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Rep. McIver Charged With Assault Over Clash Outside Newark ICE Center

The Department of Justice also announced it was dropping a trespass charge against the city’s mayor stemming from the same episode.

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Representative LaMonica McIver demanded the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting outside an ICE detention prison on May 9.
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Mexican Ship in Fatal Crash Accelerated Before Hitting Brooklyn Bridge

As a federal investigation began, officials said the Cuauhtémoc backed into the bridge, killing two, less than five minutes after leaving a Manhattan pier.

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Officials investigate the Cuauhtémoc, a Mexican Navy ship, between Pier 35 and Pier 36 on the East River in Manhattan a day after it drifted into the underside of the Brooklyn Bridge, smashing its masts and killing two people.
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The Trump-Supporting Christians Accusing Jews of Antisemitism

Ultra-Zionist gentiles are transforming America into something out of Jewish nightmares, pretending they’re trying to ensure Jewish safety.

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Pro-Israeli demonstrators gathered outside of the University of Southern California for a “United for Israel March” organized by Pursuit Church and the Christian worship leader Sean Feucht.
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Retired Navy Admiral Is Convicted on Bribery Charges

Robert P. Burke, who was the Navy’s second-highest-ranking officer, was accused of steering a contract to a company that offered him a lucrative job.

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Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke at a speech in North Macedonia in 2021.
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New Orleans Seeks Escaped Inmates, and Answers About Their Brazen Escape

The manhunt for seven men, including some accused of violent crimes, has alarmed the city and brought new attention to New Orleans’s troubled jail.

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The escape has also brought new scrutiny on the Orleans Parish jail, a long-troubled facility with a history of poor conditions and insufficient oversight of inmates.
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Debt Downgrade Bolsters the Right in Congressional Talks Over Megabill

Conservatives have been holding out against the major tax and spending cut package to implement President Trump’s agenda, arguing it will swell federal deficits. The Moody’s downgrade underscored their concerns.

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Republican members during a House Budget Committee meeting late Sunday night on Capitol Hill.
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Thousands of Chicks Left in Postal Service Truck Overwhelm a Delaware Shelter

About 4,000 birds were found dead in the truck, and 10,000 others were stranded there for three days, state officials said. The hatchery that shipped the chicks said it did not know why the shipment had never made it to its destinations.

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Hundreds of chicks that were never delivered were taken on May 2 to a shelter in Camden, Del., run by First State Animal Center and SPCA.
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Trump Spoke to Putin for Two Hours

Also, the nation’s third-largest school district has embraced A.I. Here’s the latest at the end of Monday.

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A Ukrainian soldier near Kupiansk, in Ukraine’s northeast, last week.
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Trump Administration Discussing $5 Million Payment to Family of Ashli Babbitt

The payment, if approved, would represent an extraordinary concession by the Justice Department, which prosecuted nearly 1,600 people in connection with the riot.

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Michelle Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was killed by the police during the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Justice Department is considering $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit.
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Trump Berates Walmart and Mattel for Warning About Tariff Price Increases

The president recently attacked Walmart, saying it should “eat” the costs rather than pass them on to customers.

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President Trump trained his ire on Walmart this weekend, just days after it told investors that it might have to start increasing prices soon.
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The Best of ‘S.N.L.’ Season 50: Trump, Biden and Domingo

The just-completed 50th season of “Saturday Night Live” was dominated by anniversary hype, but the new episodes managed to create some memorable moments, too.

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“Saturday Night Live” generated an unlikely viral hit in October with a sketch about a seducer named Domingo. With, from left, Sarah Sherman, Ariana Grande, Marcello Hernández, Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim.
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Israel Recovers Troves of Documents Belonging to Its Most Famous Spy

Israel has long sought to bring home from Syria the remains of Eli Cohen, whose spying work is credited with helping Israel win the Arab-Israeli War of 1967.

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An undated photo released by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office shows identity documents that belonged to Eli Cohen.
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SPAC Deals Are Back, This Time With a Trump Bump

President Trump’s associates and crypto entrepreneurs are rushing back to the market for the once-hot, but mostly troubled, investment vehicles called special purpose acquisition companies.

