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Watch Trump and South Africa’s president in tense exchange during Oval Office ambush
Donald Trump confronted South Africa’s president over unsubstantiated claims of genocide against white farmers in South Africa in a tense Oval Office exchange on Wednesday (21 May).
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Thinking about traveling over Memorial Day weekend? Millions of Americans will have to prepare for rain
Some areas could see up to two inches of rainfall and an increased chance of potentially dangerous flash flooding
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90 truckloads of aid picked up in Gaza after delays at crossing with Israel
Aid groups have collected food and medicine, but face challenges getting it to the people
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US House passes Trump's 'big, beautiful' tax and spending bill
UK signs deal to hand over control of Chagos islands
Supreme Court derails taxpayer-funded Catholic school in major First Amendment case
4-4 decision effectively blocks Oklahoma’s plans for nation’s first-ever publicly funded religious school
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‘A smile that would light up any room:’ Everything we know about couple gunned down in Washington, D.C.
Yaron Lischinsky, 30, was just days away from proposing to Sarah Milgrim, 26, who grew up in Kansas
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CIA guards shoot woman at headquarters hours after gunman killed Jewish couple in DC
The woman was shot just before 4 a.m. outside the CIA’s gated entrance in McLean, Virginia.
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Russian tourist caught on video kicking and ‘slamming’ 2-year-old daughter at Florida resort as she was ‘being fussy,’ police say
Police said the little girl was ‘manhandled by her father’
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Pentagon leaker begs Trump for pardon in jailhouse interview, calls himself a ‘patriot’
‘My case was specifically politicized by the Biden administration,’ Jack Teixeira said, adding: ‘I think that I was used as a sacrificial lamb, and I was crucified to be made of as an example’
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Top Romanian court rejects request to annul election
Melania Trump turns to AI to narrate audiobook in her own voice
Melania Trump unveiled an AI-narrated audiobook of her memoir “Melania” on Thursday, calling it “the future of publishing.”
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Trump’s ‘One, big, beautiful bill’ would ban care for transgender people on Medicaid and Obamacare
‘It's one more example of health care that they're trying to rip away,’ Rep. Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender member of Congress, tells The Independent
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Fact-checking Trump's Oval Office confrontation with Ramaphosa
White crosses shown by Trump not graves, says man who erected them
What we know about the victims of Washington DC shooting
Hundreds without drinking water and more storms forecast in southern French region devastated by deadly floods
One resident recalled the moment he rescued a pensioner from a car being swept away by floodwater after thunderstorms in Var, southeast France
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Starmer ‘emboldened forces of terror’ that led to Israeli embassy shooting, Israeli minister says
Western leaders have this week heavily criticised Israel’s ‘egregious’ actions in the Gaza Strip
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Endangered gorilla habitats threatened in rebel-held Congo
Conservationists warn that the charcoal boom is coming at a steep ecological cost.
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