Trump can't resist attack on Biden during Memorial Day speech honoring fallen heroes

Monday, May 26, 2025

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President Donald Trump can't resist taking a jab at Joe Biden during his Memorial Day speech, a mass shooting in a South Carolina beach town injures at least 11 people, and Democrats are spending millions to learn how to talk to 'American men.'

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1 | Trump can't resist attack on Biden during Memorial Day speech honoring fallen heroes

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2 | Memorial Day mass shooting in South Carolina beach town injures at least 11 people

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3 | Trump's media company plans to raise $3B to buy crypto as conflict of interest claims deepen: report

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4 | Democrats spending millions to learn how to speak to 'American Men' and win back the working class

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5 | Phil Robertson's legacy: Inside the Duck Dynasty star's many controversies following his death at age 79

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The Big Question 

OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model ignores basic instructions to turn itself off, and even sabotaging a shutdown mechanism in order to keep itself running, artificial intelligence researchers have warned.

AI safety firm Palisade Research discovered the potentially dangerous tendency for self-preservation in a series of experiments on OpenAI's new o3 model.

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STAT OF THE DAY

$111 million

Disney's latest live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch is reportedly on track to break the Memorial Day weekend box office record. Released in theaters on Friday, the movie has already made $55 million at the domestic box office, bringing its worldwide opening day total to $111 million.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

'Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose.'

Dolly Parton has offered up words of wisdom inspired her by her late mother's love of Shakespeare.

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