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Trump Administration Erases the Government's Power to Fight Climate Change  —  The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that says greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being.  It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change  —  Watch in our video player above.  —  The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined …
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President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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Goldman Sachs General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler Resigns Over Epstein Ties  —  Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top Obama administration lawyer, is out at Goldman Sachs after emails showed a friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spanning many years.  —  Goldman Sachs's top lawyer …
Discussion: New York Post, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner  —  Substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn't known  —  WASHINGTON—The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard …
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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem's Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS  —  Secretary, with close adviser Corey Lewandowski, faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations  —  Kristi Noem knew she needed a reset.
Discussion: Mediaite
Image Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“If We Don't Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don't Have a Free Country”  —  Donald Trump's attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that's held since 1798.  —  During the 2024 campaign, after years of attacking the media as “enemies of the people,” …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now
Elena Moore / NPR:
Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon action against Mark Kelly over illegal orders video
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
DHS shutdown all but certain after failed Senate vote
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House speaker condemns Trump Justice Department monitoring of lawmakers' Epstein document review  —  Federal agencies Epstein files Congressional news Donald Trump  —  Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal's search history of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files …
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Image Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Trump immigration officials shown video of Alex Pretti's death in tense Senate hearing
Image Jana Winter / Reuters:
Exclusive: Arizona sheriff blocks FBI access to evidence in Nancy Guthrie abduction, source says  —  An Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of U.S. television journalist Savannah Guthrie's mother, impairing its ability to assist in the probe …
Image Molly Parks / Washington Examiner:
Hawley calls on Minnesota attorney general to be indicted over fraud reports: ‘You ought to be in jail’  —  Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called on each other to resign from their respective positions after a heated exchange in a Senate homeland security committee hearing on Minnesota oversight.
Image Associated Press:
Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned five former professional football players — one posthumously — for various crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.
Discussion: UPI, OutKick and New York Times
Image Gigi Douban / NPR:
Trump border czar Tom Homan announces Minnesota immigration surge is ending  —  The Trump administration will end the immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota that prompted widespread protests and claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens, border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday.
Image Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Even Trump's own appointees are ruling against ICE's mass detention strategy … Even judges Trump appointed are largely against him: 44 of them have ruled against the administration in mass-detention cases.  Twenty Trump-appointed judges have signed off on the policy.
Image Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Prosecutor Seeks Dismissal of Charges Against Man Shot by ICE  —  The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota asked a judge to drop charges against the immigrant who was shot by an ICE agent, saying new evidence was “materially inconsistent” with what officials had claimed.
Discussion: GV Wire
Image Jacqueline Sweet / The Intercept:
FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door  —  Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a climate activism group for questioning last week …
Image Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judge Ends Deportation Case for Mexican Father of 3 U.S. Marines  —  The arrest of Narciso Barranco, who was detained by federal agents while landscaping outside an IHOP in Southern California last June, garnered national attention.  —  An immigration judge has terminated the deportation case …
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Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One  —  I get leaked documents bigger media don't because I'm not slowed down by corporate bureaucracy.  But this also means I don't have corporate money - I just have readers like you.  Please become a paid subscriber so I can keep doing this work!
Discussion: Raw Story
Image Julianne McShane / MS NOW:
Agent investigated in Chicago woman's shooting, her lawyer says  —  The attorney for Marimar Martinez said a prosecutor told him the Border Patrol agent who shot her five times is under criminal investigation. … Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation …
Discussion: Raw Story, JURISTnews and The Hill
 
 
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Partial government shutdown looms as Congress leaves town without a deal   Find
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Second US aircraft carrier is being sent to the Middle East, AP source says   Find
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STAT+: FDA's rejection of Moderna threatens to stifle broader vaccine industry   Find
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The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities   Find
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Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking   Find
 
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