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Chuck Schumer rejects calls to step down as Senate Democratic leader — The Senate minority leader responded to criticism from within his party about his handling of a GOP government funding bill and accused Trump of triggering a constitutional crisis. — WASHINGTON — A defiant Senate …
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SpaceX Positioned to Secure Billions in New Federal Contracts Under Trump — Elon Musk's role in the White House allows him to cancel contracts and influence policy, potentially benefiting his companies. Supporters say he has the best technology. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket preparing …
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Trump Won't Win a War Against the Courts — President Trump has wasted no time in his second term in declaring war on the nation's federal judiciary, the country's legal profession and the rule of law. He has provoked a constitutional crisis with his stunning frontal assault on the third branch …
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Former US attorney for Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber found dead at 43 — The cause of her death is still under investigation — Jessica Aber, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead Saturday morning, the Alexandria Police Department said.
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Former federal prosecutor found dead in Virginia home
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Max Frankel, Top Times Editor Who Led a Newspaper in Transition, Dies at 94 — Max Frankel, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy and rose to pinnacles of American journalism as a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Times and later as its executive editor during eight years …


'This is not your grandmother's Easter Egg Roll': White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter event — The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year's Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns …


Tax Cheats Could Prosper Under Trump, IRS Experts Say — The Internal Revenue Service could lose 10 percent of its revenue — $500 billion — because taxpayers and businesses think the Trump administration won't go after them for not paying taxes … According to internal projections …
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Deportations Haven't Surged Under Trump. But Here's How They've Changed. — In the first two months of President Trump's immigration crackdown, the administration has taken new and unusual measures to conduct deportations. It has enlisted military planes, pressured other countries …


Immigration crackdown now hitting green card holders — HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Green card holders are officially Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. But being a resident of the United States is very different from being a citizen.
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March 22, 2025 — Perhaps in response to the growing outcry over last weekend's rendition of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under a legal justification a federal judge has found questionable, President Donald Trump last night told reporters that he didn't sign the proclamation that set that legal process in motion.
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More US states report measles cases amid vaccine misinformation — Ohio, Maryland and Alabama among states to report new cases, with 378 confirmed in first few months of 2025 — More US states are reporting measles cases as the Texas outbreak expands, surpassing last year's total, amid vaccine misinformation and hesitancy.
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Columbia University's Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed — Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices. — Many professors saw it as surrender, a reward to the Trump administration's heavy hand.
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Homan says Trump administration won't defy judge's order on deportation flights — But Trump's “border czar” says he doesn't care what judges think. — Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, appears in ABC News' “This Week” on Mar. 23, 2025. — Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's …
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Sen. Ruben Gallego: Trump set political ‘trap’ for Dems on deportation issue — U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego said President Donald Trump has set a political “trap” for Democrats with his controversial deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador. In an interview with the Arizona Daily Star …
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Venezuela Says It Will Resume Accepting U.S. Deportation Flights
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John Roberts has created a monster — and he knows it — Five or six years ago, I was in federal court on an evidence motion. I don't remember the issue, the claim, or whether I was for or against the motion. What I do remember like it happened today is the exchange I had with the judge.


Protesters denounce Musk, DOGE outside Tesla showroom — Jasmine Fernández Antonio FinsPalm Beach Post — (This story has been updated to add new information and to change or add a photo or video..) — WEST PALM BEACH — Protesters lined up outside the Tesla showroom …


AOC tries to broaden her appeal within a Democratic base spoiling for a fight — Bernie Sanders stepped onto a stage in downtown Denver, surrounded by tens of thousands of cheering supporters in what he described as the biggest rally he had ever addressed. The Vermont senator put his hand …
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Walz reemerges as Democratic fighter with shots at Musk — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) all but disappeared after he and former Vice President Kamala Harris lost the presidential race to President Trump in November. — But while Harris has remained out of the spotlight …
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