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Few neighborhoods in New York were paralyzed like Corona, a working-class enclave that is about 75 percent Hispanic, home to generations of immigrants from Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere. But Corona was also one of the neighborhoods that swung most sharply […]

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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that another round of active-duty troops will head to the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming weeks at the behest of Trump. https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/pentagon-send-added-3000-troops-us-mexico-border

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New measles cases have been confirmed in New Jersey and Kentucky with the one common factor being a lack of measles vaccinations. https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/unvaccinated-afflicted-with-measles-in-new-jersey-kentucky/1749670

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A natalist conference featuring speakers including self-described eugenicists and promoters of race science, apparently including the man behind a previously pseudonymous race-science influencer account, and the founder of a startup offering IQ screening for IVF embryos, will be held at a hotel […]

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A Texas health authority is warning against “measles parties” as the outbreak in West Texas grew to at least 146 cases, with 20 hospitalized and one unvaccinated school-age child dead. The outbreak continues to be mainly in unvaccinated children […]

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“Every nation must contribute to that in the best way that it can, bringing different capabilities and support to the table, but all taking responsibility to act, all stepping up their own share of the burden,” Starmer said […]

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Last week, Polestar announced a special $5,000 discount for Tesla drivers looking to lease the company's new Polestar 3 crossover. With that deal and another $15,000 of incentives to lessees, Tesla owners could get a $20,000 lease discount to become ex-Tesla owners […]

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Kelley Blue Book says Trump’s tariffs could raise the U.S. price of the average new car – already approaching $49,000 – by $3,000 or more. The price of some full-size pickup trucks could shoot up by $10,000 […]

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Sweeping layoffs of federal employees have struck the program responsible for controlling the invasive sea lamprey that threatens fish across the Great Lakes, the earth’s largest freshwater ecosystem […]

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Watchdog groups, policy experts and recently retired high level NOAA scientists said the cuts are also likely to harm the American public by creating public uncertainty about the agency, as well as severely undermining morale in a shrinking team. In worst-case scenarios, the firings could […]

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“Every single Trump action, especially on energy, is designed to raise prices for Americans and maximize profits for the fossil fuel industry,” he said. “When you put the industry in charge of policy, the policy will reflect industry priorities.” […]

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“Purging climate change web pages doesn’t make climate change go away. It just makes it harder for farmers to adapt.” https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/farmers-usda-climate-data-lawsuit-website-purge/

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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson convicted former Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Lamond of obstructing justice and making false statements after a trial without a jury. https://apnews.com/article/enrique-tarrio-shane-lamond-trial-proud-boys-ebc9620298c8843a5fd83fd718e8a582

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U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president’s authority to oust the head of the independent agency that’s likely headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court […]

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Newly minted U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan swore he wouldn’t support gutting government benefits such as Medicaid that residents of his northeastern Pennsylvania district rely on. Then the first-term Republican voted for a bill that could do just that […]

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Demonstrators gathered outside Tesla stores across the U.S. Saturday to protest the automaker’s billionaire CEO, Elon Musk, and his push to slash government spending on behalf of Trump. https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-tesla-protests-doge-3b3eba9313074ccf8e959a92486d900f

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the U.K.'s unwavering support, a day after the blowout at the White House with Trump […]

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During his first six weeks in office, Trump has embarked on a dizzying teardown of the federal government and attacks on long-standing institutions in an attempt to increase his own authority […]

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After years of yelling that the “Russia hoax” was a witch hunt, Trump is now openly colluding with Vladimir Putin in both narrative and action. Not only is the U.S. government seemingly abandoning its allies, but it is aligning itself with autocrats and oligarchs and attempting to rebuild our […]

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The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow forecast for the first quarter was just revised to show a contraction at a 1.5% annual rate. This would be the first quarterly contraction in the economy since the first quarter of 2022. The forecast was slashed from an expansion at a 2.3% rate after the government […]

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“OPM does not have any authority whatsoever, under any statute in the history of the universe,” to hire or fire any employees but its own, Alsup said. https://apnews.com/article/trump-federal-employees-firings-a85d1aaf1088e050d39dcf7e3664bb9f

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In every part of the government that involves the use of force — the military, the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the authority to arrest, the capacity to hold individuals in jail — Trump is putting into power people who are more loyal to him than they are to the United States […]

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Rockwall County on Wednesday reported a confirmed case of measles in an adult resident, the first in North Texas. https://www.keranews.org/health-wellness/2025-02-26/north-texas-measles-rockwall-county

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In Edmonton, where Gretzky became a legend, some fans are petitioning to change the name of Wayne Gretzky Drive. The street was renamed in 1999 to honour his four Stanley Cups with the Oilers. As of Thursday, the petition had gathered more than 10,000 signatures […]

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The unprecedented exposure of large swaths of personal financial data by DOGE hackers as well as the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mean every American should take action to protect themselves against fraud, identity theft, and economic instability […]

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U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga in Virginia refused to grant a preliminary injunction that would have prevented the firings while the case was argued. He extended a deadline to Monday for workers to resign under a program that would continue to pay them through Sept. 30 […]

