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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), after months of inaction, plans to put four different bills on the floor, essentially decoupling aid for Israel and Ukraine.

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In first day of trial, legal wrangling over Trump’s tabloid lifestyle

Lawyers and the judge debated how many salacious details about Donald Trump the jurors should eventually hear as they decide whether he broke the law to cover up hush money payments.

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Caitlin Clark selected by Indiana Fever with top pick in WNBA draft

To the surprise of no one, Clark, college basketball’s all-time leading scorer after a remarkable four-year career at Iowa, was taken with the No. 1 pick.

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How crews moved a 450-ton hunk of the collapsed Baltimore bridge

Workers had never hoisted a piece so large. Its journey from river to scrapyard illustrates the task of deconstructing a massive span that took years to build.

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SpaceX could finally face competition. It may be too late.

After several years atop the space industry, rivaled only by nation states such as China, Elon Musk’s space venture may finally be facing a space industry that has grown in its wake and is poised to challenge SpaceX on a number of fronts.

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They were liberal public school teachers. Now they teach kids to be anti-‘woke.’

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