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Want a federal job? Get ready to pledge allegiance to Trump. The new federal job application asks which Trump executive order you love the best. He’s building his own deep-state spoils system.

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A string of recent cyberattacks has targeted big retailers including Victoria's Secret and North Face, scooping up customer information and disrupting online sales

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North Texas drivers will pay more to use toll roads beginning in July 2025. The uptick follows the North Texas Tollway Authority’s biennial toll rate schedule.

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I’ve been watching Mountainhead and I find all these characters so horribly unlikeable that I’m not sure I’ll be able to finish it. I suppose that’s the point?

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As a suicide prevention aide, Rashon Venable had to make sure others didn’t harm themselves. It was surprisingly easy to get such a complex job. Read his Life Inside essay ⬇️

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Breaking News: Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to review the names of ships honoring civil rights leaders such as Harvey Milk and Harriet Tubman.

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Some of the most powerful AI models today have exhibited behaviors that mimic a will to survive by sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission.

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Blood tests known as “liquid biopsies” can improve the treatment of some patients with metastatic breast cancer and help their tumors remain under control for more than a year, new research suggests.

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Hamill played Luke Skywalker, one of the most iconic heroes in movie history. His latest film, The Life of Chuck, is an adaptation of a Stephen King novella.

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NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”

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Nvidia reclaims top spot as the most valuable publicly traded company with a $3.45 trillion market cap, surpassing Microsoft.

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A sneaker is “a sports shoe with a pliable rubber sole,” at least according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary — but the category has gotten blurrier. Our fashion critic explains. nyti.ms/4jvUBfI

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A sweeping Texas bill designed to avert the looming possibility of a water crisis passed a final legislative hurdle Friday and now heads to the governor’s desk.

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That's not scary at all...

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Blood tests known as “liquid biopsies” can improve the treatment of some patients with metastatic breast cancer and help their tumors remain under control for more than a year, new research suggests.

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April 2025 was one of the deadliest months on record for Memphis children: "In 2009, doctors at Le Bonheur treated 23 children for gunshot wounds. In 2012, they treated 40 children. In 2017, they treated 88. And in 2023, they treated 180" mlk50.com/2025/05/29/a... @mlk50.com

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There have been quite a few upsets in the regional tournaments (so far). Teams that have been eliminated from the 2025 Men’s College World Series: ◻️ No. 1 Vanderbilt ◻️ No. 2 Texas ◻️ No. 7 Georgia ◻️ No. 11 Clemson

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There’s no national count of how many people with dementia are arrested each year. But our analysis shows the arrests of people over 65 grew by nearly 30% between 2000 and 2020 — at the same time that overall arrests fell by nearly 40%.

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Broadband Program Changes Stir Uncertainty for Rural Black Communities

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Weekend Estimates Box Office Chart for May 30 - June 1, 2025: www.boxofficereport.com/weekend/2025... #LiloAndStitch #MissionImpossible #KarateKidLegends #BoxOffice

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A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

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Opal Lee, a longtime Fort Worth civil rights leader known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was hospitalized late last month while visiting Ohio to mark the 30th anniversary of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, her family confirmed Sunday.

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Proud to deliver $1M in Community Project Funding to enable Le Bonheur Children's Hospital to add 2 new pediatric ambulances—bringing hospital-level care directly to kids across Memphis and the Mid-South. Another example of how the federal project funding we've secured is improving lives in TN-9.

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The Trump administration is seeking to cut its remaining ties with Harvard University and intends to ask all federal agencies to find ways to end their contracts with the Ivy League school, a senior admin official says.

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Two months after Disney’s live-action ‘Snow White’ disappointed at the box office, ‘Lilo & Stitch’ is on its way to becoming a billion-dollar hit. Some analysts say the difference comes down to their approach to the term ‘live-action.’

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Audra McDonald will take a one week vacation from Gypsy next month, with Montego Glover filling in while she is gone. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Mont...

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Dozens of women in Mississippi have been charged with child abuse crimes that, based on existing state law, they may not have committed.

