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Female Navy officers say they fear a career cap after Hegseth cuts women from promotions listJun 06, 2026 8:25 pm - After Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cut nine Navy officers, including all the women, from a promotion list, several female officers say they see the unusual intervention as a sign that their careers now have a ceiling and worry for the future generation of female military leaders.
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Trump issues pardon to former Republican congressman convicted of insider tradingJun 06, 2026 8:18 pm - President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information after he left office.
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Diabetes researchers ejected from conference after criticizing White HouseJun 06, 2026 6:35 pm - Five diabetes researchers, including the editor of a leading journal, were removed from the field’s premier conference in New Orleans on Friday morning, after handing out copies of an editorial criticizing the Trump administration’s “dismantling” of the biomedical research enterprise.
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Trump family’s stablecoin wealth fueled by Binance relationshipJun 06, 2026 6:12 pm - A Trump family crypto venture is generating bumper profits from its foray into stablecoins, thanks partly to a promotional arrangement with Binance Holdings Ltd.
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FBI fires several analysts tied to disputed ‘Catholic ideology’ memoJun 06, 2026 3:23 pm - Several FBI analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were fired Friday, according to their lawyer, the latest wave of terminations under the leadership of its director Kash Patel.
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Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead, whistleblower claimsJun 05, 2026 8:57 pm - The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents — as dead as part of its immigration enforcement efforts, according to a former senior Social Security executive.
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A federal judge strikes down Trump administration immigration policy affecting 39 countriesJun 05, 2026 8:27 pm - A federal judge on Friday struck down a Trump administration policy enacted after the shooting of two National Guard members that made it harder for immigrants from dozens of countries to stay and enter the U.S.
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Trump says he wants his new acting director of national intelligence to cut the officeJun 05, 2026 6:16 pm - President Donald Trump said Friday that he wants his new acting director of national intelligence, Bill Pulte, to cut the office, which has already been significantly scaled back during his second term.
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Stocks slump as Big Tech sinks and a strong May jobs report boosts odds for higher interest ratesJun 05, 2026 4:15 pm - The U.S. stock market had its worst day since October on Friday as a sell-off in big technology companies weighed down the broader market and a strong jobs report boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve will be forced to hike interest rates at some point this year.
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Ahead of possible referendum, District 214 hosts inaugural ‘State of the District’Jun 04, 2026 7:18 pm - Northwest Suburban High School District 214 on Thursday held its first State of the District event, where Superintendent Scott Rowe laid the groundwork for the district’s first possible referendum in more than 50 years.
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