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  • Trump talks about the Reflecting Pool and White House ballroom a lot. Here’s exactly how much

    Trump talks about the Reflecting Pool and White House ballroom a lot. Here’s exactly how much

    Aug 11, 2026 07:04 PM EDT

    ... as far as a 2011 conversation with David Axelrod, then a senior Obama adviser, when Trump offered to build a ballroom “free of charge.” He lamented in a 2015 speech that the White House had no large event space to host foreign dignitaries. By February 2025, Trump was reviving the ...

  • Nauru, the world's 3rd-smallest country, changes its name to Naoero

    Nauru, the world's 3rd-smallest country, changes its name to Naoero

    Aug 03, 2026 02:16 PM EDT

    ... formally amended. With 12,000 residents, Nauru is the world’s third-smallest country by population size, after Tuvalu and Vatican City. The tiny coral limestone atoll was colonized by Germany and later administered by Australia before becoming an independent republic in 1968. It has faced tumultuous circumstances, with phosphate ...

  • Ken Martin hunkers down at the Democratic National Committee as a storm gathers around party leader

    Ken Martin hunkers down at the Democratic National Committee as a storm gathers around party leader

    Aug 02, 2026 10:11 PM EDT

    ... as defensive and extremely distrustful of others, even some people on his own team, as calls for his resignation grow louder among Democratic operatives who lament his leadership decisions, lackluster fundraising and even his tendency to lash out in anger. But there is no sign that the organization's membership ...

  • Ceuta grapples with aftermath of border surge after most migrants leave the Spanish territory

    Ceuta grapples with aftermath of border surge after most migrants leave the Spanish territory

    Aug 02, 2026 06:44 PM EDT

    The unauthorized arrivals on Thursday and Friday of 50,000 to 60,000, mostly young men, swelled Ceuta's population by more than half. Abdelkader lamented what happened, but said that those who breached the border behaved relatively well. “It could have been much worse,” he said. Far-right politicians ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Blanche’s stalled nomination and Trump's 'anti-weaponization fund'

    Brooks and Capehart on Blanche’s stalled nomination and Trump's 'anti-weaponization fund'

    Jul 31, 2026 10:25 PM EDT

    ... s going to always be the priority. Geoff Bennett: Is this an institutional line being drawn by these Republican senators, or is this just two lame-duck senators now with enough leverage to gum up the works over this issue that they feel deeply about? Jonathan Capehart: I think both ...

  • Teen pleads guilty to murder in a 2024 shooting that left 4 dead at Georgia's Apalachee High School

    Teen pleads guilty to murder in a 2024 shooting that left 4 dead at Georgia's Apalachee High School

    Jul 24, 2026 05:09 PM EDT

    ... mother wasn't enough to stop the Georgia school shooting Shayna Aspinwall, Richard Aspinwall's wife, told the judge the “grief of losing him is constant” and lamented that the lives of their daughters, who were 2 and 5 when their father died, will be “forever marked by his absence.”

  • Police officer's fatal shooting of man with knife roils Madison, Wisconsin

    Police officer's fatal shooting of man with knife roils Madison, Wisconsin

    Jul 23, 2026 09:25 PM EDT

    ... that she expects a police request for $400,000 to be approved, enabling the cameras to be phased in over the next three years. Others lamented that cameras aren't already being used. “Nobody can agree on anything,” said Katey Nelson, a member of the police civilian oversight board and ...

  • WATCH: Crump announces 'undetermined' results of Nolan Wells' independent autopsy

    WATCH: Crump announces 'undetermined' results of Nolan Wells' independent autopsy

    Jul 22, 2026 01:11 PM EDT

    ... the death. The autopsy announcement comes two days after Wells was laid to rest in his hometown of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. In his eulogy, Sharpton lamented the “inconsistencies and unanswered questions” that had placed a dark cloud over the grieving family. He questioned why Wells’ friends had left him behind ...

  • AI chatbots at risk of fueling government restrictions on online speech, new study says

    AI chatbots at risk of fueling government restrictions on online speech, new study says

    Jul 17, 2026 12:37 AM EDT

    ... to political criticism to pose to chatbots about both restrictive and permissive governments. The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.

  • Texas flash floods leave at least 2 people dead in Hill Country region devastated a year ago

    Texas flash floods leave at least 2 people dead in Hill Country region devastated a year ago

    Jul 17, 2026 12:01 AM EDT

    ... t reopened from last year,” Jordan said. “This doesn’t help.” The Hill Country is especially prone to flash floods because the area’s signature limestone is covered by just a thin layer of soil. During heavy rains, water can quickly shoot downhill before filling the narrow river basins. Stengle ...

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