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KIRK, CHARLIE, TRUMP, HOUSE
Texas governor calls for students to be punished for mocking Charlie Kirk's death At least two college students have been expelled from Texas universities at Gov. Abbott's urging for expressing their thoughts on Charlie Kirk's death, raising concerns about
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KIMMEL, JIMMY, SUSPENSION, ABC
ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air this week prompted celebration from some conservatives while others expressed caution about free speech and government overreach.
Disney on Wednesday sidelined Jimmy Kimmel “indefinitely” on the heels
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Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One on September 18, 2025 during a flight to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
Donald Trump speaks to reporters on Air Force One on September 18, 2025 during a flight to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland.
Donald Trump
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SHUTDOWN, SENATE, HOUSE, GOVERNMENT
The U.S. Senate voted on the continuing resolution to fund the federal government that the House passed earlier on Friday, and it failed to pass by a 44-48 tally, hurtling the process toward a potential shutdown in less than two weeks. It would have been entirely
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PANEL, VACCINE, CDC, COVID
The chaos from the first day of a meeting of the federal vaccine committee appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bled into the second day, as the panel reversed one decision and indefinitely postponed a vote on a hepatitis B vaccine they had already
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TRUMP, RYAN, TRIAL, ROUTH
Prosecutors on Friday presented their final witness in the federal trial of Ryan Routh, accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at his West Palm Beach golf club on Sept. 15, 2024.
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kimberly McGreevy testified
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STUDENT, HANGING, AUTOPSY, FOUND
Former NFL player Colin Kaepernick has announced that he will pay for an independent autopsy for a black student who was found hanging from a tree at a Mississippi college in an incident officially ruled as a suicide.
Demartravion “Trey” Reed, 21, was found
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JAMES, BRETT, PLANE, CRASH
'Jesus, Take the Wheel' songwriter Brett James dies in US plane crash
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Grammy-winning songwriter Brett James, best known for co-writing the 2005 hit song Jesus Take
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JETS, RUSSIAN, AIRSPACE, FOREIGN
3 Russian fighter jets accused of violating Estonia's airspace Three Russian fighter jets are accused of violating Estonia's airspace, flying for about 12 minutes over NATO territory. NATO scrambled jets to intercept.
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REMAINS, DECKER, TRAVIS, BELIEVED
A shirt found near the suspected remains of Travis Decker was confirmed to be worn by the Army veteran wanted for murdering his three young daughters — as officials on Friday revealed other grim discoveries at the scene.
3 The girls’ mother, Whitney Decker,
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ICE, CHICAGO, CONGRESSIONAL, CLASH
A viral video showing an Illinois Democratic congressional candidate being shoved to the ground during an anti-ICE protest in suburban Chicago has sparked online debate, with people on the left expressing outrage towards ICE, and conservatives place blame
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MAMDANI, ZOHRAN, NY, JACOBS
Stephen Yang for the New York Post
Zohran Mamdani is unraveling New York’s Democratic Party, and Republicans are ready to pick up the pieces.
The state’s three most important leaders — Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader
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REDISTRICTING, NEWSOM, SOROS, EFFORT
The Democratic National Committee is entering the campaign for Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to gerrymander the California congressional map to flip five Republican seats to Democrats.
Politico reported Thursday:
The Democratic National Committee
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D4VD, FOUND, TESLA, TEEN
Family of the 15-year-old girl whose remains were found in a car registered to singer D4vd is asking for donations to help bury her — as Los Angeles detectives investigate her death as a homicide.
Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who was reported missing last year,
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Trump to add $100,000 fee for skilled worker visa applicants
Trump has been under pressure from critics of H1-Bs
A separate order is expected to order a review of minimum wage requirements for those under the scheme.
Critics of the programme have long argued
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TRUMP, DRUG, STRIKE, KILLED
President Donald Trump confirmed that the U.S. military carried out another strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug vessel, following his recent announcement that we would wage war against narco-terrorists "poisoning" our citizens.
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TRUMP, AIR, BASE, BAGRAM
Trump announces efforts to regain control of Bagram air base in Afghanistan President Trump said on Thursday that his administration is making efforts to gain control of Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base, though he provided no details on how exactly the U.S. would
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BUTTIGIEG, HARRIS, PETE, KAMALA
As the 2026 midterm elections get closer, the Democrat Party continues to flail about like a dead fish. The dinosaurs of the party refuse to relinquish power, and the up-and-comers are basically socialists who will only make the party less viable and less popular.
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GUN, LOADED, HIGH, SCHOOL
The 16-year-old boy caught with a loaded gun at a Queens high school Thursday was slapped with charges, officials announced Friday as they revealed that the weapon marked one of 4,000 taken off the city’s streets so far this year.
The Benjamin Cardozo High
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GOOGLE, ORDERED, DEAL, DATA
Leftist echo chamber Reddit is seeking to renegotiate its data-sharing agreement with Google, aiming for more users and revenue in exchange for the user content it provides to train AI models.
The Verge reports that Reddit is seeking to revise its data-sharing
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MIKE, WALTZ, SENATE, TRUMP
The Senate confirmed the last member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet on Friday after months of delay from Senate Democrats.
Lawmakers confirmed Mike Waltz to be Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations on a bipartisan 47-45 vote. Sens. John Fetterman,
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ARRESTED, OFFICIALS, FACILITY, NEW
More than a dozen elected officials were arrested Thursday while protesting conditions at a New York City immigration holding facility where a federal judge this week extended a court order requiring the government to shape up its treatment of detainees.
The
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BENZ, EXCLUSIVE, MURDER, TRANTIFA
On Thursday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” Mike Benz, the Executive Director at the Foundation for Freedom Online, talked about policy prescriptions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
Benz said that according to a grid from an account called “Charlie’s Murderers”,
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