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Trump pulls Witkoff and Kushner from Islamabad trip, citing Iran's internal disorder

President Donald Trump scrapped a planned diplomatic mission to Pakistan on Saturday, pulling Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and adviser Jared Kushner from what was supposed to be a fresh round of negotiations with Iranian officials in Islamabad. The reason, Trump…
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Rep. Tom Kean Jr. vanishes from Congress for over a month, leaving GOP colleagues in the dark

Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey has not cast a single vote on the House floor since March 5, and even his fellow Republican lawmakers say they cannot reach him or explain where he has been. The congressman,…
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Body of missing USF doctoral student Zamil Limon found on Tampa bridge as roommate faces murder charges

Authorities in Hillsborough County, Florida, found the body of missing University of South Florida doctoral student Zamil Limon on the Howard Frankland Bridge on Friday morning, and within hours, his roommate was in custody facing charges that have since been…
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Justice Department authorizes firing squads, restores lethal injection drug in federal execution overhaul

The Justice Department announced Friday that it will permit firing squads as a method of carrying out federal executions and will restore the single-drug lethal injection protocol that the Biden administration dismantled in its final days, a sweeping policy shift…
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DOJ hits Southern Poverty Law Center with 11-count indictment alleging fraud and secret payments to extremists

The Justice Department charged the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday with an 11-count federal indictment, accusing the storied civil-rights nonprofit of secretly funneling more than $3 million to individuals tied to the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and…
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Former Air Force officer set to testify on UFOs died of accidental overdose, not suicide, medical examiner found

A former Air Force intelligence officer who had agreed to testify before Congress about alleged secret government UFO programs died in May 2024 from an accidental drug overdose, not from a suspicious suicide, as a Republican congressman publicly claimed months…
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Former ICE deputy director faces anonymous allegations about past relationship as Ohio congressional bid stalls

Madison Sheahan, the former deputy ICE director who served under Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security, is facing a barrage of anonymous personal allegations just weeks before a Republican primary in Ohio's ninth Congressional District. An unnamed former lover and…
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D.C. Circuit judges appointed by Democrats strike down Trump asylum restrictions in split ruling

Two judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit have struck down President Donald Trump's border restrictions against asylum seekers in a split opinion that now heads toward the Supreme Court, and that leaves the…
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Former beauty queen shot dead in Mexico City apartment as authorities seek her mother-in-law

Carolina Flores Gomez, a 27-year-old former beauty queen and new mother, was fatally shot 12 times inside her Mexico City apartment on April 15, and prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for her 63-year-old mother-in-law, Erika Herrera, who remains at…
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Four Republican senators side with Democrats to block SAVE America Act from budget package

Four Republican senators broke ranks and voted against Sen. John Kennedy's effort to attach the core elements of the SAVE America Act to the Senate's budget reconciliation package, sinking a maneuver that would have let the election-integrity measure pass with…
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