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Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Already Rearrested on Gun Charges — Trump granted clemency to hundreds of alleged or convicted violent criminals. One is back behind bars … In May 2023, Daniel Ball of Homosassa, Florida, was indicted on 12 counts related to his participation in the attack on the Capitol.
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“F—k it: Release 'em all”: Why Trump embraced broad Jan. 6 pardons … - Trump vacillated during an internal debate over targeted clemency vs. a blanket decision according to two insiders. — But as Trump's team wrestled with the issue, and planned a shock-and-awe batch of executive orders Day 1 …
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Trump freed a Jan. 6 defendant charged with assaulting police. DOJ had him arrested again on a gun charge.
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The Independent and The Hill

What Kash Patel Doesn't Want the Senate to Know About the ‘J6 Prison Choir’

Donald Trump Demands Apology From Bishop Who Hurt His Feelings
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Federal judge says Trump's pardons can't erase ‘immutable’ truth of Jan. 6
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Washington Examiner, Vox, The Hill and Raw Story

Trump May Come to Regret His Jan. 6 Pardons. Here's Why.
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Far-Right Leaders Granted Clemency by Trump Express Desire for Retribution
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Trump Revokes Workplace Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965 — The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement. — LOADING — On Wednesday, President Donald Trump revoked a six-decade-old executive order designed …
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Trump Revokes Order That Banned Discrimination in Federal Hiring — His order revokes one signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 that prohibited discriminatory practices in hiring and employment in government contracting. — President Trump on Wednesday revoked …
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USA Today


Trump rolls back bedrock civil rights measure in sweeping anti-DEI push
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HotAir, CNN, Raw Story and Do No Harm

Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity
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Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on leave
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Trump warns he'll adjourn Congress to make recess appointments. How would that work? — President Trump is threatening to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of his top Cabinet nominees and their deputies, enabling them to begin running the largest federal departments.
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House passes Laken Riley Act, sending it to Trump for first legislative win
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Democrats Slow G.O.P. Rush to Confirm Trump Nominees
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Senate Democrats block GOP's ‘born-alive’ abortion bill
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Justice Department orders investigation of local compliance with Trump immigration crackdown — The Justice Department has ordered federal prosecutors to investigate state or local officials who they believe are interfering with the Trump administration's crackdown on immigration …
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Justice Dept Memo Calls for Investigations of State and Local Officials
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Trump launches savage attack on bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for minorities
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US military ordering thousands more troops to southern border — Thousands of additional active duty US troops are being ordered to the southern US border with Mexico, just two days after President Donald Trump mandated that the US military step up its presence there, according to officials familiar with the matter.
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U.S. border agents told to summarily deport migrants without asylum hearings under Trump edict — Washington — Citing President Trump's extraordinary move to close the American asylum system, U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country …
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HuffPost, New York Times, Reuters and IJR


CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture — Daniel Bice Mary SpicuzzaMilwaukee Journal Sentinel — A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster has been dropped by her station one day after she criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture that many have likened to a Nazi salute.


Musk Casts Doubt on Trump's $100 Billion A.I. Announcement — Mr. Trump had claimed the A.I. announcement as an early trophy, taking credit for the companies' decision to spend up to $500 billion building data centers. — Elon Musk is casting doubt on the first major tech investment announcement …
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Announcing The Stargate Project
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Musk trolls Trump's €500B AI mega plan
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Trump Actions to Undermine Drug Prices Will Cost Medicare Recipients Money — One of the nearly 200 executive orders that newly inaugurated President Donald Trump signed on Tuesday reversed several critical policies that President Biden had put in place. Among those was lowering drug costs for Americans.
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KOLO-TV and WisPolitics
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Jamie Dimon says Trump's tariff policy is positive for national security so people should ‘get over it’ … WATCH NOW — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Wednesday that the looming tariffs that President Donald Trump is expected to slap on U.S. trading partners could be viewed positively.
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Republican Senators Seem Willing to Endure the ‘Challenge’ of Trump's Proposed Tariffs
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Convicted US Capitol rioter turns down Trump pardon — One of the people who served jail time for taking part in the US Capitol riot four years ago has refused a pardon from President Donald Trump, saying: “We were wrong that day.” — Pamela Hemphill, who pleaded guilty and was sentenced …
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The Hill, HuffPost, Reading Eagle, New York Daily News and Raw Story


Trump administration cancels travel for refugees already cleared to resettle in the US — Refugees who had been approved to travel to the United States before a deadline next week suspending America's refugee resettlement program have had their travel plans canceled by the Trump administration.
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How to Stop Trump in One Stupid Chart — For reasons I can't explain, this entire newsletter feels like it was written in ALL CAPS. So maybe you'll imagine me shouting it at you, like a crazy person. — Because basically, that's how I feel right now: Like a crazy person. Maybe you do, too?


Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’ — JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - A state senator in Mississippi has filed a bill entitled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.” — As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person …


Republicans balk at new Hegseth allegations — The Republican wall of support around Pete Hegseth shows no sign of weakening, despite new allegations against the Defense secretary nominee that he was abusive to his second wife. GOP senators waved away the accusations from Hegseth's former sister-in-law …
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Washington Examiner, Louder With Crowder, Daily Kos and Newsbusters


Trump Seeks to Paralyze Independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Watchdog — The Trump White House has told three Democratic-selected members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to resign or be fired, which would stop the independent agency from functioning.
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Axios, Defense One and Reason


160 national security staffers are sent home as the White House aligns its team to Trump's agenda — President Donald Trump's national security adviser has sidelined about 160 National Security Council aides, sending them home while the administration reviews staffing and tries to align …
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The Hill, Associated Press, Breitbart and Axios


House Republicans create new panel aimed at undermining Jan. 6 committee — Days after Trump pardoned the Capitol's violent attackers, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) will lead a new subcommittee investigating what led to the attack. — Speaker Mike Johnson has launched a new effort intended …
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Hegseth's Former Sister-in-Law Says He Believed Women Shouldn't Vote — That tracks with the tenets of a religious movement he's involved in. — On Tuesday, NBC broke the story of a sworn testimony from the ex-sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth, President Trump's pick for the US Secretary of Defense.
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true, New Republic and Rolling Stone