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Top school district put on notice as watchdog group threatens legal action over gender policy
A Trump-aligned lawfare group is demanding Fairfax City Public Schools in Virginia rescind policy concealing students' gender identity changes from parents at school, or they will sue.
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California Can't Define 'Hate Speech' But May Mandate Workplace Training Anyway
The term “hate speech” gets thrown around a lot, but it’s legally protected in the U.S.
Reason
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Minnesota mayors drag 'ridiculous' bill penalizing cities for not flying new controversial flag
Minnesota mayors pushed back against a Democratic-introduced bill that would reduce state aid to cities refusing to fly the redesigned state flag adopted in 2024.
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New major global trade deals exclude US
The deals may have more symbolic than tangible value, and come into effect with the US pushing its protectionist policies.
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Man arrested for allegedly dumping wife's body in zoo incinerator
Police arrested a man for allegedly incinerating his dead wife at the zoo where he worked, officials said, following the discovery of human remains.
CBS News
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Defiant Alex Jones Makes Startling Vow in Final InfoWars Broadcast: ‘The Real War Begins Now’
Jones used his final moments on air to lash out at The Onion and signal his plan for a defiant comeback.
Mediaite
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GOP rushes to redraw congressional maps
Both US parties have sought to gerrymander states they govern in search of an edge ahead of the November vote.
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Where Is Pamela Smart Today, 36 Years After Her Husband’s Murder? Inside Her Life in Prison
Pamela Smart’s husband, Gregg Smart, was found dead on May 1, 1990
People
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Some Americans lose SNAP benefits as Trump’s bill is implemented
Nationwide, about 4 million fewer people are receiving SNAP compared to last year, after the "One Big Beautiful Bill" passed.
NewsNation
132 1 min read - World
Jet fuel crunch threatens European air travel
Several airlines have canceled flights, while the UK is relaxing fuel standards and flight scheduling rules to ease the crunch.
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600 groups with $2B in revenue mobilize 3,000 May Day protests in a 'red-blue' alliance, probe finds
A network of about 600 groups, including communist organizations and Democratic Party committees, is mobilizing roughly 3,000 pro-socialist May Day events.
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WATCH: Pulse-Pounding New Footage Shows WHCA Gunman Casing Hallway, Sprinting Through Security
The footage shows Allen walking calmly through the hallways a day earlier, entering a nearby gym and speaking with an attendant before leaving.
Mediaite
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Companies must now quickly respond to stalking warrants in Oregon as new law takes effect
A new law takes effect in Oregon on Friday that forces communications and social media companies to promptly comply with search warrants linked to stalking and domestic violence cases
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AOC Leads Dem Fury Over Revelation About ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has led furious Democratic outrage at PunchUp’s revelation that ICE quietly relocated the agent who shot dead unarmed mom Renee Good. Jonathan Ross, 43, was moved out of Minneapolis after just three days on administrative leave for the fatal Jan. 7 killing of the 37-year-old mother of three and is now back on duty in a fresh posting handling investigations and administrative work, the Daily Beast’s sister investigations Substack exclusively reported Monday. Senior D
The Daily Beast
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Three months after Nancy Guthrie's abduction, sheriff's office renews plea as key questions remain unanswered
Nancy Guthrie, 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie, has been missing three months after suspected abduction. A masked intruder was caught on camera.
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Where Is Kymani Wyatt Now? Inside His Life After Allegedly Killing 15-Year-Old Raynard Williams Jr. in New Orleans
Kymani Wyatt was arrested in connection with 15-year-old Raynard Williams Jr.'s killing in 2024
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Trump’s Sons Cash In on Dad’s War With Mega Drone Deal
The Trump family is officially set to cash in on the president’s war on Iran by selling drones to the Air Force. Donald Trump’s elder sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, joined the board of drone-maker Powerus after a golf club company they backed merged with it in March to take it public. Powerus, based in West Palm Beach, the home of Trump International Golf Club, now stands to gain from its links to the first family. The company, only founded last year, announced that it had struck a deal to sell an u
The Daily Beast
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I Never Forgot the Lesson She Taught Me on Nuclear Disarmament. So I Talked to Her to Understand the Cost of Trump’s War.
Wendy Sherman knows better than almost anyone that this didn’t have to happen, and that a better future was possible.
Slate
12 min read - US
Louisiana suspends House primaries for May 16 elections
Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry said Thursday that the state will suspend its May 16 House primaries in the wake of the Supreme Court striking down the state's Congressional map.
