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• Ex-Biden official projected to win bid to unseat Mike Lawler in high-stakes House race

  05-11-2026 23:47 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  A former Biden administration aide is projected to defeat Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., in one of the most closely watched races of the 2026 election cycle.Cait Conley, a military veteran who served on the White House National Security Council, will likely be coming to Congress next year after beating the two-term incumbent for the job, The Associated Press projected late Thursday.Multiple forecasts suggested the seat would be a likely pickup for Democrats. THUNE WEIGHS NIGHTMARE SCENARIO FOR GOP A
  
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• Hegseth expands National Guard operations in DC, authorizes police patrol cars, Humvees and boats

  05-11-2026 23:45 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  War Secretary Pete Hegseth has authorized National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., to use dozens of marked police cars, military vehicles and boats as local officials demand an end to the deployment.Two Pentagon officials confirmed to Fox News Digital that Hegseth signed an Oct. 29 memo authorizing up to 60 marked patrol cars, Humvees, military tactical vehicles, D.C. National Guard boats and up to 20 light towers and generators.Roughly 3,000 National Guard troops are deployed in the nation's
  
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• Big Ten conference commissioner gives tone deaf statement about 24-team College Football Playoff

  05-11-2026 23:45 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  If it feels like it's a ridiculous time to be a college football fan, that's because it is.While the AP Top 25 poll has become a running joke, at least fans can comfort themselves with the knowledge that it has little importance when it matters. Then the College Football Playoff selection committee released their poll this week and, well, to say it was indefensibly bad is a charitable overstatement.It's atrocious. It's humiliating. It's disgraceful. And it requires an entire overhaul of the sele
  
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• Nick Bosa and model girlfriend win 49ers bye week with injury return and topless modeling shoot

  05-11-2026 23:43 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  I'm going to start out by saying that I'm not going to rank which one of these is more important to the San Francisco 49ers season. That's not fair to me, and it's particularly not fair to Nick Bosa and his model girlfriend Ella Ailiff.Nobody would have blamed them for putting their feet up during the bye week and doing absolutely nothing. The NFL season is long and the Niners are only seven games into a seventeen-game regular season marathon.This is a team, at 6-1, that has the playoffs in its
  
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• Tourist hot spot faces housing revolt as locals demand cuts to vacation lodging

  05-11-2026 23:34 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  One of Spain's most popular vacation islands is facing calls for a limit on tourist accommodations to curb crowding.Jordi Mora, president of Pimem, a federation representing small and medium-sized businesses in Mallorca, said the island needs to take stronger steps to control tourism, according to the Majorca Daily Bulletin."We need to curb tourism, which includes reducing the total number of tourist beds," Mora told the outlet.POPULAR DESTINATION CRACKS DOWN HARD ON TOURISTS AS NEW LIMITS THREA
  
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• Republicans face a crowded agenda and little time before handing Congress to Democrats

  05-11-2026 23:24 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Republicans on Capitol Hill are on the clock. They have less than two months left in power before the new, Democrat-led Congress is sworn in and their window of unified control in Washington, D.C., comes to an end. Even as the votes are still being counted, GOP leaders have been putting together plans for what they hope to accomplish before they lose power. “Our job is nowhere close to being finished yet,” House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly told attendees at a watch party Tuesday night a
  
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• MLW's Trevor Lee set for major high-stakes match against Yota Tsuji at Saturday Night SuperFight

  05-11-2026 23:24 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Trevor Lee officially signed with Major League Wrestling (MLW) seven months ago and he has kept his foot on the gas pedal since stepping in between the ropes for the company.Lee has gone toe-to-toe with some of the best MLW has to offer, including Kushida, Austin Aries and Místico, while also holding the MLW Southern Crown Championship. He broke the news with OutKick Dropkick/Fox News Digital in April and said at the time he had been waiting for a good opportunity to come his way.CLICK HERE FOR
  
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• Midterms and 2028: Join America's conversation here!

  05-11-2026 23:21 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Click "Comments" to weigh in. What's your take on where the 2028 race goes from here?
  
