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Astronauts briefly moved to 'safe haven' over ISS leak
Cracks in the transfer tunnel of the aging space station have been causing leaks since 2019.
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Astronauts return to ISS after sheltering during air leak repair attempt
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Russian attempt to repair tunnel area sparks safe-haven procedure for five other astronauts onboard.
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The Seven Republicans Who Voted With Democrats in Attempt to Block Trump’s White House Ballroom
The ballroom has been the source of much debate since Trump had the East Wing of the White House demolished last year to make room for the grandiose design.
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New York Post
Yankees call up Spencer Jones in first attempt to fill Aaron Judge void
The Yankees officially began their summer without Aaron Judge on Friday.
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The New Republic
Trump Rages over Iran Setbacks as Leaks Reveal His Seething Obama Envy
After the House voted to direct Donald Trump to end the Iran war, he exploded in fury at the four Republicans who turned against him, terming them “grandstanders” who “should be ashamed of themselves.” This comes as The New York Times reports that extensive internal war games among military officials established that Iran would react to an attack by closing the Strait of Hormuz—which Trump ignored. And incredibly, officials just leaked to The Atlantic that Trump is privately “irritated” by commentary casting his emerging framework as weaker than Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal. Trump also wants a way to argue that Iran “accepted terms from him that Obama never managed to extract.” We talked to former National Security Council veteran Emily Horne, author of the Spin Class Substack. We discuss how all those leaks themselves signal Trump’s growing weakness, why his demand for a “better” deal than Obama’s may be hopeless, and whether that leaves us any way out of this fiasco. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.
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Putin says Russia will bolster air defenses in response to Ukrainian drone attacks
President Vladimir Putin says Russia will strengthen its air defenses to counter recent Ukrainian drone attacks, which have reached deep inside his country and cast a cloud over his showcase economic forum in his hometown of St. Petersburg.
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Blaze Media
Scott Bessent BEATS DOWN Democrat over IRS audit immunity: 'Short on facts, long on hot air!'
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent battled it out with Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez of California during a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday.Sanchez accused Bessent of being complicit with what she called corruption of the Trump administration when they entered a shouting match at the end of her comments.'The congresswoman is slanderous. She has nothing but the unsubstantiated opinions, and I will not stand for that!' She asked him about whether he had reviewed the decision to give the president's family complete immunity from being audited by the Internal Revenue Service."Why are you allowing President Trump and his family to have complete immunity from being audited?” Sanchez asked. "Since you're a lawyer, you will understand that the U.S. Treasury and the IRS are represented by the Justice Department and the acting attorney general," Bessent responded.Sanchez interrupted and accused Bessent of refusing to answer questions about the immunity order."I'm curious to know who counts as Trump's ‘family’ for the purposes of this immunity. Is it his children, his in-laws, his grandchildren, his second or third cousin, his great-great-grandchildren? Do you know the answer to that question, Mr. Secretary?" she asked. "Again, I imagine you have the Justice Department phone number. I suggest you call them," Bessent responded. "I'm not the one that runs the Department of the Treasury or that oversees what is happening with this immunity that has been granted," Sanchez fired back."I'm not the one either," Bessent said. "We follow the instructions of our lawyers, and we obey the law.""I hope that you're proud of your performance today," Sanchez said."Well, I hope you get some social media clips!" Bessent said to Sanchez."I think it's pretty safe to say that this is probably the most corrupt Treasury Department in our nation's history!" Sanchez said."I am going to have to take exception to that. That is a slanderous statement!" Bessent hollered."While you dance around questions to protect Trump, Americans are suffering in Trump's spiraling economy. Inflation is now raising faster than average hourly wages, gas prices are at an all-time high with the war in Iran," Sanchez said."Nah!" Bessent interjected."The price of groceries has risen 3.2% over the past years, and prices on most goods have gone up because of Trump's tariffs," she continued. "So I don't see how you can call that anything other than a failure of the most corrupt Treasury Department in history."Bessent was given the chance to respond after Sanchez's time was over."The congresswoman is slanderous. She has nothing but the unsubstantiated opinions, and I will not stand for that!" Bessent hollered.RELATED: Scott Bessent slaps down Newsom at Davos: 'He's here with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros' "There is nothing corrupt. We move at the highest levels, and just because she cannot get the answer she wants, if she would like to give me facts — she seems ... short on facts, long on hot air. And I will not stand for that," he added."It's a disgrace to make a remark like that," Bessent concluded.The IRS audit immunity order was announced by the Justice Department as a part of the $20 billion lawsuit from the president over the leak of his IRS documents. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!
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Leaked emails reveal King Charles felt apprehensive over Trump's UK visit
Leaked emails and messages revealed King Charles harbored private concerns about hosting President Donald Trump for a U.K. state visit, primarily due to Trump and Vice President JD Vance's February 2025 ridiculing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy over perceived ingratitude for American support. "Multiple senior Whitehall sources have told this newspaper that the King was reticent about hosting Trump at this time because of his treatment of Zelensky," The i Paper reported.A source claimed the King felt jittery about Trump's appearance, while another alleged the King did not want to host Trump at all.Officials scrambled to address royal reservations, fearing a diplomatic crisis if the monarch snubbed Trump. Leaked correspondence between then-U.S. Ambassador Peter Mandelson and Foreign Office officials in March 2025 documented behind-the-scenes efforts to alleviate Charles's concerns, reports The i Paper.The King's worries reflected broader anxieties about U.S. commitment to Ukraine amid the ongoing war.According to the British media outlet, Mandelson's messages indicated he coordinated with senior civil servants and discussed the matter with Prime Minister Keir Starmer during weekly audiences with the King.Watch the video below. Your browser does not support the video tag.
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The New Republic
Senate Republicans Kill Democrats’ Attempt to Ban Trump’s Slush Fund
Senate Republicans killed a Democratic attempt to end President Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” Thursday.The Senate voted 50–49 against sending the spending bill back to the Judiciary Committee in order to attach language ending the fund.Susan Collins of Maine, Jon Husted of Ohio, and Dan Sullivan of Alaska were the only three Republicans to vote with Democrats for codifying the ban.The Trump administration has given mixed signals as to the fate of the $1.776 billion fund after a federal court temporarily struck it down last week. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a congressional committee Tuesday that the fund was dead, but Trump said otherwise in his interview with the New York Post podcast Pod Force One published on Wednesday.
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