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Trump to rescind chip curbs after debate over AI rules

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The Trump administration plans to rescind Biden-era AI chip curbs as part of a broader effort to revise semiconductor trade restrictions that have drawn strong opposition from major tech companies and foreign governments, according to people familiar with the matter.

The repeal, which is not yet final, seeks to refashion a policy launched under...Read more

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Charges dropped against 3 more Colorado officers in Christian Glass death

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DENVER — A Clear Creek County District Court judge on Tuesday dropped the charges against three additional law enforcement officers involved in the 2022 killing of Christian Glass at the request of prosecutors, court records show.

Idaho Springs police officer Brittany Morrow, former Georgetown police officer Timothy Collins and Colorado State...Read more

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Actor Michael Pitt hit with protective order after arrest for alleged sexual abuse

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NEW YORK — A protective order has been issued against “Boardwalk Empire” star Michael Pitt, after he was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually abusing his ex-girlfriend at the Brooklyn home they previously shared.

A Kings County Supreme Court judge ordered a full no-contact order of protection for a year against the 44-year-old “Funny ...Read more

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ICE ordered to return Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont

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President Donald Trump’s administration must return detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk to Vermont, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.

Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student originally from Turkey, has been held for weeks in an immigration jail in Louisiana while her case was argued in multiple courts. But the 2nd Circuit U.S. ...Read more

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Kari Lake to let One America News Network handle programming for Voice of America

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Kari Lake, the Trump administration's senior adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, is letting the conspiracy-pushing One America News Network handle news programming for Voice of America.

Lake announced the “partnership” between OAN and The United States Agency for Global Media on X late Tuesday night.

USAGM oversees VOA as well as...Read more

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Trump drops surgeon general pick, taps influencer for job

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WASHINGTON — In a last-minute shakeup ahead of a nomination hearing planned for Thursday, President Donald Trump dropped his original pick for surgeon general and selected Casey Means, a health influencer, author and key player in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.

The announcement comes after Bloomberg reported earlier Wednesday ...Read more

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Xi arrives in Moscow after Russia, Ukraine trade attacks

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva arrived in Moscow for 80th anniversary commemorations of the end of World War II, hours after Russia and Ukraine continued air strikes against each other’s capitals.

Russia launched four ballistic missiles and 142 drones targeting Kyiv and other regional centers ...Read more

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Karen Read retrial: Another expert testifies to 'Hos long to die in cold' search

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DEDHAM, Mass. — A digital forensic expert backed up the prosecution’s timeline Wednesday in the Karen Read murder case, testifying that a notorious google search questioning “hos long to die in cold” did not happen until after Boston Police officer John O’Keefe’s body was discovered.

“What I can state with a scientific degree of ...Read more

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Trump says Harvard shouldn't be tax-exempt -- but do voters agree? What poll found

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President Donald Trump has called for Harvard University — an elite institution that has clashed with the White House — to lose its tax-exempt status. But what do voters think?

“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status,” Trump wrote in a May 2 post on Truth Social. “It’s what they deserve!”

The president’s ...Read more

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Trump mulls renaming Persian Gulf as Gulf of Arabia

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s considering trying to change the name of the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Arabia or the Arabian Gulf.

Trump said he’s going to make a final decision on the issue after a briefing by advisers and before leaving on a three-day trip to the Middle East next week.

“They’re going to ask me about that...Read more

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Pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University take over Butler Library

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NEW YORK — Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University have taken over the campus’ Butler Library on Wednesday, just days before final exams.

Videos on social media showed the activists, who wore masks, pushing through security at the entrance of Butler, the main campus library, shortly after 3 p.m., steps away from where ...Read more

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San Jose approves stricter rules to combat epidemic of abandoned shopping carts

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Fed up with the thousands of abandoned shopping carts dumped on city streets and in its waterways, San Jose is moving ahead with new regulations and a cart retrieval pilot program to solve the longstanding problem.

Earlier this year, the City Council voted to explore changes to the municipal code and advocate for less ...Read more

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Magnitude 3.2 earthquake off California coast sends weak shaking through Malibu, Westside of LA

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LOS ANGELES — A magnitude 3.2 earthquake hit a few miles south of Malibu on Wednesday, sending a gentle jolt through the beachside city.

The earthquake struck at 9:33 a.m. Pacific time, and weak shaking was felt as far away as Los Angeles' Westside, according to reports submitted to the U.S. Geological Survey's crowdsourcing website. The ...Read more

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KC PrideFest lost corporate sponsor money. Trump anti-LGBT rhetoric is blamed

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Kansas City’s PrideFest — which each June draws some 22,000 people to a parade and weekend celebration of LGBTQIA+ pride to Frank A Theis Park — is, this year, seeing both a loss in corporate sponsors and a reduction in their level of giving.

Organizers place the blame for what currently is a $200,000 shortfall directly on the anti-DEI (...Read more

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California and other states sue Trump administration over wind energy

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California and 17 other state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit attempting to stop the Trump administration’s efforts to thwart the development of wind energy projects.

The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts comes in response to a Jan. 20 executive order by President Donald Trump that issued a temporary withdrawal of...Read more

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Michigan House OKs $75 million for ice storm aid, exempts Upper Peninsula from clean energy law

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The Michigan House on Wednesday voted 107-1 to approve a $75 million appropriation to aid northern Michigan residents and communities in their recovery from the late March ice storm.

The $75 million appropriation for the Michigan State Police would be distributed to local governmental units and used to assist "individual residents, businesses, ...Read more

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Trump says US government 'not going to pay' for California high-speed rail

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump says the U.S. government will not pay for California’s high-speed rail project, fueling growing concerns that the bullet train will not have stable federal funding for the foreseeable future.

“That train is the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen,” Trump said during a Tuesday news conference ...Read more

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Pakistan signals potential retaliation after India's airstrike

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NEW DELHI — Pakistan said it reserves the right to retaliate after India launched targeted strikes, signaling a potential further escalation in hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals following last month’s deadly Kashmir attacks.

Just hours after India hit nine targets in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s office said in a ...Read more

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Griffin concedes North Carolina Supreme Court race, ending unprecedented effort to overturn election

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RALEIGH, N.C. — After spending over six months vigorously contesting his narrow loss in the 2024 North Carolina Supreme Court election, Jefferson Griffin conceded the race on Wednesday following a federal judge’s ruling against him.

Griffin, a Republican judge on the state Court of Appeals, lost the election to Democratic incumbent Allison ...Read more

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Georgia teacher arrested after threatening to shoot staff, students, authorities say

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ATLANTA — A Warren County High School teacher was recently arrested after he allegedly threatened to shoot students and his boss, officials said Wednesday.

During the April 24 incident, 22-year-old Mason Garrett “made verbal threats to shoot both staff and students at the school,” according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The high...Read more