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  Trump thanks the Coast Guard and Gov. Jeff Landry after everyone aboard survives a tanker crash into a New Orleans river cruise ship

  President Trump praised the Coast Guard, first responders and Gov. Jeff Landry on Friday after a tanker struck a docked river cruise ship in New Orleans and every person aboard was accounted for.

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  Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump’s appeal defending his asylum ban at the southern border

  The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s request to review lower-court rulings against the president’s proclamation suspending asylum claims at the southern border.

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  Miller memo requires White House staff to get approval before meeting with lobbyists

  White House staff now need prior approval from the White House Counsel’s office before meeting with registered lobbyists, under a new memo from Chief of Staff Stephen Miller’s office.

• Nation

  Homan says caravan migrants are ‘wasting their time’ as Trump shares border interview

  White House border czar Tom Homan said members of a migrant caravan heading north are “wasting their time,” and President Trump shared the interview on Truth Social.

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  Republican Paul LePage wins Maine’s 2nd Congressional District after ranked-choice count

  Former Gov. Paul LePage won Maine’s 2nd Congressional District after the state’s ranked-choice tabulation, finishing the final round with 50.81 percent of the vote.

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  Trump calls on Senate leaders to move immediately on a $350 billion bill for the military

  In a Truth Social post Thursday, the president said he is rebuilding the armed forces “bigger and better than ever before” and urged Senate leadership to act on the defense reconciliation measure.

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  Sullivan narrows the gap in Alaska as a judge rejects the Peltola campaign’s bid for ballot records

  New results cut Mary Peltola’s lead over Sen. Dan Sullivan to 3,975 votes, and a judge rejected her campaign’s request for rejected-ballot records.

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  Trump says Sen. Dan Sullivan won in Alaska and calls the count a ‘Rigged Election’

  President Trump said on Truth Social that Sen. Dan Sullivan had won the Alaska election and alleged fraud and confusion in the count. Those claims are the president’s.

• Nation

  House Republicans elect Jim Jordan of Ohio as their leader

  Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio defeated Rep. Steve Scalise, 106–73, and will lead House Republicans in the next Congress.

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  One dead, 12 injured after a Brooklyn building collapses beside a construction site

  A three-story building collapsed Wednesday afternoon in Flatbush, Brooklyn, killing one person and injuring 12, the Fire Department said.