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24-Year-Old Woman Identified as Passenger Who Died After Going Over Cruise Ship Balcony Near Catalina Island
Briana Miller was traveling with her family when she went over her stateroom balcony onto a deck below
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Debatable: Trump’s White House ballroom
Lawmakers are debating whether the ballroom could solve the security problem — and how to fund it.
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Could an '8647' hat or T-shirt get you in trouble?
Florida congressional candidate Mark Davis sells “8647” T-shirts and hats on his campaign website — the same numerical shorthand to express discontent over President Donald Trump that is central to the case against a former FBI director.
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Trump’s Desperate ‘Thirst’ for Giant Gold Sculpture Revealed
The sculptor behind a 15-foot statue of Donald Trump said it was incredibly easy to sell the president’s goons a shiny gold $60,000 add-on. Artist Alan Cottrill said it was his idea to give the bronze statue a gold-leaf finish, telling the Daily Beast that when he suggested it to Trump’s team, “They loved the idea, of course. It’s like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst. It was not a hard sell.” It was just one of the ways Cottrill managed to up the total price of his creation from $300
The Daily Beast
2 min read - US
Brickbat: Who's Gonna Drive You Home?
In Minnesota, Anthony Stephen Israelson was found guilty of two misdemeanors for driving a school bus drunk. The case stemmed… The post Brickbat: Who's Gonna Drive You Home? appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason
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Suspect arrested for allegedly running meth lab at Michigan State University’s largest academic building
A suspect is facing felony charges after allegedly running a secret meth lab operation at Michigan State University's Wells Hall, police said.
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Two Kentucky bank employees shot and killed during robbery, police hunting suspect
Police are searching for a suspect after two U.S. Bank employees were shot and killed during a robbery at the Berea, Kentucky branch on Thursday.
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New Orleans jailbreak: Prosecuting sheriff an unusual move
Marlin Gusman, former sheriff of Orleans Parish in Louisiana, and former FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer join “CUOMO” to discuss the raft of corruption charges against Gusman’s successor, Susan Hutson, following last year’s breakout of several inmates.
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Celeste’s death record switched from ‘not pregnant’ to ‘unknown’
“It’s another little piece to this very complicated case that goes to motive,” forensic expert Joseph Scott Morgan says.
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Pentagon Pete Hearing Descends Into Chaos as Protesters Slam Him
Protesters caused a frenzy after interrupting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during his appearance before a Senate committee. The 45-year-old former Fox News host was testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee for a second day in the first public congressional hearings since the Iran war began. Fiercely defending the president’s war with Iran, which began more than two months ago and has cost taxpayers over $25 billion, Hegseth attacked Senate Democrats and the few Republicans who hav
The Daily Beast
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James Carville Rails Against ‘Corrupt’ SCOTUS Justices
Political strategist James Carville is accusing Supreme Court justices of corruption, singling out one “f---ing clown” in particular. Carville, 81, railed against the Supreme Court’s conservative justices on his Politicon podcast on Thursday, a day after the court voted 6-3 along partisan lines to weaken a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, restricting racial gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting. “These sons of b----es were so political, so happy to help the Republican Party a
The Daily Beast
3 min read - Politics
MAGA Senator Makes Jaw-Dropping Claim About Rising Prices
Florida Sen. Rick Scott says the high cost of gas is a price worth paying to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Scott, an ally of President Donald Trump, was questioned on CNN Thursday about rising fuel prices, a problem exacerbated by restricted oil tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, which carries about one-fifth of the world’s oil supply. When confronted by how Floridians are paying an average of $1.24 more per gallon since Trump’s war began, the Republican senator acknowled
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‘Get Your F*cking Hand Out of My Face!’ Scott Jennings Loses It on Adam Mockler
CNN's Scott Jennings exploded at MeidasTouch commentator Adam Mockler on Thursday, telling him to get his "f*cking hand out of my face."
Mediaite
2 min read - US
Ancient Treasure Bulldozed to Build Trump’s Border Wall
The rapid expansion of President Donald Trump’s border wall has seen the desecration of a historic 1,000-year-old Native American archeological treasure. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, signed in July last year, included $46 billion to restart and expand construction of the U.S. and Mexico border wall. That includes a second wall through much of California, Arizona and New Mexico. However, the aggressive construction, at a rate of three miles of wall erected per week, is not respecting environme
The Daily Beast
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Dominican migrant with deportation order, wanted for murder in home country freed by Biden-appointed judge
A suspected illegal migrant with an Interpol Red Notice for murder was ordered released from ICE custody by a Biden-appointed judge, DHS says.
