Topic: Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-28 12:36 UTC+10:00] [Pam Bondi] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Federal prosecutors investigate whether E. Jean Carroll committed perjury in her two civil lawsuits against Donald Trump
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[2026-05-28 12:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by John Gallo,
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[2026-05-28 12:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: UPDATES with details of Ahn's planned bilateral meetings in paras 5-10; ADDS byline) By Kim Seung-yeon
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[2026-05-28 12:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Bank of Korea Gov. Shin Hyun-song bangs the gavel to open a Monetary Policy Committee meeting at the central bank in Seoul on May 28, 2026. The central bank kept its benchmark rate unchanged at 2.5 percent, as lingering uncertainty in the Middle East prompted a cautious stance amid intensifying risks of inflation and currency weakness.
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[2026-05-28 12:21 UTC+10:00] [Elections] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair intended his bracing meditation on the state of the nation to land as a shock to the center-left system and its inadequacy to face up to urgent problems for the U.K. at home and abroad.
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[2026-05-28 12:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON, D.C. — US forces carried out new defensive strikes on Iran on Wednesday after President Donald Trump asserted that Iran is “negotiating on fumes” and insisted that November’s midterm elections in the United States won’t make him rush into a deal to end the nearly three-month-old conflict.
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[2026-05-28 12:17 UTC+10:00] [Brexit] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: LONDON — Nigel Farage was hoping to sabotage Labour’s leadership fight. But a former ally is now trying to eat into his vote from the right — with some significant online help.
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[2026-05-28 12:14 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Labor’s contentious tax changes will be pulled apart in a Senate inquiry next month, but the tight three-week deadline will sustain a political brawl over the government’s rush to pass new laws amid a broadening business backlash.
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[2026-05-28 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Australian Federal Elections
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[2026-05-28 12:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- Industry Minister Kim Jung-kwan has underscored South Korea's competitive edge in the ongoing race to win Canada's high-profile submarine project, highlighting the country's manufacturing capabilities and contributions it can make to Canada's automotive sector.
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[2026-05-28 12:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Energy inflation tied to the war in Iran has lasted longer than expected, creating a "stagflationary shock" for Asian economies, Chicago Federal Reserve President Austan Goolsbee said Thursday.
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[2026-05-28 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Airlines] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: MADRID — Pummelled by corruption crises and stinging defeats in regional elections, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is running out of road.
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[2026-05-28 11:54 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Pauline Hanson has moved to shut the door on a potential wave of Coalition defectors joining One Nation, warning she was not interested in “opportunists” fleeing the Liberal and National parties after a collapse in opinion polls.
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[2026-05-28 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: California Gov. Gavin Newsom delivers his final state budget plan at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento, Calif. on Thursday, May 14, 2026. (Gabrielle Lurie/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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[2026-05-28 11:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-05-28 11:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- The following is the full text of a statement by the Bank of Korea (BOK) on its monetary policy decision Thursday, where the central bank held the key rate steady at 2.5 percent at its rate-setting meeting in Seoul.
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[2026-05-28 11:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A battle for control of one of Australia’s biggest unions is set to reshape Labor politics for years to come, potentially upending the party’s balance of power that decides premiers and opposition leaders.
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[2026-05-28 11:30 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Wealthy older Australians are using the nation’s negative gearing and capital gains tax laws to grab a greater share of the property market, research for the Reserve Bank has found, pushing up house prices at the expense of low- and middle-income earners.
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[2026-05-28 11:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: U.S. authorities say they stopped a major cocaine shipment allegedly tied to a Mexican cartel after an oil tanker traveling from Ecuador was intercepted near Southern California, according to KTLA5.
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[2026-05-28 11:13 UTC+10:00] [Australian politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: He’s certainly facing some obstacles
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[2026-05-28 11:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Washington, as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, looks on. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-28 11:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-05-28 10:58 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: South Korea's central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Thursday, signaling that a shift toward a tighter monetary policy stance could come soon.
