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Fed holds rates steady despite pressure from Trump

The Federal Reserve’s interest rate setting committee held rates steady Wednesday at a range of 4.25 percent to 4.5 percent, despite calls from President Trump to lower borrowing costs amid price pressures from his trade war.

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US Health department will analyze data from autistic Medicare, Medicaid enrollees, RFK Jr. says

The U.S. Health and Human Services department will start a research project to examine medical data and records of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees who have been diagnosed with autism, health secretary Robert F

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  • Source: US Daily Press
  • 05/08/2025
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US and UK are expected to announce a trade deal that Trump says will cement their relationship

The United States and Britain are expected to announce a trade deal on Thursday that will lower the burden of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, delivering a political victory for U.K

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  • Source: Fox News
  • 05/07/2025
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Trump teases 'very, very big announcement' ahead of Middle East trip, Carney says he's 'on edge of my seat'

President Donald Trump teased a "very, very big announcement" ahead of his upcoming trip to the Middle East. 

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  • Source: SAN
  • 05/07/2025
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Army suspends helicopter flights near Reagan National after close calls

The U.S. Army will pause helicopter flights near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), The Associated Press reports, citing two anonymous Army sources familiar with the matter. The decision comes days after Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controllers had to force two commercial jets to abort landings due to an Army Black Hawk flying to the Pentagon.

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  • Source: The Guardian
  • 05/07/2025
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Pakistan decries ‘act of war’ as it retaliates against India missile attack

India claims strikes, which followed attack on Hindu tourists in Kashmir last month, targeted ‘terrorist infrastructure’

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WSJ: Meta’s AI Chatbots Engaged in Explicit Sexual Roleplay with Minors

A Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed that Meta’s AI chatbots on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play” with users that can turn sexually explicit, even with accounts belonging to children. In a statement to Breitbart News, the social media giant says it has “taken additional measures”

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White House Offers To Pay Migrants $1,000 To Self-Deport

The Trump administration announced Monday that it will pay illegal immigrants to self-deport rather than await arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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  • Source: NY Post
  • 05/06/2025
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How cascading failures turned Newark airport into a travel hellhole of delays and cancelations

A major glut of delays, cancelations and diversions have beset Newark Liberty International Airport over the last week, nixing hundreds of flights and stranding thousands of travelers at one of the country’s busiest airports.

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Trump says he's going to reopen Alcatraz prison. Doing so would be difficult and costly

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years

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Former Vice President Pence defends Constitution after getting Profile in Courage Award

Former Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly defended the Constitution after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award

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Regulators Accuse TikTok of Secretly Sending User Data to China.

TikTok faces a $599 million fine for illegal data transfers to China.

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  • Source: Yahoo
  • 05/02/2025
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Tulsi Gabbard won’t rule out another run for president - after her failed Democratic bid in 2020

Tulsi Gabbard, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, says she won't rule out running for president in 2028 — even though her boss, U.S. President Donald Trump, is also reportedly plotting an unconstitutional third presidential run.

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  • Source: NBC News
  • 05/02/2025
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Trump signs executive order to stop federal funding for NPR and PBS

The president said public funding of the media networks was "outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence."

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Wes Moore is doing everything to lay the groundwork for a presidential bid. But he insists he’s ‘not running.’

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is set to travel to the early primary state of South Carolina at the end of this month to headline the state party’s influential Blue Palmetto Dinner, according to plans shared first with POLITICO.

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OpenAI rolled back a ChatGPT update that made the bot excessively flattering

The change was announced after users noticed answers from the latest version of GPT-4o that seemed unusually sycophantic.