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Detained Tufts student details "unsanitary, unsafe, and inhumane" ICE conditions in new filing

Rümeysa Öztürk, detained for authoring an op-ed in a student paper, says her health concerns are being brushed off

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Legal expert stunned by Supreme Court's "extraordinary unanimous rebuke" of Trump

Despite the Supreme Court's check, Jeffrey Toobin said the justices threw Trump a lifeline

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"I will come after them hard": Alina Habba investigating NJ governor for snubbing ICE

Trump's personal lawyer-turned-acting-prosecutor told Fox News she is also targeting the state's attorney general

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"Terminate their fiscal lives": Trump admin cancels some immigrants' Social Security numbers

Some immigrants with legally obtained Social Security numbers landed on the agency's "death master file" this week

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Supreme Court orders feds to facilitate return of man sent to El Salvador prison

Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been stuck in an El Salvadorian prison since last month

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LAPD shoot Jillian Shriner, wife of Weezer bassist, before charging her with attempted murder

The writer and wife of Weezer's Scott Shriner was shot on Tuesday, then booked for attempted murder

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"Thought crimes": Rubio lays out government's justification for deportations based on "beliefs"

Rubio said that speech-based deportations were one part of the United States' fight against antisemitism

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"We're about to learn a few things": Trump faces insider trading allegations after tariff tip-off

Trump told supporters it was a "great time to buy" hours before he sent markets rebounding with a tariff pause

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Arizona's "privatization scam" is starving public schools. Trump wants to take it national

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Educators call Arizona the “chemistry lab of terrible ideas" as costs spiral, cutting services for students

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"Last thing we need": GOP panic grows as Trump team can't get its story straight on tariffs

Some Republicans are even pushing to wrest back tariff power from the president as stocks continue to crater

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Russell Brand charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault in UK

Russell Brand charged with multiple counts of rape and sexual assault in UK

The actor and comedian has been charged years after allegations of rampant sexual abuse and misconduct broke

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Pentagon launches probe into Signalgate after Trump White House declares case "closed

Pentagon launches probe into Signalgate after Trump White House declares case

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to send secret military plans over a mobile app is under new scrutiny

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"I don't care about my 401k today": MAGA writes off chaos as Trump tariffs roil markets

Kellyanne Conway touted the "positive reaction" to tariffs, citing an auto company that has just announced layoffs

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"Going very well": Amid stock market freefall, Trump touts tariff "boom"

The president shook off the stock market carnage on Thursday and promised a turnaround

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Trump makes National Security Council firings on advice of Laura Loomer

Trump makes National Security Council firings on advice of Laura Loomer

At least three National Security officials were forced out after the far-right activist pressed Trump in a meeting

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"Remove improper ideology": Trump puts Vance in charge of purging the Smithsonian Institution

President Donald Trump directed the Smithsonian Institution and Department of the Interior on Thursday to sanitize exhibitions, possibly restore...

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"Affront to all of our constitutional rights": Detained Tufts student asks court for her freedom

Attorneys for Rumeysa Ozturk say her visa was canceled for writing an op-ed critical of Israel

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Trump claims the right to ban 700k federal workers from having union representation

Trump claims the right to ban 700k federal workers from having union representation

The administration has claimed that federal employee unions are at war with "President Trump's agenda"

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"I take these lunatics' visas": Rubio admits to revoking 300 student visas over campus activism

Marco Rubio defended the detention Rumeysa Ozturk, saying international students should avoid "creating a ruckus"

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"We made a mistake": GOP Rep. Bacon suggests limiting Trump's presidential tariff powers

Congressman Don Bacon says the president was never meant to have broad tariff power under the Constitution

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"We're going after them": Musk promises Trump admin will target Tesla critics

The world's richest man threatened those who attacked his companies in a new interview with Fox News

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"Incredibly sloppy": GOP voters, lawmakers think Yemen leaks are a "serious problem"

In contrast to the Trump administration, voters of all stripes think the Yemen leaks are a big deal

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"Others can do a good job": Trump pulls Stefanik's UN ambassador nomination

A razor-thin House majority for the GOP is keeping Trump up at night

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"Pathetic man-child": Musk's estranged daughter doesn't know how many siblings she has

The 20-year-old, whose clapbacks to her dad's transphobia went viral, says she doesn't think about him too often

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Musk, trying to sway a Wisconsin Supreme Court election, offers voters $100

