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2 hours ago

Florida congresswoman accused of stealing $5 million in COVID funds insists she's innocent | Fortune

U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick faces federal charges alleging she conspired to steal $5 million in COVID-19 relief funds; she pleads not guilty.
#minnesota-fraud
fromFortune
1 hour ago
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Homeland Security investigates Minnesota for apparent fraud costing taxpayers as much as $9 billion | Fortune

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1 hour ago
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Homeland Security investigates Minnesota for apparent fraud costing taxpayers as much as $9 billion | Fortune

fromwww.mediaite.com
2 hours ago

This Is Misleading': Star Conservative Activist Rips Kash Patel Over Somali Fraud Scandal

CASE UPDATE: MINNESOTA FRAUD SCHEME The FBI is aware of recent social media reports in Minnesota. However, even before the public conversation escalated online, the FBI had surged personnel and investigative resources to Minnesota to dismantle large-scale fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. Fraud that steals from taxpayers and robs vulnerable children will remain a top FBI priority in Minnesota and nationwide.
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fromPoynter
1 hour ago
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Here's how many of Project 2025's media proposals were implemented in 2025 - Poynter

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Here's how many of Project 2025's media proposals were implemented in 2025 - Poynter

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fromAbove the Law
6 hours ago

Another National Security Concern! - Above the Law

Trump demolished the East Wing without approvals and now invokes national-security claims to justify construction and other policies, prompting allegations of manufactured threats.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

Chip Roy Touts Defeat of Nazis While Calling for Total Immigration Shutdown on Fox News: We Can Do It Again!'

A temporary pause on immigration is proposed to stop alleged visa and financial abuses and protect American interests by invoking past immigration freezes as precedent.
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fromJezebel
1 hour ago

ICYMI: Trump Wished Us 'What May Be' Our Last 'Merry Christmas'

Trump posted prolifically on Christmas, promoting Epstein conspiracy claims, defending controversial actions, attacking political opponents including Ilhan Omar, and issuing a threatening warning.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

That's Not What He Said!' Fox News Panel BRAWLS Over Trump's Mass Deportations

Fox News hosts clashed over Trump-era deportation tactics as critics noted ICE raids often target Hispanic communities, including non-criminal, elderly, and longtime residents.
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

X Marks the Spat: The Top 5 Scrappiest Social Media Feuds of 2025

Governor Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) notorious press office account spent 2025 repeatedly trolling Republicans, doing so in a style that unmistakably mimicked President Donald Trump's own social media playbook. From all-caps posts to meme-heavy graphics and personal taunts, @GovPressOffice leaned into provocation this year. Trump, in turn, fired back plenty of times on Truth Social, branding Newsom Newscum and incompetent for his handling of June protests against mass deportations in Los Angeles.
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fromArs Technica
1 hour ago

US can't deport hate speech researcher for protected speech, lawsuit says

US officials imposed and attempted to enforce visa bans targeting anti-hate researchers and NGO leaders, prompting legal challenges and a temporary restraining order.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 hours ago

One in four schools struggled to find suitable headteacher, study finds

One in four state schools that advertised headteacher posts in September had to re-advertise by Christmas, with special and Roman Catholic schools particularly affected.
fromFast Company
3 hours ago

Trump administration to give each state at least $147 million for rural health next year

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz said the fund is intended to improve rural health outcomes that have worsened over decades, while avoiding costly new construction. "This is a massive effort to change the unfortunate reality that has overtaken rural healthcare in America, which is that your ZIP code has started to predict your life expectancy," Oz told reporters. He said the money will also support other pilot projects across the country.
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fromLGBTQ Nation
1 hour ago
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The New York Times wants you to think that Marjorie Taylor Greene is politically savvy - LGBTQ Nation

fromLGBTQ Nation
1 hour ago
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The New York Times wants you to think that Marjorie Taylor Greene is politically savvy - LGBTQ Nation

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fromTruthout
2 hours ago

Report Flags Potential Conflicts in $2B Raised by Trump Allies for His Pet Projects

Allies raised about $2 billion for Trump projects while many donors benefited from administration actions, prompting conflict-of-interest and transparency concerns.
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fromJezebel
1 hour ago

