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Danielle Sassoon and Other Officials Resign After Order to Drop Eric Adams Case — The interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and two officials with the federal public integrity unit all quit after the Justice Department ordered the charges against Mayor Eric Adams to be dropped.
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Read the letter from Emil Bove accepting Danielle Sassoon's resignation — A letter from Emil Bove, acting deputy attorney general, accepting the resignation of Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan's acting U.S. attorney, over her refusal to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams. … Around the New York Region


Prosecutors were prepping to charge Eric Adams with destroying evidence, Manhattan US attorney's resignation letter reveals — Manhattan federal prosecutors were prepared to bring a new bombshell indictment charging Mayor Eric Adams with destroying evidence and instructing people to lie to the FBI …
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Top federal prosecutor in N.Y. resigns after being told to drop Adams charges — Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced her resignation in a statement that does not refer to the DOJ directive. — Danielle R. Sassoon …
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Read Danielle Sassoon's Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi — Danielle R. Sassoon, Manhattan's acting U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi, refusing to drop the case against Mayor Eric Adams.


Trump border czar meets with Eric Adams
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The $400 Million Armored Tesla Story Is a Fake Scandal In a Sea of Real Graft and Horror — The State Department does a lot of business with a lot of different companies and has bought Tesla's before. But freaking out and editing a spreadsheet when it's pointed out is weird.
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Trump administration says it has no plans to fulfill $400 million ‘armored Tesla’ contract — The Trump administration was expected to purchase $400 million worth of armored Tesla vehicles, according to a State Department document detailing procurement for fiscal year 2025.
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State Department buries massive payout to Tesla after public outcry
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RFK Jr. confirmed as Trump's health secretary, over Democrats' loud objections — Despite millions of dollars spent by groups opposed to his nomination, the Senate voted to install Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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McConnell on RFK Jr.: ‘I will not condone the relitigation of proven cures’ — Sen. Mitch McConnell issued a blistering indictment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday, with the Kentucky Republican saying his childhood bout with polio heavily influenced his decision to vote against Kennedy as Health and Human Services secretary.
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RFK Jr. Won. Now What?
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Hegseth's Ukraine bombshell and Trump's Putin call leave NATO reeling … - NATO membership for Ukraine — a central source of tension with Russia promised by the alliance in 2008 — is not a “realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement,” Hegseth said. — U.S. troops will not be deployed …
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Scoop — Zelensky to Trump: Putin pretends to want peace because he's “afraid of you”
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Europe braces for a future without the US as a reliable ally
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Europe lacks a master plan for Donald Trump's new world disorder
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Hegseth responds to blowback from Ukraine, NATO remarks
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Federal judge blocks Trump order on health care for transgender youth — The lawsuit filed by families and LGBTQ advocates challenges an order that aims to end federal support for gender transition care for people under 19. — A federal judge on Thursday blocked executive orders signed …
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‘Honestly terrifying’: Yosemite National Park is in chaos — California's beloved national park is on the brink of disaster — Yosemite National Park is in trouble. Hamstrung by President Donald Trump's hiring freeze, hundreds of rescinded job offers and the threat of coming layoffs …


Trumponomics and Rising Inflation — The President calls for easier money even though consumer prices keep rising. Does he want even higher prices? — Does President Trump understand money? Not money as in cash, but the supply of money, the price of money as measured by interest rates, and their impact on inflation?
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A Valentine for Vladimir — After January's inflation numbers, published yesterday …
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Trump and Musk can't seem to locate much evidence of fraud — They keep justifying their bold moves as combating fraud, but they have been unable so far to point to much of anything specific that's actually fraudulent. — President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to disrupt …
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OPM advises agencies to fire probationary employees after ‘deferred resignation’ deadline — The Office of Personnel Management is advising all federal agencies to fire their probationary employees with less than a year on the job, after it stopped accepting new offers for its “deferred resignation” program last night.
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Louisiana Department of Health ends mass vaccinations, bans seasonal vaccine promotion — Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham sent a directive to state health workers Thursday ending long-standing mass vaccination clinics and banning staff from promoting seasonal vaccines …


Exclusive: Matt Schlapp, CPAC Chairman, allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a bar, witnesses say. — Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the CPAC convention, allegedly engaged in lewd conduct and allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a restaurant …
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Trump blasts McConnell for voting against RFK Jr., disregarding his childhood polio — President Trump on Thursday blasted Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for his vote opposing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., disregarding his childhood bout with polio and questioning his mental abilities.
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Mitch McConnell, A Polio Survivor, Slams RFK Jr.'s Confirmation
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Aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman collides with ship in Mediterranean Sea — There are no reported injuries, nor is there flooding aboard the carrier. — The US warship USS Harry S. Truman is pictured anchored in The Solent, Oct. 8, 2018, near Portsmouth, England.
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DOGE Staffer Arrives at Internal Revenue Service Headquarters — IRS is latest federal agency under review by Elon Musk's cost-cutting group — WASHINGTON—A key staff member of the Department of Government Efficiency arrived Thursday at the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service …
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Justice, FBI ousters remove longtime experts from daily threats meeting — Trump administration shake-ups at the Justice Department and FBI have eroded continuity on national security matters, people familiar with the situation said. — Every morning at 9:45, top FBI and Justice Department officials meet …
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JD Vance snubs Germany's Scholz at Munich Security Conference — “We don't need to see him, he won't be chancellor long,” a former U.S. official said of Vance's thinking. — MUNICH, Germany — United States Vice President JD Vance will not meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz …
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Pa.'s Sean Parnell as the face of Trump's Pentagon is another assault on women — There was a moment just over three years ago when it was clear not only that Sean Parnell — a highly decorated Army veteran and an acolyte of Donald Trump — would have to end his 2022 Pennsylvania U.S. Senate campaign …

Trump signs off on proposed reciprocal tariffs — President Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum proposing reciprocal tariffs that he maintains will crack down on unfair and discriminatory tariffs from both adversaries and allies. — The reciprocal tariffs will be customized …
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NIH reportedly loses 2 top leaders in 2 days — Two key staff members at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are reportedly leaving the agency amid ongoing efforts by the Trump administration and Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk to drastically cut down the size of the federal workforce.


Walz considering Minnesota Senate run — Democratic Sen. Tina Smith announced earlier Thursday she would not seek reelection. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is considering a run for Senate next year, according to a person close to the governor who was granted anonymity to describe internal deliberations.
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The Fringe Cause That Could Derail the Republican Agenda — We're not even a month into Donald Trump's new term and already, a cadre of Republican activists appears poised to fritter away his popularity and derail his administration's agenda with a maximalist demand for a budget-busting tax cut.
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How to stop Trump's power grab — At this point, there is little doubt that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are engaged in a fundamentally unlawful effort to rewrite the American constitutional order. Their efforts to redirect federal spending are attempts to seize Congress's power of the purse …
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