Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-19 06:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has announced he will postpone a “scheduled attack” against Iran at the request of regional leaders in the Middle East.
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, Friday, May 15, 2026, as he returns from a trip to Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The US will no longer resume its "full, large scale" war on Iran on Tuesday, because Gulf leaders have requested Washington to hold off, President Donald Trump has said.
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Ohio State vs. Washington at Charles Schwab Field, Omaha, Nebraska — BTN
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[2026-05-19 06:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
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[2026-05-19 05:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump walks as he leaves the White House for travel to Beijing, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington, to meet with China’s President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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[2026-05-19 05:59 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-05-19 05:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The US justice department has announced a $1.7bn (£1.3bn) fund to compensate allies of President Donald Trump who allege they were unfairly investigated by the Biden administration.
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump has said he is holding off a military attack on Iran planned for Tuesday at the request of Gulf states as "serious negotiations are now taking place".
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president said ‘serious negotiations’ are under way but he told the military ‘to be prepared to go forward … on a moment’s notice’
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[2026-05-19 05:43 UTC+10:00] [Qatar] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: US president said ‘serious negotiations’ are under way but he told the military ‘to be prepared to go forward … on a moment’s notice’
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[2026-05-19 05:35 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Washington: President Donald Trump settled his lawsuit against the US tax office through the creation of an unusual multibillion-dollar fund to compensate victims of supposed government “weaponisation”, which was immediately described by Democrats as a MAGA slush fund.
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[2026-05-19 05:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: CHANGES headline, lead; UPDATES throughout)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-05-19 05:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: US President Donald Trump said that leaders of Gulf states requested that he hold off on striking Iran in a Truth Social post on Monday.
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[2026-05-19 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Tue 19 May 2026 at 5:25am
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[2026-05-19 05:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Monday said he had delayed a planned US military strike on Iran after appeals from Gulf leaders, who told him serious negotiations with Tehran were under way.
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[2026-05-19 05:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente Donald Trump saluda a los periodistas mientras camina por el jardín sur de la Casa Blanca, viernes 15 de mayo de 2026, en Washington, al regresar de Beijing, donde se reunió con el presidente chino Xi Jinping. (Foto AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-19 05:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-19 05:14 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump gestures to reporters as he walks across the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Washington, on return from Beijing where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-19 05:13 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Visualizada quase dez milhões de vezes, uma postagem do Departamento de Estado americano acusava as Nações Unidas de buscarem "facilitar a imigração de substituição para os Estados Unidos e nossos aliados ocidentais", acrescentando que, sob o governo do presidente Donald Trump, o órgão priorizaria a "remigração" em vez da mencionada "migração de substituição".
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[2026-05-19 05:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump said Monday he is calling off a plan to attack Iran on Tuesday after the heads of three regional powers in the Middle East asked him to "hold off."
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[2026-05-19 05:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing on the budget request for the Department of Defense, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-05-19 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, May 18 (Yonhap) -- U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he is not open to any concessions for Iran following Tehran's submission of its latest peace proposal to end the war with the United States, according to a news report.
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[2026-05-19 05:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As if Pentagon losses in the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran weren't already sapping them enough already, American taxpayers were losers again on Sunday when two U.S. Navy EA18-G Growlers blew up in spectacular fashion after colliding at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. Four crew members ejected and were medically evaluated and said to be in stable condition.
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[2026-05-19 05:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: It must be a strange job being King. One minute you're facing up to US President Donald Trump in the US Congress. The next you're being introduced to garden gnomes.
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[2026-05-19 05:00 UTC+10:00] [World / Asia] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: May 19, 2026 — 5:00am
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[2026-05-19 04:50 UTC+10:00] [Minnesota] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Christian Castro charged with five counts over shooting of Julio César Sosa-Celis in Trump immigration crackdown
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[2026-05-19 04:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Elon Musk escucha el discurso del presidente chino Xi Jinping durante una cena de Estado con el presidente Donald Trump en el Gran Salón del Pueblo, el jueves 14 de mayo de 2026, en Beijing. (Foto de AP/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-05-19 04:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: La fiscal del condado Hennepin, Mary Moriarty, en su despacho en Minneapolis, Minnesota, el 19 de junio del 2024. (AP foto/Mark Vancleave)
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[2026-05-19 04:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump's Justice Department announced on Monday the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate political allies prosecuted under the Biden administration.
