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'We were happy to be invited,' only survivor of toxic mushroom lunch tells court

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Ian Wilkinson was left seriously ill after the meal, which led to the deaths of his wife and two relatives.
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Rihanna reveals she is pregnant with third child at Met Gala

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Partner A$AP Rocky confirmed the news on the red carpet, telling reporters the couple were "happy".
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Barbie maker warns of price hikes as tariffs increase costs

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Mattel joins growing list of big businesses warning about the impact of Trump's import taxes.
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India worried about Chinese 'dumping' as trade tensions with Trump escalate

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Experts warn that a flood of cheap Chinese goods could hurt the competitiveness of Indian exports.
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Ex-DHS official targeted by Trump vows to fight president's ‘revenge machine'

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A former Homeland Security official whom President Donald Trump accused of potentially “treasonous” conduct fears he is under federal investigation and plans to challenge what he calls an illegal attempt to silence critics.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Miles Taylor said that he is prepared to “fight back” in court and that his repeated warnings that Trump would use presidential power to retaliate against perceived political enemies have proved accurate.

“My concern was he would turn the government into a revenge machine, and that’s...
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Trump's Hollywood tariffs announcement is met with confusion and fear

  • News source: Rob Wile and Garrett Haake | NBC News
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President Donald Trump’s Sunday night proposal to impose tariffs on movies made outside the U.S. has been met with a mix of confusion and fear by the entertainment industry.

And by noon Monday, White House officials clarified that “no final decisions” had been made and that it was “exploring all options.”

Trump’s initial proposal, posted to Truth Social, called for tariffs “on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands,” citing what he said was the harmful impact of incentives being offered by other countries...
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Linda McMahon blasts Harvard in scathing letter telling elite university it will no longer get federal grants

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent a scathing letter to Harvard University President Alan Garber on Monday, not only blasting the Massachusetts Ivy League school’s handling of antisemitism on campus but also advising school officials to refrain from applying for future federal grants because they will not "be provided."

In her no-holds-barred letter, McMahon told Garber that the federal government has a "sacred responsibility" to be an important steward of American taxpayer funds, adding that the school has amassed a largely tax-free $53.2...
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National Endowment for the Arts sending grant terminations

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The National Endowment for the Arts, the nation's largest funder of arts and arts education, has begun sending grant terminations to arts organizations.

President Trump's proposed budget, released last week, calls for shutting down the agency, which was founded in 1965. Mr. Trump's budget proposals in his first term had called to shut down the agency, though Congress has decided each time to fund the agency.

In 2024, the NEA has doled out about $200 million in grants to nonprofit art organizations, public arts agencies and organizations, colleges...
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Columbia activist Mohsen Mahdawi calls his detention a "betrayal"

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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A Columbia student activist and green card holder who was detained when he went for a citizenship interview last month said President Trump "will not silence me," in an interview with CBS News from Vermont on Monday.

Mohsen Mahdawi's comments marked his first network interview since a judge ordered his release last week — a move Mahdawi called a "light of hope" to other student activists who have been detained, like Columbia's Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts University's Rumeysa Ozturk

Shortly after Mahdawi's release, he addressed a group of supporters...
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IRS has lost 31% of its auditors after DOGE cuts, report says

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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The Trump administration's plan to trim the IRS workforce has resulted in almost one-third of its tax auditors leaving the agency through March, according to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department's watchdog.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has sought to trim the federal workforce through a combination of layoffs and so-called deferred resignation. Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, said on the electric vehicle maker's April 22 earnings call that DOGE's efforts "in addressing waste and fraud" will "get the country back...
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India worried about Chinese 'dumping' as trade tensions with Trump escalate

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Experts warn that a flood of cheap Chinese goods could hurt the competitiveness of Indian exports.
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Merz government to be sworn in as Germany ends months of stalemate

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The conservative leader won elections in February and has agreed a coalition deal with the centre left.
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Trump admin continues Biden defense of abortion drug mifepristone, asks court to dismiss lawsuit

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The Trump administration is asking a federal judge in Texas to dismiss a case that aims to restrict access to the abortion drug mifepristone.

The request continues the Biden administration's position in defense of the drug: that Texas isn't the proper venue for the lawsuit.

In a Justice Department court filing, the Trump administration said Idaho, Missouri and Kansas have no ties to Texas, where the lawsuit was filed, arguing they lack standing in the suit against the Food and Drug Administration over its rules over the pills, which are available...
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Breaking down the role of due process in America's rule of law

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Multiple times during a recent interview, President Trump answered "I don't know" when asked if he'd abide by the constitutional due process rights granted to citizens and noncitizens alike in the U.S. Jessica Levinson joins to discuss the history of due process.
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Why Trump is pushing military help for Mexico to help fight cartels

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Mexico's president said she rejected an offer by President Trump to send U.S. troops into Mexico to help fight drug cartels. Charlie D'Agata has more.
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