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Judges across the country rebuke ICE for defying court orders

For a year, federal judges grappling with President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda have looked askance at his administration, warning of potential or, in rarer cases, outright violations of...

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‘He Will Bring Some Fresh Air’: Mohammed El-Erian on Kevin Warsh

In selecting Kevin Warsh to lead the Federal Reserve, President Donald Trump has taken a much different tack than many Wall Street CEOs and Fed watchers may have assumed.As a former Fed governor an...

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Republicans love Kevin Warsh. But he still has a problem in the Senate.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said Friday he will oppose President Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve chair pick until a Justice Department probe into current Fed chief Jerome Powell “is fully and transp...

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‘A pretext to rig the election’: Democrats scramble to block ICE crackdowns near polling sites

Immigration enforcement is sowing chaos in Minneapolis and across the country. Democrats, elections officials and civil rights groups fear it could interfere with this November’s elections — and ar...

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Don Lemon arrested over Minnesota church protest after judge previously rejected charge

Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested Thursday night in a federal criminal case stemming from a protest at a Minnesota church, his attorney confirmed, prompting outrage from press freedom groups...

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Lawyers want to send Trump a message in New Jersey: Free accused criminals

NEWARK, New Jersey — Let accused criminals walk.That’s the remedy some defense attorneys are now urging a federal judge to consider amid an escalating standoff over who is legally allowed to run th...

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DOJ announces full release of Epstein files

The Department of Justice is releasing more than three million pages of materials related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, deputy attorney general Todd Blanche announced Friday.The files ...

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Dr. Oz is back on camera in Los Angeles. This time for Trump

SACRAMENTO, California— Dr. Mehmet Oz believes Los Angeles is rife with Medicaid fraud and he's been hitting the streets to find it himself.Since being appointed by President Donald Trump to the he...

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Minnesota Dems are trying to walk a tightrope with Trump

Minnesota Democrats are figuring out the delicate art of Trump diplomacy this week.First, President Donald Trump had a “very good call” with Gov. Tim Walz, an inflection point after days of heated ...

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Germany’s Far Right Has a Friendly New Face

MAGDEBERG, Germany — At a lectern in a regional parliament just before Christmas, Ulrich Siegmund begins to set up a joke.“No one should be forced to pay for disinformation,” Siegmund thunders. He ...

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FBI’s search of Georgia election center is “dangerous,” experts warn

When the FBI executed a warrant on Wednesday to seize records from the 2020 presidential vote in Fulton County, Georgia, it marked both an extraordinary event in the history of American elections a...

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Minneapolis police, restaurant manager challenge Vance’s account of protesters mobbing ICE officers

Vice President JD Vance relayed a “crazy” story on X about protesters mobbing immigration and Border Patrol officers at a Minneapolis restaurant following Alex Pretti's killing.But Minneapolis poli...

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Trump picks Kevin Warsh to lead Federal Reserve, tapping central bank critic

President Donald Trump said he will nominate Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve, putting the former Fed board member atop an institution that Trump has relentlessl...

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Deal struck to keep government funded, Trump and Democrats say

President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats said Thursday an agreement has been reached to fund the federal government as a Friday midnight deadline for a partial shutdown approaches.The deal would...

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‘Bizarrely and personally lurking’: Gabbard’s appearance at FBI election raid alarms Dems

Democrats, election experts and even some members of the Trump administration expressed alarm and bewilderment about why Tulsi Gabbard was on the scene as the FBI raided a Georgia election office t...

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ICE has expanded its mass surveillance efforts. Online activists are fighting back.

Federal agencies have expanded their use of domestic surveillance to carry out mass deportations and crack down on protesters. Now, online activists and hacker groups are deploying their own arsena...

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Trump says Fed chair decision coming Friday

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he will announce his choice for the next chair of the Federal Reserve on Friday morning, in what would end months of speculation about one of his most import...

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Trump sues IRS for $10B over leaked tax returns

President Donald Trump is suing the Internal Revenue Service for $10 billion, claiming the agency was responsible for his tax returns being leaked to the press.The president filed a lawsuit Thursda...

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Noem says her response to Pretti shooting may have been wrong

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has conceded she may have gotten some information wrong in her initial response to Border Patrol's killing of Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis ICU nurse she labe...

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Why Strikes Matter

The workplace is a site where people struggle for power. Under a capitalist economy such as that of the United States, employers profit by working their employees as hard as they can for as many ho...

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How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife

It’s already hotter than 90 degrees here at the 161st annual reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg in July and it’s not even 10 a.m. Cannons boom in the distance. From the parking lot outside the...

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