Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-13 06:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson takes questions at a news conference following a closed-door GOP meeting at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, April 21, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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[2026-05-13 06:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Is it a red wave, or are California voters coming down with a case of blue flu?
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[2026-05-13 06:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Iran on Tuesday revealed its demands in a counteroffer to the United States that President Trump shot down on Sunday, which has put the whole conflict and Pakistan-mediated talks in a holding pattern and stalemate, as the Strait of Hormuz remains effectively blocked.
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[2026-05-13 06:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: “The View” co-host Joy Behar was skewered on social media for sowing “toxic and divisive” rhetoric with her latest anti-Trump screed, spewing a deranged accusation that the president wants to create a generation of “toddler white nationalists.”
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[2026-05-13 06:30 UTC+10:00] [All News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Korea Herald
Snippet: The sharp rise in gasoline prices caused by the Iran war has led to bipartisan calls, and in some cases action, to reduce US gas taxes. At least three Republican-run states have declared gas-tax holidays, and three Democratic US senators have introduced legislation to suspend the federal gas tax until October.
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[2026-05-13 06:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Donald Trump has reasserted his support for Pakistan to serve as a mediator between Iran and the United States after Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of the US president, disparaged Islamabad’s diplomacy.
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[2026-05-13 06:24 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: SBS News
Snippet: LIVE, FREE and EXCLUSIVE
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[2026-05-13 06:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-05-13 06:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: The US is putting increasing pressure on Iranian oil sales before President Donald Trump's high-stakes visit to China, the world's largest crude importer.
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[2026-05-13 06:06 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Kyle Diamantas, a top official at the agency, will replace Makary and serve as acting FDA commissioner
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[2026-05-13 06:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s anger over President Santiago Pena’s Taipei trade visit comes as Taiwan issue looms large at this week’s Trump-Xi summit
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[2026-05-13 06:06 UTC+10:00] [Alfredo Stroessner] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Beijing’s anger over President Santiago Pena’s Taipei trade visit comes as Taiwan issue looms large at this week’s Trump-Xi summit
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[2026-05-13 05:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday questioned why Sen. Chris Van Hollen would have “margaritas with a felon” and run up a $7,000 bar tab in Washington, DC — before daring the Maryland Democrat to take a test alongside him for alcohol dependency.
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[2026-05-13 05:52 UTC+10:00] [World / North America] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: New York: US President Donald Trump dismissed a surge in inflation due to the Iran war and declared he does not think about Americans’ financial situation when deciding whether to make a deal with the regime to end the conflict.
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[2026-05-13 05:52 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 90]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Hello and welcome to our live rolling coverage of the war in Iran and US politics, this Wednesday May 13.
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[2026-05-13 05:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lamented the delay in immigration enforcement actions until the final year of President Biden’s term — despite having testified to Congress several times while in office that the US border was “secure.”
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[2026-05-13 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wang Yi highlights Strait of Hormuz security and regional stability as Middle East tensions loom over Beijing talks
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[2026-05-13 05:40 UTC+10:00] [Ishaq Dar] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Wang Yi highlights Strait of Hormuz security and regional stability as Middle East tensions loom over Beijing talks
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[2026-05-13 05:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was not reconsidering Pakistan's role as mediator in the Iran conflict, after one of his close Republican allies said he did not trust Islamabad.
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[2026-05-13 05:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: ALBANY – A state judge reversed a Democrat-controlled panel’s decision to block GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman of potentially millions of dollars in campaign matching funds.
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[2026-05-13 05:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: ARCHIVO – El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, izquierda, y su homólogo chino Xi Jinping se saludan antes de su reunión, en el Aeropuerto Internacional Gimhae en Busan, Corea del Sur, el 30 de octubre de 2025. (AP Foto/Mark Schiefelbein, Archivo)
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[2026-05-13 05:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Bettina Anderson has won over Donald Trump Jr.’s family.
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[2026-05-13 05:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Jewish world must stop spending vast sums trying to persuade antisemites and instead invest in Jewish education, World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder told Jewish leaders in Geneva, warning that global Jewry faces “another dark hour” 90 years after the organization was founded in the same city.
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[2026-05-13 05:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El director del FBI Kash Patel habla en conferencia de prensa en la sede del Departamento de Justicia en Washington, el 21 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-13 05:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; ADDS more info in paras 4-5)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-05-13 05:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche listens as FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a news conference at the Justice Department, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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[2026-05-13 05:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday he does not need help from China on ending the war with Iran but said he would talk at length with Xi Jinping when they hold a summit this week.
