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Trump honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day, while attacking Biden and judges​

By SEUNG MIN KIM
Updated 5:31 PM CDT, May 26, 2025

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump paid tribute to fallen service members during a Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, in an address that honored the “great, great warriors” yet also briefly veered into politics as he boasted of a nation he is “fixing after a long and hard four years.”

Though the holiday is one that U.S. presidents typically treat with pure solemnity, Trump began it with an all-caps Memorial Day social media post that attacked his predecessor and called federal judges who have blocked his deportation initiatives “monsters who want our country to go to hell.”

Yet at Arlington National Cemetery, where more than 400,000 have been laid to rest, Trump commemorated the sacrifice of U.S. service members and singled out several Gold Star families to tell the stories of their fallen relatives.

“We just revere their incredible legacy,” Trump said. “We salute them in their eternal and everlasting glory. And we continue our relentless pursuit of America’s destiny as we make our nation stronger, prouder, freer and greater than ever before.”

“Their valor,” he said, “gave us the freest, greatest and most noble republic ever to exist on the face of the earth. A republic that I am fixing after a long and hard four years.” ...

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Kremlin muses about 'emotional overload' after Trump asks if Putin is 'crazy'

With reports of renewed intensive attacks on Ukraine came questions over whether Trump will abandon his strategy of courting his Russian counterpart.
www.nbcnews.com

Russia is preparing new offensives, according to Ukraine intelligence: Zelenskyy

Ukrainian intelligence and open-source data show Russian President Vladimir Putin does not "plan to end the war," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday.
abcnews.go.com

FBI deputy director says bureau will pour resources into cases including Supreme Court leak and cocaine at the White House

Dan Bongino, the deputy director, posted on social media about directing more resources into the Biden-era cases, as well as the unsolved case of pipe bombs found in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021.
www.nbcnews.com

The 2028 podcast primary is underway as Democrats try to reshape their image

Four months into the Trump administration, some top Democrats are rethinking their approach to podcasts.
apnews.com

Key Trump voting bloc has concerns with MAHA report, as Trump officials give assurances

Multiple farmers groups expressed concern following a report by the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again Commission linking pesticides to chronic disease.
www.foxnews.com

Trump says he's pardoning Scott Jenkins, a sheriff convicted of taking $75,000 in bribes

President Donald Trump says he is pardoning Scott Jenkins, a former Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly making several businessmen sheriff's deputies in exchange for cash.
www.cbsnews.com

Cuban exiles were shielded from deportation. Now Trump is cracking down

President Donald Trump's crackdown on Cuban immigration has riveted a community that strongly backed him twice.
apnews.com

'Cracking heads': Trump, DOJ moves signal end of reforms after George Floyd movement

Five years ago millions rallied for police reform after the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Trump is now exiting court-ordered settlements.
www.usatoday.com

Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza as controversy and concern grow over humanitarian aid

Israeli strikes kill dozens in the Gaza Strip, including one on a school-turned-shelter, as controversy and concern mount over getting humanitarian aid into the enclave.
www.cbsnews.com

Trump says he's pardoning a Virginia sheriff convicted on bribery charges

President Donald Trump says he is pardoning a former Virginia sheriff who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a federal bribery case.
apnews.com

Kremlin calls Trump 'emotional' after US president says Putin is 'crazy'

Trump said that Vladimir Putin had gone "absolutely crazy" following massive aerial attacks on Ukraine.
www.bbc.com

FBI deputy director Dan Bongino says Biden-era investigations being reexamined

FBI deputy director Dan Bongino said three high-profile investigations are either being reexamined.
www.cbsnews.com

Ex-DNC chair calls book's claim that Biden didn't recognize him a 'bold faced lie'

Former DNC chair Jaime Harrison said a claim in Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's book about Biden not recognizing Harrison was a "bold-faced lie."
www.foxnews.com

The US military spent $6 billion in the past 3 years to recruit and retain troops

The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what's been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls.
apnews.com

Liverpool parade latest: Child and adult seriously hurt and dozens more injured after car ploughs into Liverpool crowd

Twenty-seven people were taken to hospital and 20 others were treated at the scene. The incident is not being treated as terrorism, police say.
www.bbc.com

Trump says he's considering rerouting $3 billion in Harvard grants to U.S. trade schools

President Trump wrote on social media that he's "considering" giving $3 billion in Harvard grant money to trade schools around the U.S.
www.cbsnews.com

3 more of the 10 escapees from a New Orleans jail are captured, leaving 2 on the run, officials say

Authorities say they’ve captured three more of the 10 escapees who broke out of a New Orleans jail, leaving two more on the run.
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Blocked from Harvard, the world's star students weigh staying in Asia and Europe

  • News source: Jennifer Jett and Peter Guo | NBC News
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If President Donald Trump doesn’t want international students at Harvard, there are plenty of foreign governments and universities happy to take them — along with their talents that have helped make the United States a global tech and scientific leader.

