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Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order — The discussions come as other major firms are said to be trying to cut deals with the White House. — The elite law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has had discussions with President Trump's advisers about a deal …
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Addressing Risks From WilmerHale — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Background. My Administration is committed to addressing the significant risks associated with law firms …
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Trump Targets WilmerHale, Citing Law Firm's Connection to Robert Mueller
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Trump signs order targeting law firm with ties to Robert Mueller
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Top Senate Republican Protests Trump Bid to Withhold Spending — Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, joined top Democrats in insisting that the president does not have the power to “pick and choose” what to fund. — A top Senate Republican …
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Trump Pulls Stefanik's UN Nomination to Protect GOP Majority — President Donald Trump says he will withdraw Representative Elise Stefanik's nomination to serve as the US ambassador to the United Nations, citing Republicans' narrow hold on the House. — “With a very tight Majority …
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Republicans grow concerned about Trump's handpicked candidate in Florida special election
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Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador
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Top Republicans Break With Trump Over Leaked War Plans
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Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador withdrawn, Trump says
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Trump withdraws Rep. Elise Stefanik's nomination for UN ambassador, citing tight GOP House margin
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Trump executive order on Smithsonian targets funding to programs with ‘improper ideology’ — President Donald Trump revealed his intentions to reshape the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order Thursday that targets funding to programs with “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Restores Truth and Sanity to American History — RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing the spread of divisive ideology.
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Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted …
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Trump issues executive order to eliminate ‘anti-American ideology’ from Smithsonian
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The disappearing of Rumeysa Ozturk is something I never thought I'd see in America — You've probably seen something like this before — but only in a movie, and only in a film that was seeking to capture the horrors of daily life under Joseph Stalin at the peak of his 1930s purges across the USSR …
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Ambush arrest of Tufts student sparks new concerns about immigration crackdown
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Tufts graduate student already transferred out of state before judge issued order to stay in Mass., prosecutor says

ICE Makes Another Student Disappear—and No One Knows Why
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UA student reportedly detained by ICE
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Bondi Indicates Signal Chat Episode Will Not Be Criminally Investigated — The attorney general said the focus should be on the success of the U.S. military strike in Yemen, not that military information was shared in advance in a group text among top officials.
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Judge Moves to Prevent Hegseth, Waltz and Others From Deleting Houthi Texts
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What is ‘classified’ information? What are ‘secure’ communications? Here's a primer
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A DHS staffer faces serious punishment for accidentally adding a reporter to a group email — The episode, which has not been previously reported, raises questions about unequal punishment for inadvertent leakers in the Trump administration. — A federal worker accidentally includes …
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How Kristi Noem's $50,000 Rolex in a Salvadoran prison became a political flashpoint — The high-end Swiss watch lent a striking contrast to her tour of a notoriously overcrowded mega-prison in one of Latin America's poorest countries. — Just now — When Homeland Security Secretary …
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Kristi Noem appears to wear $60K Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch during visit to infamous hellhole El Salvador prison
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Real Housewives of Gitmo
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Internal White House document details layoff plans across U.S. agencies — While officials stressed the estimates were subject to change, the snapshot suggests how agencies are working to meet Trump's mandate to shrink government. — Just now — Federal officials are preparing for agencies …
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An ‘Apple Store’ government and other takeaways from Musk's interview on Fox News
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Israel Supplied Intelligence in Airstrike Discussed in Signal Chat, Officials say — Houthi missile expert was tracked with help of Israeli human source in Yemen — WASHINGTON—Israel provided sensitive intelligence from a human source in Yemen on a key Houthi military operative targeted …
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Signal Chat Caught Trump Officials Cheering Destruction Of Entire Building To Kill 1 Man
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Trump Warned U.S. Automakers Not to Raise Prices in Response to Tariffs — Threat came in a call earlier this month, in which carmakers feared punishment if prices go up — When President Trump convened CEOs of some of the country's top automakers for a call earlier this month …
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Russian scientist from Harvard Medical School detained in U.S., faces deportation and likely arrest upon return due to anti-war stance — A Russian scientist working at Harvard Medical School has been detained in the United States and placed in immigration detention.
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Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Exempts Agencies with National Security Missions from Federal Collective Bargaining Requirements — PROTECTING OUR NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order using authority granted by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 …
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Trump administration moves to end union rights for many federal workers
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RFK Jr.'s massive cuts stun staff, leave senior employees scrambling — The cuts sent shockwaves through the department's sprawling workforce, prompting a scramble among senior agency officials to figure out which employees and policy priorities were affected.
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Signal Chat Leak Angers U.S. Military Pilots — Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans. “You're going to kill somebody,” one pilot said. — The intelligence breach was bad enough, current and former fighter pilots said.
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This Is the Land of Wolves Now — 1. POWs — Two weeks ago Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a law that grants the president extraordinary powers during times of war. Here's his proclamation: … Some of the individuals who have been apprehended under the Alien Enemies Act …


Even More Venmo Accounts Tied to Trump Officials in Signal Group Chat Left Data Public — WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
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Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed ‘for most things’ — Over the next decade, advances in artificial intelligence will mean that humans will no longer be needed “for most things” in the world, says Bill Gates.
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