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Exclusive: The right-wing activist Laura Loomer has been paid by private clients to make political posts on social media without publicly disclosing the payments, according to a former Trump campaign aide and others familiar with the arrangements.
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Exclusive: The possibility of SpaceX securing an agreement to operate a mobile network has rattled major carriers, raising concerns that Elon Musk might threaten their industry, according to interviews with nearly a dozen people in the telecom industry.
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Exclusive: A congressional staffer who has worked with four representatives, including Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia), appears tied to an anonymous social media account that denigrates female politicians and promotes political violence, among other views.
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Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month.
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Religion is on a winning streak at the Supreme Court — and faith-based advocates are pushing to extend it in coming months.
This term’s cases may test how far the court is willing to go in remaking the wall between church and state in America.
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As Indonesia battles its worst wildfires in over a decade, these critically endangered orangutans were rescued and relocated to safety.
The country's government has warned the blazes could continue until November.
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A federal judge issued a temporary block on the Trump administration from airing taxpayer-funded campaign-style television commercials. But the administration blew past the deadline and ran two ads early Monday, according to advertising data.
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Virginia high school students wanted to help their peers identify speedy and safe walking routes to school.
They developed SafeWalkr, which combines data from Google Maps and street databases to map crosswalks, traffic and sidewalk coverage.
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The Vikings founded modern-day Newfoundland in eastern Canada half a millennium before a certain other European explorer first landed in the Bahamas.
So why does the United States observe Columbus Day? Columbus had better PR, an archeologist explained.
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A federal judge excoriated the Trump administration for cutting down hundreds of trees at East Potomac Golf Links.
“More than just being upset and furious right now, I’m just beyond disappointed in the government,” she said. “There’s no excuse for this.”
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President Trump posted a fabricated quote from Denzel Washington on his Truth Social page, the actor’s team confirmed.
In the quote, Washington purportedly says he has “never met anyone braver, smarter, or who cares more about America” than Trump.
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Review: A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrating African American quiltmaking shows how the textiles can also be potent expressions of cultural heritage and even memorials to elders.
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A lawyer for one of the accused men in the case brought by a woman who said she was gang-raped at a fraternity house at Cornell University in 2024 wants the judge to impose a gag order, limiting what parties and their attorneys can say outside of court.
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Federal authorities searched the D.C. home of Rep. Ilhan Omar in what appears to be the type of action that law enforcement officials have typically avoided so close to an election in the past.
The Minnesota Democrat is up for reelection.
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After a tumultuous summer of construction, peeling paint, vandalism claims and arrests, the Reflecting Pool is being refilled again.
As of this morning, water was lapping into the partly filled navy blue basin while fencing still encircled the pool.
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DOGE alums have raised more than $500 million in funding for businesses tied to or inspired by their work in government. "It has the appearance that they found a new way to monetize government service that is far beyond anything lobbyists ever dreamed of."
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Breaking news: A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from airing taxpayer-funded campaign-style commercials.
But the administration blew past a Sunday evening deadline and ran two of the ads into Monday, advertising data from AdImpact shows.
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Interest rates hit 7.4 percent this week for a 30-year mortgage, the highest level in three years and one of the few times it’s reached that high in the past decade.
With pricier mortgages looking like a long-term issue, would-be buyers are hesitating.
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The Atlanta Dream know who they will play in the WNBA finals and when, but they don’t know where they’ll play when the series returns to Atlanta.
A Sombr concert and two Atlanta Hawks games are booked at the Gateway Center Arena for those nights.
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Residents along the Budhi Gandaki River in north central Nepal evacuated on Oct. 11 as flash flooding decimated homes and other structures in the area, including the Soti Khola bridge.
Rescue efforts have since been deployed to villages. Read more:
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