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The Trump administration is moving to cancel $810 million of funding that has been appropriated by Congress for refugees, immigrants and other services it argues are unnecessary, according to a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget.In what is called a pocket rescission, the package of proposed cuts, sent from Trump to House Speaker Mike Johnson in a notification letter, includes proposed rescissions at the Departments of Commerce, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development and the Justice Department. Several cuts were for international

At UN, Russia and Germany's top diplomats hold first talks since 2022

'A really special moment' for Ukraine as Svitolina seals team's spot in Billie Jean King Cup final

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Munich picked for Germany's bid to host the Summer Olympics in 2036, 2040 or 2044

Munich will bid to bring the Olympics back to Germany for the first time in more than 60 years after seeing off a rival bid from Cologne to become the focus of the country's push to host a Summer Games. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced Munich as the selection at a glitzy event hosted by the German Olympic Sports Confederation on Saturday. He said it was a “huge opportunity for the whole of Germany.” With the exception of soccer games in Stuttgart and sailing in the northern city of Kiel, Munich would stage the rest of the Olympic and Paralympi

China, as usual, uses UN speech to promote global development as solution to world's challenges

Trump says he spoke with Venezuela's Rodriguez about elections

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Trump declines to say if Ukraine can manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks

President Donald Trump on Saturday declined to say whether he agreed to allow Ukraine to manufacture Patriot missiles to fend off Russian attacks, an assertion made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a day earlier.The two leaders met on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York earlier this week. Zelensky told reporters on Friday that during their meeting Trump said that Ukraine “will receive a license to manufacture Patriot missiles.”But when asked by CNN on Saturday about a potential licensing agreement, Trump confirmed he and Zelensky spoke about the critic

CNN says it was left off Air Force One for Trump's Saturday trip to a college football game

Man City chairman asserts club's innocence over Premier League charges, says still 'long way to run'

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Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now

The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November’s elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his aggressive campaign against noncitizen voting. The court's three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented from the decision. The emergency order allows states, for now, to use the Trump administration's revamped version of a Department of Homeland Security program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, in their efforts to verify the eligibility of voters on their

Trump wants to take a page out of the Biden energy playbook

In January 2024, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump blasted the Biden administration for freezing approvals for new plants to export US liquefied natural gas.When he won the election, in part by slamming the Biden-Harris “war on energy,” Trump vowed in his second inaugural address: “We will bring prices down… and export American energy all over the world.”He kept that promise, undoing the Biden-era LNG export permitting pause through an executive order just hours into his first day on the job.Now fast-forward more than a year and a half later, he’s considering taking a page o

Inside Trump’s plan for the ‘biggest DOJ election observer effort in history’

US Senate rejects resolution curbing Trump's Iran war powers

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Man who was shot during 2024 Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died

James Copenhaver, one of three campaign rally attendees shot in 2024 during an assassination attempt on then-candidate Donald Trump, has died in Pittsburgh, his lawyer said Thursday. He was 76. Copenhaver was in the bleachers during the event in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from a nearby rooftop, grazing Trump’s right ear with one bullet. Copenhaver was struck in the arm and in the abdomen, wounds that left him with lingering injuries and walking with a cane. Two other attendees were also shot — David Dutch, who surv

Not everyone thinks AI will kill us all

When AI company Hugging Face was hacked by a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents who had escaped their testing environment, the company’s CEO had many things to say.He called it an unprecedented event – “day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents.”But here’s one thing he didn’t say: The hack is a sign AI is going to be able to eventually wipe out humanity.Clement Delangue doesn’t buy into the doomer hype that’s gone viral in recent weeks, even as the victim of likely the most sophisticated AI agent-powered attack (that we know of). He scoffed at former Anthropic researcher Jacob C

What we know after officials say ICE detained a US citizen and left him injured in Chicago suburb

Hurricane Polo fuels fears of landslides in Mexico's southwest as Nolo closes in on Hawaii

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Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress

President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives. Trump's Office of Management and Budget described the funding cut as focused on “the most harmful government spending.” Most of the cuts are focused on Health and Human Services programs that serve refugees and unaccompanied minors accused of being in the country illegally. The administration says the funds are no longer necessary bec

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‘We’re not a sideshow’: Military families blast Trump’s arch observation deck for tourists

President Donald Trump’s proposed triumphal arch did not originally include the idea for an open-air observation deck that would tower 161 feet above the surrounding landscape.The feature, which would give tourists a 360-degree panoramic view, was only added to the design later when the Trump administration revealed the plans to the public, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.Now that addition is bringing fresh concern to military families, who are contending with a distressing thought: Will visitors get a bird’s-eye view to their pain as their loved ones are buried at Arlington

A good week for Iran at the UN – but latest offer to the US appears a non-starter

For Pope Leo, the risk of an AI apocalypse is a major concern

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In China, the Xi-Trump summit is seen as projecting image of the country’s rise

It’s unclear if U.S. President Donald Trump’s elaborate reception of his Chinese counterpart in Washington dazzled President Xi Jinping, but for the Chinese public, it made quite an impression. Trump’s rare welcome of Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, at the airport, as well as the bilateral and cultural events the leaders attended were closely covered — and praised — by Chinese state media. Those who watched at home saw a China elevated in status. “I read the news that the U.S. reception standards for President Xi are very high,” Xiang Ziyu, a postgradua

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War has returned to Ethiopia’s Tigray — and former enemies are now fighting together. What changed?

Nearly four years ago, a peace deal ended the brutal war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. Now, the violence has returned — but the battle lines have changed.Tigrayan rebels are again fighting the federal government, while forces that were once enemies are now fighting side by side.On Wednesday, Tigrayan forces seized three airports controlled by the federal government, while fighting also broke out in the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar.The hostilities have shattered the 2022 peace agreement that ended a war estimated to have

The Latest: Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map

Susan Sarandon, Hannah Einbinder among more than 100 detained during anti-Netanyahu protest outside UN

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White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee

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Taxpayer-funded pro-Trump TV ad campaign grows with new spot, wider reach

The Trump administration appears to be expanding its campaign of taxpayer-funded TV ads promoting President Donald Trump

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Supreme Court rejects GOP’s third effort to capture Democratic House seat in Missouri

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Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time

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Supreme Court says states can use controversial citizenship data tool for voter audits in win for Trump

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New Jersey’s lieutenant governor resigns after sexual harassment and ethics complaints

New Jersey’s Democratic lieutenant governor has resigned after being pushed out by the governor over accusations of ethics lapses and inappropriate behavior with women

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Americans still feel worse about the economy than at almost any point in modern history

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Author of America’s tariff statute: Trump’s tariffs are illegal

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Senate Republicans plan a last-ditch effort to lower costs ahead of midterms

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Xi says he'll see Trump again soon as he wraps up US visit with a look at the Constitution

President Donald Trump has confirmed he'll have two more meetings with China’s Xi Jinping later this year

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From LA to Scottsdale: The Founder Behind AdDynamix Is Building the Bridge Between AI and Business Tools

An LA digital advertising veteran of 28 years has moved to Scottsdale and is building what he calls the missing piece between business software and the AI assistants people now use every day. SCOTTSDALE, AZ. When Benoit Pecqueur talks about his latest company, he sounds less like a founder pitching a product and more like an operator who got tired of watching the same problem repeat itself. “Most small business owners are watching the AI revolution from the sidelines,” he says. “Not because they don’t want it. Because their tools don’t talk to ChatGPT or Claude. Their accountant still pulls