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Under phase one of the Israel/Hamas deal, 33 hostages held by Hamas (women, children, elderly, and sick) will be released. So far, 25 have been freed. Hamas has made a spectacle of many of the releases, donning crisp, new uniforms and parading the hostages on stages, dressing them up
President Trump delayed new tariffs on Mexico and Canada, after both countries agreed to toughen their border security. Mexico agreed to send 10,000 troops to its border, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada would commit more resources to battling the spread of fentanyl. Meanwhile, Trump’s 10
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On Wednesday night around 9 p.m. near Washington D.C., a UH-60 Black Hawk on a training flight crashed into American Eagle Flight 5342 bound from Wichita, Kansas to Reagan National Airport. There were no survivors from either aircraft, resulting in the deaths of all 64 airplane passengers, 4
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In a ceremony inside the Capital Rotunda building on Monday, Donald Trump was sworn in as the second president in U.S. history to serve two non-consecutive terms—completing the most unlikely political comeback of our time. His inauguration speech promised that although “the pillars of our society lay broken
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On Monday at 12 noon E.S.T., Former President Donald Trump will be sworn in as America’s 47th president. Due to the cold weather in D.C., the inauguration has been moved inside, to the U.S. Capitol Rotunda building, incidentally the same building where protesters entered on
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The Palisades fire started on Tuesday around 10:30 a.m. as a brush fire in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles. It was initially described as a “very small fire in a backyard” that then spread up a ridge, caught by high winds, leading to an ember cast
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At 3:15 A.M. New Years Eve, a man drove a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 14 and injuring dozens more. After hitting the crowd, he exited the vehicle and began to fire on local law enforcement, who returned fire, killing
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As President-elect Trump plans to resume federal executions, President Biden has now commuted sentences for most of those on federal death row. These prisoners will remain in prison for life, without the possibility of parole. “Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts,
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In typical Washington-meets-Broadway theatrics, the House of Representatives, responsible for D.C.’s purse strings, ran the government shut-down clock to a few minutes past the midnight deadline. The first Continuing Resolution bill (intended to only extend current government spending) was 1,547 pages and full of new initiatives, a
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Video footage pours in nightly from New Jersey residents concerned about the SUV-size drones flying over their state. Local officials have suggested there have been hundreds of sightings, with one mayor mentioning 180 drones flying over the state.1 According to a Department of Defense statement on Saturday, “Right now,
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Last Sunday, President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, who faced federal tax evasion and gun charges. President Biden had said numerous times that he would not pardon his son, most clearly saying in June, “I abide by the jury decision. I will do that, and I will not pardon him.
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Last Sunday, President Biden approved Ukraine to use U.S.-made ATACMS long-range missiles against Russian and North Korean forces in Russia's Kursk territory. On Tuesday, Russian President Putin responded by lowering Russia’s threshold for using nuclear weapons. Russia then reported that Ukraine had shot six of