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Ex-fixer Michael Cohen makes up with Trump in new interview

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Ex-fixer Michael Cohen has made nice with President Donald Trump and plans to air an interview this weekend with his former boss turned bitter frenemy on his new radio show.

Cohen, who infamously fell out with Trump in part over the disbarred lawyer’s conviction and imprisonment in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, teased excerpts of the ...Read more

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Judge allows controversial oil company to continue pumping, strips California of oversight

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LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ruled that a Texas-based oil firm can continue to pump oil through pipelines along the Santa Barbara County coast under an emergency order from the Trump administration. He also transferred much of the regulatory authority over the oil operation to federal officials, stripping the state of its oversight.

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Remains of famed bald eagle Jackie will go to tribes. Some fans are fighting it

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LOS ANGELES — When celebrity bald eagle Jackie died this month, Sandra Sehl didn’t know what would happen to her remains.

Like many, Sehl, 53, was a devoted fan of the raptor and her mate, Shadow, who were made world-famous by a nonstop livestream of their nest. The Connecticut resident began watching about seven years ago, and the duo ...Read more

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Nearly 6 years after indictment, plug not being pulled on 'ComEd Four' case just yet

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CHICAGO — Nearly six years after the ComEd Four case was indicted, the plug isn’t being pulled just yet.

At the first court hearing since the landmark conviction was overturned for former ComEd CEO Anne Pramaggiore and lobbyist Michael McClain, prosecutors said Thursday no decision had been made on whether to retry the case — though if it...Read more

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Harry and Meghan's unpopularity in the UK isn't stopping their move back

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In a shocking announcement that’s the kind to be expected from the ever-dramatic Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the couple revealed this week that they are returning to live full time in the United Kingdom in the next few weeks so that their children, Archie and Lilibet, can enroll in British schools.

Six years after they made the epic move ...Read more

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SpaceX aborts mission carrying 2,000th Starlink to be launched this year

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Business as usual will have to wait for SpaceX, which aborted the first attempt Thursday with what would be the company’s 75th Starlink launch of the year as the orbiting constellation of satellites continues to grow.

A Falcon 9 loaded with 29 of the company’s broadband satellites on the Starlink 10-39 mission was targeting an 11:38 a.m. ...Read more

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Florida attorney general, a Catholic, fights state bishops over school vaccines

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — As Florida attorney general, James Uthmeier has worked to bring church and state together.

He’s said he won’t enforce a constitutional ban on government funding for churches and other religious groups, and has made clear his view that the Constitution shouldn’t be looked at with a “secularist gloss.”

But Florida...Read more

Denver among Democrats' 3 potential sites for 2028 presidential convention

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DENVER — Denver is among three cities still under consideration for the Democrats’ 2028 presidential convention after the party on Thursday narrowed its list of potential host sites, looking ahead to a wide-open primary to succeed President Donald Trump.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement that Denver, ...Read more

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Hundreds demonstrate outside Lindsay Clancy trial: 'She's not alone'

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BOSTON — A sea of supporters in pink stood for Lindsay Clancy outside the Plymouth courthouse Thursday morning, sharing stories of postpartum experiences and a collective moment of silence in support of the defendant.

“I don’t know if you’ll ever have this many women in one place at one time that understand all of us at a level that ...Read more

Residents collect water from a tanker truck amid government-imposed water rationing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in August 2026. Ricardo Arduengo/AFP via Getty Images

Puerto Rico is rationing water, but many residents stopped trusting the tap long before the drought

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Imagine turning on your kitchen faucet and nothing comes out. Not for an hour, but for two full days. Then the water returns, only to stop again two days later.

That is what more than 180,000 customers in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and six nearby municipalities have been dealing with since Aug. 7, 2026, and officials expect 48-hour ...Read more

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Californians are more concerned about Trump interference in midterm than fraud, poll finds

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LOS ANGELES — Californians are more concerned about the Trump administration interfering in the state's midterm elections than they are about voter fraud, noncitizens voting illegally or foreign interference, according to a new poll.

A majority of voters — 61% — identified potential federal interference as a "major concern" heading into ...Read more

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Caruso's old sexual abuse allegations are easy to find. Why didn't Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know?

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MIAMI — A divorce lawsuit and a detailed police report document years-old child sexual abuse allegations against former Palm Beach County clerk of courts and comptroller Mike Caruso — but Gov. Ron DeSantis says he didn’t know any of this when he appointed him to the high-powered post last year.

The files are Florida public records.

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Key takeaways from investigation into Edison's role in the deadly Eaton fire

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LOS ANGELES — Recently revealed evidence from government investigators and court filings renewed questions about Southern California Edison’s claim that it operated its electrical grid safely before last year’s deadly Eaton fire.

Most records surrounding the fire’s cause have been sealed at the request of Edison and plaintiff attorneys....Read more

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Trump says US is waging economic warfare against Iran

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WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran and its trading partners with economic isolation after months of military strikes and a maritime blockade failed to force Tehran to capitulate.

Trump didn’t specify what measures he would take or which countries would be targeted, but his threat put an immediate focus on China, which ...Read more

North Korea fires missiles after dismissing Trump overtures

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North Korea fired a barrage of short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, a day after it dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump’s overtures to revive dialogue.

North Korea launched about 10 ballistic missiles from Pyongyang, Yonhap News reported, citing South Korea’s military. Japan’s coast guard earlier said a suspected North Korean ...Read more

Russian air attack kills 16 as Zelenskyy pleads for Patriots

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More than a dozen people were killed and many more wounded in a Russian missile attack targeting Kyiv, the latest in a string of large-scale barrages Ukraine has struggled to fend off amid a lack of interceptors.

“As long as Ukraine does not have enough anti-ballistic defense, Russia will not consider peace seriously,” Ukrainian President ...Read more

SpaceX mission set to fly carrying 2,000th Starlink launched this year

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It’s business as usual for SpaceX on Thursday with what would be the company’s 75th Starlink launch of the year as the orbiting constellation of satellites continues to grow.

A Falcon 9 loaded with 29 of the company’s broadband satellites on the Starlink 10-39 mission is targeting an 11:38 a.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...Read more

The most overlooked piece to building media trust is the willingness of a community to engage with journalists. addillum/Getty Images

How journalists and communities work together to confront low levels of trust

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In the past decade, study after study has come to a troubling conclusion: Trust in news and journalism has declined dramatically.

The public’s loss of trust corresponds with the explosive development of our information ecosystem. The more options audiences have to find news elsewhere, the less trust the public has placed in ...Read more

Attorney General Todd Blanche announces the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026, in Washington. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images

White supremacists spin a Justice Department indictment against a hate-monitoring group to legitimize extremism and expand recruitment

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In April 2026, a federal grand jury returned indictments charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The indictment alleges the SPLC, a nonprofit legal advocacy group, secretly funneled more than US$3 million in donated funds to people associated with violent ...Read more

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Christian nationalists’ professed support for religious pluralism is often drowned out by perceptions that Christians are under threat

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Christian nationalism, a worldview that sees the United States as a Christian nation and believes that Christianity should have a privileged role in American civic life, has been shown to be related to a host of social attitudes.

Research shows that people who hold Christian nationalistic beliefs tend to, on average, also show ...Read more