Nation and World Politics
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Pentagon watchdog investigates if staffers were asked to delete Hegseth’s Signal messages
Jun 06, 2025 10:04 am - The Pentagon's watchdog is looking into whether any of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's aides were asked to delete Signal messages that may have shared sensitive military information with a reporter, according to two people familiar with the investigation and documents reviewed by The Associated Press.
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Gaza marks the start of Eid with outdoor prayers in the rubble and food growing ever scarcer
Jun 06, 2025 9:15 am - Palestinians across the war-ravaged Gaza Strip marked the start of one of Islam’s most important holidays with prayers outside destroyed mosques and homes early Friday, with little hope the war with Israel will end soon.
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Judge puts temporary hold on Trump's latest ban on Harvard's foreign students
Jun 06, 2025 9:04 am - A federal judge has temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the U.S. to attend Harvard University.
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Goodbye Mr. Nice Guy? Investors dump Tesla on bet Trump may lash out at Musk through his car company
Jun 06, 2025 6:53 am - Investors bought hundreds of billions of dollars of Tesla stock after Donald Trump was elected on a bet that politics were more important than profits.In three hours Thursday, they learned yet again how dangerous that gamble could be.
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Elon Musk pulls back on threat to withdraw Dragon spacecraft
Jun 06, 2025 6:49 am - As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world's richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. A few hours later, Musk said he wouldn't follow through on the threat.
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Duckworth’s ‘Don’t Miss Your Flight’ bill aims to fix last-minute delays en route to airportsJun 05, 2025 1:44 pm - And — former suburbanite and Tea Party star Joe Walsh announces he’s turning Democrat.
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Trump’s promised steel and aluminum tariffs go into effect
Jun 05, 2025 12:54 pm - U.S. President Donald Trump hiked nearly all of his tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to a punishing 50% on Wednesday in a move that's set to hammer businesses from automakers to homebuilders, and likely push up prices for consumers even further.
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Trump threatens to cut Musk’s government contracts as their public feud escalates
Jun 05, 2025 12:28 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud with Trump suggesting he would use the U.S. government to hurt his fellow billionaire financially.
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Several people detained in Chicago after immigration check-ins, witnesses say
Jun 05, 2025 10:23 am - Several people summoned to an office in the South Loop neighborhood for what they thought were routine immigration check-ins were instead taken into custody Wednesday by ...
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Trump’s EPA targets environmental rules projected to save billions — and many thousands of lives
Jun 05, 2025 9:50 am - When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of c...