Former Attorney General Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after she was ousted from the Justice Department, according to a report from Axios, which cited an anonymous source.

Bondi has since undergone treatment and is recovering, per Axios.

The publication also reported that President Donald Trump had appointed Bondi to a White House panel on artificial intelligence.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) committed to backing the Republican Senate ticket this fall after suffering a bruising loss to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday.

“I’ve always supported the Republican ticket and I intend to do so again in this general election,” Cornyn said during a somber concession speech.

Cornyn, a four-term Republican Senator, was defeated in a primary runoff this week following President Donald Trump’s last-minute decision to endorse his opponent.

In his remarks on Tuesday, Cornyn also quoted a statement former President Theodore Roosevelt once made about the importance of striving and cited a comment that a county commissioner previously told him during a local tragedy.

“Being a Texan doesn’t describe where you’re from. It describes who your family is,” Cornyn recalled the commissioner saying. “For the past two and a half decades, I have represented this family in the United States Senate.”

Johnny Garcia, a former sheriff’s deputy running a centrist campaign with the backing of national Democrats, defied a Republican attempt to boost his antisemitic opponent in a primary in South Texas, giving Democrats a shot at winning a gerrymandered majority-Hispanic district.

Lead Left PAC, which has been linked to Republicans despite taking great lengths to hide its origins, spent nearly $1 million to boost Maureen Galindo, a sex therapist who expressed antisemitic views, over Garcia. The group was essentially solely responsible for Galindo’s campaign — she managed to raise just $5,000 on her own.

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Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, wasted little time in setting the tone for the upcoming race following Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's runoff win Tuesday night.

"Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton," Talarico wrote on X just minutes after Paxton's win was announced.

"Three years ago, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself, and his donors, at the expense of the people," Talarico said in an accompanying video on X. "That kind of corruption is the rot at the core of this broken system."

The Republican candidate was quick to attack Talarico during his victory speech.

“This campaign is not about red versus blue. It’s about so much more. My opponent is the most extreme radical the Democrats have ever nominated,” Paxton told the crowd.

“The reality is James Talarico is going to be nothing more than a Texas-faced puppet for Chuck Schumer and the national Democrats,” Paxton added.

Paxton also thanked Donald Trump for his support, despite many Senate Republicans objecting to the president's endorsement of Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.

“When everyone in Washington told him to abandon me and abandon the people of Texas, he didn’t listen,” Paxton said. “Instead, he gave his complete and total endorsement. President Trump is the leader of our party, and his endorsement is the most powerful force in politics."

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Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara, who took over the department in 2022, has resigned after an internal investigation into sexual misconduct allegations was set to lead to disciplinary action.

“Today, I received an investigative report with concerning substantiated findings regarding Chief O’Hara’s leadership. This evening, I informed the chief I would be disciplining him up to and including discharge, and he resigned. I have accepted his resignation,” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said in an email to the police department, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune.

“I know this news comes as a surprise to many, and I want you to hear directly from me that this was not a decision I made lightly,” Frey added.

In a press conference on Tuesday evening, Frey explained that O'Hara had interfered with a previous investigation into whether he was having sexual relations with a city employee. Frey maintained that the "underlying allegations from the original investigation remain not substantiated."

"Everyone makes mistakes, including me, but what I can't allow is a breach of trust," Frey said. "When you serve as chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, trust is not secondary to the job; it is the job. When trust is broken, it becomes extremely difficult to continue leading effectively."

Assistant Police Chief Katie Blackwell is now the acting police chief of the department.

Vermont is banning paraquat, a toxic, weed-killing pesticide that research has linked to Parkinson’s disease.

The new law, signed by Gov. Phil Scott (R) on Tuesday, is set to take effect on November 1, with limited exceptions. Vermont is the first state to pass the ban, but similar legislation has been introduced in other states. Some federal lawmakers have also called attention to the issue.

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Massachusetts Uber and Lyft drivers gathered at the State House on Tuesday to hail the formation of the country’s first certified union for rideshare drivers.

One day earlier, the App Drivers Union announced that it had been certified to represent approximately 70,000 rideshare drivers in the state, enabling it to collectively bargain on their behalf.

Drivers’ efforts to organize were bolstered in 2024 when Massachusetts voters approved a statewide ballot initiative that made it legal for them to unionize. Since then, they’ve had to designate an organization to represent them at the bargaining table, and that group has had to secure state certification.

The App Drivers Union will now be able to negotiate with Uber and Lyft on issues such as drivers’ wages, safety issues and working conditions. Both companies have said that they plan to engage with the union.

