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Question One Kambree Nelson is ... a) a federal judge, who called legal arguments by the Trump Justice Department in favor of ousting transgender service members "soaked in animus and dripping with pretext." b) a "new media reporter" in the White House press gallery who believed the Democrats had hidden, or maybe destroyed, the moon. c) a crazy mother who sent a death threat to her kid's teacher after the teacher initiated a project that included the rainbow flag.

Since early September, President Donald Trump has overseen a U.S. military campaign targeting boats accused of smuggling drugs through the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that has now killed more than 100 people, according to a detailed investigation by The New York Times. The operation began Sept. 2, with the U.S. military carrying out airstrikes against vessels the Trump administration says were involved in maritime drug trafficking.

The Warrior Dividend that President Donald Trump announced during his televised address to the nation Wednesday is not made possible by tariff revenues, as the president suggested. Instead, the $1,776 payments to troops are coming from a congressionally approved housing supplement money they were already set to receive that was a part of bill of tax cut extensions and expansions signed into law in July.

The reform of immigration courts is one of the measures that has been undertaken by the Trump administration to expedite deportations, which are not occurring at the pace the U.S. president desires. In addition to instructing judges to close asylum cases without a trial, he has sought to replace judges he deemed too favorable to migrants with military lawyers. In recent months, the Republican has dismissed approximately 140 immigration judges and, in their place, hired 36 military lawyers to perform their duties.

Few expected United States President Donald Trump to abandon Israel during his second term in office, considering how supportive he had been of the Middle Eastern country in his first term. And yet, considering the still-mounting death toll from Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, and the international condemnation that has accompanied it, his continued full-throated support for Israel has unnerved some in the president's base.

Though the impetus for this investigation follows grave concerns about the extent of Russia's penetration of our political system, we must be clear-eyed too about the threat of interference now posed by the United States. In his recent national security strategy, President Trump outlined the US's new policy of cultivating resistance' within Europe. This reflects nothing less than an explicit call for interference in European politics including our own.

Critics of the Trump administration have praised Vanity Fair's interview with the White House chief of staff, and particularly the unvarnished photographs of Trump's inner circle that accompanied it, as overdue scrutiny of a controversial cabinet even as his allies rallied to dismiss it as a hit piece. Over what the magazine said was 11 separate interviews by reporter Chris Whipple, Susie Wiles spoke candidly about her colleagues,

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The article itself brought a massive amount of buzz, and Anderson's photos raised that to a nuclear level, with harsh lighting, unflinchingly close-ups of their faces, and posed photos that seemed clearly intended to communicate critical judgment of these people and the roles they were playing in Trump's second term. Many commentators were struck by the brutal detail of some of the photos, showing wrinkles, smeared makeup, stray hairs, and other facial skin imperfections.

Underneath former President Joe Biden's photograph, which is actually a picture of an autopen (that's called foreshadowing) a newly-installed plaque reads: Sleepy Joe Biden was, by far, the worst President in American History. Taking office as a result of the most corrupt Election ever seen in the United States, Biden oversaw a series of unprecedented disasters that brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.

In 1773, colonists threw tea in Boston harbor to protest unfair taxation, but on the 252nd anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Bostonians threw ice in opposition to the ICE "terror campaign." Hosted by the activist groups Boston Indivisible and Mass 50501, protesters gathered at the Irish Famine Memorial Plaza - just steps from the original tea party starting point at the Old South Meeting House - on Tuesday, according to the activist groups.

In a presidency defined by perpetual attention - meetings bleeding into photo ops, policy announcements collapsing into monologue - few refrains have proved as durable for President Donald Trump as the line "transgender for everybody." It arrives in his remarks like a reflex, surfacing in moments where it has no organic relevance, signaling not policy precision but the durability of a grievance.

Driving the news: Washington advanced a series of policies over the past week that would have triggered significant MAGA backlash at earlier points in the administration. This time, the reaction was mostly crickets - drowned out by online convulsions over Candace Owens, Turning Point USA, a MAGA podcaster's sexuality, and antisemitism. Artificial intelligence: President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to gut state laws that regulate AI - a major initiative pushed by the GOP's tech allies.

