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'Currently impossible': North Korea defections in freefall.
The combined total of North Koreans to reach South Korea in the past six years is less than the number that typically defected each year for decades -- and appears to be declining further in 2026
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Quite a story. Zelensky says Ukraine sent North Korean troops captured fighting for Russia to South Korea. South Korean president said he broke confidentiality agreement. straitstimes.com/asia/east-a…
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ALERT: Federal judge Tim Kelly orders Trump White House to RESTORE the press passes of CNN, MSNOW and Politico
Judge: "Plaintiffs are also likely to succeed in showing that their hard passes were revoked without constitutionally adequate due process"
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Trump seen on AF1 looking at document that’s apparently about demolishing the Kennedy Center. 🔥pic by @AFP’s Brendan Smialowski
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And I just renamed Lake Michigan Lake Wisconsin. See, I can sign napkins that say things, too.
ALT Gov. Evers hold up a napkin that says “Lake Wisconsin” and his signature
JUST IN: President Trump has signed an executive order changing the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America." The name change is "effective immediately," Trump said. abcnews.link/82a4Sl7
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🇬🇧 Hard-right British politician Nigel Farage was re-elected to his parliamentary seat Friday in a by-election shunned by the major parties -- handing his main rival, joke candidate Count Binface, a larger than expected share of the vote.
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Father after father choked up in despair while speaking to AFP about the Taliban’s education ban that stops their daughters going beyond primary school in Afghanistan.
Even deeply religious fathers are questioning the ruling: "You will never find in the Quran that education is only for men"
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@TheAtlantic republished @jdvance op-ed against @POTUS Trump… whom Vance called “culture heroin” theatlantic.com/politics/arc…
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Got my first glimpse of White House UFC cage up close. ‘Freedom 250’ on the screen
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Scoop: Trump plans to drop "weaponization" fund axios.com/2026/06/01/trump-w…
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Trump to visit Temple of Heaven in Beijing on Thursday afternoon, WH's @AnnaKelly47 says. Welcome ceremony and Xi bilateral on Thursday morning, state banquet Thurs evening, and bilateral tea and working lunch on Friday before return to Washington
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Reporters in black tie and ballgowns for Trump in briefing room after White House Correspondents Dinner shooting
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Commentators are noting there was nothing new in President Trump’s 19-minute speech, which was essentially a verbal summary of his recent social media posts.
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A California jury just found Meta and YouTube negligent in designing products addictive to children — one day after a New Mexico jury found Meta endangered children online.
"There are thousands more lawsuits waiting to be heard... " washingtonpost.com/technolog… by @iduncan
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Dirty diapers born again in Japan recycling breakthrough.
Billions of dirty diapers end up buried or burned every year in Japan -- more from seniors than babies -- but a recycling breakthrough has given them a new lease of life
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