Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-05-01 02:06 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, April 30 (Yonhap) -- A Pentagon official on Thursday declined to comment on a potential U.S. force posture change in South Korea, but highlighted the United States' "unwavering" defense commitment to the Asian ally, amid reemerging concerns over the possibility of a troop drawdown in Korea.
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[2026-05-01 02:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: LAST year, I wrote about a word that briefly escaped the confines of legal language and entered everyday conversation: “forthwith.” It appeared in Article XI, Section 3(4) of the 1987 Constitution, where it provides that impeachment trial by the Senate shall “forthwith proceed.” At the time, I turned to dictionaries — especially the Oxford English Dictionary — to clarify its meaning: “immediately, at once, without delay or interval.”
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[2026-05-01 02:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The lawyer for White House Correspondence Dinner shooting suspect Cole Allen gave an absurd reason for why the CalTech grad should be allowed to walk free pending trial — despite charges that he attempted to assassinate President Trump.
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[2026-05-01 01:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Louisiana Republican Gov. Jeff Landry has stopped the May 16 congressional primaries from going ahead after the Supreme Court struck down the Pelican State’s House map Wednesday.
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[2026-05-01 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Cole Allen, 31, did not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community
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[2026-05-01 01:50 UTC+10:00] [California] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Cole Allen, 31, did not immediately contest prosecutors’ arguments that he was a danger to the community
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[2026-05-01 01:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video
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[2026-05-01 01:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump renewed his criticism of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday, telling him to focusing on ending the Ukraine war instead of "interfering" on Iran.
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[2026-05-01 01:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — After weeks of bitter infighting, the House passed a renewal of the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 spy power for the duration of President Trump’s term.
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[2026-05-01 01:09 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attends an event on health care affordability in the Oval Office at the White House, Thursday, April 23, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
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[2026-05-01 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Adam Hamilton, a Methodist mega-church pastor from Kansas, talks to voters as he wraps up a U.S. Senate listening tour on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Limitless Brewing in Lenexa, Kansas. (AP Photo/Heather Hollingsworth)
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[2026-05-01 00:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 92]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The White House is reportedly fighting Anthropic’s plan to expand access to Claude Mythos – a powerful AI tool that company execs have warned could cause a wave of hacks and terror attacks if it fell into the wrong hands.
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[2026-05-01 00:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Amazon is staying in business with the Trumps.
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[2026-05-01 00:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: U.S. Secret Service agents respond on stage during the White House Correspondents Dinner, Saturday, April 25, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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[2026-05-01 00:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mark Sanford, former congressman and South Carolina governor, takes questions from reporters as he campaigns for his former U.S. House seat at a Dorchester County GOP event Thursday, April 9, 2026, in Summerville, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)
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[2026-05-01 00:37 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late-night hosts discussed the funding of Trump’s $400m ballroom and King Charles’s light roasts of the president
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[2026-05-01 00:29 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The Pentagon’s latest cost assessment of the war against Iran is a lowball figure that does not include the extensive damage to US military bases during the conflict, CNN has reported, citing three people familiar with the matter.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — House Republicans barely passed a budget blueprint to unlock more than $70 billion in future funding for immigration enforcement late Wednesday in a vote that was held open for more than five hours due to intra-party disputes.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and members of the Congressional Black Caucus speak to reporters in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling to strike down a majority Black congressional district in Louisiana, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Ukraine will seek clarification from US President Donald Trump's team on details of a Russian proposal for a brief ceasefire next week, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Despite clearly intentionally leaked reports about top American military officials briefing US President Donald Trump on new escalatory and potentially imminent military options versus Iran, all signs from Israeli and American sources to The Jerusalem Post are that the near future will see more of the current game of chicken.
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[2026-05-01 00:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The cost of the Iran war to the US may be close to $40-50 billion when including the costs of rebuilding US military installations and replacing destroyed assets, CNN reported on Thursday.
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[2026-05-01 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
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[2026-04-30 23:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Manila Times
Snippet: SENATOR Loren Legarda on Wednesday urged Malacañang to take a clear stand on the suspension of value-added tax (VAT) on fuel, following statements that such a move requires an act of Congress.
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[2026-04-30 23:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Speaking at a televised Cabinet meeting on March 26, the US secretary of defense boasted of US military successes against Iran in the ongoing war. “Never in recorded history has a nation’s military been so quickly and so effectively neutralised,” he said, seated next to US President Donald Trump.
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[2026-04-30 23:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Is Nicole Avant, a stalwart supporter of the Obamas and longtime LA democrat changing her political stripes?
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[2026-04-30 23:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Vladimir Putin did not invite U.S. President Donald Trump to attend the annual Victory Day parade in Moscow next week, the Kremlin said Thursday, a day after the two leaders spoke by phone for the first time in months.
