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10 Fundamental Flaws With the Comey Prosecution

The case is fated to run aground.

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‘Acting like jack booted thugs’: Gov. JB Pritzker slams Trump’s Chicago military deployment 

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ICE officer seen on video pushing woman to ground has returned to duty

An ICE officer who was initially relieved of his duties after being captured on video pushing a woman to the ground has been returned to duty, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CBS News...

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Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

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Exclusive: Federal drug prosecutions fall to lowest level in decades as Trump shifts focus to deportations

The number of people charged with breaking federal drug laws dropped to the slowest rate since at least the late 1990s.

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US Treasury says Bessent picks White House official as new chief of staff

U.S. Treasury said on Monday that Secretary Scott Bessent has chosen White House personnel official Michael Friedman as his new chief of staff, replacing Dan Katz, who is due to take the No. 2 job at the International Monetary Fund.

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Trump can slash Education Department's civil rights staff, court rules

A federal appeals court on Monday allowed the U.S. Department of Education to proceed with plans to lay off civil rights staff as it paused an injunction that the Trump administration said should have been removed after a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

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Trump shows off merch teasing a third term as Zelensky visits over Ukraine peace deal

The president was reaching for a ‘4 More Years’ hat to show the Ukrainian president

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Explaining the G.O.P.’s Misleading Talking Point on the Looming Shutdown

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Man arrested by Secret Service after 'scaling White House fence'

An extraordinary photo captured the moment the man, wearing reflective blue tinted sunglasses, a blazer and a tie, was escorted by two agents.

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Shutdown odds rise as leaders leave White House without progress

Congressional leaders left a meeting with President Trump on Monday saying they'd made no progress toward a deal preventing a shutdown on Wednesday, increasing the odds the government's lights will turn off in less than 48 hours.  Democrats have been pining for action to extend healthcare subsidies that are set to expire by year’s end, with Republicans adamant that their stopgap spending bill is a take-it-or-leave-it offer.  Both sides said little was accomplished at the White House on Monday.  “There are still large differences between us,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters outside the White House.  “Their bill has not one iota of Democratic input. That is never how we've done this before,” Schumer continued. “It's up to the Republicans whether they want a shutdown or not.”  Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) pointed the finger back at Democrats. "This is setting sitting right now at the Senate desk," Thune said outside the White House, holding up a copy of stopgap bill. "We could pick it up and pass it tonight, pick it up and pass it tomorrow before the government shuts down, and then we don't have the government shutdown. It is totally up to the Democrats, because right now, they are the only thing standing between the American people and the government shutting down." The meeting came after a public battle in recent weeks over a possible sitdown — not only between Democrats and Trump, but between the minority party and Republicans writ large.  Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) had not met with either of their GOP counterparts — Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) or Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) — in recent weeks, with the GOP twosome arguing that there was little need to do so given that their proposed funding bill is a “clean” continuing resolution to fund the government through late November.  Democrats have argued a “clean” CR, though, is insufficient for this go-around. Schumer has routinely cited the expiring enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies, the GOP’s Medicaid cuts in the “big, beautiful bill” and rescissions packages.  But with little leeway given on either side, lawmakers are widely expecting funding to lapse. “Unless something breaks in the morning, unfortunately it looks like they’re going to shut it down,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), a member of GOP leadership and an appropriator, laying blame at the Democratic leader. “Schumer is going to shut it down.”  Schumer told reporters that he and Trump spoke at length about the healthcare issues he and his party have been pushing for the bill to consider, adding that the president appeared to be hearing “about them for the first time” — an idea GOP leaders vehemently disputed.  He also argued that there was a rift cropping up between Trump and GOP leaders over a potential extension of the enhanced subsidies.  When we made these arguments it was clear there was a division or possible division between the president and the two Republican leaders,” Schumer said, referring to Thune and Johnson.  The South Dakota Republican shot that idea down swiftly and maintained that the GOP triumvirate is together on the issue.  “We’re unified. We’re all on the same page,” Thune said, scoffing at Schumer’s claim.

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Freed Madeleine McCann suspect confronts prosecutor who accused him of her murder

'I'm being hounded by the media, and it's his fault,' Christian claimed. 'I want him to take responsibility.'