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• Trump seeks landmark status for 2 White House rooms he's redecorated

  05-11-2026 23:12 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  The Oval Office is set for a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at the White House on April 24, 2025. - Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/File
  President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national landmarks — a move he said would protect the two West Wing spaces from future changes.
  The signing ceremony, which came on the heels of Republicans’ stunning
  
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• 'Wipe those tears from our eyes and play like 46': Lions defense turns Jack Campbell tragedy into fuel

  05-11-2026 23:11 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  The pain of watching Jack Campbell collapse helplessly on the Ford Field turf Sunday has not completely subsided for the Detroit Lions. It certainly is not forgotten by teammates on defense that spent those horrible moments wiping away tears as their captain lay motionless with a neck injury.But four days later, following Campbell's mostly positive report about having lower body motion, the focus has shifted to how to continue handling the situation.The prayers persist. That hasn't stopped.LIONS
  
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• Bill Belichick advances once again as Pro Football Hall of Fame finalist after first-ballot snub in 2026

  05-11-2026 23:05 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Bill Belichick is back where he was last year, as he was among the five coaches that advanced in the process to potentially be elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.No one expected Belichick to still be on the ballot at this point, though, believing he deserved to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer. After all, he has the second-most wins by a head coach of all time, and some believe he is the greatest coach to ever grace an NFL sideline.But, despite his many accolades and reverence in the spor
  
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• Sylvester Stallone says Hollywood abandoned Middle America as Taylor Sheridan found an ignored audience

  05-11-2026 23:03 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Sylvester Stallone didn't hold back when it came to Hollywood's biggest blind spot.The "Tulsa King" star explained Taylor Sheridan found success by giving a forgotten audience exactly what it had been missing. According to Stallone, Sheridan tapped into something Hollywood had long ignored: an audience eager for stories rooted in Middle America."It's very, very important because that audience was ignored for centuries, it seems, since John Wayne," Stallone explained during an appearance on "The
  
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• Sizing up the blue wave: From the Politics Desk

  05-11-2026 23:00 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  Democrats are on track for the second-biggest House popular vote edge in the last 50 years. This will also be the largest midterm margin for one party since 1974.
  
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• Firefighter who battled COVID on front lines says he lost career for refusing vaccine: 'I'm on team Jesus'

  05-11-2026 23:00 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  A veteran Washington state firefighter who helped respond to some of America's first COVID-19 patients says he lost the career he loved after refusing to violate his religious beliefs to comply with a vaccine mandate and is now fighting to have his day in court.Scott Carlson, a former lieutenant with the Redmond Fire Department, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that he and his colleagues spent 18 months on the front lines of the pandemic without a single case of cross-contaminatio
  
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• Too close to call: How the Mississippi Senate race turned into such a nail-biter

  05-11-2026 22:50 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Mississippi is one of the reddest states in America, so this year's U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith and her Democratic challenger Scott Colom wasn't supposed to be especially close.Now it couldn't be closer. As of Thursday afternoon, Colom was leading Hyde-Smith by a mere 1,724 votes, according to the Associated Press. That's just 0.19% of all ballots cast. As a result, the AP has yet to call the contest, even though 96% of the vote is in. Along with Alaska — w
  
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• This is what moms told us they actually want this holiday season

  05-11-2026 22:27 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  Looking for a gift mom will actually use? A mother of two shares the best gifts for moms in 2026, from cozy loungewear and LED masks to coffee and chocolate.
  
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• Scott Colom blasts Democrats for not investing more in Mississippi

  05-11-2026 22:26 via NBC News Top Stories
  Mississippi U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom (D) says Democrats did not do enough to be competitive in the state as the Senate race remains too close to call. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor joins Meet the Press NOW with more from her interview.
  
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• Super Bowl champion Rod Woodson says the KKK tried to burn his family's home down when he was 11 years old

  05-11-2026 22:22 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Super Bowl champion Rod Woodson said the Ku Klux Klan tried to burn down his house when he was a kid.Woodson, whose father was Black and mother was White, said he was 11 years old when he woke up in the middle of the night to flames emanating from the back of his house."I woke up, it was like 2:00 in the morning. I look up and we only had a two-bedroom house. So my mom and dad bedroom was right here. Our bed, all three boys stayed in the other side of the other bedroom. I wake up, I look and I s
  
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• Wall Street's post-election rally lasts just 1 day as AI stocks plunge

