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The two leading Democratic candidates running for Los Angeles mayor have for months been trying to link their most prominent opponent to President Trump, an unpopular figure in the overwhelmingly Democratic city. Mr. Trump just made it much easier for them. On Wednesday, the president indicated to reporters that he supported Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former reality TV star like himself. I'd like to see him do well, the president replied. I heard he's a big MAGA person.

Following pressure from the U.S., the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations is withdrawing his bid for a vice president role at the U.N. General Assembly, and Lebanon's ambassador is taking his place, the U.N. said Thursday. The Palestinian U.N. delegation relayed, through an Arab country, that Ambassador Riyad Mansour would refrain from running for a vice president position for the coming two years, a person familiar with the matter told NPR on Thursday a potential reference to the end of President Trump's term.

Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races than anyone across NASCAR's three national series, has died. He was 41. The Busch Family, Richard Childress Racing and NASCAR issued a joint statement Thursday saying that Busch died after being hospitalized. No cause of death was given. Busch's family said earlier Thursday that he was hospitalized with a "severe illness," three days before he was to compete at the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The outcome of a pivotal Senate race in Maine could hinge on whether voters value Republican Sen. Susan Collins' clout and ability to secure federal dollars over Democratic insurgent Graham Platner's call to upend a political system he says is rigged against working-class Americans. Platner's call for a political revolution has been a centerpiece of a barnstorming campaign that's already pushed his Democratic rival, Gov. Janet Mills, out of the race.

Walmart will likely put its tariff refunds toward lowering store prices, executives said on Thursday, as they described shoppers who are increasingly anxious about the rising cost of fuel. In recent weeks, visitors to Walmart's gas stations have begun to fill up with fewer than ten gallons for the first time since 2022, Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey told investors on an earnings call. "That's an indication of stress," he said.

They cited "the uncertainty of the arbitration process and the significant cost of prolonged litigation," according to Goncalves. Steven Gomes, Thomas Trabulsi, and Noah LeBlanc were all terminated, but reached union-negotiated agreements to be reinstated. Gomes returned to the department Jan. 1, Trabulsi returned March 15, and LeBlanc is expected"

Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While many people across the U.S. lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk's death, Larry Bushart's case stood out as a rare instance in which such online speech led to criminal prosecution. The 61-year-old retired police officer spent 37 days behind bars before authorities dropped the felony charge against him in October.

The Republican Senate primary in Georgia will head to a runoff next month, with Representative Mike Collins, an immigration hard-liner and a trucking executive, advancing and no candidate on track to win a majority of the vote Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Collins was leading Derek Dooley, a former University of Tennessee football coach, and Representative Buddy Carter, a former pharmacy owner, according to incomplete results. It was unclear who would secure the second spot in the runoff.

One month before the beginning of peak wildfire season in California, firefighters are already battling more than eight blazes in the southern part of the state. The fires have prompted smoke advisories in Los Angeles, led to evacuation orders for thousands of people in surrounding areas and put many people on edge less than 18 months since two devastating infernos in the region. Dry conditions in recent months, a spring heat wave and a spell of fierce winds have all combined to make Southern California more susceptible to rapid spreading and major damage.

Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky yesterday lost the Republican House primary by nearly 10 percentage points. Trump-backed challenger Ed Gallrein secured the victory over Massie, who is the latest Republican lawmaker to lose his seat after angering the president. This became the most expensive House primary in history, with $33 million spent on TV ads, much of it directed at Massie, according to NPR's ad-tracking partner AdImpact.

Joining in on the fun is simple: Go to the section where the party is happening, take off your shirt and start twirling it above your head. Soccer-like chants or singing usually follow injecting a jolt of energy for a sport that is occasionally chided for its lack of energy inside the stadium. After getting it's start in St. Louis last Friday, it has spread across the league to places like Detroit, Tampa Bay, Philadelphia, Seattle and Anaheim, California.

As part of the settlement deal meant to resolve Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns, the U.S. is "forever barred and precluded" from examining or prosecuting Trump, his sons and the Trump organization's current tax examinations, according to a one-page document posted to the Justice Department's website.

“This is a chicken embryo,” says Snyder, a bioengineer at Colossal Biosciences in Dallas, as he gently places the device cradling the chicken embryo into a stand that makes it glow. “You can see the little chicken embryos moving around in there,” Snyder says. “You can see it has eyes. It has a heartbeat. It has a beak. It has feathers. It has an eyelid. You can see the wings are developing. Legs. It even is beginning to get little claws on its feet.”

Last month, Immigration and Customs Enforcement acknowledged for the first time the agency's growing arsenal of surveillance technology includes spyware. Such tools can remotely hack into phones and have been abused repeatedly by governments around the world that have used them not only to counter national security threats, but also to spy on political rivals, diplomats, human rights activists and journalists.

Aid can provide jobs and resources. And that, in turn, can reduce the incentives for people to engage in violent actions. Yet it can have the reverse effect as well. "Aid can also increase conflict by introducing something to fight over," says Austin Wright, a data scientist at the University of Chicago who works at the intersection of public policy and statistics. He's referring to resources like roads and supplies paid for by the foreign assistance. In other words, "things that are of value to control."