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Trump is expected to discuss alleged foreign interference in elections during his address tonight:
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But prior to the 2016 and 2020 elections, Trump encouraged foreign election interference. My latest analysis for
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“Notably, the employees said, the Park Service has struggled to maintain proper conditions for its rare and delicate documents…Last Friday, City Cast DC observed a fan pointed toward the display case.”
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Rare Lincoln Documents Exposed to Unsafe Heat in New Exhibit, NPS Staff Say · City Cast DC
Beneath the Lincoln Memorial, another potential disaster is brewing for the Park Service.
https://dc.citycast.fm/news/lincoln-memorial-undercroft-documents-unsafe-heat
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President Trump's statements on the Strait of Hormuz have borne little resemblance to reality since the war in Iran began, even as World Trade Organization data shows shipping traffic through the Strait has plummeted to nearly zero. New
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The Washington Post
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Breaking news: A federal judge ruled President Trump’s IRS lawsuit, which led to a now-abandoned proposal for a $1.8 billion payout fund, was filed for an “improper purpose” and referred the attorneys involved for potential disciplinary proceedings.
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Trump’s attorneys, Justice Dept. leaders misused courts in IRS case, judge says
The president's lawsuit against the IRS — which resulted in a now-scuttled proposal for a $1.8 billion payout fund — was filed for an “improper purpose," the judge said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/13/trumps-attorneys-justice-dept-leaders-misused-courts-irs-case-judge-says/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Trump is embracing a plan he used to hate to lower beef prices My latest analysis for
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Trump’s love-hate relationship with Iran’s new leaders My latest supercut for
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9 days ago
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“A federal judge on Thursday ruled in favor of The Washington Post, throwing out a $3.8 billion defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 by President Donald Trump’s social media company, Trump Media and Technology Group.”
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Judge rules for The Washington Post in $3.8B defamation suit brought by Trump Media
The social media company failed to identify convincing evidence that The Post acted with actual malice, a federal judge in Tampa ruled.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/07/judge-rules-washington-post-38b-defamation-suit-brought-by-trump-media/
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Democrats are rushing to pull their support of Maine senate candidate Graham Platner weeks after sidestepping previous allegations involving his relationships with women. My latest analysis for
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Breaking news: An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican immigrant in Houston during an attempted traffic stop arrest, authorities said. ICE identified the man as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and said he was in the U.S. illegally and refused to comply with officers.
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ICE officer fatally shoots man in Houston during attempted immigration arrest
The incident appears to mark the first deadly shooting by federal immigration officers since Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed in Minneapolis in January.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/07/07/ice-officer-fatally-shoots-man-houston-during-attempted-immigration-arrest/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Administration Demands States Change Voting Rules or Lose Antiterrorism Funds
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Administration Demands States Change Voting Rules or Lose Antiterrorism Funds
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/climate/fema-grants-states-election-changes.html
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Trump's proposal to ease rules on mailing guns could benefit a company in which his son owns a stake
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Plan to ease rules on mailing guns could help company Trump Jr. has stake in
President Donald Trump’s eldest son is a key player in GrabAGun, a company that hopes to dominate internet firearms sales.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/07/02/trump-jr-plays-key-role-grabagun-company-hoping-boost-internet-gun-sales/
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NOTUS reports FBI Director Kash Patel failed to properly disclose a six-figure purchase in November of MicroStrategy stock, which has contracted with the Department of Justice. Patel did not disclose the trade until May 26.
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Kash Patel’s Late Stock Disclosure Raises STOCK Act Questions
The FBI director invested up to $250,000 in a bitcoin-fueled business intelligence company.
https://www.notus.org/money/kash-patel-stock-act
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“In one instance, Amazon told a customer it could not share information about an account that fraudulently used their credit card, unless the customer was able to guess the name of the offending person, the FTC said in its complaint.”
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Amazon to Pay $2.25 Million to End US Case Over ID Theft Victims
Amazon.com Inc. agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle US claims that it routinely failed to provide records to help customers who were victims of identity theft.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-30/amazon-to-pay-2-25-million-to-end-us-case-over-id-theft-victims
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"Trump's revenue in 2025 jumped to at least $2.2 billion, compared with a minimum of $622 million in 2024 before he returned to office."
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Trump’s Moneymaking Run: Unrivaled in Presidential History
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/us/politics/trump-moneymaking-presidential-history.html
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Trump has started building his latest White House addition: a helipad on the South Lawn, per people familiar. It's intended to resolve a years-long problem — the new Marine One helicopters run the risk of scorching the lawn. w
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Trump begins construction of unannounced White House helipad
The project, funded with a Lockheed Martin donation, is intended to resolve a years-long problem with the new Marine One helicopters: They run the risk of scorching the White House's grass.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/30/trump-adds-white-house-helipad-resolve-marine-one-helicopter-issue
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(AP) — President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion dollars from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Monday shows, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.
