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“Trump Republicans are hellbent on making California smoggy again,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said. from @insideclimatenews.org via @climatedesk.org

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“Now the stock markets are not doing so well, and you’re saying it’s the Biden stock market," a reporter asked. "Yet you are the president. Can you explain that?” Trump couldn’t.

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NIAID's Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Tuesday afternoon, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s department.

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“I urge you to keep going, keep doing what is right for our country, and I do believe that history will vindicate your service," Jackson told fellow judges.

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The ruling from U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell is the first to permanently block an executive order issued by President Trump punishing a law firm for representing clients or causes he dislikes.

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Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more

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This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.

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USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has opened up 73 jobs to internal candidates. They include roles just vacated by people who are receiving full pay and benefits through September.

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On Thursday, three federal judges in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., said Trump's anti-DEI efforts were on shaky legal ground.

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Breaking News: A federal judge expressed deep concern that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

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Commerce Department employees caught up in a legal battle over their mass firings are now learning that their health care coverage was cut off weeks ago, even though they were paying their premiums.

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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

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The FTC on Monday accused Meta of creating a monopoly that bought start-ups that stood in its way, kicking off a landmark antitrust trial that could dismantle a social media empire that has transformed how the world connects.

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Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.

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US District Judge James Boasberg vowed to find out whether officials in the Trump administration violated his orders temporarily blocking the use of an 1798 law for deportations by refusing to turn two flights around last weekend.

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"We are public servants, not Elon’s servants."

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Rep. Flood of Nebraska was overpowered by the voices of his enraged constituents chanting, “Tax the rich.” “What makes Elon Musk a better person to audit our government for waste, fraud, and abuse than the inspectors general that Donald Trump fired?” one constituent asked.

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President Trump says he's thinking of getting rid of the country's disaster response agency, FEMA. States say they can't replicate what FEMA does on their own.

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"The way I was taught is, if your family were immigrants to this country and came for a better life, the price you pay for that is you can never say that 'no one else is welcome.' That is what America was built on," said the Dropkick Murphys frontman Ken Casey.

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The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk's role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.

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More than 500,000 people sign petition after ‘powerful sonic impact’ allegedly directed towards rally in Belgrade More than half a million people have signed an online petition calling for an independent investigation into whether security forces in Serbia used a sonic weapon – what the petition…

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Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman was booed after defending DOGE at a town hall.

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A Pentagon official not authorized to speak publicly said its review to scrub websites of DEI content was too hasty and used search terms like "gay," which led to the flagging of Enola Gay images.

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DOGE has spent the last six weeks on a supposed crusade to audit the government and stop fraud, waste, and abuse. But two federal auditors with years of experience say that DOGE’s actions are the furthest thing from what an actual audit looks like.

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NEW: A Maryland federal judge says Elon Musk and DOGE likely violated the Constitution in their efforts to dismantle USAID. The judge ordered DOGE to restore the agency's functionality and blocked Trump from making further attempts to shut down the agency.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing bird flu to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Veterinary scientists said that would be inhumane, dangerous and have enormous economic consequences.

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A 2024 GAO report found the IRS netted a savings of $13,000 for every additional hour spent auditing wealthy individuals’ tax returns. Watch reporter @andykroll.bsky.social break down how DOGE cuts to the IRS could cost more than DOGE will ever save ⤵️ 📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social

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The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes blocks the Department of Defense from carrying through with a policy directive designed to remove transgender servicemembers from the military.

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BREAKING: A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from ending $14 billion in climate grants.

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Nuclear truth bomb from @repjasmine.bsky.social on DEI 🔥🔥🔥 “The only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so much harder, and this is why they don’t want us to have education.”

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Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: In shutting down the 83-year-old Voice of America, the White House issued a news release asserting that the venerable broadcaster had distributed “radical propaganda,” listing 10 examples. However, none of the claims add up.

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The federal judge’s ruling was clear: The Trump administration could not use an obscure wartime law from the 18th century to deport people without a hearing. That did not happen. Instead, the Trump administration sent more than 200 migrants to El Salvador over the weekend.

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OK back to news. Because more disinformation is swirling around about 150-year-olds collecting social security benefits today, let's revisit this from @davidgilbert.bsky.social: Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There’s a much simpler explanation.

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A French politician suggested the two countries no longer share the values that inspired the gift more than a century ago. The White House sharply rejected his request, which he described as symbolic.

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BREAKING: In a rare move, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issues a statement rejecting Trump's impeachment threat against Judge James Boasberg, the judge who blocked the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to justify mass deportations.

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The lawsuit may be the most substantive legal effort to require the Education Department to enforce civil rights since 1970, when the NAACP sued the agency for allowing segregation to continue. By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social & @jodiscohen.bsky.social

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While the U.S. grapples with an egg shortage caused by avian flu, eggs remain plentiful and affordable in Canada. There are reasons for that, including that egg farms there tend to be smaller.

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The U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank funded by Congress, was the scene of a hostile takeover by the Department of Government Efficiency. DOGE has tried to install new leadership at the institute.

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Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Sen. Mark Kelly is dumping his tainted Tesla. “Elon Musk turned out to be an ahole. I don’t want to be driving a car built and designed by an ahole.”

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Schumer’s gotta go, man. Put the New York machine guys in timeout for a decade or two while we save the country from the trash they can’t figure out how to dispose of

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“spending on incapacity and disability benefits is forecast to grow to more than £100bn a year. Britain will soon be spending twice as much on incapacity benefits as it spends on secondary schools.”

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The acting head of the government’s human resources arm, Charles Ezell, is refusing to testify in tomorrow’s case that challenges the legality of the recent mass firings of federal workers. His absence raises serious questions—what is there to hide?

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Nobody knows what the US will do next, but Starmer is riding the wave better than most. A deal to restore US aid could be agreed this week ⬇️

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Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’

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🤬 Signs of torture found on most bodies of Ukrainians repatriated from Russian captivity – photo, video

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Dr. Frances Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.

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