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      <title>Justice Department announces nearly $1.8B fund to compensate Trump allies in a deal to drop IRS suit</title>
      <link>https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8</link>
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      <title>‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub</title>
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      <title>This Convicted Felon Gets $1 Million a Year to Sell Obsolete Internet Service. You Pay for It.</title>
      <link>https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://www.propublica.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/ak-summit-telephone-OG.jpg?resize=2000,1050"/><p><strong>PROPUBLICA.ORG</strong> Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for tax evasion. Still, each year the federal government pays his Alaska company, Summit Telephone, for internet service that’s slower than in most of the U.S.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>Grenfell Tower fire: Police seek charges for up to 57 people</title>
      <link>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1e24vxyqnwo</link>
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      <title>Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz</title>
      <link>https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/iran-demands-big-tech-pay-fees-for-undersea-internet-cables-in-strait-of-hormuz/</link>
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      <title>Trump endorses Ken Paxton in Texas GOP primary, boosting his challenge to incumbent Sen. Cornyn</title>
      <link>https://apnews.com/article/trump-texas-senate-endorsement-paxton-cornyn-adb4c7213fc2d0db0b29d0ab65d49384</link>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/bf4a2ca/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3600x2399+0+139/resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F06%2F39%2F0f1b5277405c8722e9b9cc0632f0%2Fap22296096327508.jpg"/><p><strong>APNEWS.COM</strong> President Donald Trump has endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, supercharging his effort to oust incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in a Republican primary runoff.</p>]]></description>
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      <title>What to know about the Bundibugyo virus, a species of Ebola causing an outbreak in Congo</title>
      <link>https://apnews.com/article/ebola-bundibugyo-virus-outbreak-congo-baf5f9861a896ca027a9e40524d42e74</link>
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      <title>Teenage gunmen open fire on San Diego mosque, killing 3 men and then themselves</title>
      <link>https://apnews.com/article/san-diego-islamic-center-shooting-af934ee29b397fba1495baf2529c49f8</link>
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      <title>Federal court rejects Elon Musk&#x27;s claims against OpenAI, saying he filed his lawsuit too late</title>
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      <title>Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming ‘unmanageable’ due to AI bug reports</title>
      <link>https://www.theverge.com/tech/932312/linus-torvalds-linux-ai-security-bugs</link>
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      <title>&#x27;We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs&#x27;</title>
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      <title>AI could make humans less intelligent, warns Royal Observatory</title>
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