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States hold troves of sensitive personal data that were previously never shared with the federal government or across federal agencies. The Trump administration is trying to change that.

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Islamabad criticises Washington's bombing of Iranian nuclear sites less than 24 hours after backing US President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.

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⚡️ After 40 months of waging full-scale war on Ukraine, Putin condemns 'unprovoked aggression against Iran.' Moscow has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainian civilians, and the true extent of the death toll is simply not known.

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SpaceX's move-fast-and-break-things approach has been at the heart of its success, allowing the company to make developments like the reusable Falcon 9 rocket at a rapid pace. However, it has also resulted in frequent and very public failures.

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🏳️‍🌈 "The long-discussed and often trite ‘is Pride still a protest?’ conversation, has a clear and present answer this year — fuck yes." https://www.wearequeeraf.com/this-pride-month-is-going-to-be-unparalleled-to-any-in-recent-years/

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Welcome to the American oligarchy. America always had rich people, and they always influenced government. https://trib.al/Vm3uzDD

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Letter: There are constructive ways to reduce federal expenditures. Targeting PBS/NPR isn’t one of them.

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To fully deliver the Trump administration’s vision for national security, everyone would need to be flexible, and the merchants of death at the AI+ Expo came prepared to compete. https://trib.al/5OOb3lk

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People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country.

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The Georgia Supreme Court struck down four voter suppression policies from the State Elections Board, ruling that the Board exceeded its authority when it passed the rules. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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🚨 Zelenskyy: Russia planning further attacks on energy sector, including nuclear generation

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🇰🇵 ⚰️ UK intelligence: North Korean forces have suffered over 6,000 casualties in Russia's Kursk Oblast

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When politicians take away clinics, birth control, abortion access, and trusted community providers, they’re not saving lives. They’re putting people in danger. And disproportionately, they’re endangering Latinas.

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A hit list was found in shooting suspect's car with nearly 70 different targets, including abortion providers and lawmakers, official tells CNN.

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With D.C. set to host the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and Trump’s birthday celebrations, No Kings demonstrations are underway around the country to protest the president’s executive orders and actions.

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The latest from reporters on the ground in Arizona and across the country today as crowds swell at No Kings demonstrations denouncing Trump's actions via all of our fellow @statesnewsroom.com colleagues

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For two days, Caroline Dias Goncalves’ family didn’t know what happened to her. They had been tracking her phone and noticed her location froze in Aurora. It wasn’t until she was finally allowed to call them that they learned ICE had taken her.

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Shortly after noon, the Indivisible Chicago Board Vice Chair Denise Poloyac began the city’s Daley Plaza rally with a moment of silence regarding the shooting of Minnesota officials, and a “condemnation” of the violence.

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A man posing as a police officer shot and killed a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in a brazen attack at their home early Saturday, and a second lawmaker and his wife were wounded in a separate shooting in what Gov. Tim Walz described as “targeted political violence.”

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While around 1,800 protests are set to coincide with Trump's military parade in Washington, D.C. on June 14, there is notably none planned in the U.S. capital. Yet outside the city, numerous rallies will oppose what critics are calling Trump's power grab in a movement known as "No Kings Day."

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As Iran launched retaliatory missiles into Israel, NBC News' foreign correspondent Matt Bradley received an "extreme alert" during a live broadcast.

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Oil prices surged, US stocks dropped and investors flocked to safe havens like gold on Friday after tensions between Israel and Iran escalated, stoking concerns of a broader conflict in the region. Read more: cnn.it/446d1yb

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Tucker turns on Trump: Ex-Fox News host blasts ‘complicit’ president for backing Israel after attacks on Iran

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US judge orders Trump to reinstate fired product safety commissioners reut.rs/3ZZdFvV

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SCOOP: Details about Saturday’s “No Kings” protest are under watch by domestic intelligence centers, where analysts regularly distribute speculative threat assessments among federal, state, and local agencies, according to an internal alert obtained by WIRED. UNPAYWALLED:

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Infantry Marines arrived in LA with minimal training to counter civilians protesting the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

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The people who post on official government accounts are now amplifying a vision of America that is forever dominated by whites, at almost any cost. Here's how DHS and the White House are now using an image apparently created by an unapologetic white nationalist.

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Americans say Trump ‘has gone too far’ with immigrant roundups and sending Marines and National Guard to LA

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Arab-American voters who cast a ballot for Donald Trump are outraged that the president signed off on a new travel ban to the United States that includes much of the Middle East, reported ABC News this week.

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Photographer captures Sen. Alex Padilla's takedown at Homeland Security press conference

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OPINION | The "big, beautiful bill" is an attack on the people I’ve spent my life caring for — families, seniors, and those most vulnerable to both economic and environmental injustice

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The raids in Los Angeles appear designed more to provide fodder for right-wing broadcasts—and to forestall another shouting episode from Miller—than to actually achieve significant numbers of removals. https://trib.al/ROX7rgi

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Two weeks after President Donald Trump set a 14-day timeline for determining the willingness of his Russian counterpart to end the conflict in Ukraine, he says he is coming to believe Vladimir Putin doesn’t care about the human cost of his war.

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California makes a legal stand against Trump rather than acquiescing to his demands and throwing trans girls under the bus. Brought to you by @alyssaur.bsky.social

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NEW: The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned en masse to protest what it called unprecedented interference by the Trump administration

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Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research A Tulane University researcher resigned Wednesday, citing censorship from university leaders who had warned that her advocacy and research exposing the Louisiana petrochemical industry's health impacts…

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt deflected when she was asked to prove President Donald Trump wasn't lying about "paid insurrectionists" in Los Angeles.

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The preeminent body tracking alleged Russian war crimes in the war with Ukraine, including the abduction of Ukrainian children, has transferred its data to Ukraine’s government and the State Dept. as it prepares to shut down in the coming weeks after the Trump administration terminated its funding.

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From The Archives: ICE Agents Hurl Pregnant Immigrant Over Mexican Border To Prevent Birth On U.S. Soil

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Calling President Donald Trump a threat to the American way of life, Gov. Gavin Newsom depicted the federal military intervention in Los Angeles as the onset of a much broader effort by Trump to overturn political and cultural norms at the heart of the nation's democracy.

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The 12-member board, in a statement, said the State Department, which runs the scholarship program, had denied Fulbright awards “to a substantial number of individuals who were selected for the 2025-2026 academic year.”

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Trump’s National Guard hypocrisy will intensify protests (Letters) https://trib.al/sAZ9IkO

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Disney and Universal have filed a lawsuit against Midjourney, alleging that the AI image generation startup is a “bottomless pit of plagiarism. It's the first time major Hollywood studios have gotten involved in litigation against AI companies.

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California lawmakers and activists fear the Trump administration will leverage tech tools, like location data, to track and punish LA protesters.

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