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• Over 60 Reform UK candidates in local elections are Tory defectors, study finds

  04-04-2025 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour accuses Nigel Farage’s party of ‘mass rebrand’ after research into nominations of former ConservativesMore than 60 of Reform UK’s council candidates standing in this year’s elections are defectors from the Conservative party, according to research from the Labour party.Reform has also selected an ex-Conservative for its candidate in the upcoming Runcorn and Helsby byelection, while the party’s mayoral candidate for Greater Lincolnshire is the former Tor
  
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• Democrats decry dismissal of NSA director Tim Haugh

  04-04-2025 23:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Lawmakers say dismissing head of US Cyber Command puts country at risk at a time of ‘unprecedented cyber threats’Top congressional Democrats are protesting against the firing of Gen Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency (NSA), with one lawmaker saying the decision “makes all of us less safe”.Haugh and his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, have been dismissed from their roles, the Washington Post reported late on Thursday, with CNN reporting likewise
  
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• Texas reports large leap in measles cases bringing total to 481 across 19 counties

  04-04-2025 22:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Number of cases of highly contagious disease so far this year now at more than double amount seen all of 2024Texas on Friday reported another large jump in measles cases and hospitalizations, leaving the US with more than double the number of measles cases so far this year than it saw in all of 2024.Other states with active outbreaks – defined as three or more cases – include New Mexico, Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma. The virus has been spreading in undervaccinated communities, and since
  
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• Supreme Court allows Trump to terminate teacher training grants as part of anti-DEI policy

  04-04-2025 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Trump administration wants to terminate the grants because of what it calls “objectionable DEI material” in the programs they would fund.
  
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• Wall Street selloff caps brutal week for markets as Trump tariffs rattle investors

  04-04-2025 22:23 via theguardian.com
  
  Slumps on S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq cap dismal day for global indices but US president doubles down on tariff planWall Street suffered its worst week since the onset of the Covid-19 crisis five years ago as investors worldwide balked at Donald Trump’s risky bid to overhaul the global economy with sweeping US tariffs.The US president doubled down on his plan on Friday, insisting he would not back down even as the chairman of the Federal Reserve warned it would likely raise prices and slow
  
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• US will know in 'matter of weeks' if Russia is serious about peace or using 'delay tactic': Rubio

  04-04-2025 22:23 via foxnews.com
  
  Whether Russia is "serious" about achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine should become apparent in a "matter of weeks," Secretary of State Macro Rubio told reporters Friday."The Russians know our position in terms of wanting to end the war, and we will know from their answers very soon whether they are serious about proceeding with real peace or whether it is a delay tactic," Rubio said at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Questions are mounting over Moscow’s true interest in engaging with the
  
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• US markets see second day of selloffs as Trump’s tariffs continue to cause global turmoil – as it happened

  04-04-2025 22:23 via theguardian.com
  
  This live blog is now closed. You can read our latest reporting on Trump tariffs here:China hits back hard at ‘bullying’ tariffs as global recession fears growStock-market rout continues as investors rattled by Trump tariffs‘In economic terms, Trump’s tariffs make no sense at all’New Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative legal group, has filed what it says is the first lawsuit seeking to block Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports, saying the US preside
  
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• Pro-Palestinian protester interrupts Microsoft AI CEO during live event

  04-04-2025 22:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  A pro-Palestinian protester interrupted a live presentation by Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, accusing the tech company of selling AI technology to Israel.
  
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• Stock market plunges for second straight day after Trump's tariff announcement

  04-04-2025 22:10 via nbcnews.com
  NBC News' Christine Romans reports after the stock market closed after another plunge following President Trump's tariff announcement, marking the two worst trading days since March of 2020.
  
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• In latest trans sports salvo, Trump administration creates Title IX investigation team

  04-04-2025 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Trump administration is creating a new Title IX Special Investigations Team focused on keeping transgender women and girls from sports teams and restrooms designated for females.
  
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• Disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has died at age 94

  04-04-2025 21:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  WASHINGTON — Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults and children, died Friday, according to Archbishop of Washington Robert McElroy.
  
