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- Canada confirms first hantavirus case in isolation in British Columbia
- Threatened indictment of Raúl Castro ratchets up US pressure on Cuba
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- Trump Successfully Boots Sen. Bill Cassidy From His Seat
- Yet More Thoughts (and a Bit of Love) for the Fancy Lawyers
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- Virginia Backs Off Redistricting While South Carolina Plunges Ahead
- Polis Commutes Sentence of Election-Denying Former County Clerk Tina Peters
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- Trump’s New $1.7 BILLION Slush Fund Boondoggle
- Trump’s Blunder on Affordability This Week Was Worse Than It Appeared
- Supreme Court Keeps Mifepristone Available For Now While Alito and Thomas Seethe in Dissent
- The Intercept
- A “Scheme” Against Dobbs: SCOTUS Dissent Hints at Next Phase of Abortion Rights Fight
- Internal Pentagon Report Reveals Hegseth Is Willfully Putting Civilians in Danger
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- “We Will Find You and We Will Kill You”
- How Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy Puts You at Risk
- DOJ Escalates War on Trans Youth Healthcare With Criminal Subpoenas
- “It’s Overwhelming but It’s Amazing”: Richard Glossip Released From Jail After Three Decades
- This California Congressional Hopeful Opposes a Billionaire Tax. So Do His Tech CEO Backers.
- Miami Beach Official Hired Billboard Truck to Call Pro-Palestine Activists “Jew Hater,” Lawsuit Alleges
- FBI Quietly Closed a Probe Into Mahmoud Khalil While He Was in ICE Detention
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- Middle East war live: Drone strikes on UAE and Saudi Arabia fuel escalation fears
- Hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius arrives in Rotterdam for disinfection
- Trump warns Iran that 'there won't be anything left of them' without peace deal
- Julianne Moore says true gender equality still distant at Cannes
- Drone strike sparks a fire on the edge of UAE nuclear facility
- Suspected Ukrainian military drone discovered after crashing in Lithuania
- England defeat France to secure eighth consecutive Women’s Six Nations title
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- Bolivian police clash with protesters blocking roads into La Paz
- Most of the architects of October 7 attacks have been killed, says Netanyahu
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- Benny Johnson: "I would perfectly be happy to deport the entire city" of Atlanta
- On SiriusXM’s The Michelangelo Signorile Show, Matt Gertz discusses how Fox is sticking with Trump on Iran as some in right-wing media turn against him
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- KCEN Central Texas reports that inflation is forcing people "to stretch their dollar even farther"
- Right-wing evangelical Christian media figures excitedly await Rededicate 250 event
- Arkansas' 5News reports that a local trucking company “has no choice but to pass on any increased costs” from rising diesel prices
- Fox 56 News Lexington reporter: "Financial experts say that people are having to dip into their emergency funds just to make ends meet"
- An economist tells St. Paul, Minnesota, station KSTP 5 Eyewitness News that gas prices won't return to pre-war levels until “after 2027”
- Media Matters weekly newsletter, May 15
- Asked how long American consumers can weather higher energy prices and inflation, Fox's Larry Kudlow says "How about a year"
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