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NEW: House to leave Washington early until the midterm elections, punting a vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to November. nbcnews.com/politics/congres…
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FBI Director Kash Patel answered questions from lawmakers during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing that sometimes got testy, as Patel fired back against criticism over his use of FBI resources, subpoenaing journalists and media reports alleging that he drinks to excess.
Here are key lines from the hearing. cnn.it/4h7hmrs
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U.S. travel bans for South African officials alleged to be behind anti-white discrimination
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“The plain fact is that inflation is too high and has been for too long,” Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said Wednesday after the central bank raised interest rates by one quarter of a percentage point.
Warsh said "the labor side of the Fed’s congressional remit is in good shape,” leaving the central bank’s “predominant focus” on restoring price stability.
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FBI Director Kash Patel lashes out when pressed by Sen. Peter Welch about the FBI's potential involvement in the 2026 election. cnn.it/4rg3WOj
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Key spy law could go dark if Congress doesn’t act by November, Trump admin says dlvr.it/TVWGPR
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Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is facing charges of crimes against humanity, attended a hearing at the International Criminal Court in person for the first time, making his first public appearance in more than a year. apnews.com/article/duterte-c…
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Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has announced a 34-count felony indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Read the criminal charges here. n.pr/3Mh5Ag3
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Eight German state premiers back Merz amid speculation over future bbc.in/3VxY6fj
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Billionaire shale pioneer Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources is set to announce a deal to invest in Venezuela as the Trump administration pushes US companies to revive the nation’s oil sector, according to a person familiar bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Stalwarts Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma headline India's One-Day International squad for their upcoming home series against the West Indies, while Vipraj Nigam has replaced injured spinner Varun Chakaravarthy in the Asian Games squad.
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The giant tortoises of the Galápagos are not a single species; each island has its own species of tortoise that, over time, adapted to its environment. Several of these became completely extinct because whalers stopping in the archipelago caught them for food and introduced other threats, such as invasive species. cnn.it/4dh9zpG
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From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: Every other semester, I co-teach a course or two at Bucknell University. On the first day, I always lay out a simple rule: No technology, period, writes Charles Mitchell.
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After Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned and said the people building AI feared it could “kill us all by the end of the decade,” existential debate gripped Washington.
Lawmakers began to echo warnings that AI could snuff out humans. wapo.st/4xoAUgT
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The Kennedy Center board has voted to close the center after a tense meeting in which President Donald Trump called in to berate a Democratic congresswoman who serves on the panel, according to two sources familiar with the matter. cnn.it/3UTrIUk
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BREAKING: The Federal Reserve has raised interest rates in an effort to battle back a months-long surge of inflation set off by the Iran war. The move marks the central bank's first rate increase in three years.
ABC News' Elizabeth Schulze reports. abcnews.link/zIoh7hS
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With U.S. troops set to withdraw from Iraq at the end of the month, Iranian-backed militias are rejecting calls to lay down their weapons. That leaves major questions about what lies ahead for Iraq. apnews.com/article/iraq-us-w…
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From @WSJFreeEx via @WSJOpinion: Predictions of catastrophe can often serve covert political or psychological purposes, writes @Louise_m_perry
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After fears over AI technology burst into the open, the leaders of Silicon Valley's biggest AI companies called for a slowdown.
Unhedged hosts Katie Martin and Robert Armstrong ask what it means for the AI stock market mania. ft.trib.al/B7ZfMwc