A summary of the most important social, economic and political news of the week.
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Report from the AP: A man armed with guns and knives stormed the lobby outside a high-profile journalists’ dinner attended by President Donald Trump and multiple senior U.S. leaders on Saturday night, rushing toward the ballroom before Secret Service agents swarmed him and took him into custody. The president
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After peace talks last weekend in Pakistan collapsed after 21 hours of face-to-face negotiations, President Trump responded by announcing a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump posted on Truth Social that the Navy would "begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to
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Over the last 40 days, the U.S./Israeli airstrikes on Iran have killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and other top officials and devastated much of Iran's military. In response, Iran has bombed Israel and states around the Gulf and closed the Strait of Hormuz to global shipping.
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A partial government shutdown has left TSA's roughly 50,000 screeners without pay for over 40 days, leading to many simply not showing up. Democrats have stonewalled funding for DHS, demanding immigration enforcement reforms for ICE. The effects? Even after the spring break rush at airports across the
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Nearly three weeks into Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. finds itself in a conflict that, at least on paper, looks like military success. Reportedly, Iran's air force has been rendered nearly useless, and its anti-aircraft systems have been largely destroyed, leaving the skies open to the U.
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Fourteen days into the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, at least 20 countries are now militarily involved in some capacity. Iran has struck targets in at least 10 countries. France has deployed about a dozen naval vessels, including its aircraft carrier strike group, to various locations in the Mediterranean;
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Last Saturday, the United States and Israel jointly launched Operation Epic Fury — a campaign explicitly aimed at toppling Iran's government — and preceded by the largest U.S. military buildup in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The administration had warned Iran that failed nuclear talks
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The United States and Israel launched what the Pentagon dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” in the early hours of Saturday morning, striking targets across Iran with the stated aim of destroying the country's military capabilities, dismantling its nuclear program, and fostering regime change. President Trump announced the operation in
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In a landmark decision on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that President Trump had exceeded his authority by imposing sweeping tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 — a law that doesn't explicitly mention tariffs. Chief Justice John
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Something has shifted in the AI world, and the people closest to the technology are the ones most unsettled by it. Top safety experts at OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI companies are warning — loudly and publicly — that the technology they're building is advancing faster than anyone anticipated.
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President Trump said Friday that the U.S. and Iran had “very good talks” in Oman and claimed Iran's position is more favorable regarding a nuclear deal than before last June's 12-day war. Iran, for their part, flatly refused to cease uranium enrichment, but looked forward
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Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti during an encounter last weekend in Minneapolis‘s Whittier neighborhood. Pretti was a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and an ICU nurse at a Veterans Affairs hospital. Various video angles were unclear and inconclusive, and the agents retained counsel and have not