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Trump names Dr. Erica Schwartz as his pick to lead the CDC

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is nominating Dr. Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general and retired Coast Guard rear admiral, to serve as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, filling a vacancy…
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Afghan migrant arrested in France after farmers catch suspected sexual abuse of livestock on camera

French police arrested a 19-year-old Afghan migrant after shepherds near Marseille set up motion-activated cameras that captured images of a suspect they say had been sexually assaulting their sheep and goats for months. The anti-crime brigade of France's national police,…
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Trump rejects NATO offer of help after Strait of Hormuz reopens and oil prices drop sharply

President Trump dismissed NATO as "useless" and told the alliance to "stay away" from the Strait of Hormuz after Iran declared the critical waterway open to commercial shipping, a move that sent crude prices tumbling 10 percent within minutes. The…
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Hennepin County charges ICE agent over highway gun incident while Savanah Hernandez assault cases sit in review

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty moved swiftly to file felony charges against an ICE agent over a February traffic confrontation in Minneapolis, but weeks after a Turning Point USA reporter was shoved, pushed into a fence, and knocked to the…
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Obama pushes Virginia voters to approve partisan redistricting that could hand Democrats four House seats

Four days before a statewide referendum that could reshape the battle for the U.S. House, former President Barack Obama released a new video urging Virginians to vote "yes" on a measure that would let the Democratic-controlled legislature redraw the state's…
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Ten House Republicans side with Democrats to extend Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitians

Ten House Republicans broke with their party Thursday evening and voted alongside Democrats to pass a bill extending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian nationals, a direct challenge to President Trump's effort to wind down the program and restore…
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Former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps pleads guilty to 13 felony sex crimes, sentenced to 11 years

Former UCLA gynecologist James Heaps, 69, pleaded guilty Tuesday to 13 felony counts of sexual abuse and was immediately sentenced to 11 years in prison, the same term he had already been serving before an appeals court threw out his…
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Live Nation and Ticketmaster found liable in landmark federal antitrust verdict

A New York federal jury found Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary liable Wednesday for illegally monopolizing the concert ticket market, a verdict that caps a roughly five-week trial and hands the entertainment conglomerate one of the most significant antitrust…
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Justice Jackson lectures on 'judicial restraint' while the court she sits on cleans up lower-court overreach

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used a Yale Law School lecture this week to warn that the high court's emergency rulings are having a "potentially corrosive" effect on the judiciary, a claim that lands differently when you consider which…
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California spends billions on Medi-Cal for illegal immigrants — including sex-change procedures, watchdog finds

Illegal immigrants living in taxpayer-funded homeless shelters in San Francisco have undergone sex-change procedures and cross-sex hormone therapy through California's Medi-Cal program, Fox News Digital reported, drawing fresh scrutiny to Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to extend full Medicaid benefits to…
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