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Trump visits Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to review renovations

May 8, 2026, 12:15 p.m. ET President Donald Trump rode across the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to check out the renovations he ordered. The president made the trip on Thursday, May 7, riding through the now-empty pool as it undergoes a makeover. The visit was a surprise and shut down much of the National Mall […]

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‘Make up their own minds’: Pentagon releases first tranche of UFO files | Space News

The United States Department of Defense has released its first tranche of previously classified files on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), following an order from US President Donald Trump in February. The release on Friday contained 162 files dating back decades, including documents from the FBI, the Department of State, and the US space agency, NASA.

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Celebrity Culture Is Swallowing the News Media

In the early 2000s, digital-native outlets like Gawker and BuzzFeed helped redefine online journalism around clicks and virality. The explosion of platforms like Facebook and Twitter pushed publishers to reshape their business models around traffic. As was widely noted at the time, that process had profoundly negative consequences for journalism. Now, the obsession with site

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Motley Fool Spotlights Vanguard ETFs, VOO, Buffett 5 May 8

Gotrade News – Motley Fool published three long-horizon allocation guides simultaneously on May 8, 2026, against a busy daily news cycle. The trio covered two Vanguard ETFs, the case for the VOO index fund, and the five-stock concentration inside Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway portfolio. The shared theme was clear: while market attention rotated through headline

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Trump set to deliver remarks in Rose Garden

Facing a tough election challenge is a cost of doing business for members of Congress. But when that challenge comes from a colleague, things can get personal quickly. That’s what’s happening right now in Southern California, where tensions between Republican Reps. Ken Calvert and Young Kim are boiling over after Democratic redistricting forced them into

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Trump says he would not pay $1,000 to watch US at World Cup | Football News

FIFA have come in for criticism for the inflated prices of tickets at World Cup 2026 in US, Canada and Mexico. Published On 8 May 20268 May 2026 President Donald Trump is the latest person to ‌take a shot at the sky-high World Cup ticket prices, saying he would not pay $1,000 to watch the

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Buttigieg, Slotkin join Canada’s Carney at liberal strategy session

Two potential 2028 Democratic presidential contenders are heading to Canada on Saturday for a summit with Prime Minister Mark Carney and center-left politicians from Europe. Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., will speak alongside liberal politicians from other Western democracies at the event, which was organized by the Center for American Progress. Their focus:

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Trump threatens EU if no trade deal is signed by new deadline

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Small Business Summit in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 4, 2026. Kylie Cooper | Reuters President Donald Trump has said he will give the European Union until July 4 to ratify its trade agreement with the U.S., threatening to raise tariffs

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Investigate deadly blast at fireworks unit

President urges all-out rescue, seeks answers as accident claims 26 lives Firefighters work on-site on May 5, 2026 following an explosion the previous day at a fireworks plant in Liuyang, Hunan province, which left 26 people dead and 61 injured. (PHOTO / XINHUA) President Xi Jinping demanded a prompt investigation and proper handling of the

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Wrestling With Trump is a fascinating look at how the Donald’s brash, bullying political style is inspired by WWE | Television

A small handful of psychological concepts transformed our understanding of the world, and each other. Firstly, Sigmund Freud’s discovery of the unconscious. Alongside that, Carl Jung’s hypothesis of the collective unconscious. Comedian Munya Chawawa’s fantastic documentary Wrestling With Trump (Channel 4, Tuesday, 10pm) offers a startling new idea: that the American president’s bullish political style has

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Elon Musk claims he has paid more taxes than anyone in history; says ‘I will probably end up …’

Elon Musk has said that he has paid more than $10 billion in taxes in a single year, which he claimed was more than anyone in history every paid. The tech billionaire was responding to a post by an X user depicting how only the top 1% of earners paid 40% of federal income taxes

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Iran-US war live: Trump says ceasefire still in place despite trading Hormuz strikes with Tehran ‘lunatics’

Saudi Arabia forced Trump to pause Project Freedom after suspending US access to bases and airspace: report Shweta Sharma8 May 2026 05:25 Trump rebukes female reporter over ‘stupid question’ after Lincoln Memorial drive-by to check out work by his ‘pool guy’ President Donald Trump and members of his administration made an unusual visit to the

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‘One big glow coming out of Iran’ if ceasefire is over: Trump

WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump told reporters that they would know when the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran was over. There would be “one big glow” out of Iran. They trifled with us today. We blew them away. They trifle. They call that a trifle. I’ll let you know when there’s no season.

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Iran focus at Trump-Xi summit may delay progress on tariffs, rare earths

Pictured here is the last time a sitting U.S. president made a state visit to China. President Donald Trump traveled to Beijing in November 2017 during his first term to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Pool | Getty Images BEIJING — The Iran war is likely to take center stage in the summit between

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Federal court rules against Donald Trump’s 10% global tariff

May 7, 2026, 7:49 p.m. ET A federal court dealt another blow to President Donald Trump’s trade agenda, ruling against a 10% global tariff the president imposed this year to replace tariffs struck down by the Supreme Court. A panel of judges for the Court of International Trade ruled 2-1 that Trump couldn’t use the

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Trump officials exploring potential closure of Alligator Alcatraz

May 7, 2026, 6:54 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has discussed the potential closure of a South Florida immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” just one year after the much-touted facility opened, President Donald Trump‘s border czar Tom Homan confirmed. “We’re talking about it. We’re talking about a lot of detention facilities,”

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US trade court rules against Trump’s 10% global tariffs | Trump tariffs

The US trade court on Thursday ruled against Donald Trump’s latest 10% global tariffs, finding across-the-board tariffs were not justified under a 1970s trade law. The US Court of International Trade ruled in favor of small businesses that challenged the tariffs, which took effect on 24 February. The ruling was 2-1, with one judge saying

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Putin is dragging Belarus deeper into Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently warned of “unusual activity” on his country’s northern border with Belarus. The Ukrainian leader’s comments came amid reports that Belarus is expanding military infrastructure in the border region. This is fueling speculation that Russia may be planning to open up a new front in the war against Ukraine, and could

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