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• Obama expresses deep concern as Trump admin takes aim at students and law firms

  04-04-2025 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama said he is "deeply concerned" with some of the actions that President Donald Trump and his administration have taken and seemed to call out the Republican Party for not pushing back on them.
  
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• Judge rules man mistakenly deported to El Salvador must be returned

  04-04-2025 21:30 via nbcnews.com
  A federal judge has ruled that a Maryland man deported to El Salvador due to what officials described as an "administrative error" must be returned to the U.S. by April 7.
  
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• Tufts student grabbed off street by immigration officers scores legal win, has case moved to Vermont

  04-04-2025 21:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  A federal judge ordered the detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk's petition for her release to be transferred from Massachusetts to Vermont.
  
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• Venezuelan organ donor reunites with his sick brother after ICE temporary release

  04-04-2025 21:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  González, who is from Venezuela, hopes to participate in an organ donation program that may help secure a kidney for his brother, who has end-stage renal disease.
  
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• India's parliament passes bill that would change Muslim land endowments

  04-04-2025 21:13 via foxnews.com
  
  India's parliament passed a controversial bill moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government to amend laws governing Muslim land endowments, while Muslim groups and opposition parties protested the move.The bill would add non-Muslims to boards that manage waqf land endowments and give the government a larger role in validating their land holdings. The government says the changes will help to fight corruption and mismanagement while promoting diversity, but critics fe
  
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• DOJ blames Biden's trans athlete policies for 'jeopardizing' girls' safety as it launches Title IX task force

  04-04-2025 21:11 via foxnews.com
  
  EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday the creation of a Title IX special investigations team in conjunction with the Department of Education. The new initiative aims at addressing an "increasing volume" of Title IX cases, amid a flury of controversial incidents involving trans athletes in girls' and women's sports in recent years.The DOJ provided an exclusive statement to Fox News Digital citing previous policies under the Joe Biden administration that enabled trans inclusio
  
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• Federal judge rules return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison

  04-04-2025 21:07 via theguardian.com
  
  White House has said US courts can’t order return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wife has been protesting outside courtA federal judge on Friday afternoon ordered the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison after a Trump administration attorney was at a loss to explain what happened.The wife of the man, who was flown to a notorious Salvadoran prison had earlier joined dozens of supporters at a rally before a court hearing on Friday, where his lawyers had as
  
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• Federal judge orders return of Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison

  04-04-2025 21:07 via theguardian.com
  
  White House has said US courts can’t order return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose wife has been protesting outside courtA federal judge on Friday afternoon ordered the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison after a Trump administration attorney was at a loss to explain what happened.The wife of the man, who was flown to a notorious Salvadoran prison had earlier joined dozens of supporters at a rally before a court hearing on Friday, where his lawyers had as
  
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• Dementia risk could dip with common vaccine, study suggests

  04-04-2025 21:05 via foxnews.com
  
  The link between the zoster vaccine and a lower dementia risk has been strengthened in new research.A study by Stanford Medicine, published in the journal Nature on April 2, found that the vaccine — which is used to prevent shingles — reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis by about 20% over the next seven years."If these findings are truly causal, the zoster vaccine will be both far more effective and cost-effective in preventing or delaying dementia than existing pharma
  
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• Dem senator looks to hijack key Trump budget process with tariff challenge

  04-04-2025 21:04 via foxnews.com
  
  FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Jacky Rosen plans to introduce amendments ahead of Friday night's "Vote-A-Rama" that would roll back President Donald Trump's tariffs on certain materials on key tourism partners, likely forcing her Republican colleagues to go on record defending the policy again. "President Trump broke his promise to lower costs, and has enacted reckless tariffs that are jacking up prices even higher for hardworking Nevada families and harming my state’s tourism economy," Rosen, D-
  
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• George Clooney exploded on MSNBC producer after Mika Brzezinski linked Obama to dramatic Biden op-ed: report

  04-04-2025 21:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Actor George Clooney reportedly lost his temper on an MSNBC producer working on "Morning Joe" after host Mika Brzezinski suggested that former President Barack Obama may have influenced Clooney to write his New York Times op-ed on former President Joe Biden.Clooney called on Biden to leave the 2024 race in a New York Times guest essay in July 2024, just weeks after raising millions for the Democratic candidate.The explosive confrontation between an unnamed MSNBC producer and Clooney was revealed
  