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[2026-05-13 05:04 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, viaja à China nesta quarta-feira (13/05) para a primeira visita de um chefe de Estado americano ao país asiático em quase dez anos — antecedida apenas por sua própria estadia anterior, em 2017. O encontro, remarcado após cancelamento em abril, é tratado como decisivo por ambos os governos.
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[2026-05-13 05:00 UTC+10:00] [Business / Companies] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: It was a line straight out of US President Donald Trump’s playbook. “Bye bye to the ABC,” Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, James Ashby, said as he ejected two journalists working for the public broadcaster’s rural service from a media event on Friday, less than 24 hours before polls opened in the NSW byelection for Farrer.
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[2026-05-13 05:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to raise the issue of increasingly costly US arms transfers to Taiwan during their bilateral summit at the end of this week, spanning Thursday through Friday. Taiwan of course remains the "core of China's core interests" - as Beijing has in the recent past characterized the issue.
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[2026-05-13 04:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump won’t have to pay an $83 million defamation award to a longtime advice columnist until the U.S. Supreme Court gets a chance to review the case or reject an appeal, according to a court entry Tuesday.
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[2026-05-13 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Trade, Taiwan and Middle East tensions loom as US and Chinese leaders meet for first state visit since Trump’s return
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[2026-05-13 04:49 UTC+10:00] [BlackRock] [Factuality: 90]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Trade, Taiwan and Middle East tensions loom as US and Chinese leaders meet for first state visit since Trump’s return
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[2026-05-13 04:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The FDA chief’s departure follows weeks of intensifying pressure from powerful Republicans, anti-abortion groups and others
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[2026-05-13 04:49 UTC+10:00] [Robert F. Kennedy Jnr] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: The FDA chief’s departure follows weeks of intensifying pressure from powerful Republicans, anti-abortion groups and others
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[2026-05-13 04:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Un conductor recoge una orden en un local de Amazon Now, el lunes 11 de mayo de 2026, en Bellevue, Washington. (AP Foto/Lindsey Wasson)
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[2026-05-13 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rubio had initially appeared reluctant to visit, while Beijing did not spell out whether it would waive penalties imposed on him in 2020
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[2026-05-13 04:40 UTC+10:00] [trade war] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Rubio had initially appeared reluctant to visit, while Beijing did not spell out whether it would waive penalties imposed on him in 2020
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[2026-05-13 04:40 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine,
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[2026-05-13 04:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: (ATTN: RECASTS dateline, headline, lead, paras 14-15; ADDS photo)By Song Sang-ho
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[2026-05-13 04:35 UTC+10:00] [News] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Michael West Media
Snippet: May 13, 2026 04:35 | News
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[2026-05-13 04:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: In 1897, on a balcony in Basel, Theodor Herzl stood still while history reorganized itself beneath him. Inside the First Zionist Congress, delegates argued over language, land, feasibility, and funding. Outside those walls, Europe debated a colder question: whether Jews were a permanent anomaly in the modern nation-state. Herzl understood that what Europe openly called Die Judenfrage — the Jewish Question — was not about etiquette or theology.
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[2026-05-13 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente Donald Trump en la Oficina Oval en la Casa Blanca en Washington, el 20 de mayo del 2025. (AP foto/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-05-13 04:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: A project to fix and paint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which President Donald Trump said would cost $1.8m (£1.33m), is now expected to cost $13.1m, federal records show.
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[2026-05-13 04:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said Tuesday the cost of the war with Iran had climbed to nearly $29 billion, as President Donald Trump faced mounting scrutiny over the conflict and its impact on US military readiness.
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[2026-05-13 04:24 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — Sen. Lindsey Graham went off on China and Pakistan, accusing both countries of propping up Iran and undermining peace talks with the Islamic Republic.
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[2026-05-13 04:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The office of Hakeem Jeffries, the top-ranking Democrat in the United States House of Representatives, has released a fiery statement condemning a fellow lawmaker who endorsed a racist comment about him.
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[2026-05-13 04:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Months after the Supreme Court ruled some tariffs were unconstitutional, the first round of tariff refunds has begun flowing in.
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[2026-05-13 04:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: TEHRAN — Iran's chief negotiator said Tuesday that Washington must accept Tehran's latest peace plan or face failure, after US President Donald Trump warned the truce in the Middle East war was on the brink of collapse.
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[2026-05-13 04:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House on May 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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