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New research has shown tech companies hired 25% less college grads in 2024 and recruitment decreased by 11%. Though the report isn't pointing to AI as the sole cause, there's "convincing evidence" it's a significant factor. Get the full rundown here: tcrn.ch/4mRI2yz

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Weekly Top 10 Films on Netflix (in the United States) for May 19 - May 25, 2025 1. Untold: The Fall of Favre 2. Instant Family 3. The Wild Robot 4. Nonnas 5. Fear Street: Prom Queen 6. A Deadly American Marriage 7. Home 8. Despicable Me 4 9. Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds 10. I Still Believe

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After waiting nearly three months for Congress to fix what even many of its own members agreed was a mistake that left Washington facing a surprise $1.1 billion budget cut, city officials announced on Tuesday a plan to deal with the sizable shortfall on its own.

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The 2025 Cannes Film Festival was the best it’s been in years, with bold and divisive work from Lynne Ramsay, Julia Ducournau, Joachim Trier, and others. Here are the 11 best films we saw.

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The mental health of mothers in the U.S. declined significantly from 2016 to 2023, according to a new study published on Tuesday.

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The Department of Veterans Affairs, the government’s second-largest agency, serving some of America’s most vulnerable citizens, is set to lose 83,000 employees under the Trump administration’s cutbacks.

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You elect one Black American Pope and look what happens.

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We can never repay those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the United States, but we must dedicate our sacred effort to paying it forward so future generations can have the same rights of liberty, justice, and freedom.

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Congratulations to Gotham FC for winning the first ever CONCAF W Champions Cup! You continue to make all of Jersey proud. Excited to follow you in the Club World Cup!

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Many Americans want to buy domestic products, but global supply chains make it challenging. No matter how committed these shoppers are, some products just aren’t made-in-U.S.A.

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On Memorial Day, we remember the sacrifices that our men and women in uniform and their families have made to preserve our freedom. May we always strive to honor the strength and resolve they’ve shown our country.

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Darrell Doucette III, quarterback of the USA national flag football team, says flag football players "deserve their opportunity" to play for Team USA in the 2028 Los Angeles Games 👀

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Controversies have prompted at least a half-dozen cities to cancel their contracts or end their relationships with “The First 48.” Here’s why Dallas, Memphis and Mobile have stopped working with the long-running cop reality show.

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College baseball coaches can not be trusted. They must be stopped from ruining pitchers' arms. http://dlvr.it/TL0MDL

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This week, the Department of Justice announced that it would begin pulling back from police reform efforts in eight law enforcement agencies across the country. Here's how eight cities are responding to the threat of rolling back reforms.

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Jaleel Stallings was beaten by police during Minneapolis' protests. He sued and won — but still doubts the system. “I’ve been jumped. I’ve been in fights. But seeing the criminal justice system and the issues it has were a lot more traumatizing to me because they decide people’s lives on the daily.”

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From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

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Police reform and civil rights activists joined thousands of ordinary people Sunday to mark the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s murder at religious services, concerts and vigils nationwide and decry the Trump administration for setting their efforts back decades.

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Over the five years since George Floyd's killing, The Marshall Project has covered it all — from how Minneapolis police failed to adopt crucial reforms before Floyd’s murder to how departments around the country are now abandoning commitments they made to change in 2020.

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Texas is on the verge of banning the use of nondisclosure agreements to silence sexual abuse survivors after a key House vote Sunday. The proposal — known as Trey’s Law — gained support after victims of church sex abuse went public with their experiences.

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Five yrs out “demonstrators say they are still contending w/ intense trauma and long-lasting injuries... What’s more, settlement money has been swallowed by mounting medical debt, legal fees & other costs associated w/ being wounded.” Our dear Linda Tirado and so many others stories featured here

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Since a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in 2020, the number of people killed by the police each year has continued to rise — and Black Americans are still killed in disproportionate numbers. Our data reporter explains his findings. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/u...

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