Jezebel's Top 25 Stories of 2025

Readers favored Jezebel's 2025 top stories about MAGA infighting, tech billionaire scandals, celebrity gossip, Supreme Court developments, and political divorces.
#immigration-enforcement
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

Chicago's Mayor Endorses Naming New Snow Plow Abolish ICE'

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson endorsed naming a snowplow 'Abolish ICE,' citing ICE's harmful actions and urging stronger scrutiny of the administration's use of the agency.
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fromFortune
4 hours ago

$25,000 per month: the cost of Trump tariffs on small business importers, revealed | Fortune

Trump administration trade policies raised tariffs, forcing small-business importers to pay about $25,000 more per month since April 2025, risking layoffs and bankruptcies.
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fromJezebel
1 hour ago

I Hope All Americans Get to One Day Work in a 'Pro-Family Environment' Like Karoline Leavitt

Karoline Leavitt, youngest-ever White House press secretary, announced her pregnancy, becoming the first pregnant press secretary and highlighting political irony.
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fromwww.amny.com
2 hours ago

NYS lawmakers push bill mandating public schools teach lessons on Jan. 6 Capitol riots

New York bill S6123/A3966 would require public schools to teach the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and its aftermath alongside civic education.
#social-security
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fromwww.mediaite.com
7 hours ago
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Trump's Painted' Hands Spark Social Media Speculation After Mar-a-Lago Summit With Zelensky: They Look Pretty Rough'

fromwww.mediaite.com
7 hours ago
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Trump's Painted' Hands Spark Social Media Speculation After Mar-a-Lago Summit With Zelensky: They Look Pretty Rough'

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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago

Uncomfortable' Marjorie Taylor Greene Condemns Mar-a-Lago Sexualization'

Some MAGA followers emulate Trump's aesthetic through extensive cosmetic procedures dubbed 'Mar-a-Lago Face,' prompting criticism about sexualized presentation and excessive filler use.
fromTruthout
58 minutes ago

New GOP Jan. 6 Panel to Focus on "Security Failures," Not Trump's Role in Attack

That original committee investigated both the failures of security and the events that led up to the attack, ultimately determining that President Donald Trump's baseless claim that he only lost the 2020 presidential race to Joe Biden due to widespread fraud was the "central cause" of the event. That original committee was led by Democrats. The new GOP-led committee, which was established through a House resolution in the fall, ostensibly seeks to examine parts of the attack that the first committee supposedly overlooked, namely the security failures.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
26 minutes ago

CNN Data Guru Marvels At JD Vance's Lead In 2028 GOP Primary: The Only One Ever'

Enten began by telling anchor Sara Sidner, I will just note it is never, never too early to talk about this because these guys are running already, even if they haven't formally declared. They're already running, and JD Vance is running well ahead of the field. I mean, take a look here. Top chances to be the 2028 GOP press nominee, the prediction market odds.
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#journalism-funding
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fromFortune
1 hour ago
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Trump claims victory in drug-smuggling crackdown, but key details remain a mystery | Fortune

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Trump claims victory in drug-smuggling crackdown, but key details remain a mystery | Fortune

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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 hours ago

Longtime Conservative Commentator Victor Davis Hanson Steps Away From Show After Suffering Serious' Health Problem

Conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson is undergoing a previously undisclosed medical procedure and is stepping away from his show to focus on treatment and recovery.
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fromTruthout
5 hours ago

US Funding for UN Aid Once Totaled $17 Billion. Trump Slashed It to $2 Billion.

The US committed $2 billion to UN humanitarian aid tied to agency reforms while cutting broader foreign assistance that previously funded up to $17 billion.
#trump
fromAxios
3 hours ago
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Israel's president denies telling Trump a Netanyahu pardon is "on its way"

fromAxios
3 hours ago
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Israel's president denies telling Trump a Netanyahu pardon is "on its way"

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fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 hour ago

Trump says US 'hit' facility along shore where he says alleged drug boats 'load up'

The U.S. struck a coastal dock facility tied to suspected drug-smuggling boats, with President Trump saying the loading area and boats were destroyed.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
5 hours ago

Trump and Netanyahu meet in Florida at a crucial moment for the US-backed Gaza ceasefire

PALM BEACH, Fla. -- President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, as Washington looks to create fresh momentum for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza that could be in danger of stalling before a complicated second phase. Trump could use the face-to-face at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to try to leverage his strong relationship with Netanyahu and look for ways to speed up the peace process. Before that, Netanyahu met separately with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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fromPortland Mercury
3 hours ago

The Trash Report: Clip Show!

