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Senate Confirms Hayden as CIA Director

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Published May 26, 2006 at 10:24 AM CDT

Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden easily wins approval as the next director of the CIA, replacing former congressman Porter Goss. Friday's vote was 78-15. Hayden overcame questions about a military officer taking over as head of the nation's spy agency.

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Dolly Parton, one of country music's most singular performers, has died at age 80

Jewly Hight

The artist was a star performer in country music, and went on to become one of the genre's most recognizable and universally adored ambassadors to broader popular culture.
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DHS acknowledges the noncitizen numbers it touted on voter rolls were inflated

Jude Joffe-Block, Miles Parks

The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary.
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Canada announces retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. as the countries' trade fight deepens

Alex Leff

The measures come after President Trump imposed 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods and threatened more after trade talks broke down on Friday.
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'Forget about going back': 9 years on, Rohingya crisis enters dangerous phase

Lorcan Lovett

The world largely moved on from the Rohingya crisis. But the exodus has not stopped, aid is shrinking and a generation of refugees is growing up with little prospect of going home.
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Several states will decide voter ID ballot measures this year

Benjamin Swasey

Voters in at least six states will soon decide ballot measures related to voter ID — the largest number of voter ID measures in a single year. The tally includes three prominent swing states.