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Gavin Newsom Flames ‘Relegated’ Joe ‘Little Guy’ Rogan
California Gov. Gavin Newsom says “little guy” Joe Rogan won’t have him on his podcast and is drifting into “irrelevancy.” Newsom, 58, fired off an all-caps post mimicking President Donald Trump’s Truth Social style on Thursday as he tore into Rogan, 58. “JOE ‘LITTLE GUY’ ROGAN IS TOO CHICKEN TO HAVE ME ON HIS FAILING PODCAST BECAUSE HE KNOW I’D CRUSH HIM, SO HE TAKES CHEAP SHOTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY AS HE GETS RELEGATED TO IRRELEVANCY,” the Democratic governor’s press office wrote on X, borr
The Daily Beast
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ICE Barbie Humiliated as Her Critics Get Their Jobs Back
FEMA whistleblowers who had been placed on leave after warning that the agency wasn’t prepared for disasters under Kristi Noem have returned. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, NBC News reported Thursday, has invited back at least 15 of the 192 current and former staffers who signed the “Katrina Declaration” letter to Congress last August. In the letter, they claimed the Trump administration was undoing emergency response systems put in place after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The following
The Daily Beast
2 min read - US
Louisiana grandmother allegedly forced 4-year-old granddaughter to drink lethal amount of whiskey
A Louisiana grandmother is on trial for first-degree murder, accused of forcing her 4-year-old granddaughter to drink whiskey as a punishment.
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‘Is That Really His Job?’ Anderson Cooper Clashes With Scott Jennings Over Hegseth Testimony
CNN host Anderson Cooper clashed with Scott Jennings on Thursday over Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Congressional testimony about the Iran war. Jennings joined AC360 to discuss Hegseth’s testimony to both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees over the last two days. The secretary told both groups that the “biggest adversary” facing the U.S. was the Democrats due […]
Mediaite
2 min read - US
Deadly hospital stabbing puts Newsom under pressure over ICE detainer fight
A man is dead after a stabbing inside a San Francisco hospital, and ICE says California's sanctuary policies and Biden-era border decisions are to blame.
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Carville, co-host warn 'abolish ICE' is new 'Defund the Police'
James Carville warns Democrats against far-left rhetoric, praising Texas candidate Bobby Pulido's message on aspirational Latino voters shifting right.
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New video shows WHCD suspect inside hotel before rushing security checkpoint with weapon
Newly released Justice Department footage appears to show the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting suspect rushing a security checkpoint armed.
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DOJ sues New Jersey over laws giving illegal aliens in-state tuition, says citizens treated as 'second-class'
The DOJ sued New Jersey over laws allowing illegal aliens to receive in-state tuition and financial aid, arguing they discriminate against citizens.
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North Texas man executed as his cousin claims ‘I was the killer’ in fatal 2008 robbery
James Broadnax execution: A North Texas man who claimed he wasn’t the shooter in a fatal robbery that killed two people nearly 18 years ago has been executed.
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Trump’s Approval Ratings on Inflation Are So Bad, Pollster Had to Redo Graph
Pollster G. Elliott Morris expressed shock at President Donald Trump's abysmal approval numbers in a new poll, remarking that they were so low they "literally broke the scale" of the graph on his data portal.
Mediaite
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New video shows correspondents' dinner suspect shooting officer, top prosecutor says
Video released Thursday shows the suspect in the shooting during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner appearing to shoot a Secret Service officer as he sprints through a security checkpoint with a shotgun in his hands, authorities said
NBC News
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Entrepreneur says he can make it rain in parched states
Cloud seeding has been around for several decades, although a watershed moment has generally proved elusive.
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California university ranks among the 'most conservative colleges in America'
Biola University ranked No. 24 on Niche's list of "most conservative colleges in America," making it the top-ranked California school overall on the list.
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Hawley champions GUARD Act as heartbroken families say AI chatbots allegedly pushed teens to self-harm
Parents testified before a Senate committee that AI chatbots manipulated their children into self-harm, fueling passage of the GUARD Act.
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Fire aboard Navy destroyer USS Higgins, officials say
One of the officials told CBS News that the fire knocked out power and propulsion on the guided-missile destroyer, a mainstay of the Navy's forward presence in Asia.
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GOP lawmakers seek to defund HBCU after it canceled Republican's commencement speech
GOP lawmakers in South Carolina seek to strip funding from the state's only public HBCU after it rescinded GOP Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette's invitation to speak at commencement ceremony.
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