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[2026-04-30 23:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Moscow Times
Snippet: Russia’s Vladimir Putin did not invite U.S. President Donald Trump to attend the annual Victory Day parade in Moscow next week, the Kremlin said Thursday, a day after the two leaders spoke by phone for the first time in months.
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[2026-04-30 23:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: California’s sky-high gas prices are being blasted by lawmakers in Congress as one Republican is now making it an official issue.
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[2026-04-30 22:59 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: O presidente Donald Trump elevou ainda mais o tom contra a Alemanha nesta quarta-feira (29/04) ao sugerir que poderia em breve reduzir a presença militar dos EUA no país europeu, um aliado na Otan.
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[2026-04-30 22:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday she was suspending her campaign for the US Senate — clearing the way for far-left candidate Graham Platner to face five-term Republican incumbent Susan Collins.
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[2026-04-30 22:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Democratic Gov. Janet Mills delivers her State of the State address, Jan. 30, 2024, at the State House in Augusta, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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[2026-04-30 22:55 UTC+10:00] [E Jean Carroll] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Decision from federal appeals court comes almost 18 months after Trump appealed following 2024 election win
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[2026-04-30 22:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El canciller alemán Friedrich Merz conduce el vehículo blindado Boxer durante su visita al ejército en la base de la Bundeswehr en Münster, Alemania, el jueves 30 de abril de 2026. (Foto AP/Markus Schreiber, pool)
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[2026-04-30 22:29 UTC+10:00] [川普] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: （德國之聲中文網） 在這場長達五個多小時的眾議院軍事委員會聽證會上，五角大樓代理戰爭財務次卿朱爾斯‧赫斯特三世（Jules Hurst III）證實，自總統川普（Donald Trump）發動戰爭以來，美軍已耗資約 250 億美元。這筆巨款大部分用於消耗昂貴的彈藥，以及軍事行動的運行和受損設備的更換。
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[2026-04-30 22:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US President Donald Trump’s envoy for South Asia, Sergio Gor, is visiting Nepal on Thursday, hoping to clinch a meeting with a prime minister averse to meeting to junior officials from foreign countries, local media has reported.
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[2026-04-30 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: Locked in a standoff with Iran that will break only when economic pain is no longer tolerable, President Donald Trump may have to maintain his naval blockade against Iran for weeks — forcing serious economic consequences on the world.
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[2026-04-30 22:08 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-04-30 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The edifice suggests a Silicon Valley-style desire to protect the president from national crises of his own making
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[2026-04-30 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Order last week is only partial rescheduling, making ‘an already complex process more confusing,’ expert says
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[2026-04-30 21:53 UTC+10:00] [Cooperation] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Politico
Snippet: BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday stressed Germany’s deep military cooperation with Washington — despite Donald Trump's threat to withdraw U.S. troops from Germany.
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[2026-04-30 21:48 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: For more news, analysis, and the latest updates, head to jpost.com.
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[2026-04-30 21:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: President Trump on Wednesday leveled a new threat against NATO ally Germany, suggesting he could soon reduce the US military presence there as he continues to feud with Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the US-Israel war against Iran.
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[2026-04-30 21:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: The Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has accused the United States of driving instability across the Middle East, linking regional tensions to Washington’s military footprint and its joint war with Israel against Iran.
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[2026-04-30 21:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: KIEV, Ucrania (AP) — El presidente de Ucrania, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, afirmó en una publicación en Telegram que está recabando los detalles de un alto el fuego a corto plazo propuesto por Rusia al presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump.
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[2026-04-30 21:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Palestinian Authority has continued making payments to terrorists and their families, despite promises to end the pay-for-slay programs, the US State Department informed Congress last month, the department confirmed on Wednesday.
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[2026-04-30 21:30 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The Biden administration “zealously” investigated, penalized, and engaged in “aggressive prosecutions” of Christians “with traditional biblical views” — ignoring their conscientious objections and even secretly keeping tabs on Catholic priests, a Department of Justice task force found.
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[2026-04-30 21:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz drives in the armoured fighting vehicle Boxer during his visit to the army at the Bundeswehr base in Munster, Germany, Thursday, April, 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, Pool)
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[2026-04-30 21:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: DUBÁI, Emiratos Árabes Unidos (AP) — El líder supremo de Irán afirmó el jueves que la República Islámica protegerá sus “capacidades nucleares y de misiles” como un activo nacional, mientras el presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, intenta alcanzar un acuerdo sobre esas cuestiones.
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[2026-04-30 20:55 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: RT News
Snippet: US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has stated that Americans support the US operation against Iran, a claim that stands at odds with multiple national surveys showing most adults in the nation oppose the conflict.
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