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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced on Wednesday that she will be leaving her job as President Donald Trump’s chief propagandist at the end of the month. For her taxpayer-funded salary of $195,200 per year, Leavitt has repeatedly lied, attacked, and defamed on Trump’s behalf.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend as much as $20 million on “conductive distraction and de-escalation devices” like shock gloves, border czar Tom Homan confirmed on Thursday—a fancy term for gloves that deliver painful electric shocks to people who ICE officers are trying to subdue.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that the city will invest millions to provide free and discounted tickets for city teens to visit theaters and museums.

Tennessee and Oklahoma put inmates to death within 30 minutes of each other Thursday as U.S. states scheduled three lethal injection executions in one day.

Senators say changes made to federal guidance for nursing homes could lead to intimidation of senior voters.

Some sailors stranded aboard the USS Lincoln for more than 250 days have attempted to jump overboard.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana appeared on CNBC, where he was asked the uncomfortable question of whether he regretted his deciding vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of Health and Human Services. This is in the wake of yet another broken promise from the brainworm-having, bear carcass prankster—this time undermining childhood vaccination guidelines.