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International AIDS Society President Beatriz Grinsztejn, referring to cuts worldwide, said: "The U.S. funding cuts are dismantling the system. HIV treatment is crumbling. TB services are collapsing." […]

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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Taylor Momsen and Blake Lively are among those paying tribute to Michelle Trachtenberg, who died Wednesday. Trachtenberg was found in her New York apartment “unconscious and unresponsive,” according to an NYPD statement. She was 39 […]

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Two major lottery drawings in Texas that put nearly $180 million in the pockets of winning ticket holders have set off widening state investigations over concern that ticket sellers and buyers may have exploited the rules […]

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“If the government controls the Fed, the government will always be tempted to keep rates down,” Itay Goldstein, the chair of Wharton’s finance department, said, “which is going to cause inflation.” https://fortune.com/2025/02/27/trump-path-killing-fed-independence-how-unofficial-norm-came-to-exist/

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ICE says it’s opening its first new detention facility under the Trump Administration, expanding its capacity to house detainees and easily deport them through a deal with a privately owned jailhouse in Newark […]

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The students were part of a group of four who walked into a "history of modern Israel" class on the first day of the spring semester on 21 January to “provide a discursive alternative” to a class they say “dodged questions of Palestinian self-determination and whitewashed the ongoing genocide” […]

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“I have never heard of a foreign government asking Romania to lift preventive measures to allow some suspects to leave the country,” he told The Associated Press. “If I had been a judge, this would not have happened.” “If it is true, it means that there is no more rule of law and sovereign […]

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New Jersey health officials have confirmed two additional cases of measles in the state this year linked to a Bergen County resident who recently traveled internationally. https://www.nj.com/healthfit/2025/02/new-measles-cases-tied-to-nj-patient-who-visited-3-health-facilities.html

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Drummond stressed that Wired isn’t part of any resistance. It’s just reporting. “This is all newsworthy, highly-consequential information,” she said. “This is not information that is being disseminated in a transparent way.” […]

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Elon Musk is the undisputed champion of making money for Elon Musk. As effectively the CEO of the United States of America? Very bad. Embarrassing, honestly. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-incompetence-mistakes-feature-not-bug/

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Building lethality in the military may be the buzzword for the new Trump administration, but busywork and paperwork have become the reality at the Pentagon, as service members and civilian workers are facing a broad mandate to purge all of the department’s social media sites and untangle […]

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‘My contract was one of more than 800 that were canceled last night. The cancellations were not based on any evaluation. DOGE appears to have simply identified all professional services contracts and canceled them.’ […]

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FDA abruptly cancels flu shot meeting. There are no plans to reschedule so far. https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-vaccine-meeting-abruptly

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The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA) requested in a meeting on Tuesday that managers present him with a plan for a 50 percent reduction in staff, a mass firing that could affect tens of thousands of employees across the country […]

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“After years in which the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently cut back on federal public corruption law, and at a time in which the federal government is refusing to tackle corruption, it has never been more important for state officials to take corruption head on.” […]

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The Congressional Research Service reported in 2021 that EB-5 investor] visas pose risks of fraud, including verification that funds were obtained legally. [https://apnews.com/article/investor-visas-trump-immigration-eb5-gold-cards-cdb943dd1633bc234bb715fa20914e05

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Pilots on a Southwest Airlines flight attempting to land at Chicago’s Midway Airport were forced to climb back into the sky to avoid another aircraft crossing the runway on Tuesday morning […]

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An American Airlines plane arriving at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport discontinued its landing, performing a go-around at an air traffic controller’s instruction to avoid getting too close to another aircraft departing from the same runway, the Federal Aviation Administration said […]

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“People don’t send us here to make their lives worse. But that’s exactly what Trump and Musk are doing,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., launching the debate. “They are looking at our most pressing problems — and making them so much worse. And this budget proposal will only add fuel to the […]

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Ukraine has agreed to a mineral rights deal with the U.S. that could be finalized as soon as Friday at a White House meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-agrees-to-mineral-rights-deal-with-u-s-3bbd871f

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“Right now, Republican members of Congress fear one person: Donald Trump. They don’t fear you,” Kinzinger said. “When they start fearing you, that’s when they start having a different calculus.” https://apnews.com/article/trump-opposition-principles-first-076bf16a73a9c66f10ad3a2fbc0df1c1

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An unknown illness has killed over 50 people in northwestern Congo, according to doctors on the ground and the World Health Organization on Monday. https://apnews.com/article/congo-mystery-unknown-illness-cd8b1fdcb3b2ed032968b2c6044dc6db

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“No one wants to be caught drinking Coke,” said Mad Asaad, 21, a worker at the bakery-cafe chain Croissant House in the West Bank city of Ramallah, which stopped selling Coke after the war erupted. “Everyone drinks Chat now. It’s sending a message.” […]

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U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden’s decision was only for the moment, however. He told attorneys for the Trump administration and the AP that the issue required more exploration before ruling. https://apnews.com/article/ap-lawsuit-trump-gulf-mexico-america-6b6fba488e7e420e5fcd28c44a755922

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