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Crypto billionaire Justin Sun says he received a $100K Trump-branded watch at the president's meme coin dinner

May 23, 2025, 3:09 PM ET The crypto billionaire Justin Sun said he received a $100,000 Trump-branded watch at President Donald Trump's meme coin dinner on Thursday, held at the Trump National Golf Club outside Washington, DC. The top 220 holders of the token were invited to the event. In photos and videos of the event, Sun posed with other attendees and signed a printout of a leaderboard showing he was No. 1 among the top 220 Trump coin holders. Sun said he was gifted a Trump Tourbillon watc ...

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'Extremely upsetting': Republican veterans leaving GOP because of Trump policy

May 24, 2025 7:54PM ET When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, one of the major policy changes from the Biden Administration involved the Ukraine-Russia War. Biden, a scathing critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, favored aggressive military aid to Ukraine. Trump, in contrast, says he is trying to negotiate a peace plan between Ukraine and Russia but angrily berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he visited the White House. In a Capital ...

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Texas is closer to putting Ten Commandments in classrooms

May 24, 2025, 9:09 PM AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas would require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a Republican proposal that cleared a major vote Saturday and would make the state the nation's largest to impose such a mandate. If passed as expected, the measure is likely to draw a legal challenge from critics who consider it a constitutional violation of the separation of church and state. The Republican-controlled House gave its preliminary approval with a final v ...

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With $37 million and a jet, Trump's presidential library takes off, Eric Trump as pilot

May 24, 2025, 9:06 p.m. ET With a $400 million luxury jet waiting in the wings and a $37 million check in hand − thanks to settlements from Meta and ABC− President Donald Trump's future presidential library plan is ready for take off. All it needs is a nonprofit − or two − to get it off the ground. To that end, Trump’s son Eric and son-in-law Michael Boulos have filed paperwork establishing a nonprofit to raise money for the library, the second in the past six months. ...

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Hundreds of Catholic bishops ramp up holy 'war' against Trump admin: report

May 24, 2025 4:53PM ET A group composed of hundreds of Catholic bishops is ramping up its "war" against Donald Trump and his administration, according to a Newsweek report Saturday. According to the outlet's weekend article, "The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) seems to be battling with President Donald Trump's administration over some of its policies." The article is called, "American Bishops' War With Trump Admin Is Heating Up." "Last week, t ...

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Trump Hijacks West Point Graduation to Rant About 'Drag Shows'

President Donald Trump ranted to a captive audience of graduating West Point cadets about military drag shows, urging the students to focus on killing America’s enemies. “The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” the president said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere, anytime, and anyplace.” While college commenceme ...

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US Citizen Detained by ICE and Told His REAL ID Is 'Fake'

Published May 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM EDT | Updated May 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM EDT Leonardo García Venegas, a Florida-born U.S. citizen with a REAL ID, was forcibly arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at an Alabama construction site after agents claimed his identification was "fake," Venegas told Noticias Telemundo in Spanish on Friday. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesperson told Newsweek on Saturday morning that "there was no mistake" durin ...

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Russian launches massive nighttime drone and missile attack on Kyiv

World May 24, 2025 11:53 AM EDT KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Saturday as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. The exchange came hours after Kyiv came under a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack that left at least 15 people injured. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russia’s defense ministry said each side brought home 307 more soldiers on Saturday, ...

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Trump may have skirted the law addressing his crypto investors using the presidential seal

Saturday 24 May 2025 15:36 BST President Donald Trump addressed top investors in his family’s cryptocurrency operation on Thursday night from a podium emblazoned with the presidential seal in apparent violation of federal law. The prominent appearance of the seal as Trump pitched his $TRUMP meme coin at an exclusive dinner at one of his golf courses made it appear that the federal government was somehow linked to the private business. Under federal law, the presidential seal can’t be used in ...

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Any trade deal with US must be based on 'respect not threats', says EU commissioner

Sat 24 May 2025 08.08 EDT Last modified on Sat 24 May 2025 08.30 EDT The European Union's trade chief has struck a defiant tone after Donald Trump threatened to place a 50% tariff on all goods from the bloc, saying any potential trade deal between Brussels and Washington must be based on "respect not threats". The US president made his announcement after voicing frustration with the pace of progress on a trade agreement with the EU. The new rates would come into effect from 1 June. ...

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Pride groups converge on DC with differing interests but common goals

46 min ago - May 25, 2025, 8:27 AM WASHINGTON -- You've heard of twofers. Kenya Hutton is a “threefer.” His parents are immigrants, he’s a Black man and he’s gay — at a moment in history when anti-immigrant fervor, racism and anti-LGBTQ ... (ABC News/AP)

Pratt & Whitney union members 'holding strong' on strike as vote nears. Here's why.

