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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.

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Trump says US kids may get ‘2 dolls instead of 30,’ but China will suffer more in a trade war

President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States, saying American kids might “have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” but he insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.

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  • Source: Politico
  • 05/01/2025
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Supreme Court appears ready to bless the country’s first public religious charter school

The justices heard arguments on an Oklahoma court decision last year that rejected a state contract to open St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School.

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  • Source: The Sun
  • 04/30/2025
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Tiny plastic particles found in the arteries of stroke patients with blocked blood vessels

In new research, scientists found that blocked blood vessels contain 50 times more minuscule bits of plastic compared to healthy arteries.

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US economy slows sharply, shrinking 0.3% in the first quarter, as tariffs weigh

The U.S. economy contracted in the first quarter as President Donald Trump's economic agenda took effect, according to new data released on Wednesday.