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Minnesota is suing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for harboring an ICE officer , 173 witnesses of Charlie Kirk’s shooting want trauma benefits, and Trump is opening 45 million acres of forest to loggers
Trump voted by mail despite restricting it, McConnell kept full pay through 9 weeks leave denied to new moms, DOJ probed the hush money judge's daughter's firm while deploying 1,000 poll watchers
Trump is blaming vandals for dead grass where he built his July 4th stage, a convicted election denier will count votes in California, and the FTC agreed to stop enforcing anti-discrimination orders
Trump is making $1.1 million an hour, his AG refused to pledge independence from the White House, ICE has held a reporter it shot for over 300 days, and a Republican voted twice for president in 2024
Oregon is on fire and our officials refuse to use the words "climate change," and Trump has attacked more journalists than he has passed legislation
Trump is erasing the money laundering database, DOJ is probing med schools over Black admissions, ICE is releasing detainees before they die to avoid reporting, and Air Force One is full of McDonald's
The EEOC has frozen every sexual harassment complaint, DHS sent undercover agents to spy on protesters, and the farm that poisoned 25,000 people hadn't been inspected in seven years
Trump's board is sneaking his name back on the Kennedy Center, a major anti-vax study was retracted, and the admin wants to dynamite a mountain no one crosses
The DOJ arrested a leading expert on far-right extremism, Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House, and Trump paid Eswatini $5.1 million to hold immigrants in prison
Mike Lindell lost by 45,000 votes and won't concede, sailors on the USS Lincoln are trying to jump overboard, and 92 percent of Americans won't see a doctor because they can't afford it
Trump blames Biden for the missiles he fired at Iran, ICE is buying $20 million worth of shock gloves, and Samuel Alito made millions from oil before hearing an oil case in October
Trump is handing Republicans a 3-1 FCC majority, a disgraced anti-trafficking group got $244M to rep migrant kids, and $323M was rerouted from national parks to the White House lawn
Lauren Boebert's son was arrested on three felonies tied to a sex tape with a 17-year-old, ICE was caught staking out Ilhan Omar's town hall, and Trump killed the federal Arctic climate report
The State Department revoked over 175,000 visas, Florida's AG threatened to arrest WNBA players over a foul, and the Trump administration is building a border wall through a 1918 massacre site
A Trump-linked firm is about to drill in Greenland without permission and hired Dr. Phil to film it, ICE declared state laws don't apply to it, and the GOP is suing to block an America First party
Iran hacked the water in 12 states, Trump signed another birthright citizenship order that lasted eight hours, and AIPAC blew $60 million losing a Senate race by a point
A federal appeals court blocked Trump's White House ballroom, a Trump-endorsed congressman lost his GOP primary, and Trump has lost 75 of 93 First Amendment cases since January 2025
Trump is gutting preschool for low-income kids, giving an ally $150 million to represent immigrant children, and paying $1.22 billion to kill offshore wind
The FCC blesses more media consolidation and AI just designed a virus from scratch
A stand your ground law faces a test, Trump says a Michigan Democrat is worse than 9/11 and DOGE's math is finally exposed by the government
Rep. Chuck Edwards quit at 3:32 a.m. over his conduct toward young female staffers, ICE is detaining military families, and Wisconsin cops used Flock cameras to track a man across state lines for weed
Rand Paul exposed private medical records when releasing Fauci's diaries, ICE is making Springfield's Haitians wear ankle monitors, and Trump is ripping out his helipad because the lawn slopes
