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Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi is dead following a helicopter crash, Iranian state media said Monday morning. Raisi's administration began an emergency meeting on Monday following the news of his death. The helicopter carrying the officials crashed Sunday as it traveled through rainy and foggy conditions in the rural mountainous area near Kalibar and Warzghan in northern Iran, near the borders with Azerbaijan and Armenia.
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Israel-Gaza live updates: IDF releases Hamas 'psychological terror' video of young hostages
As the Israel-Hamas war crosses the seven-month mark, renewed negotiations are underway to secure the release of hostages taken by the terrorist organization, as Israeli forces continue to prepare for an apparent invasion of the southern Gazan town of Rafah. Israel Defense Forces released Sunday raw video footage it says its troops recovered in Gaza that shows former Israeli hostages 8-year-old Ela Elyakim and her 15-year-old sister Dafna Elyakim being forced by Hamas terrorists to film repeatedly.
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Quintuplets with different majors graduate from the same college
A set of quintuplets from New Jersey whose parents are Italian immigrants recently graduated from the same college together -- four years after missing their high school graduation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Povolo quintuplets -- Michael, Victoria, Ludovico, Ashley and Marcus are the first generation from their family to go to college and received their degrees from Montclair State University on May 13. The siblings, who were born on July 4, 2002, each had a different major in college, but managed to complete their degrees at the same time, said Victoria during an interview with "Good Morning America."
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Sen. Schumer tells Democrats he'll reintroduce bipartisan border bill
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will bring the bipartisan border deal that was negotiated early this year by a group of Senators back up on the floor this week for a standalone vote, he said in a letter to his colleagues released Sunday night. The move to hold another vote on this legislation comes as Senate Democrats try to renew their push on the Southern border ahead of the 2024 election. "We are hopeful this bipartisan proposal will bring serious-minded Republicans back to the table to advance this bipartisan solution for our border," Schumer wrote in a letter to his colleagues.
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US troops to leave Niger by mid-September: Officials
All of the remaining U.S. troops based in Niger will leave the country no later than mid-September, according to U.S. officials and a joint statement from the two countries. Both sides mutually agreed to a withdrawal deadline of September 15 after several days of meetings between May 15-19, according to a joint statement from the Pentagon and Niger's national defense department released Sunday. Fewer than a thousand troops remain in Niger.
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Biden faces silent protests at Morehouse commencement
President Joe Biden was met with silent protests as he delivered the commencement address at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Sunday, after some students and faculty members voiced strong opposition to his visit over the president's handling of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. In his speech before the president's address, valedictorian DeAngelo "DJ" Fletcher called for an "immediate and permanent cease-fire in Gaza." When Biden spoke, he directly addressed the issue, saying, "What’s happening in Gaza and Israel is heartbreaking."
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Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Yorgos Lanthimos to reunite for 'Bugonia'
Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Yorgos Lanthimos will work together yet again. Focus Features announced Saturday that the production company will release "Bugonia," which is set to star Stone and Plemons while Academy Award-nominated Lanthimos will direct. "The film follows two conspiracy obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth," reads a description of the upcoming film included in the press release.
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Simone Biles wins Core Hydration Classic with top score ahead of 2024 Paris Olympics
On Saturday, the Olympic-winning gymnast won the Core Hydration Classic in Hartford, Connecticut, with an impressive all-around score of 59.500 during the star-studded competition featuring other Olympic champions including Suni Lee and Gabby Douglas. The event marked the first time Lee, Douglas and Biles competed at the same time.
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Meet some of the New Yorkers waiting overnight to get a seat at the Trump trial
As a light rain began to fall on lower Manhattan Saturday night, a group of people across the street from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse zipped up their tents and clutched their sleeping bags. Unlike other hot tickets in New York – courtside seats to see the Knicks in the playoffs or behind home plate at Yankee Stadium – a seat inside the historic trial of former President Trump is free for the public, as long as they show up early enough. The line began to form at 6 a.m. Saturday morning with Tina Johnson, a Westchester resident whose past attempts to get in the courtroom failed when she arrived too late.
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Diddy apologizes after video of alleged assault surfaces: 'I hit rock bottom'
Sean "Diddy" Combs has apologized after he was allegedly seen physically assaulting his former girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, in 2016 on hotel surveillance video obtained by CNN. In the footage, which was reportedly filmed in a Los Angeles hotel on March 5, 2016, a man identified by CNN as Combs was shown chasing Ventura down a hallway, grabbing her by the back of the neck, shoving her to the ground and kicking her as she lay on the ground. In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Diddy acknowledged the video and apologized, saying: "It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you got to do that."
