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Exclusive - Justice Dept. employee charged in child pornography case - Timothy Parsons, a legal staffer at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., is facing federal criminal charges in Maryland, where he lives, three sources said. 8H ago

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Live - Hegseth says U.S. "just getting started" as Iran war spreads - The U.S. is "accelerating, not decelerating" war on Iran, Hegseth says, as strikes intensify in the region and reach 1,000 miles away. updated 18M ago

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Rep. Tony Gonzales admits to affair with former staffer, calling it a "mistake" -- Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that he had a relationship with a former staffer, but alleged the controversy that has engulfed the situation is "about power and money."

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GOP Sen. Steve Daines of Montana won't seek reelection -- Sen. Steve Daines said he had wrestled with the decision for months.

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Israel's president: It's "time that everybody tells Iran, 'Guys, we're fed up'" -- In an interview with CBS News Wednesday, Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that he is "not calling on any boots on the ground" in Iran.

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Man arrested in Virginia is latest Jan. 6 defendant to face new charges -- Jonathan Munafo is among the Jan. 6 riot defendants who have been arrested on charges in new cases in the months after their pardons.

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Elon Musk testifies in Twitter shareholder trial over actions before purchase -- Elon Musk reached a deal to buy Twitter in April 2022. On May 13, 2022, he declared his plan "temporarily on hold" over the number of spam and fake accounts on the platform. Twitter's stock tumbled as a result.

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Companies are entitled to Trump tariff refunds, trade court rules -- A federal court in New York ruled Wednesday that businesses that paid emergency tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court are eligible for refunds.

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Gloves found near Guthrie's home tied to restaurant worker, no connection to case -- DNA from the gloves found near Nancy Gunthrie's Arizona home was traced back to a local restaurant worker who has no connection to the investigation, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said.

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Probe into Biden autopen closed by D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office, source says -- Federal prosecutors are dropping their probe into whether Biden and his aides unlawfully used an autopen for pardons, a source said.

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12 defendants set to plea in NBA-mafia rigged poker game case, feds say -- NBA Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups and former player Damon Jones are among 31 people charged in the federal case. They have pleaded not guilty.

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Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach, dies at age 89 -- Holtz coached Notre Dame from 1986 to 1996, winning 100 games with the school, including a 12-0 national title-winning season in 1988.

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House Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Bondi to testify in Epstein probe -- Several Republicans on the Oversight panel joined with Democrats in supporting the motion to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi.

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Nearly 37 million pounds of food recalled because it could contain glass -- Oregon food manufacturer Ajinomoto expands an earlier recall of frozen and ready-to-eat products over glass contamination.

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Officers who killed Austin gunman "undoubtedly saved lives," DA says -- Travis County DA Jose Garza said suggestions that he would seek charges were "intentionally false" and political in nature, calling the officers heroes.

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Google faces first lawsuit alleging its AI chatbot encouraged man's suicide -- Google is accused in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a man who committed suicide in October, allegedly at the direction of the tech giant's AI chatbot, Gemini.

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Senate rejects attempt to rein in Trump's power to wage war on Iran -- The measure, which would have blocked President Trump from continuing military force against Iran, fell short of the simple majority needed to advance.

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U.S. torpedo sinks Iranian warship, Hegseth says -- In Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's second news briefing since the start of the Iran war, Hegseth said the U.S. had sunk an enemy ship by a torpedo for the first time since World War II.

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Key takeaways from House hearing with Walz, Ellison on Minnesota fraud -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told lawmakers that fraud "happened on my watch," but defended his administration's handling of the allegations.

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GOP senator joins police in ejecting protester from Capitol Hill hearing -- A Senate Republican assisted several police officers in ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.

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