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Le Pen’s conviction in France: Career-ending or fuel for a new far right?

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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker launches talking filibuster to protest Trump’s agenda

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has carried an all-night speaking filibuster in protest of President Donald Trump’s agenda into a new day.
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Bing Copilot Answer With Tabs To Image & Video Search

Microsoft is now placing quick buttons or tabs to quickly jump from the Bing Copilot Answer to Bing image or video search results. I am not sure why or when Bing decides to show this but they are, for some (not all) queries that respond with a Copilot Answer.
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Trump administration live updates: Florida holds special elections for two House seats

Live updates and the latest news as Florida holds House special election, Wisconsin votes in the state Supreme Court race and Trump signs executive orders.
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New drug cuts down genetically inherited heart disease risk factor

An experimental drug decreases the genetically inherited heart disease risk by 94%.
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Trump administration admits man was deported to El Salvador mega prison due to ‘error’

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia had legal protection from being deported to his home country of El Salvador, from which his lawyers say he fled aged 16.
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Judge in long-running lawsuit declines to block the use of Georgia’s voting system

Judge in long-running lawsuit declines to block the use of Georgia’s voting system [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
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Tariffs don’t all act the same

The Trump administration is set to slap a broad set of tariffs on imported goods. Similar policies have had a range of impacts in the past.
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FA lobbies UK government to make ‘tailgating’ at turnstiles a criminal offence

  • Governing body hopes law will be in place for Euro 2028
  • FA: ‘Enforcing entry points is a huge drain on resources’

The Football Association has stepped up its lobbying of the government to make forced entry into football stadiums, so-called “tailgating”, a criminal offence before the United Kingdom and Ireland host the 2028 men’s European Championship.

The policing minister Dame Diana Johnson was a guest of the FA at Wembley for last month’s Carabao Cup final, where 68 of the 91 arrests made were for attempting to enter the ground without a ticket.

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Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit ‘obscene’ books in libraries

Critics say bans would hinder rights as proponents would impose their beliefs on others who don’t share their views

Rightwing groups around the US are pushing legislation that would place new limits on what books are allowed in school libraries in a move that critics decry as censorship often focused on LGBTQ+ issues or race or imposing conservative social values.

Caught up in the attempts at suppressing books are classics like The Color Purple and Slaughterhouse Five.

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