Musk, trying to sway a Wisconsin Supreme Court election, offers voters $100

The billionaire U.S. official is again offer voters cash, this time for agreeing with him on "activist judges"

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"Throw these bums out": AOC and Bernie Sanders take their campaign against "oligarchy" out west

Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders addressed thousands at their "Fighting Oligarchy" tour stops in Nevada and Arizona

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Musk to receive Pentagon briefing on top-secret China war plans: NYT

Musk to receive Pentagon briefing on top-secret China war plans: NYT

Pentagon sources told The New York Times that the billionaire would receive the briefing on Friday

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"Democracy is at risk": Schumer says "lawless" Trump has created constitutional crisis

The Senate Democratic leader vowed to "fight back in every single way" after siding with the GOP a week ago

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"Our country is in very serious trouble": Trump asks SCOTUS to step in on court orders

Trump asked the high court to bring the federal judiciary to heel after several of his agenda items were blocked.

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"Incredible blunders": Cybertruck recall shows same slapdash approach Musk brings to DOGE

Musk's corner-cutting has hurt Tesla's reputation. He's bringing that same outlook to the federal government

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"Find a character": Samuel L. Jackson shares lucrative tip he received from Bruce Willis

The Marvel star says the "Die Hard" actor's advice stuck with him

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Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys accuse the Trump administration of "targeted, retaliatory detention"

Khalil's attorneys allege that he heard an agent during his arrest say, "the White House is requesting an update"

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"He is not the leader for this moment": Protesters rage at Schumer for backing GOP spending plan

"He is off course and capitulating to fascism — and we won’t stand for it," one protester told Salon

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Will the Supreme Court kill birthright citizenship? It's a question of history vs. loyalty

In a petition to the high court, Trump asked the Supreme Court to overrule centuries of American history

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"A fighter and a champion": Democratic Rep. Grijalva dies after cancer battle

The former chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus shared a lung cancer diagnosis last year

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"We will not be silent": Protesters occupy Trump Tower demanding Mahmoud Khalil's release

Demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace called for the release of the Palestinian activist.

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"It was a sham": Judge orders Trump admin to reinstate thousands of fired federal workers

Probationary workers fired by the Trump administration must be offered their jobs back under the order

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Judge rules Musk's DOGE operatives can access sensitive Treasury data, at least for now

The Clinton appointee called privacy concerns "understandable," but ruled against a restraining order on Friday

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Trump wants to extend citizenship to "any farmer" from South Africa, but experts say he likely can't

But the president "does not have the authority" to create a visa or citizenship rule without Congress, experts say

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After governor's clash with Trump, US makes it harder to register newborns in Maine

Maine Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, publicly clashed with Trump at a televised meeting last month

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"An affront to the First Amendment": CBS moves to dismiss Trump's "60 Minutes" suit

Attorneys for Paramount argued the suit sought "to punish" news organizations that the president dislikes

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SpaceX Starship explodes during test flight, causing ground stops at four Florida airports

The company will have to clear an FAA mishap investigation before future Starship launches, regulators said

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"Don't think I'm a criminal": Crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried maintains innocence from prison

The man behind FTX shared what its like to spend time with rapper-mogul Diddy in a Tucker Carlson interview

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"An American president is not a king": Judge reverses Trump's firing of NLRB member

The D.C. judge and Obama appointee ruled that NLRB member Gwynne Wilcox should be reinstated on the labor panel

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"Scalpel not hatchet": Trump clarifies to Cabinet that Musk can't fire employees

The president weighed in after weeks of confusion, telling Cabinet leaders that they, not Musk, held firing power

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White House prepping executive order that purports to make English the official language: report

The order from Trump would set an official language for the first time in the nation's nearly 250 years

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“Have you said ‘thank you’ once?”: Trump and Vance attack Zelenskyy at White House meeting

The vice president called the Ukrainian leader "disrespectful" and Trump suggested peace efforts were at a stand-still

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"Total liar": MAGA loyalists melt down over Trump admin's "fake release" of Jeffrey Epstein files

AG Pam Bondi suggested FBI Director Kash Patel was withholding documents after coming under fire from MAGA World

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"Does not have any authority whatsoever": Judge rules Trump admin's mass firings likely illegal

White House office lacks authority "under any statute in the history of the universe," judge says

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"Zero tolerance": DeSantis says Andrew Tate is not welcome in Florida, as MAGA celebrates release

The MAGA governor wasn't quite ready to welcome the accused sex trafficker into his state

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