Topic: US Politics — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-17 01:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The hosts of The View found themselves completely in agreement in a rare moment of peace on the ABC talk show while discussing TMZ’s recent decision to begin covering United States politicians in DC.
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[2026-04-17 01:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day cease-fire beginning at 5 p.m. ET, President Trump announced Thursday.
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[2026-04-17 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, United States President Donald Trump says.
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[2026-04-17 01:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US President Donald Trump claimed that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a 10-day ceasefire set to begin on Thursday, following calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
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[2026-04-17 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Lebanon and Israel have agreed to start a 10-day ceasefire starting at midnight, US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday.
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[2026-04-17 01:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Israel has agreed to a 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon starting on Thursday at 10pm, US President Donald Trump said after speaking to Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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[2026-04-17 01:41 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The leaders of Israel and Lebanon agreed to a 10-day ceasefire after officials from the two countries met in Washington, President Donald Trump said Thursday.
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[2026-04-17 01:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) acknowledges fans as he leaves the ice after the Capitals defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets in an NHL hockey game Tuesday, April 14, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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[2026-04-17 01:35 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: California supreme court upholds lower court decision as Eastman says he will appeal to US supreme court
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[2026-04-17 01:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Uma reportagem divulgada nesta quinta-feira (16/04) pelo jornal americano USA Today afirma que o Departamento de Defesa dos Estados Unidos estaria intensificado planos referentes a uma intervenção militar em Cuba, aguardando ordens diretas do presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump. A publicação provocou uma reação do Pentágono, que pediu cautela em relação ao tema.
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[2026-04-17 01:32 UTC+10:00] [Late-night TV roundup] [Factuality: 95]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Late night hosts discussed Trump’s AI images, the closure of 7-Eleven stores and JD Vance’s advice to the Pope
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[2026-04-17 01:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: The Trump administration has quietly approached US industrial giants including Ford and General Motors about potentially boosting weapons production, according to a report.
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[2026-04-17 01:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Speaking at Semafor’s World Economy event in Washington, D.C., President and COO of Goldman Sachs John Waldron warned that some managers have oversold how easy it is to get money out—especially to retail investors, who’ve helped balloon the market into a $1.7 trillion behemoth just as the space faces growing scrutiny and tighter conditions, according to Semafor.
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[2026-04-17 01:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El presidente del Estado Mayor Conjunto de Estados Unidos, general Dan Caine, le habla a la prensa en el Pentágono en Washington el 16 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/Kevin Wolf)
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[2026-04-17 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Authored by Kimberley Hayek via The Epoch Times,
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[2026-04-17 01:02 UTC+10:00] [Sarah Mullally] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Sarah Mullally urges Anglicans to join Leo’s ‘courageous’ call and says human cost of war is incalculable
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[2026-04-17 00:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: Justin Fairfax, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia, was a “rising star” in the Democratic Party and seen as having the potential to make it all the way to the White House — until sexual assault allegations against him sank his career.
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[2026-04-17 00:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: President Donald Trump’s top military advisor, Gen. Dan Kaine, describes Navy warships maintaining the blockade against Iran as “like driving a sports car through a supermarket parking lot on a payday weekend.”
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[2026-04-17 00:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: South Korea
Snippet: WASHINGTON, April 16 (Yonhap) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday urged Iran to "choose wisely," stressing that the U.S. military ensures that it is "maximally postured" to resume combat operations should the Islamic Republic not agree to a peace deal with the United States.
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[2026-04-17 00:28 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Deutsche Welle
Snippet: Quando um americano dá descarga num vaso sanitário dos Estados Unidos, ele ouve um som característico de sucção. Um jato de água enche a bacia e depois puxa o conteúdo para baixo com um grande "golpe" final.
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[2026-04-17 00:27 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV in Bamenda, Cameroon. (REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane)
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[2026-04-17 00:20 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Live updates: Follow the latest news on Iran war
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[2026-04-17 00:15 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: BAMENDA, Cameroon — Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was “being ravaged by a handful of tyrants,” in unusually forceful remarks in Cameroon on Thursday after US President Trump attacked him again on social media.
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[2026-04-17 00:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From soybeans and tariffs to Chinese-American plays, here are highlights from our US correspondents in early April 2026
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[2026-04-17 00:00 UTC+10:00] [Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: From soybeans and tariffs to Chinese-American plays, here are highlights from our US correspondents in early April 2026
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[2026-04-16 23:54 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Sarah Mullally speaks to the public after the Enthronement Ceremony installing her as archbishop of Canterbury in Canterbury, England, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, the first woman ever to lead the Church of England. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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[2026-04-16 23:53 UTC+10:00] [Pope Leo XIV] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Pontiff denounces leaders who invoke religion to justify war, after US bishops offer him support after Vance remarks
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[2026-04-16 23:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: The U.S. Navy has turned back 13 ships since its blockade of Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman began more than 24 hours earlier, the Pentagon said Thursday.