2 hrs ago - By Staff report PUBLISHED: May 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT Pratt & Whitney workers with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union remain on the picket line even as a vote on a tentative agreement on a revised contract of ... (Hartford Courant)

Texas GOP seeks to block legal challenges against abortion

2 hrs ago - 05/25/25 6:00 AM ET Texas Republicans are rolling ahead with a controversial bill that seeks to further restrict abortion access in the state, while making it impossible for it to be challenged in state courts, despite Democratic objections. Senate ... (The Hill)

Some fear excessive use of force will rise as the DOJ drops oversight of police departments

4 hrs ago - May 25, 2025, 7:00 AM EDT The killing of George Floyd five years ago by a Minneapolis police officer ignited what many reform advocates hoped would be a national effort to end, or at least curb, excessive use of force. But the Trump administration ... (NBC News)

Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex

4 hrs ago - -snip- To fast-track the Trump development, Vietnam has ignored its own laws, legal experts said, granting concessions more generous than what even the most connected locals receive. Vietnamese officials, in a letter obtained by The New York Times, e ... (NYT)

Scientists have lost their jobs or grants in US cuts. Foreign universities want to hire them

4 hrs ago - Updated 7:18 AM EDT, May 25, 2025 As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants — and governments and universities around the world sp ... (AP)

Testy Trump Admin Whines That Due Process for Immigrants Is 'Burdensome'

5 hrs ago - Updated May 25 2025 2:47AM EDT Published May 25 2025 1:44AM EDT It’s only four months into Donald Trump’s second term as president, and his administration already seems fed up with all the paperwork. The administration has responded on tw ... (Daily Beast)

Exclusive: FEMA chief was set to be fired before public break with Trump

6 hrs ago - May 25, 2025 6:04 AM EDT Updated 3 hours ago WASHINGTON, May 25 (Reuters) - Before Cameron Hamilton headed to Capitol Hill on May 7 to testify about the Federal Emergency Management Agency he was leading, the former Navy SEAL cleaned out his desk, kn ... (Reuters)

Masked ICE agents are showing up at courthouses. Immigrant groups call it 'flagrant' violation of due process

7 hrs ago - Sunday 25 May 2025 02:40 BST A gang of nearly two dozen masked federal agents descended on a courthouse in Phoenix, Arizona over several days this week and arrested immigrants moments after they left their immigration court hearings. Issac Ortega, a ... (The Independent)

Texas is closer to putting Ten Commandments in classrooms

7 hrs ago - May 24, 2025, 9:09 PM AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas would require all public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments under a Republican proposal that cleared a major vote Saturday and would make the state the nation's largest to impose such a mand ... (ABC News)

Poland scrambles fighter jets amid Russian air attack on Ukraine

8 hrs ago - Sat, May 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM EDT Poland scrambled fighter jets and heightened its air defence readiness in response to a large-scale Russian missile attack on Ukraine on the night of 24-25 May. Source: Polish Ministry of Defence Quote: "Polish and al ... (Yahoo! News/Ukrayinska Pravda)

With $37 million and a jet, Trump's presidential library takes off, Eric Trump as pilot

8 hrs ago - May 24, 2025, 9:06 p.m. ET With a $400 million luxury jet waiting in the wings and a $37 million check in hand − thanks to settlements from Meta and ABC− President Donald Trump's future presidential library plan is ready for take off. Al ... (USA Today)

A 302-pound loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat gets an oversize CT scan, with a surprise

8 hrs ago - By CODY JACKSON and FREIDA FRISARO Updated 11:04 PM CDT, May 24, 2025 JUNO BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A massive loggerhead sea turtle hit by a boat off Florida’s Atlantic coast arrived at a turtle hospital needing medical care, but at 302 pounds (1 ... (AP)

'Extremely upsetting': Republican veterans leaving GOP because of Trump policy

9 hrs ago - May 24, 2025 7:54PM ET When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, one of the major policy changes from the Biden Administration involved the Ukraine-Russia War. Biden, a scathing critic of Russian President Vladimir ... (Raw Story)

Maryland father mistakenly deported to Salvadoran prison really did flee to avoid MS-13 gang

9 hrs ago - Saturday 24 May 2025 22:52 BST A Maryland father who was erroneously deported back to El Salvador really did flee his home country to avoid gang recruitment, school records obtained by The Washington Post show. There is no official evidence linking K ... (The Independent)

After brief X outage, Musk says refocusing on businesses

10 hrs ago - Sat, 24 May 2025 at 5:23 pm Social media platform X was hit by a two-hour outage Saturday, prompting owner Elon Musk to say he needs to spend more time focusing on his companies. His statement echoed comments earlier this month suggesting he would re ... (Yahoo! Finance/AFP)

Mexican singer cancels show in Texas citing visa revocation

10 hrs ago - Sat 24 May 2025 16.26 EDT Last modified on Sat 24 May 2025 17.12 EDT A popular Mexican singer had to cancel a concert in Texas scheduled for Saturday after the Trump administration allegedly revoked his visa, preventing him from entering the country. ... (The Guardian)

Trump's ban on Harvard foreign students may come at a hefty price to the economy

11 hrs ago - 05/24/25 5:00 PM ET The Trump administration’s efforts to block international students from Harvard could come at a hefty price — and not just for the university. Harvard students are top innovators in the country, with foreign-born alumni ... (The Hill)

Hundreds of Catholic bishops ramp up holy 'war' against Trump admin: report

11 hrs ago - May 24, 2025 4:53PM ET A group composed of hundreds of Catholic bishops is ramping up its "war" against Donald Trump and his administration, according to a Newsweek report Saturday. According to the outlet's weekend article, "The U.S. Conference of ... (Raw Story)

Billionaires Boost Cuomo's Fundraising Lead in NYC Mayor's Race

11 hrs ago - May 24, 2025 at 4:25 PM EDT Former Governor Andrew Cuomo expanded his commanding fundraising lead in the New York City mayoral race with help from a few billionaire donors, according to newly published numbers filed with the city’s Campaign Fina ... (Bloomberg)

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