“It’s one of the biggest organizing union victories in the last century,” Autumn Weintraub, executive director of the App Drivers Union, told The Boston Globe.

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is projected to win Tuesday’s runoff election to become the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, knocking out veteran Sen. John Cornyn and marking the end of a bitter and expensive primary race that divided the party.

Paxton’s projected win came after a last-minute endorsement by President Donald Trump, whose support goes a long way in Texas. Senate Republican leaders had begged Trump to get behind Cornyn, who has comfortably held this Senate seat since 2002 and doesn’t come with the baggage the attorney general has. But the president sided with Paxton, a scandal-plagued MAGA ally, because he said Cornyn hasn’t been sufficiently loyal.

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Rep. Christian Menefee (D-Texas) has defeated Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) in an unusual Democratic primary runoff election that pitted two current House members against each other for a redrawn district.

The clash between the freshman Menefee and Green, who is in his 11th term, is one of several races showcasing the debate within the Democratic party over whether the party’s old guard needs to make way for younger leaders.

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The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee revealed a $1.14 trillion military spending bill for the 2027 fiscal year on Tuesday, the day after Memorial Day.

The bill, which comes after Trump sought $1.5 trillion in defense spending, would allocate $1.1 trillion to the Pentagon and the remaining $41 billion to the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons programs, Stars and Stripes reported. It includes pay raises and regulations on troop withdrawals in Europe, which Trump has previously threatened.

A second $350 billion proposed defense spending bill is set to be voted on separately through reconciliation.

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The private reprimand of a U.S. federal judge accused of having an affair with a high-ranking police officer has been upheld by a national judicial panel, according to a report from Reuters.

The judge, who has not been publicly identified, is accused of having sexual intercourse with the officer in their chambers within earshot of courthouse staff.

The U.S. Judicial Conference's Committee on Judicial Conduct and Disability upheld the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit Judicial Council's February decision on Friday, which detailed how to discipline the judge.

Aside from the private reprimand, the judge agreed to forgo any opportunity to serve as chief judge in their court location, which was also not publicly disclosed. They further agreed to apologize to any court staff that were interviewed as part of the probe and "indefinitely refrain from serving on any Judicial Conference committee," according to the national judicial panel's decision.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday requested that a federal judge dismiss criminal charges filed by the Justice Department, which it characterized as part of the Trump administration's "attack on civil rights groups."

In the 47-page motion, filed in the Middle District of Alabama, the SPLC's lawyers argued that the April indictment accusing the nonprofit of fraud, among other things, was false and the result of President Donald Trump's "years-long failed effort to overturn the 2020 election results."

The filings point to whistleblower reports submitted to Congress alleging that top Justice Department officials pressured prosecutors to rush the indictment against the center, adding that the "Court should dismiss the indictment as a violation of due process."

"These procedural irregularities show that the charges against the SPLC were a foregone conclusion based on prosecutorial vindictiveness – driven by the White House and FBI leadership’s retribution campaign – rather than the result of a good faith examination of the evidence," the filings read.

The implosion of a chemical tank at a pulp and paper mill in southwestern Washington state on Tuesday injured at least 10 people, while an undisclosed number of others were killed or remained missing, authorities said.

In a joint statement, Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. and local first-response agencies confirmed that there had been fatalities.

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Ferrari has unveiled its first-ever electric vehicle, a four-door, five-seat sedan (also a first) named “Luce.” The Italian company renowned for its supercars leaned on ex-Apple design chief Jony Ive to oversee Luce’s design and, judging from how it was received online, some of the design language might’ve been lost in translation.

Car enthusiast blog The Autopian compared Luce’s silhouette to that of Apple's Magic Mouse while noting it somehow also “looks like it’s nesting an entire other car within it.”

Ars Technica took a slightly more diplomatic approach, promising readers the $640,000 car looks better in person than in photos, while emphasizing the design is the result of almost a decade of aerodynamic studies.

Investors, meanwhile, shared their take via the company stock. Shares of Ferrari in Milan fell 8% Tuesday while its U.S.-listed counterpart traded down just over 5%.

Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna defended the divisive car to CNBC, saying new technology inherently means a departure from older design language.

“When you have a new technology, you need to make sure that that technology is properly represented in the design, so the design must be different,” he said.

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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is cancelling a planned trip to Camp David to meet with his top team.

"Based on the possible bad weather conditions tomorrow, we will be having our Cabinet Meeting in the White House, and will be postponing the Cabinet trip to Camp David," Trump posted on Truth Social.

The meeting to discuss domestic and policy issues comes amid the ongoing war with Iran.

Clarence B. Jones, the esteemed civil rights activist and lawyer who helped author Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech, died on Friday. He was 95.