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[2026-04-16 23:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: At first glance the 0.5% MoM decline in US Industrial production (considerably worse than than the 0.1% MoM rise expected - and dragging YoY growth in IP down to +0.74%) is bad news... suggesting immediate impacts from the war are being felt and sparking headlines decrying President Trump's actions.
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[2026-04-16 23:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El secretario de Defensa estadounidense Pete Hegseth (d) con el ministro de Defensa de Indonesia Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin en el Pentágono en Washington, el 13 de abril del 2026. (AP foto/Kevin Wolf)
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[2026-04-16 23:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: CNBC
Snippet: With less than 2 weeks remaining until the next European Central Bank meeting, the bloc's policymakers appear undecided on the future of interest rates.
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[2026-04-16 23:18 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth read a fake Bible verse from Quentin Tarantino's 1994 cult classic film Pulp Fiction on Wednesday, during a Christian prayer and worship service at the Pentagon.
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[2026-04-16 23:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: WASHINGTON — The US military will “actively pursue” any Iranian-flagged vessels or any ships attempting to support the regime elsewhere in the world, Gen. Dan Caine Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced Thursday — in an expansion of the blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz.
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[2026-04-16 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Pope Leo XIV has blasted the “handful of tyrants” who are ravaging Earth with war and exploitation, as he preached a message of peace in the epicentre of a separatist conflict considered one of the world’s most neglected crises.
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[2026-04-16 23:08 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: An Iranian embassy has shared an AI-generated video depicting Jesus casting Donald Trump into hell, following backlash over a social media post in which the US president appeared to portray himself as a Christ-like healer.
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[2026-04-16 23:00 UTC+10:00] [US-Israel war on Iran] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Washington and Tehran will have to make compromises and the current deadline must be extended. But with the will there’s clearly a way
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[2026-04-16 22:58 UTC+10:00] [Donald Trump] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Design among projects before US Commission of Fine Arts as lawsuits challenge scale and impact
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[2026-04-16 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild,’ Leo says
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[2026-04-16 22:50 UTC+10:00] [Bamenda] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: ‘The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet often a lifetime is not enough to rebuild,’ Leo says
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[2026-04-16 22:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Stock futures are edging higher on continued optimism about an extended truce in the Middle East, while Taiwan Semi's solid results have sparked another leg higher in AI trade. As of 8:15 am ET, S&P 500 futures rose 0.1%, while Nasdaq 100 contracts +0.2%, and on pace for a 12th day of gains.
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[2026-04-16 22:44 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: The US Senate has voted against two resolutions blocking American arms sales to Israel put forward by independent lawmaker Bernie Sanders.
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[2026-04-16 22:42 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Pope Leo has criticised leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world is "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants," in unusually forceful comments during his visit to Cameroon.
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[2026-04-16 22:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is no longer a lone voice in Europe standing up to US President Donald Trump.
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[2026-04-16 22:36 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, welcomes Minister of Defense for Indonesia Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin to the Pentagon, Monday, April 13, 2026 in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
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[2026-04-16 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: United States President Donald Trump has announced that leaders of Israel and Lebanon will speak to each other for the first time in 34 years on Thursday, raising cautious hopes for a diplomatic solution to the fighting that has continued for more than six weeks.
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[2026-04-16 21:53 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El Pentágono visto desde un avión, el martes 7 de abril de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-04-16 21:51 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: South Africa has appointed Roelf Meyer, a former minister and negotiator in the apartheid government, as the new ambassador to the United States in a move by President Cyril Ramaphosa to mend its strained ties with Washington.
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[2026-04-16 21:47 UTC+10:00] [Giorgia Meloni] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: With an eye on elections in 2027, Italy’s far-right PM appears to be making a tactful pivot away from US president
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[2026-04-16 21:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: The Pentagon is seen from an airplane, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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[2026-04-16 21:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: With two active conflict areas in Eurasia - the Russia-Ukraine conflict in Eastern Europe and the U.S.-Iran theater in the Gulf - the world is moving deeper into a war cycle. The latest indicator is not only that militaries around the world are beginning to stockpile one-way attack drones, but also the early-stage push to convert underused civilian industrial capacity, including struggling auto production lines, into wartime manufacturing hubs.
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