The future of international students at the oldest, richest and most renowned university in the U.S. is uncertain after the Trump administration announced a ban on their enrollment starting in the 2025-26 academic year.

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CDC ends Covid vaccine recommendation for healthy kids and pregnant women

  • News source: Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Erika Edwards | NBC
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend routine Covid shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.

“We are now one step closer to realizing @POTUS’s promise to Make America Healthy Again,” he said in a post on X.

Kennedy said the vaccine would no longer be recommended for "healthy pregnant women," but it was unclear who would qualify as pregnancy itself is considered a risk factor for Covid complications.

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Jasmine Crockett shares bizarre song clip calling herself 'leader of the future'

  • News source: FOX News
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, appears to be leaning in on her rising political stardom this week, briefly sharing what appeared to be a fan-made song that referred to the Democratic firebrand as the "leader of the future."

"Jasmine Crockett, she rises with the dawn. Fighting for justice, her light will never be gone," the song went. "A voice for the people, standing strong and proud. Infectious with passion, she'll never bow down. Leader of the future, she's breaking all the chains. Jasmine you rock girl, keep leading the fight."

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Red state official recounts personal experience of being 'debanked' and why it 'has to be stopped'

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: Protecting Americans from being "debanked" has been a top priority for the State Financial Officers Foundation, and Fox News Digital spoke to a member of that organization, who said he was targeted himself, about the importance of that pursuit.

"When I was initially debanked, I didn't realize I was getting debanked," Alabama Republican State Auditor Andrew Sorrell told Fox News Digital at the State Financial Officers Foundation conference in Orlando, Florida.

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Huge explosion at China chemical plant kills at least five

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Footage circulating online shows thick columns of black smoke rising from the site in Shandong province.
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North Korea says US 'Golden Dome' risks 'space nuclear war'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Pyongyang says Washington's plan to counter aerial threats is "the height of self-righteousness".
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Huge explosion at China chemical plant kills at least five

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Footage circulating online shows thick columns of black smoke rising from the site in Shandong province.
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Dem strategy session to stop hemorrhaging of male voters ridiculed

  • News source: FOX News
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DOJ reaches plea deal with Dem donor who sought to bribe her way to Kennedy Center seat

  • News source: FOX News
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A Los Angeles County woman, who served on a presidential advisory committee under the Biden administration and has an extensive history of donating to Democrats, reached a plea agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) for making tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to reportedly secure a seat on the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees, the DOJ announced Wednesday.

Teena Maria Hostovich, 66, was charged Wednesday with making contributions in the name of another aggregating to more than $10,000 in a year, which is a felony, the DOJ reported.

She revealed in her plea agreement that she carried out the scheme in part to secure a spot on the Kennedy Center's Board of Trustees, the DOJ stated in the press release. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts serves as the national cultural center of the U.S. and is located in Washington, D.C.

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GOP Georgia Senate candidate targets vulnerable Jon Ossoff in ad depicting transgender 'fan'

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RFK Jr. dropping COVID vaccine guidance for kids, pregnant women

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he would remove the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recommendation for children and healthy pregnant women to get vaccinated for COVID-19.

"I couldn't be more pleased to announce that, as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been removed from the CDC's recommended immunization schedule," Kennedy said in a video attached to his post.

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Supreme Court turns down Apaches' bid to block copper mine on sacred site

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Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge from Native Americans seeking to block a copper mining project on government-owned land in Arizona that will destroy a sacred site used to perform religious ceremonies.

The court rejected an appeal from the nonprofit organization Apache Stronghold, which challenged the transfer of the site known as Oak Flat to the mining company Resolution Copper. In turning away the case, the high court left in place a lower court ruling that allowed the land, located in Tonto National Forest, to be...
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Trump administration seeks to pull estimated $100m in Harvard funding

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Federal agencies will review their grants to Harvard to decide whether they should be terminated
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Man charged over killing of Jordanian pilot burned alive by IS

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Osama Krayem is accused of terrorism and war crimes in relation to the death of Moaz al-Kasasbeh.
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Ancient human fingerprint suggests Neanderthals made art

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A Neanderthal man is believed to have painted a nose on a pebble using red pigment more than 43,000 years ago.
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