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How the Media Is Covering Justice Merchan in Trump’s Criminal Trial

Conservative outlets have criticized Justice Juan M. Merchan as politically motivated, while some liberal media organizations have praised him for muzzling Mr. Trump.

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Read a Transcript of Volodymyr Zelensky’s Interview With The Times

The Ukrainian president spoke to Times reporters in Kyiv for nearly an hour.

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15-year-old Florida girl’s wakeboarding death opens lid on state’s lax lagoon laws

The death of 15-year-old ballerina Ella Riley Adler, who was struck and killed by an oncoming vessel after she lost hold of a tow-rope while wakeboarding in Florida last week, has brought the disparity in punishments between hit-and-run incidents on the road and at sea to light. 

Last week, Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 78, owner of the 42-foot Boston Whaler, hit the teen on the afternoon of May 11 near Key Biscayne, according to an incident report provided by Fox News Digital by the Florida Fish...

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Missing Dartmouth College student found dead in Connecticut River, her bike in woods

Kexin Cai, a missing Dartmouth College student, was found dead Monday in the Connecticut River, several days since she was last seen. 

Around 4 p.m. Monday, a fisherman "alerted authorities to a sighting" along the river in Windsor, Vermont. Authorities were dispatched to the area, where they retrieved a body from the water that was later identified as Cai.

Police said their preliminary investigation suggests no foul play.

The Lebabon Police Department was notified on May 17 that the Dartmouth...

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Texans wideout Tank Dell looks explosive in workout video 3 weeks after suffering gunshot wound

Houston Texans wide receiver Tank Dell looked explosive on the field in a video posted to social media over the weekend that showed the second-year wideout running routes with his trainer just three weeks after he suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. 

Dell, 24, did not miss a step in the video posted to Instagram by trainer Delfonte Diamond. 

The video showed the duo performing drills at the University of Houston’s indoor training facility on Saturday.

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Pennsylvania inmate on life support granted medical release 49 years after murder conviction

An ailing prison inmate serving a life sentence in Pennsylvania for killing a man during a 1975 robbery won a medical release order from a judge Monday, although the decision came hours after he was put on life support.

Ezra Bozeman, 68, won the release from an Allegheny County judge while on a ventilator in an intensive care unit battling sepsis because of complications from his quadriplegia, his lawyers said in a statement.

Bozeman's petition for medical release from prison was supported by...

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West Virginia transgender athlete defeated girls in track events over 700 times, new legal filing says

A new court filing in a lawsuit against the Biden administration for its overhaul of Title IX claims that a transgender track-and-field athlete at a West Virginia middle school displaced girls in competition over 700 times in three seasons.

On Thursday, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) a nonprofit civil rights firm, filed a motion asking the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Biden administration's new Title IX rules from going into effect on Aug. 1, and to allow state laws that ban...

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James Carville tells Biden to stop complaining about coverage of age: The 'issue is suffocating him'

Democratic strategist James Carville said Monday that the age issue was "suffocating" President Biden and told the president to stop griping about negative media coverage of the issue. 

"I do think the president has to deal, the age issue is suffocating him. He needs to bring up that he is only four years older than Trump," Carville told MSNBC's Jen Psaki in response to a question about how Biden and former President Trump could possibly be tied in the polls. 

Carville told the president to...

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Kevin Costner's ex moves on with family friend, Jessica Biel says she nearly quit Hollywood

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MOVING ON - Kevin Costner's ex confirms romance with family friend as actor gets teary during 'Horizon' Cannes premiere. Continue reading here…

'VERY CHALLENGING TIME' - Jessica Biel almost quit Hollywood before ‘The Sinner,’ admits she's 'still fighting' for roles. Continue reading here…

CHEAP SHOT - SNL's' Colin Jost forced to crack joke about wife Scarlett Johansson's body on...

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Ex-NSC official calls to defund ICC's 'kangaroo court' over Netanyahu arrest bid: 'We're going to be next'

The International Criminal Court (ICC) should be defunded over its decision to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before it targets the United States, according to ex-National Security Council official Richard Goldberg.

ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced Monday that his office has "reasonable grounds" to believe Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders have committed "war crimes and crimes against humanity" since the onset of...

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Police clear anti-Israel encampment at University of Michigan

An anti-Israel protest encampment at the University of Michigan was removed from campus by police early Tuesday, a public safety official confirmed to Fox News Digital.

Officers with the university’s public safety department began clearing the encampment just before 6 a.m. on the Central Campus, Melissa Overton, public information officer for the University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security, told Fox News Digital in a statement.

Protesters demanding the university’s...

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Unused COVID-19 funds would build border wall under new Senate bill

FIRST ON FOX: A new bill could designate unused federal COVID-19 funds to be used to continue the construction of the southern border wall as an illegal immigration crisis continues and voters cite the issue as one of the most important going into the November elections.

Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo., introduced an amendment on Tuesday to a Democrat-backed border bill that is set to come back to the floor later this week. 

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NY v. Trump: Defense rests without calling former president to testify; motion to dismiss pending

Defense attorneys in New York v. Trump rested their case Tuesday morning without calling former President Trump to the stand to testify. 

The prosecution rested its case Monday, and Trump defense attorneys called two witnesses — paralegal Daniel Sitko and a former legal adviser to Michael Cohen, Robert Costello — before resting its case. 

Judge Juan Merchan dismissed the jury until after Memorial Day. 

The next day, Tuesday, May 28, the jury will hear closing arguments from Trump defense...

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Trump touts defense team has 'won' Manhattan case as he calls on Merchan to dismiss

Former President Trump said his defense team has already "won the case by any standard" in the NY v. Trump trial as he called on presiding Judge Juan Merchan to dismiss this case. 

"We have a phenomenal case. We've won the case by any standard, any other judge would have thrown this case, any other judge would have thrown this case out. And I think that Juan Merchan would do himself and the state and the city, a great service by doing what everybody knows should be done," Trump said Tuesday...

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Suspected Portland serial killer indicted in murders of 3 women

Oregon prosecutors have announced the indictment of a suspected serial killer in connection with three murders in the Portland area just weeks before he would have been released from prison on unrelated charges.

Jesse Lee Calhoun, 39, an ex-con who was released from prison early in 2021, is accused of killing at least three women and suspected of causing at least two more deaths, according to authorities.

Police arrested him last year after women kept turning up dead within a 100-mile radius...

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Rapper rips CNN for asking him about Diddy, drinks sex stimulant on the air in wild interview

Rapper Cam'ron slugged down a pre-sex supplement drink and wondered aloud why he'd even been booked during a bizarre CNN interview on Monday about the abuse allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs.

"Is there something known in the industry about how Diddy treated his artists?" CNN's Abby Phillip asked Cam'ron as the artist drank a libido supplement reportedly called "Pink Horse Power," which he hocks on his podcast.

"Sorry, I'm going to go get some cheeks after this Horse Power drink," he said...

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Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model explains how magazine made her feel comfortable stripping down

In 2015, Robyn Lawley was the first plus-sized model to grace the pages of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. 

Since that original spread, which Lawley shot when she was pregnant, the Australian model has appeared in the magazine three additional times. At the magazine's 60th Anniversary launch party last week, Lawley praised the brand for its inclusivity and helping her feel good in her own skin.

"They don’t care about stretch marks, they don’t care about cellulite," she told Page...

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‘A new low’: Biden admin eviscerated for response to 'butcher of Tehran' Raisi's death

Top House Republicans are coming down hard on the Biden administration for expressing condolences for the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, whose ruthless ways earned him the nickname "Butcher of Tehran."

"It is absurd that the Biden administration touted their support for human rights while, in the same breath, offering official condolences for the ‘Butcher of Tehran.’ Clearly, the Democrat Party of today has become the pro-terrorist party," House Majority Whip Tom Emmer,...

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How Free School Meals Went Mainstream

Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.

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The Disease Detectives Trying to Keep the World Safe From Bird Flu

When a child in a small Cambodian town fell sick recently, his rapid decline set off a global disease surveillance system.

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