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After pushing for entry for weeks, they visited on Monday and found three people detained there and said the facility was clean. I'm glad that we were finally able to get down there, U.S. Rep. Juan Vargas told reporters following the visit. It does leave a lot of suspicion in my mind as to what was there before, why weren't we allowed to go in. We gave all the notices that we were supposed to.

In its sweeping Trump v. Wilcox decision in May, the Court ruled that the president "may remove without cause" officials in administrative agencies-a decision grounded in the Court's ringing endorsement of the so-called unitary executive. An elementary application of the unitary-executive theory would allow the White House to interfere, unchecked, with the Fed-just as the Court has empowered Trump to gut every other federal agency.

Hale said the scale of the hit for families losing ACA subsidies is likely to be severe if the subsidies are discontinued. It's going to mean that healthcare takes a bigger chunk out of their monthly budget, and that budget shift has got to come from somewhere, she said. So, for people who are currently renting and maybe saving up to buy a home, that (saving) progress might feel like the most discretionary part of their budget and probably would be a target.

The attack on coverage and commentary on unnamed networks by the MS NOW host comes amid continued fallout after the president raged a video made by six Democratic lawmakers urging military and intelligence service members to refuse illegal orders was SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH. Since the outburst, some conservative pundits and hosts have defended Trump's response. On Fox News, Hugh Hewitt dismissed the outburst as classic Donald Trump, while another network contributor, Trey Gowdy, called the Democrats' video dumb and downplayed the president's outburst.

According to a report from online casino BetUS, Donald Trump tattoos are Americans' most regretted. The report revealed that requests for tattoos of the current president have fallen out of popularity within the past 12 months. Ink featuring Trump has plummeted in search interest, with only 110 searches over the past 12 months, followed by tattoos of gender critic JK Rowling (1,330 searches) and rapper Kanye West (5,310 searches).

The administration launched an account in August weeks before the president struck a deal to save the social-media app from a ban he started. The first post from the official account (not to be confused with the personal account Donald Trump mostly abandoned after the 2024 campaign) featured the president declaring, "I am your voice!" So what does the Trump White House's TikTok voice sound like several months in?

Bloomberg's scoop showing how Trump aide Steve Witkoff coached the Kremlin on the best way to get into Trump's good graces is extraordinary for what it tells us about Witkoff's dubious loyalties and the Kremlin's potential influence over US negotiation efforts. But equally interesting is the leaked material itself and where it may have come from. The story covers two intercepted phone calls:

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

Prosecutors in Oregon are warning the US justice department to rein in federal agents who've repeatedly used excessive force on protesters, immigrants and even local police. A joint letter from Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield and district attorneys from Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington Counties, demands the US Department of Justice "immediately halt unlawful and reckless actions by federal officers operating in Oregon."

Eight others, largely erased from public discourse, served during and after Reconstruction, clearing a path that made his tenure possible. A framed image of the eight's portraits hangs in his office. Over the years, Clyburn says that image sparked what ultimately led him to write The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation. The book, which was published this month, restores these men to the historical record and draws lessons from their lives.

The CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Act expands Pennsylvania's Human Relations Act to include hair texture and protective hairstyles under the definition of race, making any discrimination against hairstyles in schools or the workplace a criminal act in the same way as discrimination against skin color. For too long, many Pennsylvanians have faced discrimination simply for hairstyles that reflect their identity and culture.

Ferreira's attorney said his client came to the U.S. under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. She's in the process of actually getting her residency and she was abruptly arrested and taken from her young child right before Thanksgiving, her attorney Todd Pomerleau told WCVB, which published a statement from a source familiar with the situation. This individual is the mother of Karoline's nephew and they have not spoken in many years, the source said.

Earlier this month, the House Oversight Committee made public more than 20,000 pages of documents from the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's estate. The documents were released as thousands of individual text files, images, and scanned PDFs, a monumental trove most wouldn't have the time or patience to sift through. But what if you could navigate the source documents as easily as you do your inbox? That was the thinking behind Jmail, a Gmail-style interface for accessible browsing of Epstein's released emails launched Friday by Kino CEO Luke Igel and software engineer Riley Walz.

"The Aura of President Donald Trump is unimaginable. Love him or hate him, no one remains unmoved in his presence," wrote the X account @TRUMP_ARMY_ earlier this month. For the account, which has more than 500,000 followers, this sort of fawning message is pretty typical. Two days earlier, the account reposted, "The President puts America First over his own financial gains. 🔥🔥" Another post reads, "Drop a ❤️, if you Love President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump!!"

In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has launched a campaign against the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. He has declared that the Muslim civil rights group is a foreign terrorist organization. Syed al-Ferdous attends services at the Maryam Islamic Center in Sugar Land, southwest of Houston, every evening. Al-Ferdous says Governor Abbott's calling CAIR a terrorist organization shows a lack of education about Islam. SYED AL-FERDOUS: I think it's very juvenile, to say the least. It's very immature, and it just doesn't hold any water.

The legal analysis rests on a premise for which there is no immediate public evidence that the cartels are waging armed violence against the security forces of allies like Mexico, and that the violence is financed by cocaine shipments. As a result, according to the legal analysis, the strikes are targeting the cocaine, and the deaths of anyone on board should be treated as an enemy casualty or collateral damage if any civilians are killed, rather than murder.

The pressure from Trump may not have been as effective as he'd hoped, with the base rate still at 3.75 to 4%, but the attention on the central bank has remained. On a near-daily basis, markets are reacting to hints dropped by regional Federal Reserve bank presidents, Fed governors, Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting notes, and data which may colour the decision-making of the group.

Trump still favors a negotiated exit for Maduro and plans to speak privately with the Venezuelan dictator, a U.S.-branded "narcoterrorist" with a Justice Department bounty on his head. But Trump - whom a U.S. official described as the administration's biggest hawk on this issue - also has authorized CIA covert operations inside Venezuela and reserved the option to order land strikes at any time.

Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public! With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country! NBC FAKE NEWS, which is under intense scrutiny over their killing the Harvey Weinstein story, is now fumbling around making excuses for their probably highly unethical conduct.

The good news for Trump is that his administration has a new sex scandal that for once has nothing to do with him, said Kimmel during his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live. After explaining Kennedy's alleged digital affair with Nuzzi, which was further detailed by Nuzzi's ex-fiance Ryan Lizza in an article last week, Kimmel then proceeded to read out several of the poems Kennedy allegedly sent Nuzzi while she was engaged.

Witkoff said he believed the land concessions were necessary all while advising Ushakov to congratulate Trump and frame discussions more optimistically. Now, me to you, I know what it's going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere, Witkoff told Ushakov during the five-minute conversation, according to Bloomberg's transcript. But I'm saying instead of talking like that, let's talk more hopefully because I think we're going to get to a deal here.