President Biden hosted a little get-together to give out Congressional Medals of Freedom to a bunch of fancy people like Bono, Jane Goodall, Magic Johnson, and others. These medals are basically handed out to whoever the President thinks is cool and wants to meet, so I imagine he was like, "Shit, I gotta move out of this place in like two weeks and I haven't even had Denzel Washington and Bill Nye over yet to see my stuff!"
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 hour ago

You Can't Put a Choir Boy': Trump Praises Syria's Ex-Jihadi President

We do have an understanding regarding Syria. Now, with Syria, you know, your new president, I respect him, he's a very strong guy and that's what you need in Syria. You can't put a choir boy, you can't put somebody that's a perfect person, everything's nice, no problems in life. You have the opposite there, he's a strong guy. We get along with him great. I can't ask for any more, he's been with us all the way.
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fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 hours ago

Tributes to antiques dealer who went missing during Christmas Day swim

A 63-year-old antiques dealer, Matthew Upham, is feared to have disappeared after entering stormy Budleigh Salterton waters to assist a woman on Christmas Day.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
3 hours ago

Trump Reveals Israeli President Said He Will Pardon Netanyahu: He Tells Me It's on Its Way'

President Donald Trump said Israeli President Isaac Herzog indicated Benjamin Netanyahu will likely be pardoned amid ongoing corruption charges and a formal pardon request.
fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

He's Done a Phenomenal Job!' Trump Showers Netanyahu With Praise Amid Reports of Fraying Relationship

President Donald Trump warmly greeted hero Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago on Monday and told reporters their bond is as tight as nails despite recent reports to the contrary. I don't think it can be better, Trump said about their relationship when asked by a reporter. We just won a big war together. He said a moment later the two have a great relationship.
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fromIrish Independent
3 hours ago

Donald Trump says Benjamin Netanyahu pardon 'on its way' but Israeli president's office disputes it

Trump urged Israeli President Herzog to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, calling him a wartime hero and saying a pardon was forthcoming.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
23 hours ago

Trump says US would back strikes against Iran's missile programme

Trump threatened military action to prevent Iran rebuilding nuclear and missile capabilities and said the US would back or immediately carry out strikes if necessary.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
2 hours ago

Trump Says He's Not Concerned About Anything Israel Is Doing' In Gaza

President Trump praised Israel's conduct in Gaza, said Israel lived up to the plan, and warned Iran against rebuilding weapons or other military capabilities.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
4 hours ago

Trump Promises to Immediately' Attack Iran if It Restarts Nuclear Program

President Trump threatened military strikes on Iran if it rebuilds nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities and urged Iran to accept a deal instead.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
5 hours ago

CBS's Major Garrett Predicts 2026 MAGA Battle Between Trump And Red States Over AI

A brewing MAGA battle over AI regulation emerges as Trump embraces AI while major red states move to restrict it, amid shifting 2026 political dynamics.
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fromSlate Magazine
12 hours ago

How Democrats Can Fix the Supreme Court in 2029

Conservative Supreme Court rulings have entrenched minority rule; structural reforms—statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico, court term limits, and expansion—are necessary to restore democratic governance.
#supreme-court
fromAbove the Law
9 hours ago
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Morning Docket: 12.29.25 - Above the Law

Supreme Court bars deploying federal troops for policing; DOJ surveilled an Epstein reporter; high-profile criminal cases and judicial controversies continue.
fromwww.mediaite.com
8 hours ago
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Dangerous!' CBS's Jan Crawford Skewers Liberals Over Attacks on the Supreme Court

Accusations that the Supreme Court is corrupt are false, harmful to institutional legitimacy, and obscure the court's conservative jurisprudence and role in restoring constitutional accountability.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
7 hours ago

Pam Bondi Confirms DOJ Prosecutors Are Probing Obama-Biden Lawfare' as Criminal Conspiracy'

Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed the Department of Justice is investigating alleged lawfare under Presidents Obama and Biden as an ongoing criminal conspiracy.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
22 hours ago

