Anti-Immigration Riots Erupt in Belfast Following Unprovoked Knife Attack on White Man
Activists say mass migration has brought escalating levels of crime.
By LUKE FUNK
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Trump Administration, Responding to Lawsuit, Says Delaying White House UFC Event Could ‘Jeopardize’ Fighters’ Health
Halting UFC Freedom 250 could endanger fighters already undergoing grueling ‘weight-cutting’ routines like saunas and Epsom salt baths, they say.
By DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN
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Trump Digs in on Bill Pulte To Lead Up National Intelligence, Telling Democrats That He Will Not Negotiate on FISA
The warrantless spy powers program is due to lapse on Friday — one day after the World Cup begins.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Landmark Study Linking Plastics to Preterm Births, Newborn Deaths Kickstarts Demands To End Regulatory ‘Whack-a-Mole’
Scientists say the fed’s approach to ‘everywhere chemicals’ in food, cosmetics, and household products lets industry swap one bad product for another.
By HOLLIE McKAY
|Congressional Leaders Demand UFO Transparency, Whistleblower Protections
‘I don’t know what the full truth is, but I know we’re being lied to, and the American people know that also,’ says Jared Moskowitz, Florida Democrat.
By JOSEPH CURL
|Karmelo Anthony Found Guilty of Murder in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf, 17
The case became a national obsession because of its clear racial undertones.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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New Jersey Lawmakers Advance Bill To Criminalize ‘Interfering’ With Abortion, Transgender Treatments
Opponents of the bill say it ‘weaponizes the courts against pro-life speech, crisis pregnancy centers, and sidewalk ministry.’
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Trump To Ask the Supreme Court To Revive His $475 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN
The president is relaunching his effort to sue CNN as the network is set to be acquired by Paramount.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Hegseth Reverses Snub After Offending Utah Lawmakers With Exclusion of Mormons From ‘Christian’ List
Senator Mike Lee protested the Pentagon’s removal of the Latter-day Saints from a list of Christian denominations as Mormons point out, ‘it’s in the name of our church.’
By DANIEL EDWARD ROSEN
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Visa Chaos, Deportations, and Geopolitics Overshadow Opening of U.S. World Cup
Deported Somali referee is denied the chance to make history for his country.
By GEORGE WILLIS
|Gwyneth Paltrow Bucks Hollywood’s Israel Boycott To Front Herzliya Luxury Tower
‘The biggest stars usually turn out to be the ones who stopped performing fear,’ an Israeli writer says of the actress’s new campaign.
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
|Why China’s President and Kim Jong-un Aren’t Disclosing Whatever They Said About Nukes at Pyongyang
Xi is tacitly accepting North Korea as a nuclear power while not pressuring Kim to agree to another summit with Trump.
By DONALD KIRK
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ICC Suspends Its Star Prosecutor, Who Sought To Arrest Netanyahu
Allegations of sexual misconduct against Karim Khan raise suspicion that arrest warrants he issued are like the fruit of a poisonous tree.
By BENNY AVNI
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Xavier Trudeau’s Celebrity Bid Flames Out on Social Media, but Prime Minister’s Son Deftly Handles It Like a Pol
‘He’s as good at singing as his father is at politics,’ one person joked of the 18-year-old son of Canada’s schismatic former prime minister.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Italy’s Largest Bank Launches $35 Billion Bid for World’s Oldest Bank, Eyeing Eurozone Banking Crown
Should the deal proceed, the merged institution would become the eurozone’s second-largest banking group by market value.
By JOSEPH CURL
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State Department Says It Discovered, Dismantled ‘Sophisticated’ Birth Tourism Schemes, Revoked Hundreds of Visas
The State Department says it is working to ‘systematically identify and cut off any similar operations.’
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Platner Officially Declared Democrats’ Nominee for Senate in Maine, Teeing Up Marquee Contest With Collins
Despite dropping out of the race months ago, the state’s Democratic governor received nearly 20 percent of the primary vote Tuesday — a worrying sign for Platner and his coalition.
By MATTHEW RICE
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‘Statistically Impossible’? Raman’s Rise in L.A. Mayor’s Race Feeds Doubters New Grist Over California Election Integrity
With more than 80 percent of voters using mail-in ballots, Spencer Pratt’s eight-point lead on Election Night rapidly dwindled over the week — by a sum that his supporters say is a mathematically improbable turn of events.
