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What Happened Today – May 18

May 18, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score 40 🟢
Below average political activity. 100 = average over past 60 days.
Previous 5 Days 96 | 168 | 200 | 160 | 160

7 Day Trending Story Categories: Justice Dept, Immigration, Courts
7 Day Trending Topics: DHS, ICE, Kristi Noem

Yesterday’s Most Popular Story

Oklahoma adds debunked 2020 election fraud claims to high school history curriculum.

🔍 Even on a quiet Sunday, the machinery of power grinds forward.

Trump’s budget bill advances behind closed-door deals while Americans form a 30-mile human chain of resistance spanning Chicago suburbs.

Meanwhile, as Biden faces a devastating cancer diagnosis, Iran defies Trump’s nuclear demands, showing how personal and geopolitical stakes remain high regardless of the news cycle’s volume.

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