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Trump Says No Iran Talks Are Happening, Vows to Turn the Strait of Hormuz Into U.S. Territory President Trump said Tuesday there are “no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled, with the Islamic Republic of Iran,” walking back his own claim from days earlier that his administration had opened a back channel with Iran’s…

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“Hook, Hold, Harvest, Hide”: Landmark Child Safety Trial Against Meta Opens in Oakland Opening statements began Tuesday in Oakland, California, in a federal trial pitting attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey — representing a coalition of 33 states — against Meta over claims the company designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive…

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Scandal-Plagued Rep. Cory Mills Ousted in Florida GOP Primary He Was Once Trump’s Endorsed Pick Florida Rep. Cory Mills lost his Republican primary in the state’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday to former TV news anchor Ryan Elijah. With more than 80% of the expected vote counted, Elijah had 46% to Mills’ 34%, beating him…

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Disney and ABC Sue Trump’s FCC, Calling License Threat an “Existential” Attack on Free Speech Disney and its ABC unit filed suit against the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday, arguing the agency’s early review of licenses for eight ABC-owned stations violates the network’s First Amendment rights. The lawsuit traces back to April, when FCC Chairman…

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Trump Pauses 50% Canada Tariffs at the Last Minute, Dangles Keystone XL Revival President Trump announced late Tuesday, roughly 90 minutes before a scheduled deadline, that he was pausing 50% tariffs on a range of Canadian goods that had been set to take effect Wednesday morning. The pause runs through the end of day Friday,…

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GOP Senator Rips Trump’s Own Vaccine Order: ‘Wrong on So Many Levels’ Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a physician and chair of the Senate HELP Committee, publicly blasted President Trump’s executive order calling for the MMR vaccine to be split into three separate shots, telling reporters the policy is “wrong on so many levels” and “just…

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15 Senators Demand Answers After Reports of Sailors Trying to Go Overboard on Record-Long Deployment A group of 15 senators led by Sens. Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin sent a letter Monday demanding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth answer questions about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has now been deployed more than 260 days,…

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Fired Prosecutor Sues DOJ, Says She Was Punished for Convicting Anti-Abortion Activists Sunita Doddamani, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, filed a lawsuit Monday alleging she was unlawfully and retaliatorily fired from the Justice Department for her role prosecuting United States v. Zastrow, a 2023 case that convicted eight anti-abortion…

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Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Nuclear Strike Claim Blows Up Online — And the White House Isn’t Denying It Cleanly Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed in a social media post Sunday that top Trump administration officials were actively discussing “using nuclear weapons on Iran” in strategy meetings, without naming participants, specifying when the alleged discussions occurred,…

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House Ethics Committee Opens Investigation Into Rep. Jimmy Gomez Over Sexual Misconduct Claims The House Ethics Committee announced Monday it has opened a formal investigation into Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), reviewing allegations that he “may have engaged in sexual misconduct,” including “inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer,” in potential violation of chamber rules. The…

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