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2025-12-18 15:22:01 UTC

Say what? Trump Media, which runs Truth Social, to merge with nuclear fusion company in $6B deal.
CNBC reports: "There are currently no commercial plants producing electricity using fusion, a futuristic technology that carries the potential to generate abundant energy without the risks associated with nuclear power."
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#Trump #News #TruthSocial #Media #USPolitics #Fusion

2025-08-12 14:33:46 UTC

Trump is right that D.C. has a serious crime problem. But he has the wrong answer for how to fix it, says Charles Fain Lehman in [@TheAtlantic](https://flipboard.com/@TheAtlantic ).
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#Trump #DC #USPolitics #Politics #News #Crime

2025-08-11 23:57:22 UTC

U.S. President Trump says he will nominate E.J. Antoni, chief economist for the Heritage Foundation, to replace Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who he fired last week after a disappointing jobs report.
"Antoni, a contributor to the Project 2025 policy rubric, has been a longtime skeptic of BLS data. On Bannon’s podcast last week, Antoni called for McEntarfer to be fired shortly before Trump pulled the trigger," NBC reports.
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#News #USNews #TrumpAdministration #LaborStatistics #JobsReport

2025-06-23 23:05:34 UTC

Tomorrow will be another big day for local elections in the U.S., including the mayoral primaries for Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and a little town called NYC. Plus, a legislative special election in New Hampshire, and the possible comeback of Anthony Weiner. @npub1skv…dfdf breaks down all the races so far and to come in June for @npub1hpg…yrre
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#Politics #USPolitics #USElections #NYC #AndrewCuomo #ZohranMamdani #NYC #NYCMayor

2025-05-06 11:12:14 UTC

Ukrainian drones attack Moscow, halting flights ahead of major military parade.
[@CNN](https://flipboard.com/@CNN ) has the latest: https://flip.it/4YcVa7
#Moscow #Ukraine #News #Drones #Russia

2025-04-01 23:35:52 UTC

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker has set the record for the longest speech in Senate history, surpassing Sen. Strom Thurmond who spoke against the Civil Rights Act for 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957. Booker is still speaking against the Trump administration's "grave and urgent" threat to the country. He has shared letters from constituents and read news articles, discussing a wide range of subjects and in his opening remarks, referencing his hero, the late Rep. John Lewis. "I start tonight thinking about him; I've been thinking about him a lot during these last 71 days. 'Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, help redeem the soul of America,'" Booker said, invoking Lewis' words. "And had to ask myself, if he's my hero, how am I living up to his words?"
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#CoryBooker #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration #USSenate

2025-03-18 19:19:49 UTC

A U.S. federal judge has indefinitely stopped President Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, saying the effort is “likely unconstitutional.”
https://flip.it/qeKEWX
#USAID #Trump #US #Aid #DOGE #Government

2025-03-12 20:22:54 UTC

More than 60 years ago, New York Times C. v. Sullivan established that, to succeed in defamation cases, public figures must prove that a published statement is false and that publishers acted with "actual malice." "Murder the Truth," a new book by New York Times journalist and editor David Enrich, discusses the movement to overturn Sullivan, accelerated by Trump, his allies and people who are influenced by them. Nieman Lab spoke to Enrich about his investigation, the journalists he spoke to, and more. "The push to overturn Roe was obviously one of the most coordinated assaults on established Supreme Court precedent, probably in history," Enrich says. "This is definitely not like that — but it’s not an accident that these people were getting up and being given platforms on places like Fox News to make these arguments over and over again."
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#USLaw #Law #Libel #Defamation #Books @npub1ny7…uv57 #Media #Journalism #MurderTheTruth

2025-01-25 03:17:01 UTC

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense in a 50-50 vote with Vice President JD Vance breaking the tie. Former GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky voted no, as did Republican Senators Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, along with all Democrats.
https://flip.it/IPw0Fc
#USNews #USPolitics #PeteHegseth #TrumpAdministration #SecretaryOfDefense

2024-09-11 23:01:08 UTC

Hurricane Francine has made landfall in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, just after strengthening into a Category 2 storm, fueled by the unusually warm water in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm’s maximum sustained winds are estimated to be near 100 mph, the National Hurricane Center said. Southern Louisiana, including New Orleans, face significant flooding risk. Read more from the Associated Press.
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#Louisiana #Hurricane #Flooding #NewOrleans #Storm

2024-08-29 17:52:09 UTC

Israel agrees to pause fighting in Gaza for polio vaccination, says UN official.
CNN reports: "Since the war, Gaza’s near-universal polio vaccine coverage has dropped to just over 80%. The resurgence of the virus – eliminated in most of the developed world – highlights the struggles facing Gaza’s two million residents, who have lived under Israeli bombardment since October last year."
https://flip.it/pC6OKW
#Israel #Gaza #Polio #Hamas #Disease #PublicHealth #Vaccines #News

2024-08-18 23:27:53 UTC

Nearly 70 million people in southern Africa are suffering from the effects of an El Niño-induced drought, according to the Southern African Development Community, resulting in widespread food shortages and even forcing some families to eat grass seed. Zambia and Zimbabwe have declared a state of disaster. Read more from NBC News: https://flip.it/Zejily
#News #WorldNews #Africa #ElNino #Hunger #Zimbabwe #Zambia

2024-06-21 16:10:14 UTC

A U.S. journalist shot by police while covering the 2020 protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis is dying of her injuries.
NPR reports a "nonlethal" foam plastic bullet hit Linda Tirado, 42, in the eye — even though she was wearing protective goggles and press credentials. "While we she has battled, her condition has continued to worsen to the point she is at life's end and receiving palliative care," the National Press Club said in a statement.
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#Journalist #Journalism #LindaTirado #Press #PressFreedom #FreePress #Media #GeorgeFloyd