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Indicted Florida Democrat filed for reelection days before resigning from Congress

Four days before she walked away from her congressional seat, Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick quietly filed paperwork to run again. The Florida Democrat submitted a notice of candidacy to the Florida Department of State on April 17, then resigned from office…
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Obama urges Americans to 'reject' violence after thwarted attack on Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner

Former President Barack Obama posted a statement on X on Sunday calling on Americans to "reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy" after a gunman allegedly tried to assassinate President Donald Trump and members of his…
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Sen. Thom Tillis drops opposition to Trump Fed nominee Kevin Warsh after DOJ ends Powell probe

Sen. Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican who spent months blocking President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Reserve, reversed course Sunday and said he will vote to confirm Kevin Warsh as the next Fed chairman. The announcement removes…
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Trump administration hires new immigration judges to tackle massive court backlog

The Trump administration has recently brought on new immigration judges as part of a broader push to clear a staggering case backlog and meet the president's goal of deporting one million illegal immigrants per year. Among the new hires: a…
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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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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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Leaked emails reveal Pima County Sheriff's Department courted TV crew in months before Nancy Guthrie vanished

More than 220 pages of internal emails show the Pima County Sheriff's Department gave a reality television production company extraordinary access to deputies, bodycam footage, and active operations in the months before 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson home,…
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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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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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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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