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President Trump takes questions from reporters in the Oval Office on May 23, 2025.

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  • Politics

Trump threatens steep tariffs on trade with the European Union -- and on iPhones

President Trump told reporters he is ready to slap 50% tariffs on European Union products starting June 1 — and 25% tariffs on iPhones by the end of June.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben
Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, speaks at a press briefing during President Trump's first term, in 2019.

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  • Politics

The White House rejects a watchdog finding that it's breaking the law over halted funds

The White House budget office rejected the conclusion of a nonpartisan congressional watchdog that said the Trump administration is breaking the law by not spending funds as directed by Congress.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
A demonstrator holds a sign during a February rally in Los Angeles to protest President Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk and his DOGE team.

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  • Politics

DOGE created a 'survey of surveys' for a push to cut some government data collection

DOGE's push to cut some federal surveys conducted by the Census Bureau may be duplicating a White House agency's oversight work and weaken U.S. data infrastructure, experts warn.

May 23, 2025
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
An employee holds a full-size prototype LMR battery cell at the General Motors Wallace Battery Cell Innovation Center. GM has prototyped approximately 300 full-size LMR cells as it worked with LG Energy Solution to crack the code on the chemistry.

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  • Business

The great battery race: China and the U.S. compete over the future of EVs

The car you drive years in the future might run off a battery being invented in a lab today. Companies in China and the United States are racing to perfect and scale up next-generation technologies.

May 23, 2025
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  • Camila Domonoske and
  • John Ruwitch
A view of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students.

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  • Education

Judge blocks Trump admin's move to bar Harvard from enrolling international students

This comes in response to a lawsuit Harvard filed on Friday morning, challenging the Trump administration's abrupt move to revoke the school's ability to enroll foreign students.

May 23, 2025
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  • Janet W. Lee and
  • Elissa Nadworny
Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt in <em>Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning</em>.

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  • Movie Reviews

Mission: Impossible's overblown 'Final Reckoning' still thrills

The two hour, 49 minute conclusion to the seven-sequel franchise is self-congratulatory and inanely plotted. But, as always, it's fun to watch Tom Cruise, now 62, execute eye-popping stunts.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • John Powers
Shira Perlmutter, register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, was appointed to the position by the Librarian of Congress in 2020.

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  • Politics

Fired Copyright Office head sues Trump administration over removal

Shira Perlmutter's termination came shortly after the Copyright Office published a long-anticipated report on artificial intelligence.

May 23, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
Two-hundred and seventy Ukrainian military personnel and 120 civilians are returned to Ukraine after the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Friday that Moscow and Kyiv had exchanged that amount of prisoners each in the first round of a large-scale swap on Friday.

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  • Europe

Ukraine and Russia begin the largest prisoner-of-war exchange since the invasion

Ukraine and Russia have begun the exchange of 1,000 prisoners of war, the largest such swap since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Joanna Kakissis and
  • Polina Lytvynova
A person walks through a house in the community of Sunshine Hills outside of London, Kentucky. A tornado struck the neighborhood just after midnight on May 17.

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  • Climate

Insurance costs are soaring around Tornado Alley. Hail is the big problem.

While tornadoes can obliterate communities, hailstorms cause damage across much larger areas.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Michael Copley
Demonstrators raise signs during a rally outside the National Institutes of Health on May 10 in Bethesda, Md.

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  • Politics

A federal judge further halts Trump's radical transformation of government

In her order, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the president may not initiate large-scale executive branch reorganization without approval from Congress.

May 23, 2025
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  • Andrea Hsu
Traffic crosses the Oakland San Francisco Bay Bridge in California on Thursday, kicking off what's expected to be a congested Memorial Day Weekend.

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  • National

Memorial Day Weekend travel could break records. Here's how to prepare for your trip

AAA predicts a record-breaking 45.1 million Americans will travel between Thursday and Monday, mostly by car and plane. Here's what to know if you're one of them.

May 23, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Kim Kardashian leaves the justice palace after testifying, regarding a robbery of millions of dollars in jewels from her Paris hotel room in 2016, in Paris, Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

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  • Europe

Kim Kardashian robbery trial: verdict expected in Paris

A verdict is expected in the Paris trial of 10 people accused of robbing Kim Kardashian at gunpoint in 2016. French media nicknamed them "the Grandpa Robbers" — most were in their 60s when the heist took place.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Eleanor Beardsley
A Qatari Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International airport after President Trump toured the aircraft on Feb. 15. The aircraft is now in San Antonio and needs extensive overhauling to become the next Air Force One.

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  • Politics

Graphics: Here's what it will take to transform the Qatari jet into Air Force One

The U.S. has officially accepted a luxury jetliner from Qatar as a gift, and slated it to become a new Air Force One. Experts say that overhaul could take years and cost hundreds of millions.

May 23, 2025
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By:
  • Kat Lonsdorf

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  • Arts & Life

Why you should fight to keep old friends

Nina Badzin, host of a friendship podcast, explains why staying friends with people from our past matters — and how to nurture relationships with old friends across time and distance.

May 23, 2025
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  • Marielle Segarra,
  • Sam Yellowhorse Kesler,
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From left: Vice President Vance, an orange cat, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem

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  • National

Kristi Noem couldn't define habeas corpus. Can you? Find out in the quiz!

Tush pushes, prison breaks, luxury jets and orange cats: This week's quiz is the usual potpourri of the silly and sublime. Actually, not the latter.

May 23, 2025
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  • Holly J. Morris
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