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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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Illegal immigrant healthcare costs in blue state triggers intense budget debate

  • News source: FOX News
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The Republican minority leaders in California are responding to potential next steps for the highly scrutinized Medi-Cal program, which is insolvent, as some believe the ability for people to enroll "regardless of their immigration status" is a leading cause.

The state faces a $12 billion budget shortfall as budget talks continue in Sacramento.

The Medi-Cal program went insolvent earlier this year after it went billions over budget, resulting in $3.44 billion in loan requests to salvage the program, which covers low-income Golden State residents...
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Trump ramps up heat on Harvard: Here are 5 reasons from the university's own investigation

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration escalated its war with Harvard University on Tuesday, announcing it will claw back the university's remaining $100 million in federal funding — effectively ending all financial ties with the Ivy League institution.

"The government is out of business with Harvard University, fully," a senior administration official told Fox News Digital.

At the center of the fight are accusations of Harvard failing to combat a campus culture of antisemitism. While the university accuses the White House of overreach and insists it is...
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Sudan 'on brink' of health crisis with cholera outbreak

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The health crisis is fuelled by the war which has destroyed vital infrastructure, aid agencies say.
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French MPs back law to allow assisted dying

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The proposals still have to go before the upper house and supporters hope it will become law by 2027.
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Norway ship refloated after near miss with house

  • News source: BBC News - World
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House owner Johan Helberg says he "wouldn't have traded this experience for anything" after the ship became stuck in his garden.
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Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Their letter warns of genocide in Gaza, and calls on the UK to take concrete actions to meet its international legal obligations.
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Man charged over killing of Jordanian pilot burned alive by IS

  • News source: BBC News - World
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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

  • News source: BBC News - World
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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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Pornhub and three other porn sites face EU child safety probe

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The EU said the sites did not appear to have "appropriate" age verification to stop children accessing porn.
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Norway ship refloated after near miss with house

  • News source: BBC News - World
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House owner Johan Helberg says he "wouldn't have traded this experience for anything" after the ship became stuck in his garden.
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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.

After Harvard refused to turn over extensive data about its international...
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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.

The change from the CDC comes a...
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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.

"What happened was I just get a letter one day from our credit card company...
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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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