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Justice Department approves Paramount’s deal to buy Warner Bros.Jun 12, 2026 6:42 pm - Antitrust regulators at the Justice Department on Friday approved Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, a merger that would create one of the largest companies in Hollywood and reshape the television news landscape.
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Judge rules Trump can stage UFC fights on the White House’s South Lawn this weekendJun 12, 2026 6:30 pm - A federal judge ruled on Friday that the White House is allowed to stage a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary — on President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.
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Trump officials agree to resume asylum processing after being scolded by judgeJun 12, 2026 6:22 pm - The Trump administration said Friday it would resume processing immigration and asylum applications for people from dozens of countries whose cases were put on indefinite hold after an Afghan national shot two National Guard members in D.C. last year.
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Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump’s $1.8 billion payout fundJun 12, 2026 4:03 pm - A federal judge on Friday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion payout fund, which is still being challenged in court despite Justice Department officials claiming the effort is not moving forward.
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DOE head says agency didn’t punish blue states. His lawyers admit it did.Jun 12, 2026 3:56 pm - Energy Secretary Chris Wright was unrepentant on Capitol Hill this week, firing back at a congressman’s charge that the Trump administration canceled clean energy projects in blue states to exact political revenge.
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Trump threatens new DC takeover if democratic socialist mayoral candidate winsJun 11, 2026 6:37 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday waded into D.C.’s mayoral race for the first time, saying he is opposed to Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist, winning next week’s Democratic primary.
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Man pleads guilty to killing a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband while posing as an officerJun 11, 2026 4:14 pm - A Minnesota man who pounded on Democratic lawmakers' doors in the middle of the night while posing as a police officer, killing the state House speaker and her husband and wounding a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday so that federal prosecutors would not seek the death penalty.
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FISA spy powers are almost certain to expire after Congress fails to actJun 11, 2026 4:03 pm - A key surveillance tool that allows the United States to collect intelligence abroad appears certain to expire after Congress on Thursday failed to temporarily extend the program, in a protest of President Donald Trump 's temporary pick to head the nation's intelligence agencies.
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Trump plans to nominate US Attorney Jay Clayton to be national intelligence directorJun 11, 2026 3:58 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he plans to nominate Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and a former Securities and Exchange Commission chairman, as director of national intelligence.
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$60M and 7 federal agencies required to stage Trump’s UFC fight at White HouseJun 10, 2026 7:32 pm - President Donald Trump's planned UFC fight on the White House's South Lawn has required a monumental effort from more than seven federal agencies, hundreds of staff working onsite daily and at least $60 million, according to a legal filing that offers a glimpse into the preparations.