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Attorney General Pam Bondi fired Director of the Departmental Ethics Office Joseph Tirrell without explanation, “effective immediately,” in her ongoing purge of people in the Department of Justice who had…
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Attorney General Pam Bondi fired at least 20 Department of Justice employees who assisted former special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal probes of the 6 January 2021 assault on the Capitol…
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Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office charged Customs and Border Protection agent Isaiah Anthony Hodgson with three felony counts of resisting an executive officer, one felony count of battery with…
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The Department of State fired 1107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers on assignment within the USA. Notices said by 17:00 the workers would no longer be able to…
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Federal District Court Judge Joseph Laplante certified a class action lawsuit for all children potentially affected by Donald Trump’s executive order that attempts to curtail birthright citizenship and, through the…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney Adam Boyd resigned last month in protest against its swing from prioritizing national security threats to meeting quotas for deportations. Boyd said ICE now fast-tracks…
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Militarized federal agents raided Glass House Farms cannabis sites in Camarillo and Carpinteria, California. Cannabis is legal in California but the federal government still classifies it as a Class I…
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delayed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to deadly flash flooding in central Texas by 72 hours and sent only a fraction of…
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Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd M. Lyons issued new policy by memo as of 9 July 2025. His policy memo told federal immigration agents it’s fine to deport…
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In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court barred a lower court order which had temporarily prohibited Donald Trump from wholesale reorganization of the federal government and radical downsizing of its…
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In a court filing, the Internal Revenue Service said houses of worship can now keep their tax-exempt status despite endorsing political candidates. Under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,…
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In the Rayburn House Office Building Foyer, Democrats of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hosted a science fair called The Things We’ll Never Know: A Science Fair…
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Six medical organizations filed a lawsuit against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others in the federal government against new guidelines that no longer recommend vaccination…
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Federal District Court Judge Matthew Maddox issued a preliminary injunction ordering reinstatement of about 400 AmeriCorps workers who were terminated without notice 15 April 2025 as well as restoration of…
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The Department of Veterans Affairs announced it will not carry out 83,000 planned job terminations, but will lose about 30,000 workers by the end of September 2025 through “the federal…
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A filing before federal District Court Judge James Boasberg showed El Salvador attested to the United Nations in writing that USA deportees to Salvadoran prisons are the legal responsibility of…
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After all the promises by Donald Trump and his Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the government’s files about Jeffrey Epstein, including his client list, the Department of Justice now…
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Donald Trump cranked up tariffs again, which he announced on his social media platform Truth Social showing images of the tariff letters he sent to heads of state. Japan and…
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About 90 federalized California National Guard troops and dozens of federal agents in full tactical gear deployed with over a dozen military vehicles, a tripod-mounted sniper rifle, mounted officers on…
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Congressional Representatives Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) and Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) were denied access to inspect Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention practices on the 10th floor at 26 Federal Plaza. Advocacy groups…
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Eight men who have been held in Djibouti since May while court battles played out over their fate were sent on to violent, unstable South Sudan thanks to the USA’s…
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In response to a lawsuit filed late 3 July 2025, Federal District Court Judge Randolph Moss issued an administrative stay to temporarily block the government from sending to South Sudan…
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Shortly after Congress sent its monstrous budget and police state bill to Donald Trump to be signed into law, the Social Security Administration sent email to all its subscribers cheering…
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After Speaker Mike Johnson repeatedly held votes open until enough Republicans voting against it were browbeaten into changing their votes, and after Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries set a new record…
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Federal District Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled the Kansas law “Personalized Application Prohibition” is unconstitutional and violates the First Amendment. Under that law, sending applications to voters for mail-in ballots with…
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Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang reimposed a preliminary injunction against many Missouri restrictions on abortion a little more than a month after the state Supreme Court said Zhang’s earlier…
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The Supreme Court issued a clarification to its pause of an order by federal District Court Judge Brian Murphy that required the federal government to provide due process in the…
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A concentration camp in the Florida Everglades hastily built of tents and cages made of cyclone fencing received its first inmates. The camp was built in eight days at the…
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Federal District Court Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw ordered the federal government to stick to court rules in regard to public statements that could taint a jury in the trial of…
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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth halted weapons shipments from the USA to Ukraine a third time, on this occasion citing his baseless belief that Pentagon stocks of weapons were low.…
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On 25 June 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted two recommendations made in April by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices, a panel of vaccine experts Health…
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Federal District Court Judge Randolph Moss granted summary judgment (in part) and certified a class to block Donald Trump’s 20 January 2025 executive order which essentially halted access to asylum…
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Jared Lane Wise, a former FBI supervisory agent charged with joining the 6 January 2021 attack on the USA’s Capitol, is now an adviser to Department of Justice pardon attorney…
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In a 4-3 decision, the Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state law from 1849 that banned abortion, saying the old law has been replaced by newer state laws to…
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Paramount agreed to pay $16 million to Donald Trump’s Presidential library to settle his lawsuit over an interview aired by subsidiary CBS with former Vice President and Presidential candidate Kamala…
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Federal District Court Judge Brian Cogan kept in place the 2024 extension of temporary protected status (called parole) for up to 500,000 Haitians in the USA. In February, Homeland Security…
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With Vice President J.D. Vance casting the deciding vote, the Senate passed the latest version of its monstrous 887 page tax and spending bill under budget reconciliation rules. Senators Susan…
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Key West City Commissioners voted 6-1 to end the cooperation agreement started 4 March 2025 by the police chief with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to Keys News, Commissioners…
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The Department of Justice announced it will prioritize stripping citizenship from naturalized citizens wherever it can. Assistant Attorney General Brett A. Shumate wrote that “The Civil Division shall prioritize and maximally…
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As a LGBTQ+ Pride parade wound down near the historic Stonewall Inn in New York, two teenaged girls were hit by gunshots. A 17 year old girl was shot in…
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Wess Roley set a brush fire at Canfield Mountain, just north of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, to lure firefighters and ambushed them with a high-powered rifle, killing Frank Harwood and John…
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The Department of Homeland Security and “Department of Governmental Efficiency” created a searchable national data system of citizenship status for every USA-born and naturalized citizen. DOGE is a subset of…
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The Supreme Court announced it is postponing to the autumn consideration of Louisiana’s Congressional redistricting. When the legislature redrew Congressional district boundaries ater the 2020 Census, it devised only one…
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The United Kingdom’s Home Office is refusing asylum to Ukrainians who fled from the war there after Russia invaded, on the grounds that it is safe to return even though…
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The Supreme Court granted a wish for Donald Trump by stripping federal judges of their power to issue injunctions and restraining orders effective nationwide. Such court orders are now restricted…
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Kenneth Chesebro, a former lawyer for Donald Trump who helped architect the fake elector scheme to subvert the 2020 Presidential election results, was disbarred in New York. Chesebro’s license to…
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In a 6-3 ruling for the case Medina versus Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the Supreme Court allowed states to cut off Medicaid reimbursement to Planned Parenthood for providing health care.…
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Donald Trump’s regime cut off the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, an essential source of high quality data used to predict sudden, extreme gains in wind speed by tropical storms and hurricanes.…
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Federal Housing Finance Agency ordered Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to treat cryptocurrency as an asset when assessing mortgage loan risk for single-family home borrowers. To be factored in as…
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The National Archives announced that as of 7 July 2025, access will be restricted to “visitors with a legitimate business need” and “It will no longer be open to the…
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