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Vice President and Second Lady Plan Visit to US Military Base in Greenland

Vice President and Second Lady Plan Visit to US Military Base in Greenland

The US delegation’s visit to Greenland comes as Trump’s push to annex the island has angered many Greenlanders.

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Ilhan Omar Is Drafting Impeachment Articles Over Signalgate Controversy — Report

Ilhan Omar Is Drafting Impeachment Articles Over Signalgate Controversy — Report

Three-quarters of Americans are troubled by the administration's use of Signal to discuss military plans, polling shows.

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Trump Is Open to Idea of Compensating Jan. 6 Loyalists That Attacked the Capitol

Trump Is Open to Idea of Compensating Jan. 6 Loyalists That Attacked the Capitol

Trump said there is “a lot of talk” regarding potential financial compensation for the Capitol attackers.

27.03.2025 10

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Kids Are Getting Sick From RFK Jr.’s False Measles Remedy, Doctors Say

Kids Are Getting Sick From RFK Jr.’s False Measles Remedy, Doctors Say

Nearly 380 cases of measles have been identified in the US this year, the highest number since 2019.

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FL GOP Bill Would Allow Employers to Schedule Child Workers for Overnight Shifts

FL GOP Bill Would Allow Employers to Schedule Child Workers for Overnight Shifts

“This bill is going to lead to exploitation of children,” one critic of the proposal said.

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Musk Pours Millions Into Wisconsin Court Race to Protect Rigged Maps for GOP

Musk Pours Millions Into Wisconsin Court Race to Protect Rigged Maps for GOP

Musk also has a financial stake in the election, as the state's highest court could rule soon over regulations on Tesla.

26.03.2025 10

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Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Trump Donor’s Challenge to Free Press Standard

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Trump Donor’s Challenge to Free Press Standard

The challenge aimed to make it easier for public figures — including billionaires and politicians — to sue media.

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Greenland Politicos Blast Visits by Usha Vance, Trump Officials This Week

Greenland Politicos Blast Visits by Usha Vance, Trump Officials This Week

“The only purpose is to show a demonstration of power to us,” said outgoing Prime Minister Múte Egede.

25.03.2025 3

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Commerce Sec Says Only “Fraudsters” Would Miss Delayed Social Security Check

Commerce Sec Says Only “Fraudsters” Would Miss Delayed Social Security Check

One study found that 2 in 5 older Americans rely on Social Security as their sole means of income.

25.03.2025 20

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Trump Threatens 20 Year Sentences for Tesla Saboteurs

Trump Threatens 20 Year Sentences for Tesla Saboteurs

Trump's statements ambiguously suggest that those peacefully protesting against Tesla and Elon Musk could be targeted.

24.03.2025 2

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Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers After They Back His Calls to Impeach Judges

Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers After They Back His Calls to Impeach Judges

Musk's donations could influence Republican lawmakers' decision-making on future legislation.

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Netanyahu Gifts Silver Beeper to Fetterman, Who Praised Explosions in Lebanon

Netanyahu Gifts Silver Beeper to Fetterman, Who Praised Explosions in Lebanon

Israel’s beeper explosions in Lebanon last year killed dozens of people, including children, and injured thousands.

21.03.2025 3

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DHS Abducts Georgetown Postdoctoral Researcher Over Pro-Palestine Views

DHS Abducts Georgetown Postdoctoral Researcher Over Pro-Palestine Views

Human rights advocates say the researcher, Badar Khan Suri, is being punished for criticizing US foreign policy.

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Customs Officials Deny French Scientist US Entry Over His Anti-Trump Texts

Customs Officials Deny French Scientist US Entry Over His Anti-Trump Texts

An FBI inquiry was briefly opened, then dropped, after which the scientist was deported to France.

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Trump Admin Considers Ending Division Tasked With Funding HIV/AIDS Prevention

Trump Admin Considers Ending Division Tasked With Funding HIV/AIDS Prevention

The move could send the US back to “the dark days of the ‘80s, when people died from HIV every day,” one advocate said.

20.03.2025 20

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Millions Will Face Benefit Delays as Social Security Ends Phone Verification

Millions Will Face Benefit Delays as Social Security Ends Phone Verification

The Social Security Administration will no longer allow phone verification, starting on March 31.

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Hours After Trump Secures Limited Ceasefire Deal, Russia Attacks Ukraine

Hours After Trump Secures Limited Ceasefire Deal, Russia Attacks Ukraine

Trump pledged during his 2024 campaign that he could end the war within 24 hours of taking office.

20.03.2025 10

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Customs Agents Seized More Eggs Than Fentanyl in First 2 Months of This Year

Customs Agents Seized More Eggs Than Fentanyl in First 2 Months of This Year

The egg seizures showcase the Trump administration’s failure to act on rising consumer costs.

19.03.2025 20

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HHS Website Removes Advisory Declaring Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis

HHS Website Removes Advisory Declaring Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis

The HHS web page that once featured the former surgeon general’s advisory on gun violence now reads "Page Not Found.”

19.03.2025 10

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New Oklahoma School Curriculum Requires Students to Learn “The Big Lie”

New Oklahoma School Curriculum Requires Students to Learn “The Big Lie”

The new standards would require students to “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results.”

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Trump Demands Impeachment of Judge Who Ruled to Block His Deportation Orders

Trump Demands Impeachment of Judge Who Ruled to Block His Deportation Orders

Trump's call for the judge to be impeached came after his administration blatantly ignored one of the judge's orders.

