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New Yorkers slam wealthy writer's shoplifting confession on 'microlooting' podcast

A New Yorker staff writer who owns a $2.5 million Brooklyn brownstone went on a New York Times opinion podcast and casually described the "several" times she stole lemons from Whole Foods, then told listeners she "didn't feel bad about…
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Federal appeals court halts California law that sought to force ICE agents to display identification

A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked California's "No Vigilantes Act" on Wednesday, ruling that the state likely violated the Constitution's Supremacy Clause by trying to dictate how federal immigration agents identify themselves during…
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Iran's parliament speaker abandons negotiating team as IRGC interference fractures Tehran's diplomacy

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has reportedly walked away from his country's negotiating team in Islamabad, Pakistan, where Tehran and Washington have been locked in high-stakes talks aimed at ending the Iran war. The departure, attributed to interference by…
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Elderly California woman dies after venomous snake bites her three times in Mendocino County

A 78-year-old woman from Redwood Valley, California, is dead after a venomous snake bit her three times while she walked through a rural area of Mendocino County on April 8. Her family rushed her to a hospital, but she was…
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Citadel fires back at Mamdani over penthouse tax video, warns $6 billion NYC project may not happen

Ken Griffin's hedge fund just told New York City's mayor, in blunt terms, what happens when you single out the people writing the checks. A companywide email from Citadel's chief operating officer called Mayor Zohran Mamdani's viral video about Griffin's…
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Democrat lawmaker demands DOJ reject any Ghislaine Maxwell pardon

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi fired off a letter to the Department of Justice on Wednesday opposing any clemency for convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a move that lands as Maxwell's own attorney publicly boasts that a presidential pardon is within reach.…
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George W. Bush reflects on friendship with Michelle Obama and the Altoids moment that went viral

Former President George W. Bush sat down with Today to talk about an unlikely friendship, and a small gesture at a funeral that captured the country's attention. In a wide-ranging conversation, Bush described his bond with former First Lady Michelle…
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Illegal immigrant who stole Kristi Noem's purse at D.C. restaurant draws three-year prison sentence

A 50-year-old Chilean national living illegally in the United States was sentenced Wednesday to three years in federal prison for swiping then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's Gucci handbag, and for a broader string of thefts targeting women at Washington, D.C.…
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Speaker Johnson backs DeSantis plan to redraw Florida congressional map after Virginia redistricting loss

House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Wednesday that he wants to see Gov. Ron DeSantis push through a new congressional map for Florida, hours after Virginia voters narrowly approved a referendum that will redraw that state's districts heavily in Democrats'…
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Federal grand jury indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 fraud counts tied to payments to extremist groups

A federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 criminal counts Tuesday, charging the storied nonprofit with defrauding donors through a concealed program that funneled roughly $3 million to members of the Ku Klux Klan…
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