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Supreme Court wades into fight over ‘prolonged’ detention of some ICE detainees

The Supreme Court will soon weigh whether ICE detainees with serious criminal records can be held indefinitely while their deportation proceedings play out.Federal law mandates the detention of imm...

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Trump’s Ally Turned Critic Sean Strickland Removed From White House UFC Event

ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGA | ZUMAPRESS.com / MEGASean Strickland didn’t let a lack of an invitation to Donald Trump‘s UFC Freedom 250 stop him from attending.The mixed martial artist, now a controversial...

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Iran deal already signed, Vance says, promises full text this week

The Trump administration expects to release the full text of its agreement with Iran later this week, after U.S. officials electronically signed the document Sunday, Vice President JD Vance said Mo...

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Florida AG sues TikTok in latest move against tech giants

TALLHASSEE, Florida — Florida officials sued tech giant TikTok on Monday in an attempt to enforce the state’s 2024 law restricting social media access for children.The civil lawsuit, filed in St. L...

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Trump is urging tankers to sail through Hormuz. Vessels aren’t so sure yet.

President Donald Trump declared that the Strait of Hormuz is now open and operating toll-free. But industry analysts — and members of his own administration — aren’t so sure.Trump’s declaration of ...

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JD Vance’s sad book tour shows why his 2028 hopes are fading

JD Vance is famously addicted to social media, to a degree that one wonders if he has any job duties as vice president at all. It’s almost certain that he’s well aware that the late Charlie Kirk ha...

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How right-wing influencers are transforming America’s churches

The Big Bone Baptist Church in Union, Kentucky, US, on Tuesday, May 19, 2026. | Jeffrey Dean / Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s been a pivotal last week for the largest Protestant Chri...

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Trump’s 'G2' ambitions haunt summit in France

The world’s largest economies want to come together to act on China’s growing economic threat. President Donald Trump is more interested in going it alone.Trump basically spelled out as much in a s...

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Brian Kemp endorses Burt Jones in Georgia’s gubernatorial runoff

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the state’s rancorous GOP gubernatorial runoff, aligning the popular governor with President Donald Trump on their preferred candidate.Kemp’s...

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Israel has become a toxic brand in the US - so its advocates are shifting tactics

Israel has become a toxic brand in the US - so its advocates are shifting tactics Submitted by Mitchell Plitnick on ...

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The Freedom Caucus is losing its stalwarts. Here’s who to watch next.

After more than a decade at the center of GOP politics on Capitol Hill, the House Freedom Caucus is suddenly confronting an unsettled future.Several of the hard-right bloc’s most prominent members ...

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People around the world see a winner on AI — and it’s not the US

China is eclipsing the United States as the perceived artificial intelligence superpower in much of the world, according to a new global poll that underscores how Silicon Valley’s lead in the defin...

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Who Will Lead the Democrats in 2028? Watch the Two Georgia Senators

Democrats are approaching what could be their most wide-open presidential primary in decades, but I’d venture a confident prediction today: one of the two Georgia senators will be on the party’s ti...

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My Descent Into Mah-Jongg

When my mom found out I was planning to travel to Dallas to play in a Lunar New Year mah-jongg tournament, she texted a reasonable query: “Don’t they require some level of competence?”And yet, duri...

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Trump says Iran and US have reached deal to stop war

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. and Iran have reached a deal after nearly four months of ongoing hostilities.The deal includes a provision that would reopen the Strait of Horm...

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The ‘Broken Veteran’ Excuse

Graham Platner’s victory this week in Maine’s Democratic Senate primary would have been a stunning achievement for a political newcomer under any circumstances. What makes it truly remarkable is th...

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UK and US voters are highly cynical. They express it differently.

It’s not just football versus soccer. Britain and America share a language and deep historical ties, but their political systems are an ocean apart.That could be good news for President Donald Trum...

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The G7 wants to prove it can work together. Iran, Ukraine and even Ebola may stand in the way.

The White House's goal for this week’s G7 summit in France is modest: show the world's biggest economies can still work together. Many of the other member countries have equally limited expectation...

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Mike Waltz hedges on Iran signing

United Nations Ambassador Mike Waltz praised the waiting-to-be-finalized Iran deal on Sunday, though he refrained from saying when the agreement would be signed.In an interview with ABC’s “This Wee...

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Big Tech takes a drubbing in Albany

ALBANY, New York — Big Tech has hit a wall in the Empire State.The Democratic-dominated Legislature this month greenlit bills meant to check the power of major technology companies, underscoring a ...

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From ‘human cockfighting’ to the White House lawn: the stratospheric rise of the UFC’s Dana White

Dana White and Donald Trump in Miami, Florida, on 12 April 2025.Photograph: Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLCRising from the South Lawn of the White House is a 92ft-tall skeletal structure known as “the Claw”...

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