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- Iran Claims Eight People Killed as U.S. Bombards Civilian Infrastructure
- Wildfires Cause Dense Smoke and Hazardous Air Quality in More Than 20 States
- Trump Accuses China of Interfering in 2020 Election, Without Providing Evidence
- Trump’s Teleprompter Operator Reportedly Earned Over $100K Betting on Presidential Speeches
- Truth Social Plans to Sell Priority Access to Trump’s Posts
- Iranian Official Claims Kushner and Witkoff Sought to Exploit Negotiations for Personal Gain
- ICE Agent Who Fatally Shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Identified as David Brouillette
- Rights Groups Demand Probe of ICE Violently Attempting Arrest of Elderly Man in Nevada
- So-Called Border Czar Tom Homan Warns ICE Critics That “Bloodshed” Will Continue
- U.S. Tightens Visa Rules for Foreign Students, Journalists and Cultural Exchange Visitors
- Denise Oliver-Vélez, Lifelong Activist, Organizer and Educator, Dies at Age 78
- U.S. Strikes Iran for Fifth Consecutive Day Targeting Tehran
- Israeli Forces Kill Four People in Gaza, Including 6-Year-Old Girl
- Israel’s Security Cabinet Approves Nearly Half a Billion Dollars for New Settlements in Occupied West Bank
- Half of All Democrats on Capitol Hill Support Measure Slashing Military Funding to Israel
- Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche Grilled During Senate Confirmation Hearing
- Trump’s Nominee for Director of National Intelligence Refuses to Say Whether Biden Won 2020 Election
- New York Times Files Motion to Quash Subpoenas of Its Journalists
- Hegseth Announces Plans to Screen Testosterone Levels of Service Members Over the Age of 30
- 45-Year-Old Venezuelan Immigrant Dies in ICE Custody in Georgia
- 100 Million People in North America Face Air Quality Alerts
- Pro-Palestinian Activists Demand Release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya from Israeli Custody
- Trump Threatens to Attack Civilian Infrastructure as U.S. Continues Attacks on Iran
- Senate Democrats Block $1.15 Trillion Pentagon Budget Bill over Iran War
- Progressives Push Back as House Democratic Leader Opposes Ending Military Aid to Israel
- Israeli Forces Kill More Children in Gaza
- ICE Says It Will Halt Traffic Stops After Deadly Shootings by Agents
- Minnesota Prosecutors Finally Receive Evidence in Killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti
- Texas DA Opens Independent Criminal Probe Into ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo
- The Guardian: 12 People Detained at Colorado Immigration Jail Contracted Tuberculosis
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