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'Good news': Trump secretary brags about taking food stamps from '4.5 million people'

May 8, 2026 12:00PM ET Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recently celebrated the removal of food stamps from 4.5 million Americans. During an interview with Newsmax host Rob Finnerty this week, Rollins seemed jubilant about her success in moving people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). "It's a supplemental program. It's only supposed to last for a little bit of time," she explained. "Every red state said, yes, we want to participate. We want to ma ...

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17 American passengers aboard hantavirus-hit cruise ship will quarantine in Nebraska

May 8, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT / Updated May 8, 2026, 6:55 PM EDT Seventeen American passengers aboard the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak will quarantine at a Nebraska facility that specializes in handling patients with highly communicable diseases, health officials said. The m/v Hondius is expected to arrive in Tenerife, one of Spain's Canary Islands, on Sunday at which point disembarkation and isolation plans will be implemented. A team from the Centers for Disease Control an ...

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U.S. strikes two Iranian-flagged vessels as tensions continue amid ceasefire

The Trump administration, sidestepping a widening battle in and around the Strait of Hormuz, said it was anticipating a reply from Tehran on Friday on its latest terms for ending the war. "I hope it's a serious offer," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said during a visit to Italy, even as U.S. warplanes struck and disabled two Iranian-flagged tankers that the U.S. Central Command said were attempting to violate its naval blockade by entering an Iranian port along the Gulf of Oman. Rubi ...

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Ukraine and Russia agree to three-day Victory Day ceasefire tied to large-scale POW exchange

Ukraine and Russia have agreed in principle to conduct a 1,000-for-1,000 prisoner exchange alongside a temporary ceasefire from 9–11 May, according to statements from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump. Zelenskyy said the agreement was reached through negotiations mediated by the United States and linked the arrangement to humanitarian priorities surrounding the return of Ukrainian prisoners of war. Zelenskyy says POW return outweighed pressure around Moscow ...

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David Attenborough, the excited but hushed voice of nature programs, turns 100

LONDON (AP) — The BBC is hosting a party for David Attenborough at the Royal Albert Hall. Cinemas are playing his nature films. Friends have spent weeks lavishing praise on the man and his work. But the world’s most famous wildlife presenter is likely to be uncomfortable with all the attention as he celebrates his 100th birthday on Friday, said Alastair Fothergill, the producer of some of Attenborough’s most well-known documentaries and the director of Silverback Films. “He’s always been very ...

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Virginia Redistricting is Dead

(LA Times) The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday struck down a voter-approved Democratic congressional redistricting plan, delivering another major setback to the party in a nationwide battle against Republicans for an edge in this year’s midterm elections.The court ruled that the state’s Democratic-led legislature violated procedural requirements when it placed the constitutional amendment on the ballot to authorize the mid-decade redistricting.

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Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling cited misleading data from DoJ

(The Guardian) In his opinion gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act last week, Alito said that Black voter turnout had exceeded white voter turnout in two of the five most recent presidential elections, both nationally and in Louisiana. Alito’s claim was copied almost verbatim from a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the justice department. It was a critical data point Alito used to make the argument that the kind of discrimination that once made the Voting Rights Act necessary no longer exists. But a review of turnout and racial data in Louisiana reveals that assertion relies on an unusual methodology.

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'I'm Sure': Trump Border Czar Says ICE Agents Certainly Detain U.S. Citizens -- 'But We Don't Deport Them'

(Mediaite) Trump border czar Tom Homan admitted on Thursday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have most likely detained U.S. citizens while sweeping for undocumented migrants. During a gaggle outside the White House, a reporter asked how Homan makes sure that U.S. citizens and legal immigrants are protected from deportation operations. “We do our job,” Homan answered. “If you’re a U.S. citizen, you’ve got nothing to fear. We deport people that are going to be deportable. We arrest people that will be deportable based on suspicion. Have U.S. citizens ever been shortly detained based on suspicion? I’m sure. I’m sure,” he repeated.

