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Foreign Enemies Tracking U.S. Troops Overseas by Buying Cell Phone Data
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is demanding answers from the Pentagon after U.S. Central Command confirmed it had received multiple threat reports of foreign adversaries exploiting commercially available cell phone location data to track American military personnel deployed overseas.
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Trump Advances Peace Effort Between Israel and Hezbollah
President Trump aimed to settle ongoing conflicts between Israel and Hezbollah this week, acting as an intermediary to curb the attacks.
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Trump Admin Drops ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’
The Trump administration is dropping its anti-weaponization fund initiative after a district court judge ruled against it.
Politics
Trump Names New National Intelligence Director
President Trump announced that Fannie Mae Chairman and Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte will serve as the acting head of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
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Hegseth Reveals US-China Agreement on AI Talks After Secret Beijing Meetings
America's top defense official has confirmed that the United States and Communist China have agreed to continue negotiations over artificial intelligence guardrails, a development that emerged from hours of closed-door discussions between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping earlier this month.
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Powell Picks Up ‘Courage’ Award
Former Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Sunday that political pressure on the central bank will erode public confidence in its independence, delivering his sharpest public criticism of the Trump administration since his term ended last month.
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Trump’s Trans Military Ban Heads to Supreme Court
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Trump administration a split decision, ruling 2-to-1 that while the administration can bar new transgender recruits from joining the military, it cannot force out the service members who are already serving.
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Israel Seizes 900-Year-Old Castle from Hezbollah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the Israel Defense Forces on Monday to strike Hezbollah terrorist targets in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut, sending thousands of civilians fleeing the Lebanese capital a day after Israeli troops seized a strategic medieval fortress in the country's south.
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Ebola Vaccine Fast-Tracked
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), a health entity, has vowed to contribute about $60 million to fast-track the development of vaccine candidates against the Bundibugyo ebolavirus.
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Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles at U.S. Troops in Kuwait
U.S. Central Command intercepted two Iranian ballistic missiles targeting American forces in Kuwait late Sunday, the military announced Monday, the latest exchange of fire between U.S. and Iranian forces stretching across the weekend.
Politics
Tina Peters Walks Free
Tina Peters, the former Mesa County elections clerk convicted of breaching her county's Dominion Voting Systems server after the 2020 election, is scheduled to be released from a Colorado prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence, the Associated Press reports.
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Top U.S. General Holds Rare Face-to-Face With Cuban Military as Trump Tightens the Screws
The head of U.S. Southern Command sat down with a senior Cuban general at the edge of Guantanamo Bay on Friday, a direct military encounter so unusual it signals just how tense relations have become between Washington and the communist regime in Havana.
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Hegseth at Singapore Summit: US Will Not Let China Dominate Asia, Demands Allies Pay Up
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declared Saturday that the United States will not allow China to seize control of the Asia-Pacific and pressed American allies to raise defense budgets to 3.5 percent of GDP or stop expecting Washington to carry their weight.
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Obama Judge With Fani Willis Ties Set to Hear Georgia Election Case
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion Friday asking a federal judge to recuse herself from a Georgia election records case, arguing that her prior ties to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis make impartial proceedings impossible.
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Trump Names Turkey Ambassador as Special Envoy to Syria and Iraq
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Tom Barrack, the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, will take on expanded duties as Special Presidential Envoy to both Syria and Iraq, placing a single diplomat at the center of three overlapping pressure points in the Middle East.
Health
Trump Orders CDC to Slash Bloated Vaccine Schedule
American children receive more than twice as many vaccine doses as kids in some European nations, and President Trump is ordering federal health officials to do something about it.
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Trump Demands Judge Dismiss ‘Ridiculous’ Lawsuit Blocking White House Drone Defense Base
President Donald Trump called on a federal judge Sunday to immediately throw out a lawsuit blocking construction of a rooftop drone base at the White House, warning the judge would be personally "held responsible" for any future attack on the executive mansion if he refuses.
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Pence: Trump’s $1.8 Billion DOJ Fund Could Cut Checks to J6 Rioters, ‘Get Rid of It’
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday called on the Trump administration to scrap a nearly $1.776 billion Justice Department fund created to compensate people claiming to have been victimized by the Biden administration, saying the money could end up in the pockets of convicted January 6 rioters.
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Museum of the Bible Launching 250th Exhibit
The Museum of the Bible is launching new exhibits honoring the Bible's influence in the United States ahead of the nation's 250th anniversary.
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Arkansas Swaps Pride for ‘Fidelity Month’
Arkansas Governor Sarah Sanders (R) announced that the state will recognize June as "Fidelity Month."