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• George Clooney explains why wife Amal skipped star-studded premiere of his Broadway show

  04-04-2025 21:00 via foxnews.com
  
  George Clooney celebrated the opening night of his Broadway play, "Good Night, and Good Luck," without his wife Amal by his side.Clooney debuted the play he wrote and stars in at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City Thursday night.While speaking to reporters, George said Amal missed his big night because "she's with the kids," according to People magazine. The couple have twins, Alexander and Ella. Even without Amal, Clooney's night was star-studded.GEORGE CLOONEY TEASES 'PRETTY BOY'
  
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• Harris was ‘completely shocked’ by defeat, believed she could've won with more time, author says

  04-04-2025 20:54 via foxnews.com
  
  Former Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly blindsided by her 2024 election loss to President Donald Trump and "bought the hype" that she would win, according to a new book."She was completely shocked, and [Harris' running mate] Tim Walz was shocked," The Hill reporter Amie Parnes said on the podcast, "Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri" released Thursday.Parnes discussed reporting in her new book, "FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House," which she co-authored with NBC
  
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• North Carolina court orders 65,000 votes in disputed race to be recounted in win for GOP

  04-04-2025 20:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  A three-judge panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled Friday that more than 65,000 votes cast in the contested race for the state Supreme Court in 2024 must be recounted and verified — a win for the Republican candidate in the razor-thin, disputed contest and a decision that could potentially tip the election results in his favor.
  
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• Buffett denies rumors after Trump shares wild claim that investor backs president crashing market

  04-04-2025 20:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Warren Buffett went on the record Friday to deny social media posts after President Donald Trump shared on Truth Social a fan video that claimed the president is tanking the stock market on purpose with the endorsement of the legendary investor.
  
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• Nursing influencer Hailey Okula died of rare complication after childbirth, husband says

  04-04-2025 20:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The husband of nursing influencer Hailey Okula said she died of a rare complication after giving birth to their son and first child, Crew.
  
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• Bird flu could be heading north this spring with fewer federal health officials working to stop it

  04-04-2025 20:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bird flu cases could rise as birds migrate north. But the sweeping cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services include workers focused on the virus.
  
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• Filmmaker Paul Schrader accused of reneging on settlement over alleged sexual assault of assistant

  04-04-2025 20:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  Director and screenwriter Paul Schrader, known for films like "Taxi Driver" and "American Gigolo," has been accused of sexually assaulting and harassing his personal assistant.
  
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• Man suspected of strangling pregnant teen girlfriend to death release on bond for the second time

  04-04-2025 20:38 via foxnews.com
  
  A man suspected of strangling his pregnant teenage girlfriend to death has been released on bond for a second time after new charges were filed against him in relation to the alleged murder. Jesus Munroy, then 20, allegedly killed 16-year-old Mia Campos, who was seven months pregnant with his child, last August, according to local reports. Campos' body was found in a wooded area near her home in Gwinnett County, Georgia. FLORIDA MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING GIRLFRIEND, STAGING MURDER SCENE W
  
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• Sean 'Diddy' Combs hit with new sex trafficking charges a month before trial

  04-04-2025 20:29 via foxnews.com
  
  Federal prosecutors have added two charges to Sean "Diddy" Combs' indictment, expanding on allegations that the jailed hip-hop mogul engaged in sex trafficking as recently as last year.A superseding indictment filed Friday accuses Combs of using force, fraud, or coercion to compel a woman to engage in commercial sex acts from at least 2021 to 2024.The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury in Manhattan, also alleges Combs was involved in transporting the woman — identified only as Vi
  
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• Israel restarts ground operations in northern Gaza Strip in renewed campaign

  04-04-2025 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 25 killed in attack on Khan Younis in south as Israel says it is aiming to pressure Hamas into releasing hostagesIsrael has restarted ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip and killed at least 25 people in airstrikes on the southern city of Khan Younis in what it says is a renewed military campaign aimed at pressuring Hamas into releasing Israeli hostages.At least 25 people were killed in the attack on Khan Younis early on Friday, the local Nasser hospital told AFP, as the search
  
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• Trump extends deadline on TikTok ban

  04-04-2025 20:23 via nbcnews.com
  President Trump has announced a 75-day extension to a deadline that would have ban the social media app TikTok if it is not sold to a non-Chinese buyer. 
  
