By Julia Manchester and Mallory Wilson
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The feud between President Trump and Pope Leo XIV this week marked yet another unprecedented moment in history, with the president becoming the first U.S. leader to publicly lock horns with the head of the Roman Catholic church in modern times.
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President Trump’s selection of a longtime civil servant and public health veteran to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the strongest signal yet that the administration is shifting away from a rhetoric of vaccine skepticism ahead of the midterm elections.
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President Trump is skipping the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) annual convention this weekend, his second snub in as many years of an organization long seen as a key political ally for Republicans.
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Optimism and confusion were intermingled Friday as President Trump suggested an end to the conflict in Iran was within reach, even as many of his claims were met with silence or murmurs of dissent from Tehran.
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By Ellen Mitchell, Laura Kelly, and Filip Timotija
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President Trump sprinted ahead Friday to take a victory lap celebrating what he said was Iran’s agreement to open the Strait of Hormuz and a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
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The speaker of Iran’s Parliament, Mohammad-Bagher Qalibaf, said Friday that Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz again amid the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports, contradicting President Trump, who said the strait was “open for business” earlier in the day.
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Tens of millions of dollars are being funneled into different sides of a high-profile redistricting referendum in Virginia as voters consider a new congressional map that could net Democrats as many as four seats ahead of the November midterm elections.
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The Trump administration on Friday reversed course and extended a waiver on sanctioned Russian oil and petroleum products amid the Iran war, just days after a top Cabinet official said the U.S. would not be doing so.
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By Mallory Wilson and Julia Manchester
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President Trump was met with an at times a roaring ovation from a crowd at a Turning Point USA event in Arizona on Friday during several opportunities where he detailed his policies on Iran.
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By Rachel Barkley, opinion contributor
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OPINION | President Trump has made rooting out fraud in the social safety net a top priority this year, putting Vice President JD Vance in charge of a new “war on fraud.” That focus is overdue. Fraud in public benefits doesn’t just waste taxpayer dollars — it corrodes trust in the very programs designed to help people in crisis and diverts resources from those who truly need them.
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By Dan Greenberg, opinion contributor
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OPINION | Election Day for Virginia voters arrives April 21. The voters of the Old Dominion have received enough glossy mailers to fill several dump trucks, urging them to vote for or against a state constitutional amendment that changes the state’s redistricting process.
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By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Apoorva Mandavilli and Christina Jewett
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Over two dizzying days in Washington this week, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared to change his tune on vaccines. The nation’s loudest vaccine skeptic conceded that the measles vaccine was safe and effective for “most people” and put forth a slate of doctors who support vaccines to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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On a recent morning, Britt Eastland was inspecting a trail at his family’s summer camp, anticipating another season of fishing, camping and canoeing just six weeks away. The pale limestone cliffs loomed, an essential feature of the Texas Hill Country. Down below sat rows of tidy cabins with names like Happy Nest.
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A new Kansas law will allow college students to sue their schools for free-speech violations. In Tennessee, a new law will encourage teachers and professors to include “the positive impacts of religion” in American history courses.
The common factor: Both are being done in the name of Charlie Kirk.
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By Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Rudy Lu
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China said relatively little in the early weeks of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, a longtime friend of Beijing. There was no outpouring of grief for the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed. In response to the selection of his son, Mojtaba, as his successor, China’s Foreign Ministry responded with a simple statement that it had “noted relevant reports.”
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