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US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic The U.S. government's gross national debt has surpassed $38 trillion during the federal shutdown, marking a record high.

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Cody Wofsy, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, put it even more starkly. “Any one of us could be next.”

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US citizen detained and held at ICE building in Portland for hours before release, lawyer says A lawyer in Portland, Oregon, says he is representing a U.S. citizen who was detained and held at the city's U.S.

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Tesla hit with probe after crashes involving a self-driving feature that Musk has boasted about Federal regulators have opened yet another investigation into Tesla’s so-called full-self driving technology after dozens of incidents in which the electric vehicle maker’s cars ran red lights or drov...

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Multiple people shot at Mormon church in Michigan and shooter is down, police say Police say multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan, and the shooter is down. The shooting happened Sunday at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Grand Blanc, about...

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AP reporting calls into question why and how Israel attacked a Gaza hospital Associated Press reporting into an Israeli attack that killed 22 people at a Gaza Strip hospital, including five journalists, raises questions about Israel’s rationale for the attack and the way it wa...

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Tesla asks court to throw out big damage award in crash by arguing comments about Musk misled jury The car company run by Elon Musk asked a court Friday to toss out a $243 million damage award to victims of a deadly crash that is being closely watched by the auto industry.

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Pediatric Brain Cancer Group to Lose Federal Funding

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How can a company that had to pay nearly 800 million for lying still be in business?

DOGE Put Critical Social Security Data at Risk, Whistle-Blower Says

The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

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“We are outraged that independent journalists were among the victims of this strike on the hospital, a location that is protected under international law. These journalists were present in their professional capacity, doing critical work bearing witness.”

AP freelancer among 4 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say Among the victims was Mariam Dagga, a freelancer for the Associated Press. Al Jazeera confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salam was also killed in the strike. Reuters reported that its contractor c...

AP freelancer among 4 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say

“They are doing everything they can to silence independent voices that are trying to report on Gaza,” Bruttin said.

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Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why Federal auto safety regulators have opened an investigation into why Tesla has repeatedly broken rules requiring it to tell them quickly about crashes involving its self-driving technology that may so...

apnews.com/article/tesl... Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why

FACT FOCUS: Trump says he has ended seven wars. The reality isn't so clear cut

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Trump's tax law will mostly benefit the rich, while leaving poorer Americans with less, CBO says President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law will result in less income for the poorest Americans while sending money to the riches, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budge...

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Ford hits the pedal on EV production with $2 billion overhaul of Kentucky plant Ford says it will invest nearly $2 billion to retool a Kentucky plant to produce electric vehicles. The automaker says the goal is to produce EVs that are more affordable, profitable to make and outco...

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Israeli Strike Kills 4 Al Jazeera Journalists, Network Says

Last month, the Committee to Protect Journalists said it was “gravely worried” about Mr. al-Sharif’s safety, accusing the Israeli military of targeting him with a “smear campaign, which he believes is a precursor to his assassination.”
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Prayers up for Lions S Morice Norris who was carted off the field in tonight’s preseason game vs. the Falcons www.freep.com/story/sports...

Army base in Georgia is on lockdown after report of an active shooter, spokesperson tells AP A spokesperson says parts of the Fort Stewart in southeast Georgia were locked down after an active shooter was reported on the sprawling Army post. Lt. Col.

BREAKING: Five soldiers were shot on at the Army’s Fort Stewart in Georgia, the base said in a social media post.

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

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Who is Erika McEntarfer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner fired by Trump? Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that angered President Donald Trump.

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Jury orders Tesla to pay more than $240 million in Autopilot crash case A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 mi...

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Trump demands official overseeing jobs data be fired after dismal employment report President Donald Trump said Friday that he has directed his team to fire the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in ...

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Convicted Murderer Released by Trump From Venezuelan Prison Is Free in U.S.

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Tesla profit plunges in latest quarter as Musk's turn to politics continues to keep buyers away The fallout from Elon Musk’s plunge into politics a year ago is still hammering his Tesla business as both sales and profits fell sharply again in the latest quarter.

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Looming over two cases threatening Musk's car company is a single question: Can he be trusted? Elon Musk fought court cases on opposite coasts Monday raising a question about the billionaire that could either speed his plan to put self-driving Teslas on U.S. roads or throw up a major roadblock:...

apnews.com/article/tesl... Looming over two cases threatening Musk's car company is a single question: Can he be trusted?

Banishing a reporter: Trump escalates battle with Wall Street Journal over Epstein story The president sued the Journal for libel over its story reporting that Trump wrote a sexually suggestive note to alleged sex trafficker Epstein for his birthday more than two decades ago.

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Trump's approval rating on immigration and government spending has slipped, new AP-NORC poll finds Just 1 in 4 U.S. adults say President Donald Trump’s policies have helped them. That's according to a new AP-NORC poll that finds underwhelming marks for the Republican president on key issues, includ...

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