When are we going to get the message? I joked a few months back that, when it comes to Donald Trump, Europe needs to learn from Sex and the City's Miranda Hobbes and realise that He's just not that into you. After this past week, it's clear that understates the problem. Trump's America is not merely indifferent to Europe it's positively hostile to it. That has enormous implications for the continent and for Britain, which too many of our leaders still refuse to face.

Under Trump's second term, these arrests have increased as he's overseen the boost in ICE's deportation numbers through an increase in immigration raids nationwide. Many people swept up in the raids have been later revealed to have been wrongfully arrested, detained and deported by ICE. The individuals are US citizens with correct visas or valid asylum claims. Furthermore, up to three-quarters of detainees this fiscal year have no criminal history, according to the Cato Institute.

On Thursday, multiple outlets reported that the Trump administration is considering reclassifying marijuana from its current level as a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III drug. The Washington Post was the first to report on the potential reclassification, citing six sources familiar with the matter. As with most things Trump does, he is expected to issue a reclassification directive via an executive order.

Why the United States apparently seized a Venezuelan oil tanker. Trump, despite broaching the topic directly to media, elected not to answer who owned said tanker, or what the justification was for taking it, saying only "it was seized for a very good reason." When one reporter asked what would happen to the oil seized from said tanker, or the ship itself, Trump replied: "Well, we keep it, I guess," according to New York Times reporter Chris Cameron.

"This is rogue state behavior," one expert said.

A senior Democratic senator is calling for an investigation into potential insider trading by fossil-fuel billionaires close to the Trump administration, after a Guardian investigation raised questions about an unusual share buying spree. Robert Pender and Michael Sabel, the founders and co-chairs of Venture Global, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) company headquartered in Virginia, bought more than a million shares worth almost $12m each, just days after meeting with senior Trump officials in March.

She cited a decision from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that her enduring work as interim US attorney despite a lower court order ending her appointment violated the Federal Vacancies Reform Act. As a result of the Third Circuit's ruling, and to protect the stability and integrity of the office which I love, I have decided to step down in my role as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Habba wrote.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Alina Habba says she is resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, she announced on social media. Habba's resignation came after district and appellate court rulings which found she was unlawfully serving in the role, a powerful post charged with enforcing federal criminal and civil law. The Trump administration had been maneuvering to keep Habba in place after her interim appointment expired and she had not gotten US Senate confirmation.

A new portrait name plate for former Biden Health and Human Services official Rachel Levine, who is a transgender woman, drew cries of bigotry when it was revealed Monday. Instead of displaying her current name, the Trump administration created the name plate to reflect Levine's so-called dead name of Richard. Deadnaming is when a transgender person is called by their birth name instead of the name that reflects their gender transition.

The US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has developed a go-to response when asked about something controversial Donald Trump or members of his administration said or did. It's some version of I don't know anything about that. When pressed about the latest scandal from the Trump administration, Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, frequently says he is not aware of that news including last week to reports about a US military strike on an alleged drug boat that has roiled Washington politics.

It is difficult for today's youth to believe, but the snarky T-shirt is a relatively recent innovation. Though they are now everywhere, until the late 1990s one almost never saw another person wearing a shirt that read "Stop looking at my nuts" with a pair of the threaded metal hardware implements pictured, or perhaps one with a sports figure on it and "I just hope both teams have fun."

Twenty-eight paragraphs into the story that first focused attention on the murder Pete Hegseth ordered back in September (though as it notes, Nick Turse first revealed the second shot just days after the attack) is this revelation: it took four strikes to kill first the people then destroy any debris from the targeted boats. The boat in the first strike was hit a total of four times, twice to kill the crew and twice more to sink it, four people familiar with the operation said.

"Our forefathers built this nation on blood, sweat, and the unyielding love of freedom-not for foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars, or snatch the benefits owed to AMERICANS," Noem said. "WE DON'T WANT THEM. NOT ONE."