MS NOW Expert Warns Republicans Could Gerrymander Racial Minorities Into Oblivion' And Gain 19 House Seats

Weakening the Voting Rights Act via Louisiana v. Calais could allow Republicans to gain an estimated 15–19 House seats by 2028.
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fromThe Atlantic
11 hours ago

Why ICE Is Getting Away With It

Two Supreme Court decisions have created near-immunity for ICE agents, enabling illegal detentions, force, and denial of legal rights with little accountability.
fromLos Angeles Times
12 hours ago

California has lost more than a quarter of its immigration judges this year

More than a quarter of federal immigration judges in California have been fired, retired or quit since the start of the Trump administration.
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fromwww.housingwire.com
10 hours ago

FinCEN rules, state rate cuts reshape title insurance in 2025

The GTOs (FinCEN's geographic targeting orders) came in 2017. They started off kind of slow five boroughs in New York and a few counties in Florida. Fast forward to the current GTO, it affects transactions in 11 states, plus Washington, D.C., and about 58 or 59 counties or boroughs. The FinCEN reporting that is now going to be required is all 50 states plus the District of Columbia, about 3,600 recording jurisdictions. That gives you the magnitude of how much this will impact the industry.
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fromThe New Republic
23 hours ago

The Department of Justice May Not Survive Pam Bondi

Attorney General Pam Bondi's tenure has severely damaged the Justice Department's competence, integrity, and nonpartisanship through firings, misconduct, and politicized decisions.
fromSlate Magazine
12 hours ago

I Went to the Site Where Republicans Are Erecting a "Last Line of Defense" Against Zohran Mamdani. What I Saw Was Curious.

Only days remain until Zohran Mamdani ascends the throne of New York City, and nearly all his great opponents have given up. Andrew Cuomo, vanquished. Financier Bill Ackman, reduced to congratulations for the mayor-elect and even offers of support. Donald Trump, singing his praises after inviting him over to hang. Maybe the great socialist boogeyman isn't so scary after all.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
12 hours ago

Donald Trump in his own words the year in racism and misogyny

And we just clean out that whole thing I don't know, something has to happen, but it's literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything's demolished, and people are dying there, so I'd rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing in a different location where I think they could maybe live in peace for a change.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
14 hours ago

Nancy Pelosi predicts Democrats will retake US House in 2026 midterms

Democrats are forecast to retake the US House majority in 2026 and reclaim congressional powers that Republicans purportedly ceded to President Trump.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
6 hours ago

Ex-NBA Star Dwight Howard Calls on Trump to Impose Mandatory Military Service for US Citizens: Would Help With Discipline'

A proposal to require one year of mandatory military service for all U.S.-born citizens aims to instill discipline and structure and drew mixed online reactions.
fromWIRED
12 hours ago

The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2025

In 2025, people who built their careers by being some form of Very Online are now some of the most powerful people in the world. Topping the list-as we predicted he would last year-is Donald Trump. The 79-year-old president of the United States quite literally rules by decrees posted to his social network, Truth Social. The US government, meanwhile, is run by a ramshackle crew of former conspiracy theory podcasters, TV hosts, vaccine skeptics, and entertainment moguls.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
23 hours ago

Arts & politics 2025: Trump assaults top the year's cultural news * Oregon ArtsWatch

The Trump Administration enacted policies suppressing DEI, gender identity, and critical perspectives on American history, threatening arts funding and cultural institutions nationwide.
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fromPortland Mercury
5 hours ago

THE BLACK BYLINE: Top 10 Takeaways from 2025, A Wild Year in Portland

Portland mobilized to reclaim 2020's racial-justice legacy, resisted mischaracterization, and used creative protests and community projects to advance Black-led reclamation and civic accountability.
fromAxios
12 hours ago

Tariffs, Taylor Swift and tragedy: These stories defined 2025

Zoom in: The assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Turning Point USA co-founder, garnered the most search interest in Axios' analysis of the biggest stories of the year. His murder - which followed a string of political violence both this year and in 2024 - sparked calls for softened political rhetoric for some and prompted finger-pointing from the president and others. It also opened a new chapter - and exposed new fractures - in the MAGA media landscape.
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fromSlate Magazine
8 hours ago

