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Tennessee Senate votes to replace 'West Bank' with 'Judea and Samaria' in official state documents

The Tennessee Senate passed House Bill 1446 on Thursday, voting 24-8 to require that official state documents refer to the Middle Eastern territory commonly called the West Bank by its ancient names, Judea and Samaria. The bill now heads to…
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Trump considers preemptive pardons for aides facing post-presidency legal exposure

President Donald Trump has discussed granting sweeping preemptive pardons to members of his administration before leaving office, a move that would shield aides and allies from investigations Democrats have openly promised to pursue. The Wall Street Journal reported the discussions,…
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Federal judge finds Pentagon in defiance of court order on press access

A federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday that the Pentagon is obstructing journalists and defying an earlier court order that required the Department of Defense to restore access to credentialed reporters, a finding that sets up a direct clash between…
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DHS recalls all furloughed workers as partial shutdown nears two months

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday ordered every furloughed employee back to work, ending a staffing standoff that left the nation's largest security agency short-handed for nearly two months while Congress failed to pass a funding bill. The recall…
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Pope Leo XIV hosts Obama adviser David Axelrod at the Vatican, raising questions about a future meeting with the former president

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with David Axelrod, the longtime Democratic strategist who helped Barack Obama win the White House in 2008, in a quiet Vatican sit-down that neither side has been willing to explain. The meeting has fueled speculation…
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Alaska House Democrat's chief of staff arrested for DUI in Juneau, blew well over legal limit

The chief of staff for an Alaska House Democrat was arrested early on a Sunday morning in Juneau after police say she was caught speeding down the center of the road with open containers of alcohol in her car, and…
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Michelle Obama declares America is in a 'janky' era on her podcast

Former first lady Michelle Obama told comedian Hasan Minhaj on her "IMO" podcast Wednesday that the United States is living through a "janky" version of itself, a word she returned to again and again as she described a country she…
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Sotomayor complains about Trump's emergency Supreme Court appeals — but the Court keeps ruling in his favor

Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a law school audience Thursday that the Trump administration's use of the Supreme Court's emergency docket is "unprecedented in the court's history", a complaint that says less about executive overreach than it does about the liberal…
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Oklahoma flags lowered after OHP Trooper Vernon Brake killed in I-35 crash

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered flags across the state to half-staff Friday after an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was killed in a crash on Interstate 35 earlier in the week. Trooper Vernon Brake was one of three people who died…
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Ivanka Trump describes watching the Butler assassination attempt in real time: 'It wasn't his time'

Ivanka Trump said she was at the family's Bedminster, New Jersey, estate on July 13, 2024, when commotion broke out and the televisions switched on, and she watched, almost in real time, as a gunman opened fire on her father…
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