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“Sesame Street” has found itself a new home. Netflix announced that the decades-old public educational television program will premiere its 56th season on the global streaming giant, along with 90 hours of previous episodes.

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Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago. He is of French, Italian and Spanish descent. He spent years working as a missionary in Peru.

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Pope Leo XIV stepped onto a balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City on Thursday — his first appearance as leader of the Roman Catholic Church. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

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The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

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ICE officers are now reportedly required to meet arrest quotas each day, from a few hundred to between 1,200 and 1,500 nationwide. Jonathan Blitzer reports on the mystery of the agency’s unidentifiable arrests.

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US FDA suspends food safety quality checks after staff cuts reut.rs/42C4h1Z

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Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. nyti.ms/3YzXwwg

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Breaking News: The IRS agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show. This is a fundamental change in the IRS, which had gained the trust of migrants and encouraged them to file their taxes.

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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former Facebook employee who alleged misconduct and sexual harassment at the company in a memoir, will testify before Congress that Meta executives undermined national security and briefed Chinese officials on emerging technologies.

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump White House to let Associated Press journalists return to the Oval Office and other spaces to cover news events, ruling it was unlawful to block the news service in a dispute over its choice of words.

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In a new executive order, Trump directed J.D. Vance to remove improper ideology from various museums, education centers, and the zoo. Vance is now going to patrol to ensure the zoos are sufficiently anti-woke.

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RFK, Jr. is an idiot. The fact that such an ignorant, evil person has any say-so in our nation's health shows how broken America is right now and how vile and stupid Donald Trump is.

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April 5th: REMOVE / REVERSE / RECLAIM 50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement. Add your action by 3/28/25 to have your flyer shared on 50501 socials. Go to www.FiftyFifty.one and click “Add An Action.” #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #PeoplesMovement #NoKings #ImpeachTrump @polrev.bsky.social

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Strong 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Myanmar, with tremors felt in neighbouring Thailand

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The news of the leak of life-and-death operational details to a reporter lands differently with veterans and active-duty troops, who can be prosecuted for much less significant "spillage" incidents.

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Breaking News: A top Senate Republican teamed up with Democrats to accuse President Trump of illegally refusing to spend $2.9 billion in approved funds.

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Current and former U.S. military pilots expressed bewilderment after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to acknowledge that he should not have disclosed sensitive information in an unsecured group chat. “If you can’t admit when you’re wrong, you’re going to kill somebody,” one pilot said.

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JD Vance to join wife on Greenland visit but scales back scope of trip amid protests – Europe live

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Excerpts of a Signal chat published by The Atlantic provide a rare and revealing look at the private conversations of top Trump administration officials as they weighed plans for U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen. Here are some excerpts from the chat.

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Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

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Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede criticized an upcoming trip to the Danish territory by Usha Vance, wife of Vice President JD Vance, and other senior U.S. officials as a "provocation" and "highly aggressive." bit.ly/4c56Yxl

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Greenland's prime minister slammed an upcoming trip to the island by Second Lady Usha Vance and other U.S. officials as "aggressive" and a clear show of power.

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Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri faces deportation as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian voices. "He hasn't done anything wrong but he is married to a Palestinian," says his colleague Nader Hashemi.

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Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

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Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.

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President Donald Trump was left red-faced after stumbling up the steps of his Marine One chopper, leading to questions about his health.

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‘It’s scary right now’: ICE holds detainees for days in bedless Baltimore cells

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#trump #berniesanders #corruption #oligarchy youtu.be/2StnaGCQPCI?...

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#trump #musk #gop #corruption youtu.be/hycoCYenXls?...

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#trump #gaza #scotland Well done!!! youtu.be/ieuq0IAmPz8?...

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He threatened not to support others if they haven’t “paid” enough, but did not seem to know that the only time the alliance was triggered was to help the US after 9/11.

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Federal employees have received a second email from the Office of Personnel Management asking them what they did last week.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky left the White House without signing the mineral-rights deal after a combative Oval Office meeting with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance on.wsj.com/4ikHPk5

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That's right!

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@msnbc.com You cancel Joy yet keep those Trump ass kissers, Joe and Mika???!!!

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American Voters Abroad - your right to vote is under threat. Call your Representative today and tell them you OPPOSE the SAVE Act. Learn more this bill, how to call your representative, and other actions you can take to fight this bill: www.democratsabroad.org/stop_the_sav...

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I am part of the 25%. The lifestyle change is worth it. This is the way…

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Labour's right. Scotland DOES need a new direction. And that's away from the chains of Westminster. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 #ScottishIndependence

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Funny that, isn’t it? And who is running DOT now? Oh, right... this guy:

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