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• Bill Murray snaps at man in New York movie theater, accuses him of assault

  04-04-2025 20:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Bill Murray is putting his foot down.The actor was at a movie theater in New York recently to promote his new film, "The Friend." In a video that's been making the rounds on social media, Murray got into an altercation with a man in the lobby of the theater he seemed to believe was being aggressive toward him.At the beginning of the video, Murray is walking with a security guard inside the theater. A man is walking close behind him, and Murray suddenly stops and stomps on the ground, seemingly a
  
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• Luxury cruise ship caught in 40-foot waves while traveling through Drake Passage

  04-04-2025 20:13 via foxnews.com
  
  Passengers on a cruise ship sailing through rough seas got more than they bargained for when waves up to 40 feet rocked passengers onboard.Video posted to Instagram shows massive waves hitting the Quark Expeditions’ Ocean Explorer ship, which was traveling between Antartica and the tip of South Africa, known as the Drake Passage, according to the New York Post."Imagine if you signed up for a 48 hour rollercoaster," one travel blogger wrote on Instagram. "Yes, we were safe and it was insane
  
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• Bryson DeChambeau lauds Trump as ‘great ambassador for the game’ as PGA Tour, LIV Golf talks continue Y

  04-04-2025 20:04 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump has taken initiative in the reunification of golf by facilitating talks between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf, and one of the sport's biggest stars thinks he’s the perfect guy for the job. Two-time U.S. Open champion Bryson DeChambeau spoke with "Fox & Friends" on Friday morning ahead of the LIV Golf tournament at Trump National Doral to discuss the ongoing negotiations between the two rival circuits and his relationship with the president. "He lo
  
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• Reds kickoff 2025 MLB season with historic low after losing three consecutive 1-0 games

  04-04-2025 20:03 via foxnews.com
  
  The Cincinnati Reds' 1-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday was their third consecutive 1-0 loss, becoming the first MLB team in 65 years to achieve such a feat. No MLB team has had three straight 1–0 defeats since the Philadelphia Phillies did so in May 1960. Only six teams in league history have ever had three straight 1–0 defeats, and no team has ever had four such defeats in a row – at least for now. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMFo
  
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• Liberation Day and Trump tariffs are not the end of trade. It's only the beginning

  04-04-2025 20:03 via foxnews.com
  
  This week, President Donald Trump ushered in a new era of American renewal—Liberation Day—by imposing a comprehensive suite of tariffs on foreign imports. This is not merely a policy change. It is a historic pivot, a national recommitment to the American worker, the American community, and the American future. It is the end of one failed economic consensus and the rebirth of another—one grounded in strength, security, and broad-based prosperity.Liberation Day is about investmen
  
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• Prince Andrew wrote birthday letters to Xi Jinping, ex-adviser told court

  04-04-2025 19:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Released court statement says alleged Chinese spy helped draft private letters to Chinese presidentThe Duke of York sent letters directly to China’s president, the prince’s former senior adviser told a special immigration tribunal, with an alleged Chinese spy advising him on how to write them.Dominic Hampshire, who worked for Andrew from 2019-22, said Andrew had “always had a communication channel” with Xi Jinping that was “accepted” and may even have been enc
  
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• Russell Brand denies allegations of rape and sexual assault

  04-04-2025 19:47 via nbcnews.com
  Actor and comedian Russell Brand has posted a video statement stating he is innocent of rape and sexual assault charges filed against him by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service.
  