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Devin Nunes, the chief executive of Trump Media, has a new SPAC offering.
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Spain Orders Airbnb to Take Down 66,000 Rental Listings

The government is widening a crackdown on tourist rentals as it seeks to alleviate a painful housing crunch.

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A neighborhood in Barcelona, Spain, that was among the locations chosen for the construction of more social housing.
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Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis Leaves Democrats With New Questions

The former president’s cancer diagnosis prompted an outpouring of well wishes and sympathy, as well as some whispered uncertainties that reflected a lack of trust in what he says about his health.

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Before former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s office revealed that he had prostate cancer, some prominent Democrats had begun to self-examine their role in supporting his 2024 candidacy despite his signs of age-related decline.
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Mohsen Mahdawi, Released From ICE Custody, Graduates From Columbia

Mr. Mahdawi, who led pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University, was released from detention late last month and allowed to travel from Vermont to get his diploma.

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Mohsen Mahdawi graduated on Monday from Columbia University’s School of General Studies. He was detained last month as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on student protesters.
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Dick Garwin Fought Nuclear Armageddon. He Hid a 50-Year Secret.

Richard Garwin’s role in designing the hydrogen bomb was obscured from the public, even his family, as he advised presidents and devoted his life to undoing the danger he created.

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Richard L. Garwin, second right, with, from left, Peter A. Clausen, a disarmament expert, and the physicists Hans Bethe and Kurt Gottfried, during a news conference on missile defense hosted by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 1984.
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Inside the Republican Factions Dueling Over Trump’s Tax Bill

For every group demanding one policy, another equally powerful bloc insists on the opposite. The coalitions encompass the divergent ideological, political and regional interests in the G.O.P.

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Speaker Mike Johnson with Representative Jodey Arrington, the House Budget Committee chairman, after meeting with House Republicans to discuss the tax and budget bill last week.
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The U.S. Under Trump: Alone in Its Climate Denial

The administration is not only allowing more greenhouse gases. It is undermining the nation’s ability to understand and respond to a hotter planet.

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President Trump at a White House event on April 8 at which he signed an executive order titled “Unleashing American Energy.”
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‘Sesame Street’ Signs New Streaming Deals With Netflix and PBS

The deal is a much-needed shot in the arm for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces “Sesame Street” and has been struggling financially.

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The cast of “Sesame Street” on set in Kaufman Studios in Astoria, Queens in 2018.
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CBS News President to Depart Amid Network’s Tensions With Trump

Wendy McMahon, the president of CBS News and Stations, had allied herself with Bill Owens, the “60 Minutes” executive producer who recently resigned.

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Wendy McMahon, the president of CBS News and Stations. Tensions between Ms. McMahon and CBS’s parent company, Paramount, have simmered for months.
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Tariff Uncertainty Threatens to Drag Down Europe’s Economic Growth

The European Union scaled back its forecast for growth in 2025 by nearly half a percent, as the jump in tariffs and surrounding chaos bite.

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A supermarket in Paris. France’s projected 2025 growth rate was cut to 0.6 percent from 0.8 percent.
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Dawn Richard Recalls Witnessing Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Violence Against Cassie

After four days of testimony from Casandra Ventura, the mogul’s former girlfriend, prosecutors are questioning collaborators and friends about their relationship.

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Dawn Richard, a musician who worked with Sean Combs and accused him of misconduct in a lawsuit last year, testified that she witnessed his violence.
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Woman Sues Real Estate Firm That She Says Ignored Her Sexual Assault Report

Six women have now filed lawsuits against eXp Realty, with similar claims that they were drugged and then attacked while attending an event for the brokerage.

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Kirsten Childress said she blacked out while attending a networking event held during an eXp conference in Florida. She claims in a lawsuit that she was later sexually assaulted in a hotel room.
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The Delusion of Porn’s Harmlessness

Despite significant evidence that a deluge of pornography has a negative impact on modern society, there is a curious refusal to publicly admit disapproval of it.

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