Lights from Trump’s White House UFC fight are blinding pilots at DC airport, report says
A pilot described the glare from the White House UFC event lighting as ’10 times worse than any laser illumination event’ they had ever experienced

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A pilot described the glare from the White House UFC event lighting as ’10 times worse than any laser illumination event’ they had ever experienced

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US president says in online post he reserves ‘ultimate alternative’ if Tehran refuses to sign agreement
Donald Trump said on Saturday that the US is set to sign a new agreement with Iran the following day, claiming that the deal would prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, as well as reopen the strait of Hormuz to international shipping.
In a Truth Social post, Trump said that Iran “no longer want a Nuclear Weapon, nor will they have one, either through purchase, development, or any other form of procurement”.
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The Trump administration had asked National Park visitors across the U.S to report displays or exhibits saying ‘negative’ things about Americans

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Four-ton Paige, brought in as surprise for attenders, made gushing debut after governor finished keynote speech
An African elephant weighing roughly 4 tons that was brought to the Texas Republican party’s annual convention to excite attenders ended up drawing widespread attention for the wrong reasons after she urinated on the convention floor and became the focus of animal welfare concerns.
Inside the George R Brown convention center in Houston on Friday, attenders had been told to prepare for a “larger-than-life surprise” after governor Greg Abbott finished his keynote speech. Organizers also displayed a message asking people to keep the aisles clear.
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Trump is scheduled to travel to France after attending UFC Freedom 250 at the White House

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Former congresswoman nevertheless says she hopes the fighting event will be ‘great’ and wishes president well
Marjorie Taylor Greene has criticized Donald Trump’s plan to hold a UFC fight on the White House lawn, as the president prepares to host seven fights on Sunday.
The former rightwing Republican congresswoman, a once fierce defender of Trump who turned on him towards the end of her time in office, told NewsNation the location is inappropriate for the mixed martial arts event.
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Throngs of UFC fans have descended on the nation's capital for an usual fight night at the White House

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The requirement, also under consideration in California, aims to counteract the latest method for producing untraceable ‘ghost guns’

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The elephant went viral for peeing on the convention floor in front of shocked spectators

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Anthropic called it a ‘misunderstanding’ and said it hopes to restore access to the models as soon as possible

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The president revealed the strike was carried out ‘with our friends in Venezuela’

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Officials given 21 days to comply with order after Angel Kelley condemns administration for ‘telling half-truths’
A US district court judge has ordered the Trump administration to reinstate any history or science materials it removed from the nation’s public monuments, finding that the White House’s actions “set a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization”.
In March 2025, Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “restoring truth and sanity to American history”, calling upon the secretary of interior to examine monuments, memorials and statues to see if they had been altered after January 2020 to represent a “false construction of American history”.
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The UFC has vowed to carry out the fight, regardless of all but the most severe weather

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This provides Paramount a crucial advantage as it seeks to fend off potential state-level challenges to the deal

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Deal still under UK scrutiny with new investigation, and could face lawsuit from state attorneys general
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has decided to approve the $111bn merger of Paramount Skydance, controlled by the Ellison family, and Warner Bros Discovery, the parent company of networks like CNN and HBO.
The deal was approved by the justice department’s anti-trust division after months of review, and despite the concerns of many people in the entertainment and media industries who believe it will hurt competition by reducing the number of film studios and – most likely – merging two news networks, Paramount’s CBS News and CNN.
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President Trump has claimed he would fix the landmark pool, which he said other presidents left in a ‘disgusting’ state

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