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A bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee provision would withhold about 75% of Pete Hegseth's travel funds until the Pentagon releases its unredacted civilian-harm report on the February 28 Minab school strike in Iran.
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About 80 South Texas residents have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging SpaceX Starbase rocket launches cracked walls, shattered windows, and damaged foundations. The claims are unproven allegations in a pending case.
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DHS has abandoned plans to convert a Social Circle, Georgia warehouse into a 10,000-bed ICE detention center after months of local opposition and pressure from Sens. Warnock and Ossoff.
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Ahead of Juneteenth, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear posthumously pardoned 43 people imprisoned for helping enslaved people escape to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
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Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed legislation closing the 'boyfriend loophole,' barring people convicted of domestic violence against a dating partner from owning firearms, effective July 1.
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A Change.org petition with over 20,000 signatures wants to rename the Chicago street outside Trump Tower 'Barack Hussein Obama Ave,' and a city alderman has introduced an ordinance to advance it.
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A new investigation by THE CITY found that more than 93% of 430 ICE street arrests across the New York metro area targeted Latinos, who make up only about 66% of the region's undocumented population.
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DHS has abandoned its plan to convert a Social Circle, Georgia warehouse into a 10,000-bed ICE detention mega-center - after the government paid $128.5 million for the property.
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At least 159 recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland have caught the flu after the annual vaccine was made optional, with the recruit vaccination rate falling from nearly 100% to about 40%.
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On July 1, 2026, Idaho becomes the only U.S. state to designate the firing squad as its primary method of execution under a law signed by Gov. Brad Little.
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Cloudflare data shows bots now generate about 57.5% of web page traffic versus 42.5% from humans, a crossover the company's CEO says agentic AI accelerated by roughly 18 months.
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ICE plans to sell or transfer at least 7 of the 11 warehouses it bought for more than $700M to detain migrants, reversing a ~$1B mass-detention buildup, per internal documents obtained by the NYT.
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