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Colorado's Democratic governor will let Trump ally Tina Peters out of prison early

May 15, 2026 4:45 PM ET DENVER -- Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis has reduced the state prison sentence of Tina Peters, a former county clerk convicted of tampering with election equipment, allowing her to be eligible for parole on June 1. The controversial decision follows a months-long pressure campaign from President Trump and his administration to free Peters from state custody. In April, a state appeals court upheld Peters' 2024 conviction but ruled that she should be re-sentenced, ...

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Russian Missiles Used in Deadly Kyiv Strike Contained Newly Made Western Components

Russian cruise missiles used in a deadly strike on Ukraine on Thursday were manufactured this year using Western-made components, according to Ukrainian presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk. Speaking to journalists, Vlasiuk said fragments recovered from missiles that struck a residential building in Kyiv, killing at least 24 people, showed parts of an Kh-101 cruise missile, one of Russia’s most advanced long-range weapons. According to the Financial Times, the missile containe ...

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Trump leaves China without breakthroughs on Iran, Taiwan or AI

The US president had gone into the two-day talks with China’s Xi Jinping weakened by his prolonged war in Iran, and did little to change the perception that he and his nation are diminished on the global stage. Instead it was Xi who delivered the sharpest rhetoric of the meeting – over the future status of the self-governing island of Taiwan, with Trump notably failing to push back. Xi sees unifying Taiwan with China as a core part of his legacy and has not ruled out the use of force to achiev ...

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Trump announces plans for statue garden in Potomac River Park

11h (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he would install his proposed sculpture garden of “American Heroes” in West Potomac Park, a stretch near the National Mall that includes the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. “Right now, it is a totally BARREN field of Prime Waterfront Real Estate along our Mighty Potomac River,” Trump said in a social media post. “When finished, West Potomac Park will be a World Class Masterpiece with elegant Landscaping, and adorned with Beautiful Statues, and b ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations; officials suspect Iran is responsible

Updated May 15, 2026, 2:41 PM ET PUBLISHED May 15, 2026, 2:40 PM ET US officials suspect Iranian hackers are behind a series of breaches of systems that monitor the amount of fuel in storage tanks serving gas stations in multiple states, according to multiple sources briefed on the activity. The hackers responsible have exploited automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems that were sitting online and unprotected by passwords, allowing them in some cases to tinker with display readings on the tanks bu ...

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Trump leaves Beijing with few wins but warm words for Xi

(Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump left China on Friday with no major breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on his host, Xi Jinping. Trump's visit to America's main strategic and economic rival, the first by a U.S. president since his last ‌trip in 2017, had aimed for tangible results to beef up his sagging approval ratings before midterm elections. The summit was filled with pageantry, from goose-stepping soldiers to tours of a secret garden, but behind ‌closed doors Xi issued a stark warning to Trump that any mishandling of China's top concern, Taiwan, could spiral into conflict.

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'Significant blow': Senate rules referee blows up key piece of Trump's immigration plan

(Raw Story) Republicans were dealt a severe setback as the top Senate rule keeper called foul on an immigration enforcement funding package. Migrant Insider reported that Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough "delivered a significant blow" by stopping the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol reconciliation package, which Republican senators have been pushing as the second step to fully fund immigration enforcement after the months-long Department of Homeland Security shutdown ended.

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Trump expected to drop $10 billion lawsuit, then launch $1.7B 'weaponization' fund for allies

(ABC News) Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The commission overseeing the compensation fund would have the total authority to hand out approximately $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds to settle claims brought by anyone who alleges they were harmed by the Biden administration's "weaponization" of the legal system, including the nearly 1,600 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol attack as well as potentially entities associated with President Trump himself.

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Democrats eye "hidden" Latino battlegrounds in 2026

(Axios) The post-2024 narrative that Latino voters shifted right is facing its first real stress test — including in districts Republicans thought were safely red. The biggest immediate test is in Texas, where Republicans drew new maps assuming continued Latino gains. But GOP House seats are also at risk in California, New York, Colorado and Nevada. New modeling from Democratic group Oath finds several GOP-drawn "safe" districts could become competitive if recent Latino voting trends hold.

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Hersheypark 'optimistic' to avoid strike amid negotiations with union

2 hrs ago - The amusement park plans to begin daily operations May 21 amid ongoing talks with the Chocolate Workers Local 464. Michael Tanenbaum May 15, 2026 Hersheypark will open daily operations as planned on May 21 as the amusement park continues contract neg ... (Philly Voice)

David Burke dead: Sherlock Holmes star dies as tributes pour in

4 hrs ago - Story by Kelly Williams, Gemma Jones • 3h • Actor David Burke, celebrated for his portrayal of Dr Watson in a television adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, has died at the age of 92. His agent Scott Marshall Partners announced on Friday that Bu ... (MSN)

US moves to end job protections for hundreds of health department workers

5 hrs ago - By Ahmed Aboulenein May 15, 2026 4:34 PM EDT WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - The Trump administration moved on Friday to strip hundreds of senior U.S. Department of Health and Human Services employees of civil service job protections, according ... (Reuters)

LIRR strike threat: Contract talks drag on in final hours before walkout that could strand 300,000 daily commuters

5 hrs ago - By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on May 15, 2026 MTA leadership and representatives of five Long Island Rail Road unions returned to the bargaining table late Friday morning and were still negotiating around 2 p.m., less than 12 hours until the coalition ... (AMNY)

