
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Biden Is Talking Directly to Black Voters. This Is What He Wants Them to Know.
The president is trying to increase his support among Black Americans, some of whom are angry over the war in Gaza. Others feel disengaged altogether. Here are takeaways from events held this week.
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Benedictine College nuns say Harrison Butker's speech did not 'represent' school's values, 'fostered division'
The nuns of Benedictine College, where Harrison Butker gave a faith-based commencement speech, released a statement condemning the kicker's address.
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Video From 2016 Appears to Show Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Beating Singer Cassie in Hotel Hallway
Security video appears to show Sean “Diddy” Combs physically assaulting singer Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.
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Reactions pour in after Scottie Scheffler's shocking arrest ahead of PGA Championship’s second round
Louisville Metro Police detained the top-ranked pro golfer in the world, Scottie Scheffler, as he drove toward the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club Friday morning.
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Apoyado por sus aficionados, América busca despertar del letargo y clasificar a la final
En su casa y con su gente, América procurará despertar de su letargo en la liguilla y clasificarse a la final por segundo torneo consecutivo cuando reciba a Chivas en la vuelta de una de las semifinales del torneo Clausura.
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Judge Puts Paul Pelosi Attacker Behind Bars for Decades
Getty Images/Michael ShortA California judge came down hard on the man who broke into Paul Pelosi’s home and struck him with a hammer in 2022, sentencing David DePape, a conspiracist obsessed with right-wing podcasts, to three decades in a federal prison. It’s a lengthy sentence for DePape, who will be in his mid-70s if he’s to serve his federal sentence in its entirety. He faced a potential sentence of up to life in prison, but his lawyers argued he deserved only 25 years in the clink.DePape, 44, was convicted in November on federal charges of assault on an immediate family member of a federal official and attempted kidnapping of a federal official. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Kevin Spacey says he has 'so much to offer' after Hollywood pals demand his comeback
Kevin Spacey said in a recent interview he is 'grateful' for actors including Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson who demanded his comeback in recent interviews.
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