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As DC welcomes the world for Pride, marchers spotlight rollbacks of LGBTQ rights in US

By Julia Benbrook, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN Washington (CNN) — Even with a theme of reaching people around the world, US politics took center stage as Washington, DC, hosted World Pride 2025, an international festival celebrating the LGBTQ community. The celebrations throughout the weekend, which included a parade, free concerts featuring artists Cynthia

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Inside the Trump administration’s decision to deploy the National Guard to California

By Priscilla Alvarez and Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Tensions between the Trump administration and California intensified this weekend as President Donald Trump decided to deploy 2,000 National Guard members to the Los Angeles area, a move the state’s Democratic leaders cast as an unnecessary escalation amid protests over the administration’s immigration policies. Trump campaigned

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Supreme Court restores DOGE’s access to sensitive Social Security data and says it doesn’t have to turn over documents

By John Fritze, Tierney Sneed and Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — The Supreme Court handed the Department of Government Efficiency a pair of significant wins on Friday, allowing the entity to access sensitive Social Security data for millions of Americans while simultaneously pausing an effort to look into whether it is subject to a key

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Army preparing for largest military parade on the capital’s streets in decades, featuring 7 million pounds of hardware

By Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky and Zachary Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN) — Millions of pounds of military hardware are expected to roll down the US capital’s streets in less than two weeks, fulfilling a dream of President Donald Trump but also an effort that has sparked concerns about how the roads of Washington, DC, will

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Rubio unveils new sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court for attempts to investigate US and Israel

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled new sanctions to target the International Criminal Court for its attempts to investigate the United States and Israel for alleged war crimes. Thursday’s sanctions were imposed against four ICC judges under a executive order signed by President Donald Trump authorizing punitive measures

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