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<p>Aspiring Miami rapper Bomb A** Krissy, whose legal name is Krissy Celess, posted a video of an Uber driver pointing a gun at her and another passenger in Miami on Tuesday. </p>

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<p>Secretary of State Marco Rubio, acting in his temporary role as National Security Adviser, is reportedly considering significant reductions in staff at the National Security Council and changing how it operates.</p>

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<p>Novelist Salman Rushdie backed out of giving a commencement address to a California college. </p>

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<p>Gary Wolfelt died in a plane crash in Ohio on May 5, and left behind a self-written obituary humorously recounting the many close calls in his life and musing about his proudest moments</p>

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<p>U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in this handout released on May 14, 2025. </p>

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<p>A child was left alone on the street following an arrest by ICE agents in Waltham, Massachusetts</p>

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<p>GOP lawmaker Josh Hawley insisted on Wednesday that Donald Trump was incorruptible and couldn't ‘be bought’ because he is already rich.</p>

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<p>Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined calls for former police officer Derek Chauvin to be pardoned</p>

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<p>GD Culture Group plans to spend $300 million on a stockpile of Bitcoin and $TRUMP, the president’s memecoin. </p>

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<p>22 students ingested the THC-laced edibles at the Fort Dearborn Elementary School in Chicago (pictured) according to multiple reports</p>

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<p>Westernport Elementary School students and adults took rescue boats to a church on higher ground. Rescue crews had to save 200 people from the school as their Maryland town flooded.</p>

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<p>Alana ‘Honey Boo Boo’ Thompson talks about growing up in the spotlight</p>

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<p>Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan. She has been indicted on accusation of helping an undocumented migrant flee a courthouse. </p>

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<p>Donald Trump has suggested joining both Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in Turkey for peace talks</p>

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<p>Police in New Jersey say Martin Matson, 70, admitted to collecting child sexual abuse materials over the past three decades</p>

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Virginia Democrat running in swing district outs herself and husband as ‘ethically non-monogamous’

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<p>Search and rescue teams near the site where the jet crashed in 2023</p>

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<p>Xavier Babudar was known as ‘ChiefsAholic’ and gained a huge social media following</p>

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Chiefs superfan handed 32-year sentence after robbing banks to finance social media stardom

<p>A Palestinian man carries a wounded child, after the European Hospital was partially damaged following Israeli airstrikes,</p>

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<p>Donald Trump posed with what appears to be a digitally altered image and claimed Kilmar Abrego Garcia has 'got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles' in what appears to be a digitally altered image</p>

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<p>CNN anchor Jake Tapper conceded that conservative critics are ‘fair’ to claim that he didn’t cover Joe Biden’s decline ‘enough’ during the previous administration.</p>

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Venezuelans threatened to take hostages in ICE detention, Trump team alleges

<p>RFK Jr. shared pictures of him fully submerged underwater in Rock Creek Sunday</p>

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<p>Ximena Arias-Cristobal poses for a senior portrait provided by family friend Hannah Jones. The Georgia college student is facing deportation after she was mistakenly arrested by local police and put into ICE custody</p>

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<p>U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi exits a press conference to announce the results of Operation Restore Justice</p>

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