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EU fines Apple €500m and Meta €200m for breaking digital rules, giving both 60 days to comply or face daily penalties.

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False claims by Elon Musk and his U.S. DOGE Service about dead people getting benefits have led to a new effort to move millions of names to the Death Master File — increasing the odds that more people who are alive will inadvertently be declared dead, according to officials at the agency.

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"There is absolutely no reason on the planet earth he should be doing that and he knows it."

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The wife of former Sen. Bob Menendez was convicted Monday of conspiring with the disgraced New Jersey lawmaker to peddle the power of his office in exchange for gold bars, cash and other gifts

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"He will go down as not just one of the greatest popes of all time, but as one of the greatest leaders that this world has ever see," U.S. Sen. Ed Markey said.

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Pope Francis has sadly passed away after serving as the head of the Catholic Church for 12 years.

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Our top story: “The governor showed us that he will be punitive to anyone who doesn’t fall in line with what he orders.” And he's not above recruiting the president to force his agenda through.

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"Every time the Justice Department tries to claim the military isn’t actually banning transgender people, Pete Hegseth tweets that it is."

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“I’m not sure what world we’re now living in...” Ben Wallace finds it ‘really depressing’ that the Trump administration ‘seems to be taking the side of Russia.’

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We are witnessing in real time what the descent into fascism looks like. If spineless Democrats won’t take “extraordinary action” in these extraordinary times, we need to replace them with Democrats who will.

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U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, D-Oregon, announced Friday that she plans to travel to El Salvador to demand the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration wrongfully deported in March.

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Judge James Boasberg said he would start contempt proceedings against the Trump administration for showing “a willful disregard” to his order to return a wrongfully deported Maryland man. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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US Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelan migrants under wartime law reut.rs/4jn7A4g

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More than 700 rallies and community events are slated to take place Saturday as part of a national “day of action” protesting President Donald Trump’s policies.

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In response to President Trump’s effort to reshape the Smithsonian Institution, four Democratic members of a House oversight committee urged Vice President JD Vance to reject such an attempt to impose the president’s own views of American history.

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Federal judge in Baltimore temporarily limits DOGE access to Social Security data

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A U.S. citizen is sitting in jail despite a judge seeing his birth certificate. Welcome to Trump’s America.

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Exclusive: When Marco Rubio fired the man in charge of dismantling USAID, he made enemies inside the MAGA movement. The inside story of Peter Marocco's abrupt termination👇

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The tariff saga and its impact on disabled people cannot be separated from the administration’s brutal cuts to Medicaid. “It’s really the most vulnerable of the most vulnerable…who need technologies to live.”

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services said the grant highlighting Black history and culture “no longer serves the interest of the United States.” 🔗: veritenews.org/2025/04/16/t...

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Donald Trump made an embarrassing blunder as he boarded Air Force One today.

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A conservative federal judge issued a dire warning on Thursday: The government must bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the US, or else the country will descend into lawlessness.

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States worry that an executive order and federal funding cuts could weaken their cybersecurity efforts. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...

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Republicans have contended for years that the IRS has been weaponized against conservatives. This week, President Trump publicly raised the prospect of Harvard losing its tax-exempt status.

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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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"Throughout its history, Russia has remained the same ... Russia has always had a talent for creating problems not only for its own people, but also for neighboring countries. Independent journalism is now equated with extremism," said Konstantin Gabov.

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ANALYSIS | Trump’s victim-shaming of Ukraine is ugly and symptomatic of something more dangerous, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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Donald Trump believes he’s never wrong – and that’s exactly what makes him so dangerous. — #AJOpinion by Andrew Mitrovica ⤵️

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CT scans performed in the US in 2023 alone could eventually lead to over 100,000 extra cancer cases, a new study claims.

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CDC autism report disputes RFK Jr’s claims about why the condition is on the rise

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China told Washington to "stop threatening and blackmailing" after US President Donald Trump said it was up to Beijing to come to the negotiating table to discuss ending their trade war. In full: buff.ly/TfJ94JO

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Measles cases are most likely being underreported in the U.S.s as public health officials scramble to find resources to address a ballooning outbreak in the Southwest, according to a senior scientist at the CDC.

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Google is being sued in the UK for potential damages worth $6.64 billion alleging the company abused its dominant market position in the online search industry reut.rs/43Qzlxh

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🚨NEW: Trump ordered staffers to kill Elon Musk’s planned top-secret Pentagon briefing on China after word of it leaked, Axios has learned. "What the f**k is Elon doing there? Make sure he doesn't go," Trump said, a top official recalled. www.axios.com/2025/04/16/t...

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Harvard, which has long been criticized for its questionable endowment investments and lack of diversity, is refusing to crumble—hopefully a catalyst for other universities to grow a spine and do the same.

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The U.S. State Department is paying El Salvador $6 million to house hundreds of immigrants deported from the United States in an immense and brutal prison there, Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, reports @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social.

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