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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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Trump Targets WilmerHale, Citing Law Firm's Connection to Robert Mueller — Mr. Mueller, who worked at WilmerHale before retiring in 2021, had investigated the Trump campaign's ties to Russian officials during the president's first term. — President Trump moved on Thursday to punish …
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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 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
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Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador
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Elise Stefanik's nomination to be U.N. ambassador withdrawn, Trump says
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Trump pulls Elise Stefanik's nomination after last-minute panic
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Top Republicans Break With Trump Over Leaked War Plans
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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 — The executive order also calls for the replacement of memorials and monuments removed since 2020. — President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday evening promising to eliminate “improper …
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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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Tufts graduate student already transferred out of state before judge issued order to stay in Mass., prosecutor says

Ambush arrest of Tufts student sparks new concerns about immigration crackdown
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A clarifying moment for democracy
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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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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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RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in Major Restructuring of Health Department
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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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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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Kennedy Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Skeptic for Autism Study — David Geier has been hired as a senior data analyst at H.H.S. According to several people, he will examine any potential links between vaccines and autism that were debunked long ago. — A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement …
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Cassidy says RFK Jr. briefed him on HHS job cuts, but reported study on vaccines, autism didn't come up
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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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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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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 …


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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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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Trump Accidentally Reveals Just How Clueless He Is on Basic Intel — The American public knew before Donald Trump that top administration officials had conducted airstrikes on Yemen via a Signal chat, and now it appears that the president has been left in the dark on other intelligence matters too.
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President Bystander: Trump appears out of the loop in his own White House
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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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Trump says US will ‘go as far as we have to’ to get control of Greenland — The president suggested that “the world needs us to have Greenland.” — President Donald Trump speaks to the press before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Mar. 26, 2025 in Washington.
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