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Venezuela’s government said Saturday it deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro facing several criminal investigations in the U.S. less than three years after the businessman was pardoned by President Joe Biden as part of a prisoner swap. The decision marks a stark reversal for Alex Saab, who Maduro fought tooth and nail to bring home after his previous international arrest in 2020. Now, the Colombian-born insider, long described by U.S. officials as Maduro’s “bag man,” may be asked to testify against his former protector, who is awaiting trial on drug charges in Manhat

Venezuela says it deported a close ally of Maduro to face criminal proceedings in US

Maine communities mourn the 27-year-old firefighter killed in a lumber mill explosion

Britain’s hard right on the march as tens of thousands descend on London

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Rwandan genocide suspect Kabuga dies in custody in The Hague at age 91

A Rwandan suspect charged in connection with the 1994 genocide died in a hospital while in custody in The Hague, Netherlands, a U.N. court said Saturday, three years after the court declared him unfit to continue standing trial. Félicien Kabuga, 91, was accused of encouraging and bankrolling the mass killing of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority. His trial began in 2022, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. In 2023, the judges declared him unfit to continue standing trial because he had dementia and said they would establish a procedure t

Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These rural voters agree

Can Spencer Pratt ride viral videos to victory in the race for LA mayor?

As global crises multiply, scores of US diplomats say they have been forced out

Amid ongoing foreign policy crises around the globe and as the Trump administration struggles to reach a deal to end the war with Iran, the State Department last week finalized the firings of nearly 250 foreign service officers in a brief, impersonal email.“Your reduction in force separation will be effective today,” part of it read. “Thank you again for your service to the Department.”Those reductions in force (RIFs), which were initiated last July, also impacted more than 1,000 civil service officers, and saw the firings of entire staffs in offices that former officials say would hav

Richard Glossip goes free, but his three-decade murder case goes on

US aircraft carrier returns home after record deployment that included Iran war, Maduro capture

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Supreme Court rejects Virginia's bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats

The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representatives. The court’s order, issued without any noted dissent, is the latest twist in the nation’s mid-decade redistricting competition. It was kicked off last year by President Donald Trump urging Republican-controlled states to redraw their lines and was supercharged by a recent Supreme Court ruling severely weakening the Voting Rights Act that opened up even more winnable seats for the GO

US Supreme Court tosses longshot appeal from Virginians to use new congressional map that would benefit Democrats

The Supreme Court on Friday tossed out an emergency request from Virginia officials to reinstate a congressional map that would have benefited Democrats in this year’s midterm election, a widely expected decision that represented the court’s latest foray into a nationwide redistricting war.The decision thwarts Democratic plans to use the new map to pick up as many as four additional seats in the House of Representatives this year.The 6-3 conservative court has recently sided with Republicans in Louisiana and Alabama – permitting those states to quickly redraw their maps. But the Virginia

Election denier Tina Peters will get clemency after admitting she ‘made a mistake,’ Colorado’s Democratic governor says

US Justice Department working to indict former Cuban president Raul Castro

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‘Creeps need not apply’: How a team of bipartisan women plan to change Capitol Hill’s culture of harassment

When Rep. Emilia Sykes met with Democratic leaders about the pervasiveness of sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, she made one thing very clear to Hakeem Jeffries: this could not just be a women’s issue.“This could all be eliminated and we wouldn’t even be here if these members were not abusing their power, and so we need to get to the root cause,” the Ohio Democrat said. “We cannot do this alone.”Not even 10 years on from Congress’ last attempt to reform the process for reporting sexual harassment on Capitol Hill, leaders from the Republican and Democratic Women’s Caucuses have

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GOP congressman is under doctor’s care, his father says amid mysterious absence from Washington

Top House Republicans have grown increasingly concerned by Rep. Tom Kean Jr.’s mysterious absence from the chamber.Now his father, former New Jersey Gov. Tom Kean Sr., is seeking to offer assurances that his son will be returning soon — though he, too, declined to offer any specifics as to why the congressman has been out of the public eye for more than two months.In an interview with CNN, Kean Sr. said his son is recovering from what he described as a serious but temporary illness, pushing back on speculation surrounding the congressman’s prolonged absence from Washington.“He’s hope

US ramps up pressure on Cuba with potential Castro indictment following visit by CIA chief

Trump announces sculpture garden site as he muses on architecture after trip to China

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Four bystanders tackle knife-wielding driver after car plows into crowd in Italy

Shortly after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in Modena, Italy on Saturday, four Italian civilians stepped in and tackled the vehicle’s driver, pulling him to the ground, according to the city’s mayor.“The madman, I don’t know what to call him, the criminal who committed this act, he got out of the car brandishing a knife,” Mayor Massimo Mezzetti told state-owned news agency RAI. “Four citizens, whom I thank, captured him and handed him over to law enforcement.”In his initial statement, Mezzetti said the car rammed into a crowd on Via Emilia, a busy street in the center

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Timmy, the stranded humpback whale, found dead off Danish coast

Timmy, the young humpback whale who was stranded for weeks in shallow waters, has been found dead just off Denmark’s coast, according to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, just weeks after a controversial rescue effort set him free.“The stranded humpback whale near Anholt is the same whale that was previously stranded in Germany and was the subject of rescue attempts,” Jane Hansen, head of division at the Danish Environmental Protection Agency, told CNN on Saturday.The agency confirmed the whale’s identity after one of its workers found and retrieved the faulty tracking device

Long Island Rail Road, America’s largest commuter railroad, is on strike

Trump says Islamic State group leader was killed in a joint US-Nigerian mission

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A cargo train hits a public bus at a Bangkok rail crossing, killing at least 8

A train crashed into a public bus on Saturday in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, killing at least eight people. Thai news reported the crash happened in the late afternoon near an airport railway station in the central area. The city’s emergency services, Erawan Medical Center, said at least eight people were killed and more than 20 others were injured. Footage of the moment of the crash shared on social media showed a line of vehicles had stopped at a railway crossing when a cargo train struck an orange bus. The impact also dragged several nearby vehicles along t

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US and Nigerian forces kill senior ISIS commander, Trump says

US and Nigerian forces killed a senior ISIS commander on Friday, President Donald Trump said, in an operation he claimed had “greatly diminished” the militant group’s power.“Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield,” Trump said in a Truth Social post late Friday ET.The president named the target as “Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally,” adding: “He will no longer terrorize the peop

‘This is far worse’: When conflict 2,000 miles away compounds civil war at home

Iraqi militant leader ‘directed and urged’ attacks on Americans and Jews over Iran war, feds say

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Israel kills most senior Hamas military leader in Gaza strike

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Justice Department accuses Yale medical school of illegally using race in admissions

The Justice Department is accusing Yale University of illegally considering race in its medical school admissions

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The billionaires telling other billionaires to shut up and pay their taxes

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FBI offers $200,000 for information on former Air Force intelligence specialist charged with spying for Iran

This Republican says he’s Trump’s ally. He’s getting in the way of Trump’s revenge in a key Louisiana Senate primary

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Powell, the most battle-tested Fed chair, finishes his term

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How a vote for Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ put Republican David Valadao in danger of losing his seat

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The Trump phone will start shipping following months of delays

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Trump administration aims to roll back limits on toxic wastewater from coal-fired power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers

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Newsom outlines his final budget proposal with no deficit, new major spending

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has unveiled his final budget proposal

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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