Nation and World
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US military says it is striking Iran in response to attack on civilian vessel in Strait of Hormuz
Jul 11, 2026 2:23 pm - U.S. and Iranian leaders traded threats on Saturday as the interim deal to end the war buckled under crossfire in the Middle East and efforts continued to keep talks going.
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Graham Platner officially withdraws from Maine Senate race
Jul 10, 2026 8:07 pm - Graham Platner has officially withdrawn from the Maine Senate race, the state’s secretary of state said Friday, submitting the needed paperwork to remove his name from the ballot.
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Minn. school serving Somalis faces threats after Trump posts clip of students
Jul 10, 2026 7:37 pm - Hateful emails and phone calls targeted a Minnesota school serving Somali families after President Donald Trump shared a video of its kindergartners on Truth Social this week, an episode that many Somali Americans see as an escalation of a sustained campaign of political and rhetorical attacks during Trump’s second term, community leaders said.
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Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool again as part of Trump’s troubled revamp
Jul 10, 2026 7:27 pm - Crews are again draining the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as President Donald Trump’s problem-plagued effort to revamp the waterway pushes well past his initial goal of having it ready by July 4 to mark the nation’s 250th birthday.
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Donald Trump ousts election commission members in latest push to reshape US voting process
Jul 10, 2026 6:33 pm - President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizens...
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US stocks rise as Wall Street shows it’s still hungry for AI winners
Jul 10, 2026 4:55 pm - U.S. stocks ticked higher Friday after Wall Street showed its appetite is still big for winners of the artificial-intelligence boom.
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Wildfire devastates an expat community in southern Spain, killing at least 12 with 23 missing
Jul 10, 2026 4:44 pm - A wildfire roared through a remote expat community in southern Spain overnight, killing at least 12 people as victims tried to flee the flames in cars and on foot, authorities said Friday. Eight people were injured and 23 missing, Andalusia’s regional leader Juan Manuel Moreno said.
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Defense tries to sow doubt about evidence in Charlie Kirk's killing
Jul 10, 2026 4:38 pm - Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk tried to sow doubt about the case Friday, while a prosecutor countered that authorities have “overwhelming” evidence that includes DNA tests and apparent confessions by defendant Tyler Robinson.
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Trump will let bipartisan housing bill become law without signing in protest over GOP voter ID law
Jul 10, 2026 4:32 pm - President Donald Trump will let the bipartisan housing bill approved by Congress become law without his signature, saying Friday that he was refusing to put his name on it because of the little progress made in passing a strict voter ID bill that he has been pushing.
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Detainees tell their lawyer an ICE officer shot a Houston driver through a passenger window
Jul 10, 2026 4:26 pm - Three men inside a van who witnessed the fatal shooting of the driver by an immigration officer in Houston said the Mexican man was shot through a passenger window and that the officer was never threatened, a lawyer who has spoken with them said Friday.