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Blue Origin launches historic flight to space
Ed Dwight, the United States' first Black astronaut candidate, became the oldest person to go to space on Sunday as Blue Origin launched its New Shepard NS-25 spacecraft and completed its first human flight since 2022. The 90-year-old Dwight took his first trip to space more than 60 decades after President John F. Kennedy appointed him in 1961 to the elite Aerospace Research Pilot School -- the Air Force program from which NASA astronauts were chosen. Despite being recommended by the Air Force, Dwight was not chosen for the NASA astronaut corps in the aftermath of Kennedy’s assassination.
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Van Hollen: 'I do not have concerns' about Biden at debate
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said Sunday that he's unconcerned about how President Joe Biden will fare at his first debate with former President Donald Trump next month. Biden's camp suggested the body was unable to handle Trump as a candidate on stage, and the former president has long decried the group as biased against him, leveling similar accusations as the ones he does against mainstream media outlets. Van Hollen, a Biden ally, pointed to the president's State of the Union address in March during which he delivered a vociferous defense of his record, a speech many supporters touted to suggest worries over his age and mental acuity were overblown.
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Rudy Giuliani served with Arizona fake electors indictment after 80th birthday party
Rudy Giuliani was served Friday night with notice of his indictment related to efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona after his 80th birthday party and after boasting on social media that he had avoided being served. Mayes shared a screenshot of the post even after it was deleted.
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19 pro-Palestinian protesters arrested for trying to occupy UPenn building
The University of Pennsylvania police arrested 19 pro-Palestinian protesters Friday night after they allegedly tried to occupy a campus building, the school said. The university's police department said the protesters, the majority of whom were not students, attempted to get into Fisher-Bennett Hall when campus officers and officers from the Philadelphia Police Department intervened. Officers were seen scuffling with protesters and several people were taken away in handcuffs.
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1 American man's fight to save a girl in Gaza he's never met
Simon Frost is a real-estate developer in Washington, D.C., while Amjad Abu Zaiter is a former taxi driver from northern Gaza who has twice in the last seven months had to move his family during Israel's war with Hamas. Symptoms of AHC can be made worse through stress and increased stimuli, such as bright lights or loud noises -- what you could experience in a war zone. Frost said he first started communicating directly with Abu Zaiter only about a month ago, after connecting on social media, but has since been working around the clock, several hours a day, to help him any way he can.
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Star golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested prior to start of PGA Championship's 2nd round: Report
Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world, was arrested Friday morning for allegedly driving past a police roadblock at the Valhalla Golf Club, according to ESPN. Around 5 a.m., a man was fatally struck by a shuttle bus as he tried to cross a road near the course holding the PGA Championship, according to a statement released by the Louisville Metro Police Department. The roadblocks and confusion over the accident allegedly led Scheffler to drive past police who were on site, according to reports from ESPN.
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Shop Spanx's 'Early Summer Sale' with leggings, bodysuits and more 40% off
Spanx is hosting an early summer sale. From now until Sunday, May 19, you can enjoy 40 percent off a wide range of items, including denim shorts, wide-leg jeans, and smoothing bodysuits. Whether you are choosing to stylishly step up your summer wardrobe or ready to upgrade your shapewear and activewear wardrobes, now is the perfect time to do it.
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Frontier Airlines eliminates change fees and introduces 4 new fare classes
Frontier Airlines has announced that it is eliminating change fees on some tickets, part of its effort to appeal to more travelers. The Denver-based airline, known for its cheap fares, previously charged for additional services like seat assignments and carry-on baggage, similar to rivals Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air. "Today marks the beginning of a new era for Frontier - one with transparency in our prices, no change fees and the lowest total price," Barry Biffle, CEO of Frontier Airlines, said in the official press release.
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Radio Caroline, Britain's pirate radio station broadcasting from sea, turns 60 years strong
Over that time span, it’s been a fascinating tale of trials and tribulations just to keep the renegade broadcaster on the air and running for as long as it has. The story begins in 1964, when a maverick Irish businessman by the name of Ronan O'Rahilly decided to break the BBC monopoly and set-up a station on a ship in international waters off the English coast. As broadcaster and author Ray Clark points out, the radio landscape was very, very different then.
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Oregon man charged with murder in suspicious deaths of 3 women in 'complex' case: DA
An Oregon man has been charged in the murders of three women who were found dead under "suspicious circumstances" last year, officials announced Friday. Authorities have identified one suspect in the deaths of the three women – Charity Lynn Perry, 24, Bridget Leanne Webster, 31, and Joanna Speaks, 32 – the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office said Friday. Jesse Lee Calhoun, 39, has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder and three counts of second-degree abuse of a corpse in connection with the women's deaths, the district attorney's office said, after a grand jury returned the six-count indictment on Thursday.