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Trump filing shows he took in about $1.2 billion from crypto businesses last year
President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion dollars from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Monday shows.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-financial-disclosure-crypto-060c15062b8fedc6104159ea13775463
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"White House officials last year secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of the East Wing ballroom in an arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs"
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Trump is using a $500M no-bid contract to build his White House ballroom
The White House routed a $500 million no-bid contract through a White House office that typically handles repairs and furnishings and is exempt from competitive bidding requirements.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/30/trump-ballroom-built-under-secret-500m-no-bid-contract/
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her.
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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case
The Supreme Court is rejecting a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused writer E.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-supreme-court-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-1a50d1e9e1d12898e78e0803c4627771#
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“Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani…maintained a since-deleted Twitter account with repeated sympathetic references to communism, Marxist ideology and Soviet figures, including Vladimir Lenin.”
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Deleted tweets on Darializa Avila Chevalier’s account had favorable references to communist leaders and Marxism | CNN Politics
Darializa Avila Chevalier, the Democratic congressional nominee endorsed by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who ousted longtime Rep. Adriano Espaillat in Tuesday’s primary, maintained a since-dele...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/politics/darializa-avila-chevalier-communism-tweets
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"The Trump admin can cancel temporary humanitarian protections for Haitian and Syrian immigrants living legally in the US, the Supreme Court found Thursday, a decision that could allow the govt to deport hundreds of thousands of people starting this year."
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Supreme Court lets Trump end temporary protections for Haitian, Syrian migrants
The decision could allow the government to deport hundreds of thousands of people starting this year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/supreme-court-lets-trump-end-temporary-protections-migrants/
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The Washington Post
23 days ago
Exclusive: The Interior Department’s new policy prohibits park staff or other department employees from directly notifying the public about fatalities or the severity of injuries, breaking from past disclosure practices.
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Internal memo tells staff to stay mum on deaths at national parks
Guidance issued by the Interior Department instructs Nation Park Service staff not to confirm deaths, the severity of injuries or other details.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/06/24/internal-memo-tells-staff-stay-mum-deaths-national-parks/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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Trump has reversed himself at least four times on the Reflecting Pool renovation over the past two months. New supercut for
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"Trump eventually told Cassidy to sit down, but Cassidy refused. He raised his voice even higher. Trump responded by calling Cassidy a 'lunatic.' Cassidy referred to Trump as 'brother,' prompting Trump to reply that he wasn’t his 'brother.'"
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Inside Trump's closed-door clash with Senate Republicans
Republican frustrations with Trump are becoming more public and more direct — and so is Trump's frustration with Senate Republicans.
https://www.ms.now/news/inside-trump-closed-door-clash-senate-republicans
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Senate rebukes Trump over Iran war, voting 50-48 to approve a House-passed resolution directing the President to remove U.S. military forces from hostilities against Iran. The resolution does not need the signature of President Trump.
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One year later, Trump is still trying to end Iran's "obliterated" nuclear program My latest supercut for
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“DOJ took the extraordinary step of seeking to force reporters for The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal to testify before a federal grand jury — but withdrew the subpoenas earlier this month after they were challenged by the news organizations”
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DOJ issued, then withdrew subpoenas to force Post, WSJ reporters to testify
Subpoenas for reporters to appear before a grand jury are exceedingly rare. The journalists have not testified.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/23/doj-issued-then-withdrew-subpoenas-force-post-wsj-reporters-testify/
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3/ Our @WSJ investigation found that Polymarket directed creators to fake websites to create videos showing themselves placing trades. From there, it paid an army of social-media clippers to redistribute it to Americans.
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In their new book, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan report that months after Jeff Bezos told Trump “the people there are terrible” at The Washington Post, Bezos made a business request on behalf of Blue Origin to Trump.
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Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mocked-mark-zuckerberg-and-jeff-bezos-by-showing-off-fawning-texts/
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Trump is downplaying parts of his Iran nuclear deal that he previously criticized under Obama. My latest supercut for
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CNN reports that the Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October. Between 2008 and June 12, 2026, 166 denaturalization complaints were filed.
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Exclusive: Trump administration ramps up effort to revoke citizenship from naturalized Americans | CNN Politics
The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, significantly intensifying its effort to revoke citizenship from people naturalized in the United States, accordi...
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/politics/denaturalization-cases-citizenship-justice-department
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"Days after the completion of a $14 million renovation, the water in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool had more algae in it than at any recorded point in the month of June for at least five years, according to a specialized analysis of satellite data"
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Reflecting Pool algae blooms have roared back, reaching highest levels in years
An analysis of satellite imagery of the Lincoln Memorial shows algae levels spiked days after a $14 million renovation was completed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/18/algae-detected-reflecting-pool-higher-levels-than-any-june-past-5-years/
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President Trump and Vice President Vance have described an initial agreement to end the war in Iran in very different terms than the objectives that they previously laid out. My latest archival supercut for @MSNOWNews
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"USAID has spent more than $360,000 to transport and store mostly unusable contraceptives at a warehouse in Belgium after the Trump administration decided not to distribute the products to women in poor countries, a new oversight report estimates."
