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  • Source: CNBC
  • 07/24/2025
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No ‘woke AI’ in Washington, Trump says as he launches American AI action plan

A new executive order states that the federal government has the obligation not to procure models that “sacrifice truthfulness and accuracy to ideological agendas.”

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  • Source: AP News
  • 07/24/2025
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Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding

Columbia University announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus.

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Hegseth Signal messages came from email labeled ‘SECRET’: Report

The messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent to a March Signal chat regarding the U.S. plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen came from an email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN,” according to the Pentagon’s independent watchdog.

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  • Source: USA TODAY
  • 07/23/2025
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Obama stands by intelligence conclusion that Russia tried to influence 2016 election

Former President Barack Obama on July 22 said he stood by the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia tried to influence the 2016 election.

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Protests in Ukraine after Zelensky approves bill curbing autonomy of anti-corruption agencies

Hundreds of people gathered in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv to lodge their protest with the Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration for passing a controversial bill tightening restrictions on its anti-corruption agencies, presenting the war-hit nation with its biggest domestic turmoil since the Russian invasion in February 2022.

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  • Source: CNN
  • 07/23/2025
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Florida police under fire as video of Black man punched, dragged by deputies during traffic stop goes viral

A cell phone video showing a White police officer in Jacksonville, Florida, striking a Black man in the face during a February traffic stop before officers dragged the driver from his car has sparked outrage online as conflicting accounts of the incident have emerged.

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  • Source: News Week
  • 07/22/2025
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Tulsi Gabbard Unveils 230,000 MLK Docs Under Trump Executive Order

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday released more than 230,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., fulfilling a transparency directive issued by President Donald Trump.

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Russia earthquake: Five powerful quakes rock Kamchatka, tsunami warning for Hawaii lifted — Here's all you need to know

As many as five earthquakes struck near the coast of Kamchatka region in the far east of Russia on Sunday, with the most powerful being of magnitude 7.4, earthquake monitoring agencies said.

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  • Source: NBC News
  • 07/22/2025
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Tennessee Republican Mark Green to resign from Congress for private-sector job

Green, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he will vacate his seat after the next House vote on a Trump agenda bill.

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  • Source: AP News
  • 07/21/2025
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Russia launches a major aerial attack on Kyiv hours before high-level talks on support for Ukraine

Russia unleashed one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine in recent months, only hours before the U.K. and Germany chaired a meeting to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans for NATO allies to provide Ukraine with weapons.

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Alaska Airlines lifts ground stop for all mainline aircraft: FAA

Alaska Airlines' operations resumed late Sunday after it had asked for a ground stop for all the airline's mainline aircraft, according to the airline and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration.

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  • Source: BBC
  • 07/21/2025
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At least 19 dead after air force jet crashes into Bangladesh school

At least 19 people have died and 164 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka. Footage from Milestone School and College in the northern suburb of Uttara shows a huge fire and thick smoke, after the aircraft slammed into a two-storey building.

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WH: Trump 'Would Not Recommend Special Prosecutor' in Epstein Case

President Donald Trump "would not recommend a special prosecutor" in the Jeffrey Epstein case, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

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Louisiana police chiefs charged with reporting fake crimes against immigrants in visa fraud scheme

Three current or former Louisiana police chiefs were among those indicted in an alleged scheme to drum up bogus crimes against immigrants so they could qualify for a special visa that allows noncitizen crime victims to remain in the US.

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  • Source: Dayton Daily News
  • 07/18/2025
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House sends bill regulating stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency, to Trump

The House has passed two bills intended to boost the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency industry with new regulations as President Donald Trump has pushed to make the U_S_ the “crypto capital of the world.”

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Pete Hegseth orders the removal of 2,000 National Guard troops from Los Angeles

The troops were deployed after protests over immigration raids last month. California opposed the deployment, calling it a military overreach by the Trump administration.