President Donald Trump mourned the loss of America’s military service members who have lost their lives defending this country during his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery Monday.
Prior to his comments, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which contains the remains of unidentified war dead from World War I, World War II and the Korean War.
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New York Post The owner of a heavily decorated pro-Trump home in Southern California has died days after he was beaten to a pulp allegedly by a Navy veteran. Kerry Sheron, a 69-year-old Army veteran known locally for covering his residence with MAGA banners and American flags, died Sunday night after nearly a week hospitalized in critical condition. The attack happened May 20 outside Sheron’s home in Escondido, police said. READ THE FULL STORY
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U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw omitted key evidence from his Friday ruling dismissing the federal human smuggling case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, including reporting by The Tennessee Star that was seemingly referenced during testimony, revealing the “Biden-era FBI” directed Tennessee authorities to release Abrego Garcia during a 2022 traffic stop despite suspecting human trafficking. Instead, the Obama-appointed judge sided with the foreign national, ruling the Trump administration failed to overcome a presumption of vindictive prosecution.
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President Donald Trump said Monday that he has demanded that the leaders of six Muslim countries must join the Abraham Accords if they want to be part of the deal that is currently being negotiated with Iran, which Trump said is “proceeding nicely!”
Trump stated that demand in a Memorial Day post on Truth Social. He said that during a Saturday phone call, he told the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Pakistan, Turkey, and Jordan that he wants them all to normalize relations with Israel by agreeing to the 2020 Abraham Accords, which were brokered by the U.S. during Trump’s first term as president.
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The Associated Press The risk of a catastrophic explosion at a damaged chemical tank in Southern California has been eliminated following a close overnight inspection that confirmed a crack in the tank relieved pressure and cooled the chemical, authorities said Monday. The results of the evaluation was “incredibly positive news,” and allowed officials to turn the corner after days of concern about a possible explosion, said Orange County Fire Authority division chief Craig Covey. However, evacuation orders remained in place for about 50,000 people in Garden Grove, California, located south of Los Angeles. There has been no chemical leak as of early Monday, but the Orange County Fire Authority said the risk to public safety is “ongoing.” READ THE FULL STORY
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Breitbart Far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) appears to be moving toward a possible run for the White House, Axios reported Sunday. Although she has said she has not made a decision on the matter, Ocasio-Cortez has been on a national tour rallying voters and making endorsements in several races, the outlet said. READ THE FULL STORY
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The Hill Increased use of GLP-1 drugs to treat obesity appears to be significantly reducing the number of surgeries that were once the primary option for dramatic weight loss. A new study published in JAMA Surgery examined trends in the use of metabolic and bariatric surgery in the U.S. between 2022 and 2024. As use of GLP-1 drugs increased by 140.4 percent during that period, bariatric surgery rates fell by 34 percent, researchers found after analyzing data from 11.7 million patients diagnosed with obesity or diabetes. The findings align with a separate recent study from Loyola University Chicago, which found the number of metabolic and bariatric surgeries in the U.S. dropped below 200,000 in 2024 for the first time since 2020. READ THE FULL STORY
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Chinese President Xi Jinping may not need to launch a full-scale invasion of Taiwan to put the island, the U.S. and the global tech economy in crisis, according to national security experts.
Some advisers to President Donald Trump reportedly fear Xi could move against Taiwan within the next five years following Trump’s recent summit with the Chinese leader, Axios reported. One Trump adviser told the outlet the summit signaled a “much higher likelihood” that Taiwan could be “on the table” during that window, warning that the highly vulnerable U.S. semiconductor supply chain would not be ready for such a crisis.
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Pope Leo XIV on Monday unleashed his first and long-awaited papal encyclical, pleading with political and corporate leaders to create robust regulations that keep artificial intelligence from eradicating jobs or developing autonomous warfare that could end humanity.
“It is not enough to invoke ethics in the abstract; robust legal frameworks, independent oversight, informed users and a political system that does not abdicate its responsibility are required,” Leo wrote. “A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few.”
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Over a three-month period, Indiana authorities have stopped and prosecuted nearly 300 illegal migrant truck drivers who were issued commercial drivers licenses (CDL) by states like New York and California.
The New York Post reports that Tony Ferraro, an aide to Indiana governor Mike Braun, told the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission that the state had arrested and prosecuted at least 283 undocumented drivers operating trucks.
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The Supreme Court likely sounded the death knell of state and local bans on so-called conversion therapy for minors, at least limited to talking, when eight justices blocked Colorado from punishing counselor Kaley Chiles for not affirming unwanted gender confusion in her young clients while letting her talk them into identifying as the opposite sex.
Missouri’s Kansas City and Jackson County are nonetheless trying to preserve their self-admitted “functionally identical” ordinances as long as possible, and in the city’s case, validate an even further-reaching, all-ages public accommodation ordinance, in response to a challenge by licensed counselors Wyatt Bury and Pamela Eisenreich.
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Williamson County School District is facing backlash after holding high school graduation ceremonies in heavy rain.
Online videos surfaced last week showing Centennial High School and Franklin High School graduates sitting through heavy rainstorms and receiving their diplomas in the rain.
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Michael Patrick Leahy, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Tennessee Star, is calling for a major overhaul of Tennessee’s education system, arguing that decades of rising spending and bureaucratic growth have failed students and that the state should adopt Direct Instruction as the standard method for teaching reading, writing, and math in elementary schools.
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U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is being backed in her bid for governor by the Tennessee Professional Fire Fighters Association (TPFFA).
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In the years following the bitter Civil War, a former Union general took a holiday originated by former Confederates and helped spread it across the entire country.
The holiday was Memorial Day, an annual commemoration was born in the former Confederate States in 1866 and adopted by the United States in 1868. It is a holiday in which the nation honors its military dead.
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