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Astounded judges force Pete Hegseth lawyer to concede that Sen. Mark Kelly never said 'disobey lawful orders'

(Law & Crime) A federal appellate panel strongly suggested Thursday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's mission to punish Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for reminding troops they "can refuse illegal orders" is going absolutely nowhere. On the heels of a ruling in the court below that practically begged Hegseth to stop threatening the First Amendment rights of millions of military retirees to punish his boss' political rival over a video, the D.C. Circuit heard the DOJ's best pitch on Thursday for reviving the disciplinary action.

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RFK Jr allies worry he is being 'marginalized' by Trump and his voice is drowned out

(The Independent) Allies of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are reportedly worried he is being “marginalized” by the Trump administration. There are “fears among Kennedy’s close allies that he is being marginalized inside the administration, opening a fresh rift within the nascent MAGA-MAHA alliance,” according to a report from CNN. The concerns surfaced after Trump’s latest Surgeon General pick, Dr. Nicole Saphier, was announced without Kennedy reportedly having significant input in the decision.

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Community-Built Map Tracks ICE Activity Across Tucson, Arizona

14 sec ago - May 8, 2026, at 5:55 p.m. Tucson migrant advocates have designed a new tool to help track immigration-related enforcement in and around the city as arrests surge under President Donald Trump’s mass deportation initiative. Tucson Migra Map allo ... (US News & World Report/AP)

Fed unlikely to cut interest rates until second half of 2027, Bank of America says

25 min ago - May 8, 2026 / 5:47 PM EDT Bank of America predicts the Federal Reserve will delay lowering interest rates until the second half of 2027, mainly due to strong inflation and resilient job growth. Bank of America Global Research had previously penciled ... (CBS News)

California babies are getting a free diaper stash at birth

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Trump administration again suspends UC Berkeley research grants

1 hr ago - Updated 5:39 PM EDT, May 8, 2026 The National Science Foundation suspended at least 18 research grants to UC Berkeley in April despite a court injunction restricting such suspensions, according to an attorney representing university scientists in a c ... (AP)

Corporate owners of ICE lockups report drop in number of detained immigrants

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Experts worry 'we are not prepared' for pandemic under Trump, RFK Jr.

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US Postal Service reports $2 billion quarterly loss as cash crunch mounts

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Pentagon releases initial batch of declassified files detailing UFOs

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Google settles racial discrimination lawsuit for $50 million

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4 men found guilty in Miami in Haitian President Jovenel Moise's assassination

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Breakthru Beverage Workers in St. Louis Launch ULP Strike

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Appeals Court Issues Split Ruling in Michigan Solar Permitting Suit

10 hrs ago - May 8, 2026, at 2:56 p.m. A state appeals panel on Thursday upheld the bulk of Michigan’s regulations limiting local control over renewable energy projects, while rejecting narrow aspects that critics had decried as regulatory overreach. The th ... (US News & World Report/AP)

17 American passengers aboard hantavirus-hit cruise ship will quarantine in Nebraska

10 hrs ago - May 8, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT / Updated May 8, 2026, 6:55 PM EDT Seventeen American passengers aboard the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak will quarantine at a Nebraska facility that specializes in handling patients with highly communica ... (NBC News)

Trump administration ramps up denaturalization campaign, targeting U.S. citizens accused of crimes, fraud, terrorism

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Top 60 Minutes Correspondent Reportedly Heading For the Exit, Lawyering Up to Take on CBS Leadership

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Canada's economy dropped 18,000 jobs in April as unemployment rose to 6-month high

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Democrat, Republican team up on bill to remove Secret Service from DHS

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Trump administration lifts hold on immigration applications for doctors, but leaves others waiting

12 hrs ago - May 8, 2026, 1:20 PM EDT / Source: The Associated Press Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn’t been able to since the Trump administration stopped re ... (NBC News/AP)

Philip Caputo, Who Wrote Blistering Vietnam War Memoir, Dies at 84

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