  05-11-2026 22:19 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  US stocks plunged on Thursday as AI and chip stocks sold off, erasing the gains from Wednesday's post-election rally.The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) tumbled 3.4%, or more than 1,800 points. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) fell 4.3%, and the Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) dropped 5.5%, with the tech-heavy index closing in correction territory. The PHLX Semiconductor index (^SOX) plummeted 12% as Nvidia (NVDA), Micron (MU), and other chip names sank. Wall Street unloaded this year's AI winners, while la
  
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• Trump makes the Oval Office a national monument, but his gold decor isn't protected

  05-11-2026 22:19 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation that he says will preserve the Oval Office and Cabinet Room as a national monument, his first official action after his party was swept aside in midterm elections on Tuesday.But the action does not prevent future presidents from restyling the iconic office that Trump has filled to the brim with gold flourishes, nor does it prevent a successor from rolling back the proclamation itself. Trump himself has reversed national
  
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• Rosie O'Donnell considers return to New York from Dublin after celebrating blue wave of midterm election wins

  05-11-2026 22:12 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Rosie O'Donnell dabbled in the idea of returning to the states while celebrating the midterm election results.O'Donnell – a consistent critic of the current administration – fled the United States for Ireland after Donald Trump was elected president for a second term in 2024.While the former talk show host relished life across the pond, she's now thinking about moving back home to New York, and told The Washington Post that Dublin is "beautiful — we love it here, but my family's not here."
  
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• Human vs ChatGPT NFL Week 9 betting picks: Fading the hype after a week both want to forget

  05-11-2026 22:05 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Neither I nor ChatGPT wants to talk about last week. Luckily for me and it, I’m in control. So, if I say we’re not talking about it, we’re not talking about it, OK?Good. Onward and upward.But if I did want to talk about it, which I don’t, I’d probably mention that I spent more than two weeks on the road, flying back and forth between Atlanta and San Francisco to cover the WNBA Finals. So maybe the Week 8 NFL slate didn’t get my undivided attention.But, like I said, I don’t want to
  
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• DeSantis nukes ‘tech guy’ Vivek after Ohio drubbing: ‘Not in tune’ with blue-collar voters

  05-11-2026 21:47 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted failed Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and his GOP handlers, arguing on a podcast that he wasn't "in tune" with the working-class people of the state.Biotech entrepreneur Ramaswamy lost his scandal-plagued race to Democratic candidate Amy Acton by 7.9 percentage points. Despite President Donald Trump’s endorsement and guidance from Vice President JD Vance’s top advisers, Ramaswamy lost amid a "blue wave" that produced major
  
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• Trevor Bauer says 'playoff teams' wanted to sign him but team owners, MLB have blocked every move

  05-11-2026 21:46 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Trevor Bauer said that "playoff teams" reached out in attempts to acquire him but were "not allowed" to.The 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner has not pitched in the big leagues since 2021, months after signing the largest deal based on average annual value for a pitcher, after sexual abuse allegations."We’ve talked to every team and all the baseball people, all the front office people, the GMs, the coaches, the players, they're all, 'Yeah, we want you. We want to sign you. We’d sign
  
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• Video shows high-altitude rescue of hiker who fell hundreds of feet down Utah's Mount Timpanogos

  05-11-2026 21:36 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  Utah authorities have released dramatic video footage capturing a high-altitude rescue after a hiker plummeted hundreds of feet from the summit of Mount Timpanogos last month.The female hiker was navigating a trail on Oct. 26 when she fell, sliding down the 11,700-foot peak before coming to a stop on a narrow cliff ledge, according to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office."Our Search and Rescue pilot was able to spot the hiker from our airplane as we began to deploy SAR team members to the mountain
  
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• Ex-Alaska lawmaker details mystery recruiter as FBI, Congress widen 'Decoy Dan' scrutiny

  05-11-2026 21:32 via Latest & Breaking News on Fox News
  
  A former Alaska Republican lawmaker told Fox News Digital the FBI interviewed him after an apparent Democratic political operative allegedly posed as a conservative recruiter and tried to persuade him to enter the state's U.S. Senate race amid an intensifying congressional investigation into the controversial "Decoy Dan Sullivan" ballot scheme.The allegations raise questions about potential federal criminal liability. Article III Project attorney Will Chamberlain argued that a coordinated effort
  
