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Trump officials to send Ebola-exposed Americans to Kenya rather than bring them home: NYT

May 26, 2026 7:40PM ET The Trump administration wants to send U.S. citizens living abroad who are exposed to the deadly Ebola virus to Kenya rather than bring them home, according to new reporting by the New York Times. Three people familiar with the Trump administration's plans spoke with the NYT, which noted that previous administrations brought Americans home for observation and treatment. The outbreak of Ebola is in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The World Health Organization declared ...

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FBI fires analyst who worked 2017 case of shooting at congressional baseball practice

The shooting, which seriously injured Rep. Steve Scalise, was not labeled domestic terrorism at the time, angering GOP lawmakers. May. 26, 2026, 5:43 PM EDT By Ken Dilanian FBI Director Kash Patel last week fired a senior intelligence analyst who played a role in the FBI’s 2017 assessment of the motives of the gunman who attacked a House Republican baseball practice, a report that drew the ire of the GOP because it did not label the incident as domestic terrorism. Four people familiar wi ...

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Biden sues DOJ to stop release of audio and transcripts tied to special counsel probe

May 27, 20261:37 AM ET WASHINGTON — Joe Biden sued the Justice Department on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of the former president's interview with a ghostwriter that were obtained by the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified documents. Biden's lawyers said in a lawsuit filed in Washington's federal court that the Justice Department plans to release the files to Congress and a conservative group, the Heritage Foundation, af ...

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Democratic state AGs say their staff excluded from Vance anti-fraud meeting

May 26, 2026 | 6:34 pm ET WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice President JD Vance and attended by Republican AGs. Two dozen Democratic attorneys general had earlier declined invitations for their own attendance at the White House anti-fraud roundtable, citing extremely short notice and a lack of an agenda in a letter to Vance, who has helm ...

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Elon Musk Accuses Trump Admin of Using Starlink for Military Purposes

Published May 26, 2026 at 02:09 PM EDT updated May 26, 2026 at 04:03 PM EDT Elon Musk, owner of global satellite internet service Starlink, on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of breaching the agreement his company has with the Pentagon amid reports of disputes over charges. Musk took to his X social media platform to accuse the Department of Defense (DOD) of violating the terms of service for using Starlink at a time when the U.S. military is relying more and more on external compani ...

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Trump's 'rare trip' to secluded retreat after hospital trip sparks speculation

Story by Alexander Willis • 2h • President Donald Trump is set to make a “rare trip” on Wednesday to the secluded presidential retreat Camp David in Maryland, the timing of which fueled speculation among onlookers. “Trump Cabinet meetings are basically somewhere between a pep rally and a cult worship ceremony,” wrote writer and political analyst Arieh Kovler Tuesday in a social media post on X. “They're completely devoid of content. So why move it to Camp David?” According to the Post, ...

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Bad Consumer Confidence News Drops -- Minutes After Trump Spox Brags About It

May 26th, 2026, 12:35 pm The board that produces the Consumer Confidence dropped some bad news shortly after Trump White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett bragged about it to rebut negative consumer sentiment. On Tuesday morning’s edition of Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria, anchor Maria Bartiromo pressed Hassett on record low numbers on the Consumer Sentiment index, and Hassett responded by suggesting the University of Michigan survey is rigged, and promoting ...

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Democrats are already preparing Trump investigations if they retake the House

May. 26, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT They may not have the gavels yet, but House Democrats are laying the groundwork for a number of investigations into President Donald Trump should they win control of Congress in November. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif. — who’s set to chair the House Oversight Committee in a Democratic majority — told MS NOW that his team is “already preparing and gearing up.” “We’ve got a team on Epstein, we have a team on [Trump] family corruption, we have a team on DHS and ICE,” G ...

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Trump to no longer hold Cabinet meeting at Camp David

05/26/26 5:20 PM ET President Trump announced a Cabinet meeting that had been scheduled at Camp David on Wednesday will no longer be held there because of bad weather. Trump in a Truth Social post Tuesday said that “possible bad weather conditions” are postponing the Cabinet trip to the Maryland retreat and the meeting will instead take place at the White House where it’s been held during his second term and been largely on camera. The White House indicated earlier Tuesday that Trump would b ...

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US Law Enforcement Warns of 'Anti-Tech Extremism' as AI Hatred Grows

In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists. More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained by WIRED show a national shift taking place to surveil this new and worryingly broad category of ...

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Court gives Mahmoud Khalil more time to fight Trump administration's efforts to deport him

4 min ago - Updated 8:17 PM EDT, May 26, 2026 NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court is giving former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil more time to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to deport him. Khalil, a lawful permanent ... (AP)

'Scum': Trump attacks US states' efforts to regulate prediction markets

30 min ago - Tue 26 May 2026 21.25 EDT Last modified on Tue 26 May 2026 21.26 EDT Donald Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday it was “critically important” that the federal government retain control over the multibillion-dollar prediction marke ... (The Guardian)

Scoop: Trump appoints Bondi to White House AI panel

1 hr ago - 10h President Trump has appointed former Attorney General Pam Bondi to an advisory committee focused on AI policy, Axios has learned. Driving the news: Bondi, whom Trump ousted as AG last month, will be on the Presidential Council of Advisors on Sci ... (msn/Axios)

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Withdraws as HLS Class Day Speaker After Union Urges Her Not to Cross Picket Line

