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Boeing Starliner's first crewed mission delayed over propellant leak, testing

Boeing Starliner’s first crewed mission was delayed again, this time over a propellant leak and the need for additional testing, the company said on Tuesday. The aerospace company’s first Starliner mission, carrying two NASA astronauts into space, has now been postponed at least until next week. “The teams now are targeting a launch date of...

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Former Situation Room officer: Pence came 'close' to being killed on Jan. 6

A former Situation Room officer said former Vice President Mike Pence came “close” to being killed on Jan. 6, 2021, during the riot at the U.S. Capitol. “It's important to me that we don't forget that it did come that close, and that we did have discussions, ‘If we lose the [vice president,] if the...

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Stephen A. Smith: Michelle Obama would ‘hands down’ be next president if she ran

Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith said he thinks that if former First Lady Michelle Obama ran for president in the 2024 election, she would “hands down” beat former President Trump. Smith appeared on former NBA player Kevin Garnett’s podcast, KG Certified, where he was asked how close he thinks the United States is to having...

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Who is Roaring Kitty and why is he causing a GameStop stock surge?

Shares of GameStop, the embattled video game retailer at the center of the 2021 meme stock frenzy, are surging again after the return of “The Roaring Kitty.” Roaring Kitty, who is legally known as Keith Gill, kicked off another stock market surge this week with his first post on social media in nearly four years....

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Hunter Biden loses effort to delay trial

Hunter Biden lost his bid to delay his federal gun trial, a district judge ruled Tuesday, setting the case up to go to trial in June. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected defense attorneys’ effort to delay the trial until September, which Biden’s legal team argued was necessary in order to have enough time to...

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White House official visits Morehouse ahead of Biden speech

A senior White House official met with students and faculty at Morehouse College ahead of the commencement speech President Biden is set to give there this weekend — and amid reported concerns about the campus visit. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed on Tuesday that Steve Benjamin, head of the administration’s Office of Public...

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Bay Area city presses pause on controversial sea-spray climate project

The East Bay Area city of Alameda, Calif., has temporarily halted a boat-based climate research project, as local officials work to determine whether spraying sea salt particles into the air poses any environmental or health risks to members of the public. The University of Washington endeavor, called the Marine Cloud Brightening Program, is exploring how aerosol...

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Maryland's volatile Senate primary comes to a head

Welcome to The Hill's Campaign newsletter {beacon} Campaign Report Campaign Report   The Big Story Maryland’s volatile Senate primary comes to a head A blistering battle in Maryland over which Democrat will go on to face former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) for an open Senate seat in the November election will be decided Tuesday....

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GOP strategist to take a spin guest DJing on Sinatra radio channel

WE HEAR: GOP strategist Doug Heye is temporarily trading political punditry for weighing in on the Sultan of Swoon, with a guest DJ gig on a SiriusXM channel devoted to Frank Sinatra. Heye, the former Republican National Committee communications director and a Chairman of the Board mega-fan, will play some hits, but also dive deeper...

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Federal student loan interest rates highest in more than a decade

The Department of Education announced Tuesday that federal student loan interest rates for the 2024-2025 school year hit 6.53 percent, up from 5.5 percent the previous year.   Higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz told CNBC the new undergraduate interest rate is the highest it has been in a decade.   Graduate student loans hit 8.08...

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Campus protests and the tyranny of certainty

People on the ends of the spectrum are not interested in nuance, because absolutes are so much easier to defend — all you need to do is repeat your perspective and refuse to engage in dialogue. After all, you are right, so what else is there to say?

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Google ramps up AI in search functions amid race with OpenAI 

Google will roll out new artificial intelligence (AI) features in search functions and other Google services as the company races with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to stay on the cutting edge of AI technology. Google’s AI Oversights, using its updated Gemini model, will be able to provide users with more thorough answers to questions — even queries...

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FBI: Fewer law enforcement killed in 2023, but attacks on the rise

Slightly fewer law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty last year, though assaults on such officials increased, according to a new FBI report. Sixty officers were killed in the line of duty in 2023, one fewer than the previous year, the FBI said in a new report using data collected by law...

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Over half of Latinas feel pressure to support family: Pew

Story at a glance More than half of Latinas in the United States feel pressure to take care of family financially or by caregiving, a new Pew Research Center survey found. In a 5,078-person survey of Hispanic adults, Pew found that 63 percent of Latinas feel family pressures or work pressure. Meanwhile, 53 percent often feel...

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Here are some of the famous names on Trump's 'close contacts' list

The list of former President Trump’s “close contacts” was shown during his Manhattan hush money trial last week. The 50-plus person list features a bevy of business associates, celebrities, star athletes and billionaires. It was revealed during former White House aide Madeleine Westerhout's testimony on Thursday. The contacts’ phone numbers were redacted. Some names on...

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Trump’s New York trial: Where’s the crime?

While there is no doubt that Cohen is a convicted criminal, the so-called “hush money” case against Trump raises an interesting question about whether one of the crimes to which Cohen pled guilty was even a crime at all.

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DOJ urges judge to start Steve Bannon prison sentence

Federal prosecutors asked the judge overseeing one-time Trump adviser Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress case to order the start of his four-month prison sentence after an appeals court upheld the conviction last week. Lawyers with the Department of Justice filed a request Tuesday to District of Columbia Circuit Judge Carl Nichols, urging him to lift...

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Here are the 10 most bipartisan senators, according to new report

A report by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy ranked how bipartisan each Senator is. The list intends to measure how well members of opposite parties work with one another. The rankings were made using bill sponsorship and co-sponsorship data and hopes to “fill a hole in the information available...