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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army’s top uniformed officer, Gen. Randy George, to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday, as the United States wages a war against Iran.

A Pentagon official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter, confirmed that George has been asked to take early retirement from the post of Army chief of staff, which he has held since August 2023.

The ouster of George is just the latest of more than a dozen firings of top generals and admirals by Hegseth since he first took office last year.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced Wednesday what they are calling a path forward to fully funding the Department of Homeland Security and will try to end a record partial government shutdown.

They said in a joint statement that “in the coming days,” Republicans in the House and Senate would follow through on President Donald Trump’s directive to fully fund the department, using two parallel tracks. According to the plan, most of the department could be funded through an agreement with Democratic senators, with the exception of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol. Republicans would try later to fund those agencies through party-line budgeting legislation.

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Tiger Woods said he’ll step away and seek treatment on Tuesday, days after his vehicle crashed in Florida and he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

“This is necessary in order for me to prioritize my well-being and work toward lasting recovery,” he said in a post on the social media platform X.

Woods pleaded not guilty in his driving under the influence case in Florida on Tuesday, hours after a sheriff’s report said he had pain pills in his pocket and showed signs of impairment at a crash last week.

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend its construction of a $400 million ballroom where it demolished the East Wing of the White House.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington granted a preservationist group’s request for a preliminary injunction that temporarily halts President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project.

Leon, who was nominated to the bench by Republican President George W. Bush, wrote, “I have concluded that the National Trust is likely to succeed on the merits because no statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have.”

"The President of the United States is the steward of the White House for future generations of First Families. He is not, however, the owner!”

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Eric Trump on Monday shared the first rendered images of a planned Donald Trump presidential library and museum, to be constructed in Miami, Florida.

In a social media post, Eric Trump shared an AI-generated video that showed a waterfront skyscraper labeled with Trump's name and hanging an American flag. A museum space inside the building displayed presidential aircraft and appeared to include exhibits that replicated the Oval Office in the White House, as well as the ballroom that President Trump plans to construct in place of the now-demolished East Wing.

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Tiger Woods is seen in a booking photo after his DUI arrest. Wach the latest from Florida authorities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6vXO...

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Legendary golfer Tiger Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI following a rollover crash in South Florida on Friday afternoon, authorities said.

The crash occurred just after 2 p.m. near 281 Beach Road on Jupiter Island, according to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.

An image from the scene shows an SUV on its side. Authorities said Woods was able to climb out of the vehicle and was not injured.

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The U.S. Treasury announced Thursday future U.S. paper currency would bear current president Donald Trump's signature.

The signature would appear alongside the signature of the Secretary of the Treasury, whose name is already printed on currency. This is the first time a president's signature will be printed on U.S. currency.

It was not immediately clear what currency would bear the new signature, or whether the denominations would be any of those in regular circulation.

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to "immediately pay" TSA agents that have gone weeks without receiving a paycheck due to the ongoing partial government shutdown.

In a post on his Truth Social platform, President Trump blamed Democrats for the shutdown and said he is signing an order for TSA agents to be paid.

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OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.

OpenAI said in a brief social media message Tuesday that it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app” and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app.

“What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” it said.

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