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Live updates - Prosecutor announces charges for ICE officer in shooting of migrant during Minn. crackdown. Follow live updates. The officer is charged with four counts of second-degree assault and one count of falsely reporting a crime.

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Justice Department announces a $1.7 billion fund to compensate Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit -- The "Anti-Weaponization Fund" was announced by the Justice Department as part of a deal to resolve President Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns.

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China agrees to boost trade for US beef and poultry following Trump-Xi summit -- China would restore market access for US beef and resume imports of poultry from U.S. states determined by the US Department of Agriculture to be free of the bird flu, the White House said.

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Analysis | James Pindell - Trump's GOP revenge tour reaches its final tests - They are ending not because Trump has stopped caring about settling scores. There are simply fewer Republicans left to punish.

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Inside the 'Lincoln' symphony that Philip Glass pulled from Trump's Kennedy Center

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The hantavirus outbreak is prompting COVID flashbacks — including the conspiracies

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From constant compliments to golden statues, Trump's second term takes praise to new heights

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Boston wants to use nearly $70 million in reserve funds to plug city, BPS budget deficits - The move to dip into the city's so-called rainy day fund is the starkest indication yet of Boston's strained financial situation.

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Will New Hampshire's 'bathroom bill' get vetoed for a fourth time? And then a fifth time? -- Senate Bill 552 seeks to create exceptions to the state's anti-discrimination and allow schools and private business owners to ban transgender men and women from gender-specific bathrooms.

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They're both Marines, 40-somethings, and waging generational fights. So why aren't Seth Moulton and Graham Platner allies? -- Representative Seth Moulton has backed service members across the country for years, including as he mounts a Senate bid in Massachusetts. But there's one glaring exception to his endorsement list — Graham Platner, the veteran also running for Senate in Maine.

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Rent control is dead in Providence, for now, after failed veto override -- Supporters of the plan hope the failure will help bolster progressive campaigns this fall, when every City Council seat and the mayor's office are on the ballot.

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7 Republicans voted to convict Trump. Most are no longer in office.

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Trump administration backs voter eligibility checks amid fears of midterm purge

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'SNL': Will Ferrell hosts season finale, Paul McCartney performs

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Trump says Islamic State group leader was killed in a joint US-Nigerian mission

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FDA official who scrutinized COVID shots and antidepressants is out in latest shake-up

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Smithsonian adds back impeachment language to label on Trump portrait

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Supreme Court rejects Virginia's bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats

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US says Israel and Lebanon agree to 45-day extension of cease-fire. Follow live updates.

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