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Trump taps housing finance director Pulte as acting director of national  intelligence after Gabbard

Jun 2, 2026, 6:18 AM | Updated: 1:50 pm

FILE - Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte walks outside the White House, Sep...

FILE - Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Bill Pulte walks outside the White House, Sept. 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has tapped federal housing finance Director Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard.

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Charlie Kirk’s family says security failures by Utah officials led to his assassination

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Charlie Kirk’s family blamed Utah officials for failing to prevent the conservative activist’s assassination at a state university, in a wrongful death notice announced Wednesday that presages a possible lawsuit. Attorneys for the family said Kirk’s death resulted from a string of “reckless decisions” by officials at Utah Valley University […]

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On the way home from a recent trip, Eriech Tapia drove past a sea of dark industrial buildings lining an already jam-packed northern Virginia road: data centers. “It was interesting to see how many were going up,” said Tapia, a 30-year-old Republican from Arlington, Virginia, who works in higher education advocacy and policy. He said […]

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Staffing problems stall federal investigations of missing and killed Native people

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Peter Martin went missing two years ago from the Fond Du Lac reservation in Minnesota. His family hasn’t stopped looking, but they say the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs investigation into Martin’s disappearance has stalled since the agent assigned to the case left the role in early 2025. “They’ve never […]

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Trump to campaign in North Carolina rally with his handpicked Senate nominee Michael Whatley

President Donald Trump will travel to North Carolina on Wednesday to campaign with Republican Senate nominee Michael Whatley as the former national party chairman tries to shore up his campaign against Democratic former Gov. Roy Cooper. The trip marks Trump’s first campaign rally since his unusual midterm convention in Dallas. The president, despite voter frustrations […]

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Texas plans to execute a man convicted in the killings of 3 people; Georgia execution put on hold

A man convicted in the shooting deaths of three people is set to be executed Wednesday in Texas. Meanwhile, another execution that was scheduled for the same time in Georgia has been halted by a judge. This would be the fifth execution in Texas, while Georgia has yet to put anyone to death this year. […]

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A childhood rite moves indoors as kindergartners learn to ride bikes in school gyms

For generations, kids have learned how to ride a bike — a quintessential childhood milestone — in driveways, on sidewalks and in neighborhood streets. Now, they’re learning in school gyms and playgrounds. On a recent September day, kindergarteners at Terra Vista Elementary School in Rancho Cucamonga, California, were fitted with helmets and assigned a black-and-white […]

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Trump taps housing finance director Pulte as acting director of national  intelligence after Gabbard