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The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it will no longer check disaster areas door-to-door looking for survivors to tell them about FEMA aid processes and help them register to receive…
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The messaging app National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was photographed using in a Cabinet meeting last week was a clone, TeleMessage, which has suspended services after reporting hackers have stolen…
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Erika, a Guatemalan woman who crossed the border, gave birth, and was separated from her baby in detention, has been reunited with her daughter and discharged from custody. Soon after…
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The website of GlobalX Air, an airline contracting with Donald Trump’s regime to fly deported people out of the USA, was hacked by Anonymous. The airline has continued deportation flights…
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced a €500 million “super grant” program designed to attract scientists and researchers from the USA where research is being dramatically cut. The…
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Representative Mike Lawler (R-NY) had 64 year old social worker Emily Feiner, a constituent, physically carried out of his town hall meeting by four state police officers after he did…
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In Nashville, Tennessee Highway Patrol collaborated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations to make about 150 traffic stops and arrest 84 people. THP called it a “public…
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Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of the Labor party won re-election in a surprise landslide over challenger Peter Dutton of the conservative Liberal-National coalition. Dutton also lost the MP seat…
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United Airlines cut 35 daily round trip flights from its Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) hub schedule, 10% of its flights there, citing air traffic control staffing shortages and technology…
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Federal District Court Judge Beryl Howell permanently declared “null and void” an executive order by Donald Trump that attacked the major law firm Perkins Coie by stripping it of contracts, security…
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Federal border czar Tom Homan made a statement to reporters that seemed to be a threat to arrest Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, for directing state employees to consult…
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The Department of Agriculture agreed to stop blocking federal funds for nutrition programs for 172,000 children in the state of Maine in return for the state dropping its lawsuit against…
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A pregnant woman from Guatemala crossed the border into the USA, gave birth and is being detained by Customs and Border Protection. The 25 year old woman, referred to as…
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Germany’s domestic intelligence BfV designated the political party Alternative für Deutschland as a right wing extremist group antithetical to “free democratic order.” BfV’s responsibility is not only intelligence, but protection…
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Donald Trump ended the de minimis exemption from tariffs for small parcels worth less than $800 coming into the USA to consumers and originating in China or Taiwan. This inflicts…
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Department of Justice Solicitor General John Sauer filed a request for expedited appeal with the Supreme Court, asking it to allow Donald Trump to strip or cut back temporary protected…
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Federal District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr. issued a permanent ruling that Donald Trump cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport from South Texas immigrants who came…
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Donald Trump at long last addressed the problem of National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’ disastrous inclusion of a journalist in a Signal chat about a sensitive military strike by removing…
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After months of often angry negotiations, USA and Ukraine signed an agreement to share proceeds from future sale of Ukraine’s minerals and rare earths. Previous versions of the deal that…
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After several months in immigration detention, Yorely Bernal Inciarte and Maiker Espinoza Escalona were deported to Venezuela and to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, respectively, leaving their two year old daughter…
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Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis set a new two week schedule for federal lawyers to convey information about what they have done toward freeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Xinis is…
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National Security Adviser Mike Waltz was photographed using Signal or a similar app to exchange message on his phone during a Cabinet meeting. In March he inadvertently added journalist Jeffrey…
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A bipartisan bill to undo the tariffs Donald Trump imposed on import from around the world failed in the Senate by a vote of 49-49. The bill sought to terminate…
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Federal District Court Judge Geoffrey Crawford ordered Mohsen Mahdawi released on bail while his legal challenges proceed through the courts. Mahdawi has not been charged with any crime. He has…
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump’s attempt to fire the majority of its board. The suit was filed in the morning. In the afternoon,…
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A woman called “Marisa” in news reports and her three daughters were raided by about 20 armed men who bashed in the door in the middle of the night, claiming…
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A coalition of labor unions, non-profit organizations, cities and counties jointly filed an omnibus lawsuit against Donald Trump’s reorganization of the federal government, asserting it is unconstitutionally being done without…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to make policing more aggressive and intrusive, with more militarized equipment and tactics, and with indemnification and pro bono lawyers for officers accused of…
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Christian Bishop Reverend William J. Barber II, who is also a professor at Yale University and progressive activist, Reverend Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove and at least one other person were arrested while…
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Donald Trump sent email to fire three of the five members of the board for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. This echoes his takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center…
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An F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet worth $67 million slipped off the hangar deck of the aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman into the Red Sea as sailors were towing it…
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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced a unilateral three day ceasefire 8-11 May 2025 in his invasion of Ukraine. The ceasefire coincides with celebrations of the end of World War II…
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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a prominent Democrat, delivered a fiery speech calling all Democrats to step up against Donald Trump and what he and his party are doing to the…
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Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met one-to-one for about 15 minutes in St. Peter’s Basilica shortly before the funeral for Pope Francis began. Media photos showed the two…
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Federal District Court Judge David Briones issued a blistering order not only to release Luddis Norelia Sanchez Garcia and Julio Cesar Sanchez Puentes again, but also not to rearrest them…
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Under pressure from multiple lawsuits representing about 290 students so far, the Department of Homeland Security decided to reinstate the visa records it abruptly terminated for of about 1200 foreign…
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The Department of Health and Human Services denied that it plans to create a national registry to monitor autistic people, but said it will create a data platform which will…
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Donald Trump’s preliminary budget would end a grant of $56 million per year that provides Narcan (naloxone) to first responders nationwide and trains them to use it. Narcan is a…
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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Department of Health and Human Services appeal of a temporary restraining order on procedural grounds, then rejected a request from HHS for…
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Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty said a two year old USA-born citizen was expelled to Honduras with her mother and 11 year old sister, who were born there, apparently…
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The Food and Drug Administration scrambled to rescind its firing of a few dozen scientists among its 3500 job cuts. The firings hit about 20% of FDA’s workforce, including scientists…
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Republican former Congressional Representative George Santos was sentenced to 7 years after being convicted on multiple counts of wire fraud and identity theft. He must also pay more than half…
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Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” declared 11 million people dead in Social Security Administration information systems. Musk called it a cleanup of SSA data. Those declared dead include 2.7…
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan on felony counts of obstructing or impeding a proceeding of a federal agency and concealing a person to…
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Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik was killed at Balashikha just outside Moscow by a car bomb. In the General Staff of the Russian military, he was a deputy head of the…
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When her mother attended a routine immigration check-in appointment, a 4 year old USA citizen with a rare type of metastatic cancer was expelled to Honduras along with her mother…
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A 14 March 2025 directive by Attorney General Pam Bondi was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, and among other items it grants “authority” to enter a target’s…
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After weeks of futility in trying to get a peace deal signed between Russia and Ukraine, a Russian attack that killed 12 and injured more than 100 around the capitol…
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After federal District Court Judge Stephanie Haines issued an order temporarily blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement from moving Venezuelan immigrant “A.S.R.” out of her district or the country, he was…
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In order to use the commercial Signal app on his computer, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to set up an internet connection in his office that bypasses security…
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