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• Rachel Morin’s alleged illegal killer left slain jogger’s body along 150-foot blood trail: prosecutors

  04-04-2025 19:46 via foxnews.com
  
  Community members discovered the 150-foot blood trail leading to Rachel Morin's lifeless body on a hiking trail as volunteers helped police search for the Maryland mom, opening remarks revealed in the long-awaited trial for her accused migrant killer.Opening statements began Friday morning at the Harford County Circuit Court in Bel Air, Maryland, for the trial of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a 23-year-old from El Salvador, who is charged with murdering the 37-year-old Morin in 2023.Morin's
  
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• Trump’s China tariffs face legal challenge from conservative group calling them ‘unlawful'

  04-04-2025 19:42 via foxnews.com
  
  A conservative legal group is challenging President Donald Trump's tariffs on China, calling them "an unlawful attempt" to make Americans pay higher taxes on Chinese imports. The New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) filed an initial complaint in Florida district court Thursday, challenging Trump's "unlawful use of emergency power to impose a tariff on all imports from China.""By invoking emergency power to impose an across-the-board tariff on imports from China that the statute does not auth
  
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• An Idaho warden acquired lethal injection drugs from an undisclosed supplier on a rural road

  04-04-2025 19:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  While manufacturers of FDA-approved injectable pentobarbital are warning states not to use the sedative in executions, some states are still buying it — and paying top dollar.
  
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• One more charge each of sex trafficking and prostitution filed against Sean Combs

  04-04-2025 19:37 via nbcnews.com
  
  Federal prosecutors in New York have added two charges of sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution to their indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
  
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• China hits back hard at ‘bullying’ Trump tariffs as global recession fears grow

  04-04-2025 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Beijing imposes punitive 34% extra tariffs on all goods imported from US, exacerbating stock market sell-offUS politics live – latest updatesChina has hit back hard against Donald Trump’s “bullying” tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial markets.Beijing retaliated on Friday with punitive 34% additional tariffs on all goods imported from the US – mirroring the US decision and exac
  
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• Trump DOJ, Education Dept form task force to protect female athletes from 'gender ideology' in schools, sports

  04-04-2025 19:19 via foxnews.com
  
  The Trump administration on Friday launched a new investigative unit to protect "female athletes, from the pernicious effects of gender ideology in school programs and activities," further clamping down on transgender women in school sports and sending a warning signal to states defying the president's executive orders.The Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the Title IX Special Investigations Team (SIT) to handle cases, particularly targeting transgender w
  
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• Trump shakes up NSA leadership, appoints new acting director and deputy to replace Biden appointees

  04-04-2025 19:10 via foxnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump has fired the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), a high-level move driven by mounting pressure from conservative allies to purge officials they view as insufficiently loyal to the president's "America First" agenda.Gen. Timothy Haugh and civilian Deputy Wendy Noble were let go from their roles as director and deputy director of the NSA. Lt. Gen. William Hartman, who also leads U.S. Cyber Command, will serve as acting director, while Sheila Thomas will take over as
  
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• US ‘testing’ if Russia is serious about peace in Ukraine, says Marco Rubio

  04-04-2025 19:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Secretary of state says Putin ‘will have to make a decision’ as US officials appear to be growing impatientThe US will know within weeks whether Russia is serious about pursuing peace with Ukraine, the secretary of state has said, warning that Donald Trump was not “going to fall into the trap of endless negotiations” with Moscow.“We’re testing to see if the Russians are interested in peace,” Marco Rubio told journalists in Brussels after talks with Nato
  
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• Experts warn Iran’s nuclear double-talk designed to buy time, undermine US pressure

  04-04-2025 18:35 via foxnews.com
  
  Senior Iranian officials are threatening to ramp up the country's nuclear program as the Trump administration weighs a possible strike against the regime if Tehran does not come to the table for negotiations."The president should be making the regime sweat, pure and simple," Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital."This can be done with strict enforcement of maximum pressure sanctions, and a targeted campaign agains
  
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• Rare criminal confessions, British spy secrets from 115 years ago unveiled in new exhibit

  04-04-2025 18:34 via foxnews.com
  
  The British National Archives has announced a new exhibit that may catch the attention of James Bond fans.The "MI5: Official Secrets" exhibit will be pulling down the curtain on the world of espionage in London.ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNCOVER PROOF OF ANCIENT BIBLICAL BATTLE AT ARMAGEDDON SITE: 'EXCEPTIONAL PHENOMENON'"Explore the ever-changing world of espionage and security threats through original case files, photographs and papers, alongside the real equipment used by spies and spy-catchers over MI5'
  
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