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• 'Tax the rich' (mostly) wins in ballot measures across the country

  05-11-2026 21:16 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Voters weighed in on tax ballot initiatives across at least 10 states this week, returning verdicts that demonstrate plenty of “tax the rich” sentiment despite the likely failure of California's high-profile plan for a wealth tax.Other successful measures sought to limit taxes on Americans of more modest means either through new caps on state income taxes or lower property taxes.Voters' affordability worries ran, "at least in part, through the tax code," as the Tax Foundation summarized the
  
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• Wisconsin reports its first measles death in decades, the third in the U.S. this week

  05-11-2026 21:05 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  The infant’s death followed a measles-associated death reported Wednesday in Pennsylvania and another Monday in New York.
  
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• Democratic socialist Nithya Raman defeats incumbent Karen Bass in the L.A. mayoral race

  05-11-2026 21:01 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Democrats continue to celebrate one of the most lopsided midterm election victories in modern U.S. history, routing their Republican rivals to gain control of the U.S. House, U.S. Senate and statehouses across the country.In the Senate, Democrats flipped seven seats and now hold 54 to the Republican Party's 44. Two seats — nail-biting contests in Alaska and Mississippi — remain undeclared.To do so, Democrats won a series of key battleground contests. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed defeated Mike
  
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• Meet Nithya Raman, the democratic socialist who will be Los Angeles's next mayor

  05-11-2026 20:50 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Los Angeles mayoral candidate Nithya Raman with supporters in Los Angeles on election night.Photograph: Chris Torres/EPA
  Nithya Raman on Thursday unseated Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass after a neck-and-neck race for the leadership for the US’s second largest city.Related: Democratic socialist Nithya Raman wins Los Angeles mayoral race over incumbent Karen BassThe young progressive’s victory means that the two largest cities in the US, as well the nation’s capital, Washington DC, have now a
  
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• Home Depot’s Black Friday sale has already started: 18+ deals you can shop now

  05-11-2026 20:50 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  Home Depot’s Black Friday sale has already begun, with up to 65% off home appliances, power tools, storage items, furniture and more.
  
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• How to prevent your pipes from freezing this winter, according to plumbers

  05-11-2026 20:40 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  Frozen pipes can burst and cause costly water damage. Plumbers share how to keep your pipes from freezing and what to do if one bursts.
  
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• Newsom to commute all 548 California death sentences to life in prison without parole

  05-11-2026 20:21 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally at the Hollywood Palladium on Sunday. (Ariana Drehsler / For The Times)Gov. Gavin Newsom told the California Supreme Court Thursday that he will commute the death sentences of all 548 state prisoners awaiting execution, reducing their punishments to life in prison without parole. Newsom can commute about 40% of the death sentences with the stroke of a pen, but the rest will require the high court’s approval in order to be finalized.The mass commu
  
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• Scott Colom criticizes Democrats for writing off Mississippi amid close Senate vote count

  05-11-2026 19:59 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — Democrat Scott Colom criticized his party for writing off Mississippi as he remains locked in a Senate race that is too close to call, telling NBC News that Democrats unfairly gave up on voters in the state.
  
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• Trump’s D.C.-area arch expected to be approved, but without sniper or drone plans

  05-11-2026 19:56 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  The National Capital Planning Commission is expected approve President Donald Trump’s massive — and controversial — “Triumphal Arch” for Washington, D.C., with construction scheduled to begin almost immediately.
  
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• Judge blocks construction on Trump’s D.C.-area arch after commission’s approval

  05-11-2026 19:56 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  The Trump administration has said it expects to begin construction immediately, but a judge is considering a plan to temporarily halt the project.
  
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• Stock market reacts amid concerns about artificial intelligence spending

  05-11-2026 19:47 via NBC News Top Stories
  Watch a live look at the New York Stock Exchange big board as the market reacts to concerns about the current artificial intelligence boom.
  
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• KitchenAid’s popular stand mixer is $150 off ahead of holiday baking and gifting

  05-11-2026 19:46 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  The KitchenAid Artisan Series 5-Quart Tilt-Head Stand Mixer is 30% off on Amazon today, saving you than $150 ahead of holiday shopping.
  