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Here’s how much USAID has spent storing unusable contraceptives
The findings from the oversight report offer the latest evidence that the dismantling of the agency incurred large costs and disrupted lifesaving programs.
https://www.ms.now/news/usaid-has-spent-360000-storing-unusable-contraceptives
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SCOOP: Kratom has been tied to 5K+ deaths from '20-'24. But a felon-turned-kratom executive still managed to court allies (
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www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
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How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/us/politics/kratom-trump-administration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qVA.FyvL.LZ82oQyHOYcT&smid=url-share
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New: Trump’s family crypto business expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank Decision will be made by Trump-appointed regulation Charter approval would allow US companies to complete transactions - like Venmo - on Trump platform, with cut for the firm
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Trump’s Family Crypto Firm Is Expected to Get Federal Banking Privileges
Trump-appointed bank regulators’ crypto-friendly approach is likely to extend to World Liberty Financial, despite ethics concerns.
https://www.notus.org/economy/trump-family-crypto-firm-federal-banking-charter
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Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s ballroom project, with half from taxpayers
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Records reveal $600M estimate for Trump’s ballroom project, with half from taxpayers
An internal cost estimate in March by the project’s contractor ran $200 million more than Trump has said publicly and counters his claims that no taxpayer money will be spent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/06/16/records-reveal-600m-estimate-trumps-ballroom-project-with-half-taxpayers/
about 1 month ago
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For months, President Trump told Americans that inflation was "defeated." On Wednesday, annual inflation hit a three-year high. My latest supercut for
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I went through Trump's public appearances over the past five months and found that he has referenced the 2020 election and his false claim that he won once every four days so far in 2026. It has been more than 2,000 days since Biden won. My latest video for
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A Reuters analysis of blockchain records shows that the Trump family has generated at least $2.3 billion in profit from crypto investors since Trump retook the presidency, while investors they wooed lost $2.3 billion.
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Under the Trump crypto playbook, the family always wins. Investors don’t
Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their main crypto ventures, while the investors they've wooed have taken a ...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09/
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“For the past year, FIFA has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle.”
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A Yearslong Effort to Woo Trump Culminates With the World Cup
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/world/europe/world-cup-infantino-trump.html
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House passes immigration reconciliation bill — without blocking Trump’s compensation fund
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House passes immigration reconciliation bill — without blocking Trump’s compensation fund
Republicans cleared the immigration enforcement reconciliation bill without any legislative restrictions on Trump's compensation fund — after vowing to block the proposal once and for all.
https://www.ms.now/news/house-passes-immigration-reconciliation-bill-trump-compensation-fund
about 1 month ago
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Last month, Trump removed more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve than any president ever has in a single month. It comes after Trump repeatedly hammered Biden during the 2024 campaign for draining the reserve. My latest analysis for
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Trump says he didn't promise "no new wars," something he repeatedly promised in 2024. My latest for
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14 of the 27 known corporate donors to Trump's White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a new report from Public Citizen.
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Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump project, watchdog group finds
President Donald Trump has repeatedly touted the gifts as a boon to taxpayers, but critics of the project say the administration’s refusal to release a full list of donors creates the potential for co...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/04/donors-won-50b-contracts-after-giving-trump-ballroom-project-report-says/
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New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge
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Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
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What Trump Delivered for Amazon
The feds were pushing a landmark case about Amazon’s control of its contract drivers. Then the president put Amazon’s former lawyer in charge.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-06-02/amazon-trump-settlement-win-showed-just-how-tough-delivery-drivers-have-it?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MDM5NzYwNCwiZXhwIjoxNzgxMDAyNDA0LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURzAxNDdLR1pBSkcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDQThGQ0Y4NkY1QjY0ODlCODA4ODkwNTFBNjMxRERBRCJ9.Nsck2fZijofhPwaWJblBkI_9Kyt9lKg81iM3ebUKGB8
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Kennedy Center orders staff to begin removing Trump’s name after ruling
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Kennedy Center orders staff to begin removing Trump’s name after ruling
The Kennedy Center's general counsel instructed staff members in a memo to strip all uses of President Donald Trump's name from signs, brochures, the website and other materials.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/06/04/kennedy-center-orders-staff-begin-removing-trumps-name-after-ruling/
about 1 month ago
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The New York Times
about 2 months ago
A new rule by the Trump administration could make it even harder for millions of sick Americans to obtain or stay on Medicaid after work requirements start next year. Here's what to know.
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Trump Administration Announces Stricter Rules for Medicaid Work Requirement
By tightening an exception for people with serious illnesses, more of them may lose coverage.
https://nyti.ms/4uMuqIr
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Louisiana ICE Facility Mistreated Immigrants, Federal Investigators Say
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/u...
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Louisiana ICE Facility Mistreated Immigrants, Federal Investigators Say
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/us/politics/louisiana-ice-facility-mistreated-immigrants.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 1 month ago
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“Months before crucial midterm elections, the US government has stopped sharing key information about election threats with state officials and halted some cybersecurity services.”
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US Stops Sharing Crucial Election Threat Data With State Officials
Classified briefings and some cybersecurity services have ceased.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-06-03/us-stops-sharing-crucial-election-threat-data-with-state-officials
about 1 month ago
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Ten Trump administration officials reported financial interests in SpaceX or xAI worth at least $9.9 million and as much as $43.8 million, according to their most recent public financial disclosures.
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