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Vance casts tiebreaking vote to kill Venezuela war powers resolution
- Vice President JD Vance cast the deciding vote Wednesday to effectively kill a Venezuelan war powers resolution after the Senate deadlocked on the measure. Vance broke a 50-50 tie on a vote that stops the Senate from further considering the resolution and senators will not take further votes on the resolution.. Republicans Sens. Josh Hawley and Todd Young, who previously supported the resolution, flipped on ...

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Grok stops users from making sexualized AI images on X after global backlash
- on the platform on Wednesday. "This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers." The change was announced hours after California's top prosecutor, Rob Bonta, said he launched an investigation into sexualized AI deepfakes, including those of children, generated by Grok. The representative added: "While this is an encouraging development, California DOJ is investigating to determine whether xAI ...

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First medical evacuation from International Space Station brings crew safely home
- NASA successfully conducted the first medical evacuation from the International Space Station early Thursday, as the SpaceX Crew-11 splashed down off the coast of San Diego. Four crew members returned to Earth after their five-month mission was abruptly cut short. NASA did not comment on the severity of the medical issue, citing privacy concerns. All four were taken to a local hospital "for additional evaluation." ...

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Press freedom advocates worry that raid on Washington Post journalist's home will chill reporting
- If the byproduct of Wednesday's raid on a Washington Post journalist's home is to deter probing reporting of government action, the Trump administration could hardly have chosen a more compelling target. Hannah Natanson, nicknamed the "federal government whisperer" at the Post for her reporting on President Donald Trump's , had a phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch seized in the search of her Virginia home, the ...

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Nobel economist Paul Krugman says there's one big way Trump could really help US consumers
- Donald Trump has unveiled a slew of proposals aimed at making life more affordable for everyday Americans, but according to one top economist, there's something that would make a bigger difference than anything the president has floated so far. Trump has laid out plans to tackle everything from mortgage rates credit card debt energy costs . Yet, Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman thinks those options pale in ...

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Trump Admin Slashes Addiction and Mental Health Funds
- Home » » Thousands of federal grants funding mental health and addiction services were suddenly terminated late Tuesday as the Trump administration sent hundreds of notices announcing the discontinuations. The sudden terminations at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) affected over 2700 of the agency's discretionary grants worth nearly $1.9 billion. According ...

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Federal agent shoots man in Minneapolis as tensions in city run high
- Mayor urged calm as protesters gathered on the scene, as city continues to reel in aftermath of Renee Nicole Good's killing A federal officer has shot a man in the leg during an enforcement operation in north Minneapolis, sparking protests in a city still on edge after the killing of Renee Nicole Good by a federal agent last week. The shooting occurred about 7pm local time, according to witnesses. Several hundred ...

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States go their own way as RFK Jr. shifts federal vaccine policy
- New federal guidance to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 vaccines down to 11 comes as states already are charting their own courses on vaccine policy. issued by President Donald Trump in December calling to align the U.S. vaccination schedule with "peer" countries, including Denmark, that recommend fewer childhood vaccines - even though those countries provide more robust ...

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'The consumers are still out there': why a bankruptcy for Saks Global may not spell the end
- Just more than a year after the new luxury behemoth was formed, it announced it had filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy Every year, the stores down Manhattan's Fifth Avenue dress up their windows at Christmastime. Tourists from all over the world come to gawk at all the glitter, lace, ruffles and bows. Saks's Fifth Avenue location, so iconic that it's embedded in the brand's name, is usually dressed top to bottom ...

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Trump threatens to use the Insurrection Act to end protests in Minneapolis
- – President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration's massive immigration crackdown. The president's threat comes a day after a federal immigration officer a Minneapolis man who had attacked the officer with a shovel and broom handle. That shooting further heightened radiating ...

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Trump Ally Can Challenge Rules For Mail-In Ballots, Supreme Court Rules
- As a political candidate, Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.) — a longtime ally to President Donald Trump who was involved in efforts challenging Joe Biden's 2020 presidential victory — has the right to governing how Illinois counts votes in its election, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. was written by Chief Justice John Roberts. Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissent with Justice Sonia Sotomayor ...

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SCOTUS dispatch: Justices probe limits of state bans on transgender athletes in girls' sports
- News / Pixabay SCOTUS dispatch: Justices probe limits of state bans on transgender athletes in girls' sports Joshua Villanueva is JURIST's Washington, DC Correspondent and an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School.   Two groups, two slogans, and one Court. On one side of the plaza, opponents of Idaho's and West Virginia's transgender ...

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Actor Timothy Busfield held without bond in New Mexico child sex abuse case
- Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield made his first court appearance on Wednesday, a day after turning himself in to authorities to face charges of child sex abuse stemming from allegations that he inappropriately touched a minor on the set of a TV series he was directing in New Mexico. Busfield was ordered held without bond. He appeared remotely via a video link from jail. Whether he remains in jail will be ...

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Existing home sales end 2025 with a strong beat, as prices ease further
- There were 1.18 million units available for sale at the end of December, down 18% from November. The median price of a home sold in December was $405,400, up 0.4% from a year earlier. There were 4.06 million existing home sales for the full year, unchanged from 2024. December sales were the strongest in nearly three years after adjusting for seasonal factors. A home with a "Sold" sign from a real estate company in ...

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Federal judges allow California to use new US House map ahead of 2026 election
- SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California can use a new voter-approved U.S. House map that is designed to boost Democrats in the 2026 midterms, a federal three-judge panel ruled Wednesday. In a 2-1 ruling, a three-judge panel in Los Angeles denied requests from state Republicans and the U.S. Justice Department to block the map from being used in future elections. The complaint accused California of violating the ...

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Trump threatens to cut off funds to 'sanctuary' cities and their states starting next month
- President Donald Trump said Tuesday that starting Feb. 1 he will deny federal funding to any states that are home to local governments resisting his administration's immigration policies, expanding on previous threats to cut off resources to the so-called sanctuary cities themselves. Such an action could have far-reaching impacts across the U.S., potentially even in places that aren't particularly friendly to ...

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Prosecutors Flee DOJ After Being Told To Investigate The Murdered Woman, Not The Murderer
- Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good , a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad daylight. We wrote about how the Trump administration immediately began lying about it despite multiple video angles showing exactly what happened. We wrote about how the media called documented murder a "dispute." This week, we're writing about how career Justice ...

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Newsom moves to stop Louisiana from extraditing doctor accused of mailing abortion pills
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he was blocking Louisiana's attempt to extradite a doctor in the Golden State accused of mailing abortion pills . The Democratic governor's announcement comes a day after Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, a Republican, said he sent the extradition paperwork in an effort to bring the physician "to justice." Louisiana has some of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the country, ...

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Justice Department sees no basis for civil rights probe in Minnesota ICE shooting, official says
- Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department does not believe there is currently any basis to open a criminal civil rights investigation into the  killing of a woman  by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis, a top department official said Tuesday. The decision to keep the ...

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