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House Republicans block Democrats' bid to restrict Trump's Iran war powers

House Democrats showed up to a pro forma session Thursday and tried to force through a resolution limiting President Trump's authority to conduct military operations against Iran. They failed. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), presiding as speaker pro tempore, gaveled the…
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Ohio man becomes first person convicted under Melania Trump's Take It Down Act

A 37-year-old Columbus, Ohio, man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to cybercrimes that included creating and distributing AI-generated sexually explicit images, marking the first conviction under the Take It Down Act, the law First Lady Melania Trump championed and…
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Tulare County detective killed in ambush while serving eviction notice; suspect run over by armored vehicle

A Tulare County sheriff's detective was shot and killed Thursday morning while serving an eviction notice in Porterville, California, after a suspect opened fire with a high-powered rifle in what the sheriff described as a deliberate ambush. The suspect, David…
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Husband arrested after wife vanishes in Bahamas — and a 2015 domestic violence report adds troubling context

Brian Hooker was arrested by the Royal Bahamas Police Force in connection with the disappearance of his wife, Lynette Hooker, 55, who vanished during a boating trip near Elbow Cay last weekend. His lawyer called the arrest "shocking." But a…
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Man accused of fatally stabbing woman on Charlotte light rail found incompetent to stand trial

The man charged with killing a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train last August will not face trial any time soon. Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., 34, has been deemed "incapable to proceed" after a psychiatric…
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Fetterman breaks with Democrats again, vows to oppose Iran war powers resolution

Sen. John Fetterman announced Wednesday he will vote against his party's latest war powers resolution aimed at halting U.S. military strikes on Iran, making him, once again, the lone Democrat willing to back the administration's use of force in the…
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NYC mental health nurse fired after filmed antisemitic tirade against Israeli tourists in Times Square

A New York City mental health nurse lost her job after she recorded herself berating a group of Israeli men in Times Square, calling them "baby-killers" and "terrorists" in a confrontation that ended only when a street performer dressed as…
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Clay Fuller, backed by Trump, wins Georgia special election to claim Marjorie Taylor Greene's House seat

Republican Clay Fuller won the Georgia special election runoff Tuesday night, capturing the House seat vacated by former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and delivering a needed boost to Speaker Mike Johnson's razor-thin majority. Fuller, President Donald Trump's endorsed candidate, held…
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Former FBI agent says pressure mounting on Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper as Savannah returns to 'Today'

Two months after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie was taken from her Tucson, Arizona home in the middle of the night, her daughter walked back onto the set of NBC's "Today", and a former FBI agent says that return is tightening the…
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Convicted Massachusetts Democrat demands taxpayers restore his $806,000 pension

David Nangle, the former Democratic state lawmaker who pleaded guilty to fraud, bank fraud, and filing false tax returns, now wants Massachusetts taxpayers to hand him more than $800,000 in pension benefits, money the state retirement board stripped after his…
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