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Two former Israeli prime ministers agree to merge parties against Netanyahu

Two Israeli political heavyweights on Sunday said they would join forces in upcoming elections in a shared effort to unseat longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid served as prime ministers in a rotation agreement as part of a coalition government they formed in 2021. They now plan to merge their parties into single faction headed by Bennett. “The move is intended to unite the bloc, put an end to internal divisions and focus all efforts on winning the critical upcoming elections,” Lapid's Yesh Atid party said in a statement.

Palestinian leader's loyalists win local elections, including some seats in Gaza

US Senator Tillis says he's ready to advance confirmation of Warsh as Fed chair

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Indiana GOP lawmakers defied Trump on redistricting. Now GOP voters may thwart his push for revenge

Five months ago, Indiana Republican legislators withstood pressure from President Donald Trump and rejected his urgent political demands. Now there are signs here on the ground that GOP voters may be poised to do the same.Trump and his allies are out for revenge in the Hoosier state’s May 5 primary after the Republican supermajority in the state Senate voted down his demand to redraw Indiana’s congressional map to help the GOP win two more seats in November’s midterm elections.The president endorsed challengers to seven incumbent Republican state senators who voted against the redistrict

UK's Starmer and Trump discuss 'urgent need' to restore shipping in Strait of Hormuz

Robert Reffkin is changing the way Americans buy homes. Who do those changes help?

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Trump was likely target of shooting at White House correspondents' dinner, US official says

- President Donald Trump and officials in his administration were the likely targets of a suspect who fired on a security agent guarding the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, U.S. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Sunday.The man fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel before being tackled and arrested. Trump and first lady Melania Trump were rushed out of the dinner. "It does appear that he, he did, in fact, have set out to target folks that work in the administration, likely including the presiden

Tillis says he's ready to move ahead with confirming Warsh as Trump's pick as Fed chair

Airlines looking for fare increases to stick, even when jet fuel costs fall

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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer witnesses ‘terrifying’ ordeal as gunman opens fire a few feet away at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was just a few feet away from a gunman when shots were fired outside the main ballroom at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner.Blitzer had just left the men’s restroom on an upper floor outside the ballroom at the Washington Hilton when he saw a man with “a very, very serious weapon.”“All of a sudden I heard these loud, very loud, very scary gunshots right near me. Next thing I knew, a police officer threw me to the ground and was on top of me,” Blitzer said. The officers took him back in the the men’s restroom where about 15 other men were also taking shel

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How Washington’s biggest annual dinner transformed into chaos — and a crime scene

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were seated on the stage of the cavernous Washington Hilton ballroom just after 8:30 p.m. ET Saturday evening, playfully engaging with the evening’s entertainer, mentalist Oz Pearlman.Just outside, a man sprinted through a security checkpoint with a shotgun in hand, exchanging fire with Secret Service agents who chased behind him, according to security footage released of the incident.Within seconds, the gunman was subdued by Secret Service — before he could reach the ballroom where the president, Trump administration officials, members o

Wolf Blitzer details the moment he heard gunshots at White House Correspondents’ Dinner

1 Chicago police officer killed, another wounded when suspect transported for treatment opens fire at hospital, officials say

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US agrees Venezuelan government can pay Maduro’s legal fees, ending weekslong standoff

The US has agreed to allow the Venezuelan government to fund the defense of ousted President Nicolás Maduro, ending a legal standoff that has clouded the case for weeks.Federal prosecutors and attorneys for the Maduros informed the judge overseeing the case in a joint letter filed late Friday night that the Treasury Department agreed to amend a license allowing for payments to attorneys for Maduro and his wife, who is also facing criminal charges, without violating US sanctions laws. Maduro and his wife have pleaded not guilty to drug and weapons charges.“The amended licenses authorize defe

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Kevin Durant improving but Game 4 status vs. Lakers unclear as Rockets face elimination, Udoka says

Houston coach Ime Udoka said Saturday that injured star Kevin Durant was doing better but his status for Game 4 against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday night was still unclear with the Rockets facing elimination. Durant missed Game 3 with a sprained left ankle on Friday night, when the Rockets blew a six-point lead with less than 30 seconds to go in regulation of an eventual 112-108 overtime loss to fall to 0-3 in the first-round series. “He’s getting treatment still around the clock,” Udoka said. “I think there’s some soreness and (he's) pushed a lot of

The Latest: Trump uninjured after security incident at White House Correspondents' dinner

Shots fired as gunman charges toward ballroom at White House correspondents' dinner. Trump unharmed

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The world is entering a new era of wildfire. This huge blaze shows how hard they are to tackle

It took 20 minutes for decades of family memories to be reduced to smoke and ash. Claudia Matamala, 34, broke down in tears recounting how flames engulfed her parents’ home in the port town of Lirquén in central Chile, where she had been sheltering after her own house was destroyed by another wildfire just five weeks earlier.Matamala had smelled smoke in the air in the early evening; within five hours, flames had reached the house. The pace of destruction was terrifying. The fire consumed the home before sweeping down the hill to devastate the next neighborhood. “It all happened in minute

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2 University of South Florida doctoral students were promising young researchers. Now a roommate is charged in their killing

Zamil Limon was last seen on the morning of April 16 at his home about three blocks from the University of South Florida campus in Tampa.Nahida Bristy was last seen later that same morning at the Natural and Environmental Sciences building on campus.They were both 27 and promising Bangladeshi doctoral students who started out as friends and over time developed feelings for each other — to the point they had thought about marriage, according to Limon’s brother, Zubaer Ahmed.Limon and Bristy were reported missing by a family friend on April 17, and as days went by, their friends in Florida

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes first man to run sub two-hour marathon as he wins in London

US to let Venezuela pay Maduro's lawyer in drug trafficking case

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In Supreme Court fight against deportation shield, Trump says judges have no role

Among President Donald Trump's main arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court defending his moves to rescind humanitarian protections that shield hundreds of thousands of immigrants from deportation, one stands out: Courts cannot review his administration's decisions in this area. Federal judges in New York and Washington, D.C., barred Trump's administration from stripping from more than 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians a legal status provided by the U.S. government that protects them from deportation. Citing widespread violence, crime, terrorism and kidnapping, the administration currently warn

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A bank robber's cellphone gave him away. Now the Supreme Court is hearing his case

Okello Chatrie's cellphone gave him away. Chatrie made off with $195,000 from the bank he robbed in suburban Richmond, Virginia, and eluded the police until they turned to a powerful technological tool that erected a virtual fence and allowed them collect the location history of cellphone users near the crime scene. The geofence warrant police served on Google found that Chatrie's cellphone was among a handful of devices in the vicinity of the bank around the time it was robbed. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether geofence warrants violate the F