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• Justice Department moves to toss Steve Bannon’s conviction tied to Congress’ Jan. 6 investigation

  05-11-2026 19:41 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  The Trump administration moved to vacate the conviction of Steve Bannon on two counts of contempt of Congress in connection with its investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.
  
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• Head of DOJ Civil Rights Division resigns after GOP midterms loss

  05-11-2026 19:36 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  WASHINGTON — Harmeet Dhillon, the Republican attorney who oversaw a massive overhaul of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, submitted her resignation on Thursday.
  
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• Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault in London court

  05-11-2026 19:31 via NBC News Top Stories
  British comedian and actor Russell Brand was accused of three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of attempted indecent assault. Ultimately he was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. He ⁠was acquitted of ⁠the other charges.
  
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• Harmeet Dhillon resigns as DOJ's civil rights chief after turbulent 18 months

  05-11-2026 18:59 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  
  Washington — Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, resigned on Thursday, Attorney General Todd Blanche said."Today, I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Civil Rights Division with conviction the past 18 months," Blanche wrote in a post on X. "She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor. The Department is grateful for her d
  
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• The Met’s Costume Institute pivots after scrapping controversial Galliano show

  05-11-2026 18:56 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  A new theme for next year’s Met Gala exhibit was announced Thursday, two months after event organizers scrapped their original idea to honor British designer John Galliano following backlash over his past anti-Jewish and anti-Asian remarks.
  
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• ‘Married At First Sight UK’ dropped by network after women say they were raped during show

  05-11-2026 18:45 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  The U.K. version of the “Married At First Sight” reality franchise has canceled its season after allegations that two women were raped during the production of the show.
  
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• Democratic socialist Nithya Raman defeats Karen Bass in the L.A. mayor’s race

  05-11-2026 18:44 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  City Council member Nithya Raman has defeated incumbent Karen Bass in the Los Angeles mayoral race, NBC News projects, capping off a rapid political ascent for a progressive challenger who railed against the “broken status quo” in the country’s second-largest metropolis.
  
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• Trump admin. secretly worked with Iran on deportations during war, records show

  05-11-2026 18:29 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration held secret talks with Iran on deporting Iranians even as the war there dragged on, court documents obtained by The Associated Press show.The court documents unsealed Thursday show the Republican administration as recently as mid-October said it had plans to deport the Iranians through an unnamed third country, although it was unclear when it intended to do so. The judge in the case ordered the government to give the court 24-hour notic
  
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• LIV Golf plans to shut down

  05-11-2026 18:25 via NBC News Top Stories
  
  LIV Golf, the breakaway golf tour backed by Saudi royalty and some of the biggest names in the game, said Thursday it planned to wind down — a stunning conclusion to an effort that had received billions of dollars in backing.
  
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• Melania Trump urges 'humanity over war' at event with officials from Ukraine and Russia

  05-11-2026 17:46 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  US First Lady Melania Trump called for a new ceasefire in Ukraine after the expiry of a temporary truce in the ruined town of Oleshky (SAUL LOEB)US First Lady Melania Trump called for a new, "more enduring" ceasefire in Ukraine as she hosted officials from the war-torn country and its invader Russia at the White House on Thursday.Trump earlier helped negotiate a six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky, which ended on Sunday. The brief pause was one of the most notable instance
  
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• Meghan Markle’s half-brother Thomas named a 'person of interest' in investigation into child sexual abuse material involving their father

  05-11-2026 17:46 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Meghan Markle's half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., is a "person of interest" in an investigation by police in the Philippines into alleged child sexual abuse material linked to their father, Thomas Markle, the country's interior secretary said Thursday. Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla told reporters at a press conference in Manila that authorities were examining whether Markle Jr., 60, was involved but that he was not currently considered a suspect. "We will know in the next week," he said in a
  
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• Meghan Markle's half-brother named person of interest in father's abuse case

  05-11-2026 17:46 via Yahoo.com/news Top Stories
  Meghan Markle's half-brother, Thomas Markle Jr., is a "person of interest" in an investigation by police in the Philippines into alleged child sexual abuse material linked to their father, Thomas Markle, the country's interior secretary said Thursday. Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla told reporters at a press conference in Manila that authorities were examining whether Markle Jr., 60, was involved but that he was not currently considered a suspect. "We will know in the next week," he said in a
  
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