By LUKE FUNK
|Why An Israeli Flag Tattoo Is a Dealbreaker for Platner Supporters, but a Nazi Tattoo Is Not
The ambivalence illustrates the diminishing importance to voters in the Trump era of personal failings and past controversial statements.
By CAROLINE McCAUGHEY
|Democrats and Republicans Brace for Critical Primaries in Maine, South Carolina
Races for governor, the U.S. House, and the Senate are all on the ballot in two seemingly polar opposite states.
By MATTHEW RICE
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Trump Emerges as Fulcrum in Both Party’s Early Primaries, Posing Midterm Risk for Each
By MICHAEL BARONE
Why Bari Weiss Must Succeed in Her Shakeup of CBS News
By JOSH HAMMER
Spencer Pratt’s Rise at Los Angeles Showcases Need for More Open Elections at New York City
By HOWARD HUSOCK
Constitutional, Legal Doubts Grow Over Ranked-Choice Voting
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Shadowing Steinbeck, With a Dog in Tow
Lauren Hough’s ‘Monster of a Land’ pays homage to ‘Travels With Charley,’ but while Steinbeck rediscovered America, she seeks to immortalize her dog.
By MARIE POHL
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The Oura Ring 5 Is Smaller, With Longer Battery Life, and New Software Features
The fifth-generation ring is 40 percent smaller and promises up to nine days of battery life — but the starting price climbs to $399.
By ROSS ANDERSON
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Audi’s Nuvolari Supercar Is Hardly a Next-Gen R8
Audi’s new limited-series hybrid supercar has 1,000 horsepower, Lamborghini bones, and a messy, uncompelling design.
By ROSS ANDERSON
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Economy
Trump Administration Cites Forced Labor For New Tariffs on Dozens of Countries
A U.S. Trade Representative investigation finds 54 countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia in violation of laws banning goods produced with forced labor.
By LUKE FUNK
|AI Advocates Warn the Growing Resistance to Data Centers Threatens America’s Future
America and China are in a race for global dominance in artificial intelligence but the construction of more data centers is crucial.
By LUKE FUNK
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Fed Governor Lisa Cook Warns Elevated Inflation Could Force Interest Rate Increases
Chairman Kevin Warsh could struggle to find support for rate cuts that President Trump desires.
By LUKE FUNK
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High Gas Prices Have Cost American Drivers Extra $25 Billion, Study Finds
With record numbers hitting the road for the Memorial Day weekend, the national average for regular gasoline has skyrocketed by 51.6 percent since the Iran war began.
By JOSEPH CURL
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Spanberger Removes Virginia Tech Rector for Alleged Ethics Violations as She Moves To Reshape University’s Governing Body
The shake-up comes amid a search for a new president of the public university.
By BRADLEY CORTRIGHT
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Harvard Faculty Vote to Cap A Grades Despite Strong Student Opposition
The dean of undergraduate education described the result as ‘consequential.’
By NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
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American Bar Association Panel Calls for End to DEI Requirement at Law Schools
Facing loss of its status as the nation’s sole law school accreditor, the association’s council on legal education and bar admissions is promoting compliance with anti-discrimination laws instead.
By SHARON KEHNEMUI
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Comey To Argue That ‘8647’ Charges of Threatening Trump Are ‘Vindictive’ and Should Be Dismissed
The former FBI director has a July deadline to marshal his best arguments for why the case ought never to see a jury.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
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Fani Willis Escalates Feud With Republicans Over Law She Denounces as ‘Racist, Sexist, and Clearly Unconstitutional’
Democrats are challenging a statute passed in five out of Georgia’s 159 counties that would eliminate partisan elections, including ones for district attorney.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|Bankman-Fried Petitions for Pardon To Overturn ‘Captain Ahab’ Judge Who Condemned Him to 25 Years in Prison
The category of clemency to which the jailed crypto mogul applied kicks in only after a sentence is served.
By A.R. HOFFMAN
|Trump’s $10 Billion Lawsuit Against the BBC Could Expose Details of His Role on January 6
The 47th president is resisting the broadcaster’s request to pry open the Donald J. Trump Trust.
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