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[2026-05-19 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — China has agreed to ramp up trade for U.S. agricultural products such as beef and poultry, buying at an annualized rate of $17 billion per year for 2026 and at that level for 2027 and 2028, the White House announced Sunday, two days after President Donald Trump returned from a high-stakes summit in Beijing where he sought to ease the impact on American farmers from the trade war he launched last year.
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[2026-05-19 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Joseph Lord via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-05-19 04:07 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Lawmakers from both parties move debate from trade and engagement towards security, Taiwan and strategic rivalry with Beijing
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[2026-05-19 04:07 UTC+10:00] [John Moolenaar] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Lawmakers from both parties move debate from trade and engagement towards security, Taiwan and strategic rivalry with Beijing
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[2026-05-19 03:53 UTC+10:00] [US immigration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: About 36% of children whose parents were detained were younger than six, Brookings Institution study found
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[2026-05-19 03:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump has returned stateside and so has his administration's focus, even as the Iran war and the aftermath of his China trip remain front-burner issues.
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[2026-05-19 03:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: By Song Sang-ho and Park Sung-min
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[2026-05-19 03:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: La presidenta Claudia Sheinbaum ofrece su conferencia de prensa matutina diaria en el Palacio Nacional, el jueves 30 de abril de 2026, en Ciudad de México. (AP Foto/Fernando Llano)
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[2026-05-19 03:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines —Mel Oragon, the lone suspect in the May 13 Senate shooting yielded positive results in paraffin testing, Southern Police District (SPD) confirmed Monday.
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[2026-05-19 03:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: All eyes are on Nvidia, the world's most valuable company and artificial intelligence trade darling, as it is set to report fiscal first-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell.
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[2026-05-19 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Agentes del Servicio Secreto rodean al presidente Donald Trump tras un tiroteo fuera del salón durante la Cena de Corresponsales de la Casa Blanca, el sábado 25 de abril de 2026, en Washington. (Foto AP/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-05-19 03:10 UTC+10:00] [Defense budgets] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: WARSAW — Two senior Polish defense ministry officials are on their way to Washington to get more information on why the U.S. suddenly canceled the deployment of 4,000 soldiers on a planned rotation to the country.
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[2026-05-19 03:02 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday said his legal team was looking at three legal options to address the suspension order of the Ombudsman imposed on Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Mao Aplasca.
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[2026-05-19 02:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: President Donald Trump will swear in Kevin Warsh, his hand-picked choice to lead the Federal Reserve, during a ceremony Friday, a White House official told CNBC.
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[2026-05-19 02:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Nikkei Asia
Snippet: As Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump met, reports emerged that Chinese tankers had been allowed passage through the Strait of Hormuz. (Source photos by AP)
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[2026-05-19 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: A resolution for the US Congress to recognize the "ongoing Nakba" was reintroduced by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Thursday, the Michigan representative's office announced in a press release.
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[2026-05-19 02:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, has opened the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte amid political turmoil and deep division.
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[2026-05-19 02:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-05-19 02:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump’s effort to unseat Republican Congressman Thomas Massie has transformed Kentucky’s 4th District primary into one of the most closely watched and expensive races of the US midterm season.
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[2026-05-19 02:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Earlier today, in response to news that the number of tankers anchored at Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal had hit a post-blockade peak, we wondered if this means that Iran is running out of tankers to store oil, i.e., Trump' blockade of the blockade is working. In any case, it certainly means that Iran is no longer able to sell any of the oil, depriving it of much needed oil export revenues which it has found itself forced to shut
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