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Peru’s former first lady seeks asylum in Brazilian Embassy as she and ex-President Humala sentenced to prison

Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia requested asylum at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday, the same day she and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, were sentenced to…

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White House quietly floats millionaire tax hike proposal in Congress as GOP leaders signal opposition

White House aides are quietly floating a proposal within the House GOP that would raise the tax rate for people making more than $1 million to 40%, two sources familiar…

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Hertz says 2024 hack exposed some customers’ driver license and credit card data

Hertz is notifying customers that a data hack late last year may have exposed their personal data. The rental-car giant said an analysis of the incident that it completed on…

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Soaring Medicare prescription drug prices targeted in Trump’s new executive order

President Donald Trump is seeking to combat soaring prescription drug prices in a new executive order he signed Tuesday. The order instructs Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and…

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Israeli fighter jet drops bomb near Israeli community on Gaza border after “technical malfunction,” IDF says

An Israeli fighter jet dropped a bomb near an Israeli community on the Gaza border on Tuesday night as a result of what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) called a…

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France expels 12 Algerian officials in tit-for-tat move amid diplomatic tensions

France said Tuesday it was expelling 12 Algerian diplomatic officials a day after Algeria announced the expulsion of the same number of French officials in escalating tensions between the two…

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Top Hegseth advisor Dan Caldwell placed on administrative leave by Defense Department

A top advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was escorted out of the Pentagon on Tuesday and placed on administrative leave, according to a Defense Department official. Reuters first reported…

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Schumer calls on Leland Dudek, acting commissioner of SSA, to resign

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. called on the head of President Donald Trump’s Social Security Administration to resign on Tuesday. Schumer declared a ‘Social Security Day of Action’ during…

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Trump directs agencies to follow Supreme Court rulings, as he continues to rein in administrative state

A new White House memo highlighting the top 10 Supreme Court rulings federal agencies must follow has legal experts optimistic about reining in the administrative state, while some litigators remain…

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AOC claims Republicans will ‘trick’ Americans into identity politics, stoking racial divisions

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told rally attendees not to let Republicans ‘trick’ them into thinking they ‘can be separated’ by race or into stoking ‘deep divisions along race, identity and…

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