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Perhaps Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) should have waited for all the points to be counted. The conservative lawmaker tweeted a selfie Monday from the NCAA championship game at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, noting that Texas Tech held a 1-point lead with 35 seconds left in regulation. But his Twitter cheerleading wasn’t appreciated by Tech…

Norway and the United States ― both among the world’s top oil and gas producers ― are taking radically different steps, just days apart, in response to industry pressure.  Over the weekend, politicians in Norway dealt a major blow to their country’s powerful oil industry when the opposition Labor Party — Norway’s biggest political group…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Magic Johnson abruptly quit as the Los Angeles Lakers’ president of basketball operations Tuesday night, citing his desire to return to the simpler life he enjoyed as a wealthy businessman and beloved former player before taking charge of this tempestuous franchise just over two years ago. Johnson didn’t tell owner Jeanie…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared poised to win the country’s national election and secure a record fifth term in office Wednesday after months of scrambling to remain in power by striking deals with far-right extremists, promoting conspiracy theories, sidling up to authoritarian leaders and promising new restrictions on Palestinian rights. The race was incredibly tight and Netanyahu…

A frustrated Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) called on President Donald Trump Monday to hold off any further purges of immigration officials.  Grassley, the most-senior Senate Republican, told The Washington Post he’s “very, very concerned” about reports that director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Lee Francis Cissna will be the next to go in pending ousters that…

New Zealand’s privacy commissioner is holding no punches in his criticism of Facebook in the wake of the deadly mosque shootings in Christchurch, part of which was livestreamed by the gunman on the social media platform. Calling the tech giant “morally bankrupt pathological liars,” John Edwards said on Twitter on Sunday night that Facebook “cannot be…

Fox News host Laura Ingraham slammed South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg for being “self-righteous” on Monday, and Twitter critics weren’t about to let her get away with it. Buttigieg, who’s running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, was speaking at the LGBTQ Victory Fund National Champagne Brunch in Washington over the weekend when he said his being gay…

“The Color Purple” musical star Cynthia Erivo said “American Idol” contestant Jeremiah Lloyd Harmon can make the highest note seem effortless. Then Harmon proved it in Monday’s Top 20 all-star duet round of the singing competition. He teamed with the Tony-winning Erivo on a lights-out version of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time.” “You’ve got crazy range,…

April 8 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Monday issued an injunction halting the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their deportation cases in Mexico. The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, according to the order by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and White House allies pushing for a harder line on immigration sped their campaign Monday to clean house at the Department of Homeland Security with a mission far wider than just the departure of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. The dismantling of the government’s immigration leadership is being orchestrated by Trump…