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[2026-05-28 10:45 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Already have Rappler+? Sign in to listen to groundbreaking journalism.
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[2026-05-28 10:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency is displayed at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., April 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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[2026-05-28 10:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodriguez waves as she waits for Colombian President Gustavo Petro at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)
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[2026-05-28 10:08 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: A court was set to offer its ruling Thursday in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's trial on charges of giving false testimony during former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo's insurrection trial.
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[2026-05-28 10:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- Defense Minister Ahn Gyu-back will travel to Singapore later this week to attend an annual security forum, his ministry said Thursday, amid an increasingly volatile security landscape, highlighted by the Middle East conflict.
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[2026-05-28 10:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States government has returned UN human rights expert Francesca Albanese to a list of sanctioned individuals after a judge had granted a temporary injunction against the designation.
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[2026-05-28 09:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Thursday that his priority is to bring down inflation in the U.S. over the labor market, calling the rise in consumer prices "too high."
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[2026-05-28 09:57 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Welcome to our rolling coverage on everything federal politics on Thursday, May 28.
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[2026-05-28 09:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: SEOUL, May 28 (Yonhap) -- A court was set to offer its ruling Thursday in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's trial on charges of giving false testimony during former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo's insurrection trial.
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[2026-05-28 09:53 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Will Australians spend over $100,000 on a Chinese car?
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[2026-05-28 09:44 UTC+10:00] [United States Politics and Government] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: Six days before the California primary, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation on Wednesday intended to safeguard elections after federal officials and local sheriffs took unusual steps in the last year to seize ballots from election offices.
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[2026-05-28 09:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: It says a lot about modern women when a private business imposes standards of general modesty and they feel personally attacked. So much so, that they run to social media and their local news station to cry victim. It's not an isolated incident, it is an example of a more pervasive culture of female entitlement that is plaguing the western world.
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[2026-05-28 09:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Former US First Lady Jill Biden has weighed in on her husband’s disastrous performance at the first 2024 presidential debate, a moment that ultimately marked the beginning of the end for his re-election campaign.
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[2026-05-28 09:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Birmingham City Council has paid more than £470,000 to itself in daily charges and fines because its own vehicles break the rules of its Clean Air Zone (CAZ) policy.
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[2026-05-28 09:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Federal prosecutors charged a Google employee with fraud on Wednesday, alleging that he made $1.2 million off of bets using insider information on Polymarket.
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[2026-05-28 09:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran will not back down from its red lines in negotiations with the US, the head of the Iranian parliament's national security committee, Ebrahim Azizi, asserted in a post on X/Twitter on Wednesday.
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[2026-05-28 09:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Maryanne Demasi via Brownstone Institute,
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[2026-05-28 08:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Kenneth Iwamasa, one of five people who pleaded guilty in the ketamine overdose death of actor Matthew Perry, leaves federal court after his sentencing in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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[2026-05-28 08:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: NEW YORK (AP) — A former truck and bus driver charged in an assassination plot against an Iranian American writer who authorities said was targeted for death by the Iranian government was given a 10-year prison sentence on Wednesday by a federal judge.
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[2026-05-28 08:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A security officer works inside of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) building headquarters, Feb. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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[2026-05-28 08:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream.
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[2026-05-28 08:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream.
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[2026-05-28 07:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: Regional pledges fuel election interference debate
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[2026-05-28 07:55 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Cricket] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Pat Cummins was torn apart by 15-year-old Indian prodigy Vaibhav Suryavanshi as the Rajasthan Royals eliminated the Sunrisers Hyderabad from the finals of the Indian Premier League.
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[2026-05-28 07:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: The ECB said in its latest financial stability review report that policy measures to address rising energy prices should be "temporary and targeted." © Reuters
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[2026-05-28 07:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Government and Politics
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[2026-05-28 06:59 UTC+10:00] [United States Politics and Government] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The New York Times
Snippet: A Haitian Mother Waits for Court’s Ruling on TPS — and Her Future3:30
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