The Most Popular Stories of 2025

Top 2025 journalism combined political reporting on a tumultuous Trump year with cultural features on revenge neuroscience, Las Vegas decline, scams, and children's literature.
fromFast Company
13 hours ago

More than $32 billion in U.S. clean energy projects were canceled in 2025

Two years ago, a $575 million battery factory planned in St. Louis, Missouri, was set to be the first large-scale lithium iron phosphate (LFP) facility in the U.S. This November, after the Trump administration withdrew a grant for the project, it was cancelled -becoming one of more than 50 major clean energy projects to be scrapped or scaled back in 2025.
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fromAol
7 hours ago

NYC Council to override Adams on sex abuse lawsuits

The legislation, approved by the Council in November, carved out an 18-month "lookback" window for victims to file claims against abusers as well as institutions that may have shielded perpetrators from prosecution, even if the statute of limitations has lapsed. It would also allow plaintiffs to revive hundreds of cases that had been previously dismissed, including claims against the estate of now-deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
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fromThe Nation
9 hours ago

Staining the Labels of History

Readers' organizing, voting, and donations fund independent progressive journalism defending justice, humanity, and democracy against administration abuses, corruption, and threats to civil society.
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fromwww.aljazeera.com
23 hours ago

2025: Trump's year of 'emergency', invasion' and narcoterrorism'

The president invoked broad emergency authorities in 2025 to justify aggressive immigration, trade, and military actions, testing limits of presidential power.
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fromThe Oaklandside
6 hours ago

Legal battles over tainted death penalty cases continue in Alameda County

Pamela Price sought to address decades of racial bias in Alameda County prosecutions, securing resentencing and overturning convictions before being recalled and replaced.
fromwww.mediaite.com
6 hours ago

Bannon World Turns Against JD Vance as MAGA Civil War Heats Up

It's the holiday season and John Lennon may be on the radio, but the MAGA civil war that has dominated headlines over the back half of 2025 is far from over. Indeed, the coalition put together by President Donald Trump is only continuing to fracture, as two of its most prominent principals podcaster Steve Bannon and Vice President JD Vance appear to be increasingly at odds. While Bannon and Vance both hail from the Republican Party's populist wing, Bannon World is accusing the VP of forming a fist inside of his velvet glove. Over the last few days, Grace Chong, the CFO and COO of Bannon's media company, has launched a series of stunning attacks on the odds-on frontrunner to succeed Trump as the GOP's standard bearer.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
11 hours ago

Nearly half of Americans believe their financial security is getting worse, poll finds

Twice as many Americans believe their financial security is getting worse than better, according to an exclusive new poll conducted for the Guardian, and they are increasingly blaming the White House. The poll, conducted by Harris, will be a further blow to Donald Trump's efforts to fight off criticism of his handling of the economy and contains some worrying findings for the president.
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fromwww.npr.org
16 hours ago

Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he targeted U.S. political parties, memo says

Brian J. Cole Jr. allegedly placed inert pipe bombs outside DNC and RNC headquarters on Jan. 6, motivated by belief the 2020 election was stolen.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
9 hours ago

Trump's Chaos Machine: Every Scandal, Conflict, and Controversy of 2025

A deliberate strategy of nonstop controversies and rapid churn turned media attention into governance, eroded accountability, and replaced consequences with spectacle.
fromFortune
6 hours ago

'We've gotten out of whack' by fixating so much on Fed rates, but the loss of its independence will be punished, BofA CEO Brian Moynihan says | Fortune

"There's too much fascination with the Fed," Moynihan said. The economy is driven by the private sector, which includes small, medium, and large companies as well as entrepreneurs, he added. "The idea that we are, like, hanging on the thread by the Fed moving rates 25 basis points, it seems to me we've gotten out of whack," he said.
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fromNextgov.com
8 hours ago

Fed 100 deadline extended to Jan. 14, 2026

We're extending the deadline to submit Federal 100 nominations into 2026. Our final, no-extensions deadline is Jan. 14, 2026. This gives you an extra two weeks to finalize your nominations to make sure the superstars in the federal IT community get the recognition they deserve. Anyone in the federal IT community is eligible: career civil servants, political appointees, contractors, academics, members of Congress and congressional staff.
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