Jones, a critic of President Donald Trump who slammed his redistricting efforts just last month, was among the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his famed speech in front of more than 250,000 demonstrators at the Lincoln Memorial.

In 2013, Jones told Reuters that the words "I have a dream" were never formally part of the written speech. According to Jones, after the encouragement from gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, who shouted "Tell 'em about the dream, Martin," from the crowd, King improvised much of the speech.

Until King's assassination in 1968, Jones served as his close confidant and lawyer — successfully defending him in a 1960 Alabama tax evasion case. He also helped successfully defend four Black ministers against libel and secured press freedom under the First Amendment in the landmark 1964 Supreme Court case New York Times v. Sullivan.

Vice President JD Vance called Pope Leo XIV's letter against artificial intelligence "very profound."

“What I read of it sounds very profound, and the sort of thing that you would expect and hope from a leader of the church,” Vance told NBC News in an interview published Tuesday. “The thing about morality is that the principles never change, but the way you apply those principles does, because the world changes, right?”

In Pope Leo's first encyclical, he wrote that AI is one of the biggest threats to humanity today.

Vance's words come as the Trump administration and the pope have been feuding for the past few months. Pope Leo has been outspokenly against the United States' war with Iran and the country's ICE crackdown; while Vance has warned the pope to be careful when speaking about theology.

Vance has been vocal about his opposition to AI having government regulation.

New photos published Tuesday show the construction of a UFC arena at the White House is in full swing — and it's set to be very big.

A series of mixed martial arts fights are scheduled to take place on the South Lawn on June 14 ― the same day as Trump’s 80th birthday, and billed as part of America's 250th anniversary celebrations.

Trump has promised “the greatest show on earth,” and said the temporary arena will hold 4,000 people.

Up to 100,000 people are also set to take it all in from a "fan fest" at the White House Ellipse, a 52-acre public park “right across the street.”

Pictures of the arena towering over the People's House have emerged as organizers release images of the ring ― an octagonal cage ― where the fights will take place.

UFC President and CEO Dana White has said the U.S taxpayer will not be on the hook for the costs of the event.

“We’re eating the whole thing,” White said in January.

President Donald Trump has raised the refugee cap to allow an additional 10,000 white South Africans to come to the U.S.

The determination, first filed last week, cites "increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence" against white South Africans in its decision to allow 10,000 more into the U.S.

"...An unforeseen emergency refugee situation now exists due to recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence on the part of the Government of South Africa and leaders of prominent political parties in South Africa, as well as new disruptions of United States Refugee Admissions Program operations in South Africa," the filing reads.

Trump has already admitted more than 6,000 white South Africans into the U.S. under refugee status.

The Refugee Council, which advocates for refugees, called Trump's decision "discriminatory."

"The Trump administration has corrupted the U.S. resettlement program for a harmful ideological agenda that violates our moral call to welcome and our legal obligations under U.S. law," the group's statement said. "A resettlement program that admits only one population at the exclusion of tens of thousands refugees at risk around the world does not constitute meaningful refugee protection."

The statement added that members of Congress should be demanding answers.

"Why is this administration intending to resettle only Afrikaners?" the statement said. "That is the question every member of Congress should be asking – and demanding an answer – from the Trump administration. Refugee law is not a plaything for the administration to ignore as it pleases. The American people deserve better."

Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton, the estranged wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, didn't include him in her list of endorsements.

"Today is Election Day for the Texas runoff elections, and your voice matters," Angela Paxton wrote Tuesday on X.

She then listed who she was voting for, including Mayes Middleton for Attorney General, Jim Wright for Railroad Commissioner, and Thomas Smith for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.

Ken Paxton, who is running against Sen. John Cornyn to replace him on Capitol Hill, did not make the list. Nevertheless, Paxton did gain the endorsement of President Donald Trump last week, dealing a blow to Cornyn and to Senate Republican leaders.

Following rumors of Ken Paxton's marital infidelity, Angela Paxton filed for divorce from him in 2025 on "biblical grounds."

The United Kingdom smashed a century-old temperature record for the second time in 24 hours on Tuesday as a spring heat wave continued to scorch parts of Western Europe, triggering government warnings about risks to life. Several drownings were reported in Britain and France as people tried to cool down.

A temperature of 35.1 Celsius (95.2 Fahrenheit) was recorded at London’s Kew Gardens, Britain’s Met Office weather service said, breaking the 34.8 C (94.6 F) record set a day earlier at Kew. The provisional readings smashed the long-standing record of 32.8 C (91.4 F) set in 1922 and matched in 1944.Read more from The Associated Press:

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