Federal judge blocks old-growth logging project on Oregon coast

5 hrs ago - May 15, 2026 (CN) — A federal judge has blocked a proposal to allow logging on 3,200 acres of public land in Western Oregon. Conservation groups said the plan would have felled thousands of acres of old-growth trees, some of which have stood for ... (Courthouse News Service)

Doctor leading Trump's hantavirus response is a penile specialist who spread Covid conspiracies: 'Erection Connection'

5 hrs ago - One of the physicians leading the Trump administration’s hantavirus response is a penile specialist with a history of spreading conspiracy theories about Covid, according to a new report. Dr. Brian Christine, an assistant HHS secretary and a top ... (Independent)

Inflation rate projected to hit 6% in the second quarter, top economic forecasters say

6 hrs ago - Economy Inflation rate projected to hit 6% in the second quarter, top economic forecasters say Published Fri, May 15 2026 10:20 AM EDT Updated 6 Hours Ago Jeff Cox @JeffCoxCNBCcom @jeff.cox.7528 KEY POINTS * The recent surge in inflation is likely to ... (CNBC)

Pentagon rush to counter drone threat may be undermining safety standards, Army explosive safety specialist warns

6 hrs ago - Updated on: May 15, 2026 / 2:47 PM EDT Washington — As the U.S. military races to adapt low-cost, expendable drones for battlefield use, an Army explosive safety specialist warned that the Defense Department's rush to innovate may be outpacing b ... (CBS News)

DOJ requests 1,500 more National Guard troops for planned DC 'summer surge'

6 hrs ago - 05/15/26 4:07 PM ET The Trump administration wants another 1,500 National Guard troops deployed to the streets of Washington part of a “summer surge” of law enforcement to the nation’s capital ahead of America’s 250th birthday, Ju ... (The Hill)

Claudine Longet, Entertainer Who Shot Olympian Boyfriend, Dies at 84

7 hrs ago - Claudine Longet in a 1963 episode of the television show "Dr. Kildare." Everett Collection Claudine Longet, Entertainer Who Shot Olympian Boyfriend, Dies at 84 A singer and actress, she drew wide attention for the fatal 1976 shooting of Spider Sabich ... (New York Times)

The Trump administration is planning a prayer event on the National Mall. All but one of the speakers is Christian

7 hrs ago - May 15, 2026 2:07 PM ET (RNS) —Cabinet members, Catholic bishops, evangelical influencers, and an actor who plays Jesus are a few of the speakers and performers scheduled to participate in "Rededicate 250," the Trump administration's daylong pra ... (NPR)

Ukraine Has Evidence Of Russian Effort To Pull Belarus Into War, Zelensky Says

7 hrs ago - President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday, May 15, that Ukrainian intelligence has evidence Russia is attempting to draw Belarus more directly into the war against Ukraine and possibly into future operations against NATO countries. Following a meet ... (Kyiv Post)

Supreme Court rejects Virginia's bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats

7 hrs ago - Updated 6:43 PM EDT, May 15, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Virginia’s bid to restore a congressional map that would have given Democrats a chance to pick up four seats in the closely divided House of Representa ... (AP)

A Georgia city, slated for a massive immigration warehouse, sues ICE

7 hrs ago - May 14, 2026 3:34 PM |Updated: May 15, 2026 12:23 PM One of the Georgia towns slated to be the site of a new immigration detention center is suing ICE to stop the effort. Since officials in Social Circle, east of Atlanta, first learned last year of ... (Georgia Public Radio /NPR)

Judges Dismiss Nine Felony Cases, Including Murder, Over Darin Smith Misconduct

7 hrs ago - Judges Dismiss Nine Felony Cases, Including Murder, Over Darin Smith Misconduct Wyoming's federal judges on Friday dismissed nine felony-level criminal cases, including one first-degree murder case, due to prosecutorial misconduct through "inflammato ... (Cowboy State Daily)

Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions

7 hrs ago - Now, it appears that a number of scientific fields will be enforcing rules against AI-generated problems even before peer review or journals get involved. One of the people involved in the physics and astronomy preprint server arXiv used a social med ... (Ars Technica)

Pentagon quietly shut legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military, watchdog finds

8 hrs ago - The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog. A report released by the department's inspector general concluded ... (The Guardian)

Trump administration stacks SF Presidio board with tech elite

8 hrs ago - National Parks Trump administration stacks SF Presidio board with tech elite By Madilynne Medina, News Reporter May 15, 2026 The Outpost Meadow Picnic Area, a new extension to the Presidio Tunnel Tops and the Outpost Playground, built on part of the ... (SF Gate)

Eric Trump Accuses Jen Psaki of 'Blatant Lies' as He Announces Plan to Sue Her and MS NOW

8 hrs ago - May 15th, 2026, 3:05 pm Eric Trump said on Friday that he plans on suing MS NOW and one of its hosts, Jen Psaki, accusing them of pushing “blatant lies.”. “I intend to sue [Jen Psaki] and [MS NOW] over the below clip,” Trump post ... (MEDIAite)

Frustrations erupt as Senate, House Republicans clash over housing

8 hrs ago - 05/15/26 6:00 AM ET Senate Republicans are furious that a bipartisan bill they passed to address housing affordability has languished in the House for weeks and undergone revisions that may doom its chances of becoming law before the November electio ... (The Hill)