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US detects cases of new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1

The US CDC’s airport screening has detected multiple cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, linked to a surge in China and spreading across Asia. While more contagious, the variant isn’t thought to cause more severe illness, prompting health officials to recommend masks and boost vaccines.

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Rubio Despairs Just 12 Cents of Every Dollar from USAID Reached the Needy

Secretary of State Marco Rubio struck out at what he calls the U.S. “foreign aid industrial complex” during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, despairing at the inability of USAID to deliver funds where they are needed most.

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  • Source: CBS News
  • 05/23/2025
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Senate votes to revoke California's EV emissions waivers

The Senate on Thursday voted to revoke three vehicle emissions waivers in California, a controversial move that the chamber's parliamentarian says Republican lawmakers may not have the right to make.

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  • Source: NBC Boston
  • 05/23/2025
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Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students

"It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said

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  • Source: CNN
  • 05/22/2025
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House passes Trump’s sweeping domestic policy bill after GOP leaders win over key holdouts

Speaker Mike Johnson delivered a major win for President Donald Trump early on Thursday morning, uniting a deeply divided House GOP to pass a bill that many of them were still pushing fiercely to change.

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  • Source: AP News
  • 05/22/2025
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Justice Department moves to cancel police reform settlements reached with Minneapolis and Louisville

The Justice Department moved Wednesday to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville that called for an overhaul of their police departments following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor that became the catalyst for nationwide racial injustice protests in the summer of 2020.

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  • Source: NY Post
  • 05/22/2025
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Guards at CIA headquarters shoot woman in ‘security incident’ just hours after DC Jewish Museum shooting

A female driver was shot at CIA headquarters early Thursday in what the agency called a “security incident” after she refused to follow commands at a checkpoint, according to law enforcement sources and local police.

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Trump signs Take It Down Act to combat revenge porn and deepfakes

The bill allows for stricter penalties for the distribution and dissemination of non-consensual intimate imagery, referred to as “revenge porn.”

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  • Source: ESPN
  • 05/21/2025
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NFL gives OK for players to play flag football at 2028 Olympics

NFL owners have approved a proposal for players to participate in flag football at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The vote Tuesday at the spring league meeting in Minneapolis was unanimous, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. The resolution needed to be approved by at least 24 of the 32 team owners.

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  • Source: Yahoo
  • 05/21/2025
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Hillary Clinton bashes Republican women, says GOP female president would be 'handmaiden to the patriarchy'

Hillary Clinton took a swipe at female Republicans in an interview earlier this month, saying they would all be servants of "the patriarchy" if they became president.

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Verizon Ends All DEI Programs in Win for Trump's FCC

Verizon Communications will end all of its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs "effective immediately," the telecom giant told the Federal Communications Commission this week.

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FBI Director Patel Says Transparency on Russia Collusion Claim in ‘a Week or Two’ — ‘The Biggest D.C. Deception Game We Have Ever Seen’

During this week’s broadcast of FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” FBI Director Kash Patel discussed the 2017 claim that President Donald Trump’s first presidential election win resulted from Russian collusion.

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Would former VP Mike Pence ever run for office again? Here's what he just said

Former Vice President Mike Pence, who previously also served as Indiana governor, doesn't foresee running for president again.

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FDA Approves Novavax COVID-19 Shot But With Unusual Restrictions

The Food and Drug Administration has issued a long-awaited approval of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine but with unusual restrictions.

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Trump, others react to Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis

According to the statement, Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer on Friday, leading to messages of support from President Trump, Kamala Harris, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and others from both sides of the political aisle.

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  • Source: Yahoo
  • 05/19/2025
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The New Jersey Transit rail strike will end after the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen and NJ Transit managers reached a tentative agreement Sunday.