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Miami Beach Mayor Seeks to Shut Down Theater for Screening Oscar-Winning Film

Miami Beach Mayor Seeks to Shut Down Theater for Screening Oscar-Winning Film

The city plans to vote on a resolution that aims to to end the theater's lease on Wednesday.

17.03.2025 3

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Hundreds Stage Sit-In at Trump Tower to Protest Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention

Police arrested around 100 participants in the protest, which was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace.

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Trump Takes Effort to End Birthright Citizenship to Supreme Court

Trump Takes Effort to End Birthright Citizenship to Supreme Court

Three separate district courts have placed injunctions on Trump's order, which seeks to redefine the 14th Amendment.

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No Deal Yet Between Democrats and GOP as Government Funding Deadline Approaches

No Deal Yet Between Democrats and GOP as Government Funding Deadline Approaches

Republicans would need eight Democratic senators to join them to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government.

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Trump Threatens 200 Percent Tariff on European Alcohol

Trump Threatens 200 Percent Tariff on European Alcohol

On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump announced that he is planning to impose a 200 percent tariff on European countries’ alcoholic products...

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Trump Baselessly Suggests Fired Federal Workers Were Incompetent at Their Jobs

Trump Baselessly Suggests Fired Federal Workers Were Incompetent at Their Jobs

A multi-year survey finds that those working at federal jobs tend to be among the hardest working in the country.

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Montana Judge Rules Medicaid Recipients Have Protected Access to Abortion

Montana Judge Rules Medicaid Recipients Have Protected Access to Abortion

Restrictions blocking Medicaid recipients from abortion services violate the state constitution, the judge ruled.

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RFK Jr. Spreads Dangerous Lies About Measles as Texas Outbreak Tops 220 Cases

RFK Jr. Spreads Dangerous Lies About Measles as Texas Outbreak Tops 220 Cases

Dozens of people, mostly children, have been hospitalized in Texas due to the outbreak.

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As Dems Mull Continuing Resolution, Sources Say Elon Musk Wants a Shutdown

As Dems Mull Continuing Resolution, Sources Say Elon Musk Wants a Shutdown

A shutdown would actually make it easier for Musk's DOGE to fire more workers, one expert said.

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Amid GOP Funding Threats, Washington D.C. Removes “Black Lives Matter” Mural

Amid GOP Funding Threats, Washington D.C. Removes “Black Lives Matter” Mural

The district is also facing up to $1 billion in federal funding cuts due to a Republican continuing resolution bill.

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Musk Suggests Billions in Cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare

Musk Suggests Billions in Cuts to Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare

The billionaire head of DOGE also baselessly suggested immigrants were being lured to the U.S. by these programs.

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Judge Halts Trump Administration’s Attempts to Deport Mahmoud Khalil

Judge Halts Trump Administration’s Attempts to Deport Mahmoud Khalil

Trump is promising more arrests and deportations of students who have protested in support of Palestine.

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The GOP’s Budget Proposal Would Cut Medicaid. Most Oppose That Idea, Poll Finds.

More than 8 in 10 Americans want Medicaid spending kept the same or increased, a recent KFF poll shows.

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Hoping for DOGE Transparency, The Intercept Publishes Musk’s Government Email

The news organization has filed more than a dozen FOIA requests based on the newly found email address.

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Trump’s Latest Order Aims to Stifle Legal Challenges to His Executive Actions

The order requires agencies to demand “financial securities” from plaintiffs suing the administration.

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House Republicans — Joined by 10 Dems — Vote to Censure Rep. Al Green

“I’m willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me,” Green said earlier this week.

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Trump Pushes False Claim That Dems Are Paying Voters to Protest GOP Town Halls

Trump has long accused voters who voice their opposition to his far right agenda of being “paid protesters.”

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Musk Funds Group Behind Deceptive Ads in Critical Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

The ads include misinformation that is aimed at dissuading undecided voters from choosing the liberal candidate.

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Trump Threatens Students, Universities If They Engage in Protests

Trump wrote that students taking part in “illegal” demonstrations at college campuses should be arrested or deported.

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Trump Official Tells Americans to Buy Chickens to Deal With Egg Pricing Crisis

Egg prices have increased by nearly 25 percent since Trump took office.

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Moms for Liberty’s Next Focus Is on Restorative Justice

Several studies have shown that restorative justice programs create better social outcomes for students and communities.

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Elon Musk Spreads Falsehoods About Social Security, Calling It a “Ponzi Scheme”

Musk pushed the repeatedly debunked claim that Social Security was making payments to “dead people.”

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Complaint Filed on MI Teacher Who Scolded Student for Sitting During Pledge

The student said she “didn’t feel comfortable standing, because of what’s happening in Palestine.”

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Trump Issues Questionable Order Making English the Official Language of the US

More than 67 million people in the US speak a language other than English in their homes.

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Republicans Plan to Use Budgeting Trick to Hide Deficit From Trump Tax Cuts

Republicans want to change how the Congressional Budget Office calculates the cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

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Mike Johnson Claims Angry Voters Confronting GOP at Town Halls Are “Paid Actors”

Several videos of Republican lawmakers being confronted by angry voters have gone viral online.

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RFK Downplays Texas Measles Outbreak After First US Death in 10 Years

Rates of measles in the US have climbed significantly over the past 20 years, as vaccine skepticism has grown.

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Supreme Court Puts Temporary Hold on Order to Restore Frozen USAID Funds

The Trump administration has also announced it is eliminating 90 percent of all USAID funding.

28.02.2025 4

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Nearly 6 in 10 Voters Concerned Musk Is Using DOGE for His Own Financial Benefit

The poll also showed support from a significant segment of Americans for reducing or eliminating DOGE.

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