1 hr ago - By Uy B. Pham and Claire L. Simon, Crimson Staff Writers 9 hours ago Updated May 26, 2026, at 11:51 p.m. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 has withdrawn as the Class Day speaker for Harvard Law School after the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United A ... (The Crimson)

Chemical tank implosion in Washington state kills 1 and leaves 9 missing

1 hr ago - By CLAIRE RUSH and REBECCA BOONE Updated 12:18 AM CDT, May 27, 2026 Leer en español LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — A massive chemical tank holding nearly a million gallons of a highly corrosive liquid imploded and collapsed Tuesday at a Washingt ... (AP)

Biden sues DOJ to stop release of audio and transcripts tied to special counsel probe

1 hr ago - May 27, 20261:37 AM ET WASHINGTON — Joe Biden sued the Justice Department on Tuesday in an effort to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of the former president's interview with a ghostwriter that were obtained by the special c ... (NPR)

Trump officials to send Ebola-exposed Americans to Kenya rather than bring them home: NYT

2 hrs ago - May 26, 2026 7:40PM ET The Trump administration wants to send U.S. citizens living abroad who are exposed to the deadly Ebola virus to Kenya rather than bring them home, according to new reporting by the New York Times. Three people familiar with th ... (Raw Story)

FBI fires analyst who worked 2017 case of shooting at congressional baseball practice

2 hrs ago - The shooting, which seriously injured Rep. Steve Scalise, was not labeled domestic terrorism at the time, angering GOP lawmakers. May. 26, 2026, 5:43 PM EDT By Ken Dilanian FBI Director Kash Patel last week fired a senior intelligence analyst who ... (ms.now/news)

Democratic state AGs say their staff excluded from Vance anti-fraud meeting

2 hrs ago - May 26, 2026 | 6:34 pm ET WASHINGTON — A handful of Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice President JD Vance and att ... (States Newsroom)

Paxton dominates Cornyn in Texas US Senate runoff, the latest sign of Trump's hold on GOP

2 hrs ago - PLANO, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, easily defeating four-term Sen. John Cornyn in the latest contest where President Donald Trump sought to oust an incumbent he saw as ... (Associated Press)

Christian Menefee Defeats Al Green in Houston-Area House Seat

2 hrs ago - Representative Christian Menefee defeated Representative Al Green on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press, in a Texas showdown that represented the kind of generational clash consuming the Democratic Party nationwide. Mr. Menefee, 38, toppled t ... (NY Times)

Dems say ICE is retaliating against hunger striking detainees as protesters swarm detention facility

3 hrs ago - Tuesday 26 May 2026 17:12 EDT Dozens of protesters have spent days surrounding the gates of an immigration detention center where detainees are on hunger strike to protest what they have described as unconstitutional and inhumane conditions inside. I ... (The Independent)

Schiff targets compensation fund for Trump allies with 2 measures

3 hrs ago - 05/26/26 4:46 PM ET Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is expected to introduce two new pieces of legislation targeting payouts from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. One piece of legislation woul ... (The Hill)

Trump raises refugee cap by 10,000, but only for White South Africans

3 hrs ago - May 26, 2026, 4:46 p.m. ET President Donald Trump raised the cap for how many refugees may be admitted to the United States by 10,000, but the only group that will benefit is White South Africans. Trump raised the refugee cap from 7,500 to 17,500 for ... (USA Today)

Elon Musk Accuses Trump Admin of Using Starlink for Military Purposes

4 hrs ago - Published May 26, 2026 at 02:09 PM EDT updated May 26, 2026 at 04:03 PM EDT Elon Musk, owner of global satellite internet service Starlink, on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of breaching the agreement his company has with the Pentagon amid ... (Newsweek)

DOJ Files Lawsuit Accusing UCLA of 'Deliberate Indifference' to 'Discrimination Against Jewish and Israeli Students'

4 hrs ago - May 26th, 2026, 3:48 pm The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles on Tuesday for “deliberate indifference” to “race and national origin discrimination agai ... (MEDIAite)

New Mexico AG calls on Epstein survivors to come forward amid Zorro Ranch investigation

5 hrs ago - Posted 3:07 PM, May 26, 2026 New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez is calling on survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to come forward and help with the state's criminal investigation into Epstein's former New Mexico ranch. Torrez sha ... (Scripps News)

Unionized workers of Samsung Electronics vote to accept wage deal

9 hrs ago - SEOUL, May 27 (Yonhap) -- Unionized workers at Samsung Electronics voted to approve a wage agreement, the union said Wednesday, easing concerns about potential disruptions to the global supply chain. In the six-day vote, 73.7 percent of the 62,616 me ... (Yonhap News)

Garcia beats Texas Democrat accused of antisemitism in House primary runoff

10 hrs ago - Democrat Johnny Garcia is projected to win his House primary runoff in Texas, defeating a candidate that came under fire for remarks seen as antisemitic, according to Decision Desk HQ. Garcia, a public information officer for the Bexar County Sherif ... (The Hill)

Paxton Crushes Cornyn in Texas Runoff After Winning Trump Nod

10 hrs ago - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton stormed to a blowout victory in the state's Republican Senate runoff, easily defeating four-term incumbent John Cornyn and setting up a November showdown with a well-funded Democrat, James Talarico. With 60% of the v ... (Bloomberg)

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