ABCNEWS - 7 people now face charges in plot targeting UFC event at White House
Federal prosecutors say two Missouri and Washington men were involved in the alleged plot.
ABCNEWS - New York’s 2026 primaries are here. Who’s on the ballot?
New York voters will decide who the nominees will be in several high-profile races. In one race, a member of the Kennedy family is among the Democratic candidates.
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NYTIMES (Michael Grunwald) - Is This the Year Florida Turns Blue?
David Jolly must persuade voters who have been increasingly hostile to Democrats that he’s a different kind of Democrat.
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NYTIMES (Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren) - Social Security Is Running Out of Money, Fast
To save the program, we need to eliminate the payroll tax cap.
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NPR (Stephen Fowler) - How Trump's 'Complete and Total Endorsement' has reshaped the Republican Party
An NPR analysis of more than a thousand Trump endorsements in House, Senate and governor races over the last decade finds the president now picks candidates earlier — and in safer races.
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NPR (Huo Jingnan) - After losing jobs for posting about Charlie Kirk, some are getting six figure payouts
While workers, who were employees in government or public institutions, feel vindicated by how their lawsuits concluded, they are still grappling with the aftermath.
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NPR (Sydney Lupkin) - Trouble getting weight loss drugs covered by insurance? Here's what to know
If your doctor prescribes a GLP-1 medication for weight loss but your insurance won't cover it, you have options.
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NPR (The Associated Press) - A red alert over France, and heat that may rewrite the record books
France is experiencing scorching heat, with most of the population exposed to extreme temperatures. The heat is expected to last until at least the end of the week.
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NPR (A Martínez) - Morning news brief
U.S. lifts oil sanctions on Iran, Trump visits Pennsylvania to tout economic wins, judge blocks DOJ subpoenas targeting Minnesota officials.
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AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Google takes the hit in AI's talent war
Google DeepMind lost two high-profile researchers in a week marked by a flurry of departures across major AI labs. Why it matters: The talent wars continue and have intensified at the highest levels as many AI developers believe that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is on the horizon. Driving the news: Noam Shazeer announced last week that he was leaving Google DeepMind for OpenAI. Google previously paid more than $2 billion to acqui-hire Shazeer and part of his Character.ai team. - Shazeer co-authored the pivotal 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introduced the Transformer architecture — the "T" in ChatGPT. - Two days later, John Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold, said he was also…