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“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children, after the government posted their home address to social media.”

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“The service for LGBTQ youth has received 1.3 million calls, texts, or chats since 2022. In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.”

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On April 20, the DOGE website detailing spending cuts was updated to claim $160 billion in cuts. But the $5 billion in additional cuts appears to be pulled out of thin air. Nothing has been added to the "Wall of Receipts" since at least April 15.

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“Immigrant advocates and lawyers say an increasing number of migrant children are making immigration court appearances without the assistance of attorneys, which they say will lead to more children getting deported.”

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“But the health center’s administrator, Zachary Moser, said a recent decision to freeze family planning funds has the center fearful it won’t be able to continue covering family planning services for its rural southeastern Missouri population.”

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On April 8, Jose Hermosillo, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen, was wrongfully incarcerated by immigration authorities in Arizona, who claimed he was an undocumented immigrant. He was held for 10 days at Florence Correctional Center.

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“Two young German travelers expected their Hawaii trip to be the highlight of a months-long world adventure. Instead, their visit ended in handcuffs, jail time, and deportation — a stark reminder of the risks some international visitors face at U.S. borders.”

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“President Trump raised $239 million for his inauguration festivities in January… About 140 different people or companies gave at least $1 million to the effort, including blue-chip companies like JPMorgan Chase, Delta Air Lines and Target.”

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“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection… But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images… has been in an immigration detention center for two months.”

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In March, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon sent a letter to school officials declaring that the government was abruptly ending COVID-related relief funding. Without the already-approved funds, many schools will not have the money for literacy or tutoring programs, or to repair school buildings.

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The aggressive mass deportation policy of Trump is inconsistent with immigration law and constitutional guarantees of due process. These principles are not just important to protect the rights of undocumented immigrants. They are necessary to protect the rights of everyone, including U.S. citizens.

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“On Tuesday alone, DOGE removed around $962 million in previously claimed cuts and altered hundreds of others to boost individual items’ purported “savings” values.”

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“In Texas, a Republican senator just introduced a bill that would require wastewater treatment facilities to do some extra testing… [But] what the senator wants to test for may give you even greater pause: It’s the abortion medication mifepristone.”

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“The U.S. consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.”

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On March 20, Popular Information revealed that the SSA secretly implemented a policy shift that could impose massive demands on the agency's already overburdened field offices. Now, Congressman Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA) has written a letter to the SSA demanding that it reverse the policy.

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“Harvard-affiliated researchers have begun receiving stop-work orders on contracts worth tens of millions of dollars less than one day after the Trump administration announced a $2.2 billion pause of federally-funded research Monday evening.”

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“Trump’s choice for Internal Revenue Service director just had his six-figure debt paid off by campaign donors whose firms have significant, often contentious business before the tax agency he would lead, according to federal records reviewed by The Lever.”

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On Tuesday, Trump Media and Technology Group announced it was launching a series of actively managed investment accounts. TMTG is marketing these "Truth Social-branded Separately Managed Accounts" as a way to invest in companies that benefit from Trump's political agenda.

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On Monday, Popular Information reported that at least 29 people had their ballots in the 2024 election wrongly discarded by the NC Supreme Court. On Tuesday, the NC Board of Elections filed a notice in federal court citing the reporting, stating that the votes would be restored.

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“Passed during the last week of this year’s legislative session, Idaho lawmakers didn’t hear public feedback on the bill from doctors, pharmacists or health care professionals.”

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“Idaho's abortion ban does not prevent doctors from performing abortions when a pregnant woman's life is in danger, even if her death is ‘neither imminent nor assured,’ a judge has ruled, a victory for four patients and two doctors who sued the state.”

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“The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request from Milwaukee’s public health department for assistance in managing unsafe lead levels in the city’s public schools, citing the loss of its lead experts in mass firings last week across federal health agencies.”

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The North Carolina Supreme Court ordered 260 ballots to be invalidated after they were challenged for being “never residents” by Jefferson Griffin, a NC Supreme Court candidate. But Popular Information and Anderson Alerts identified 29 people whose votes were discarded who have lived in the state.

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“The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has suspended an analyst whom Director Kash Patel included on a ‘deep state’ enemies list in one of his books, according to multiple reports.”

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A recent ProPublica report found that SpaceX, Elon Musk’s privately owned rocket company, discreetly allows Chinese investors to purchase its shares through offshore investment schemes. The investments are made through special-purpose vehicles used to conceal investors’ identities.

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“For at least 30 years, the National Weather Service, or NWS, had been providing time- and labor-intensive manual translations into Spanish. Researchers have found that even delayed translations have contributed to missed evacuations, injuries, and preventable deaths… And now those alerts are gone.”

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In 2021, the DOJ launched an investigation into the Alabama Department of Public Health. The investigation found that the ADPH and the Lowndes County Health Department "engaged in a consistent pattern of inaction and/or neglect concerning the health risks associated with raw sewage.”

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“Pennsylvania’s deputy education chief said Wednesday the state is already in compliance with civil rights laws and is signaling the state will not order schools to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as President Trump’s administration has demanded.”

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“Despite promises to bolster the US manufacturing industry, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut a key program that invests in some of the biggest manufacturing industries in the US, including in JD Vance’s home town of Middletown, Ohio.”

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“The [EPA] is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change. The move, ordered by a Trump appointee, would affect thousands of industrial facilities across the country.”

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“The department’s determination could result in hundreds of payouts from the federal government intended to cover the cost of repairing about $3 million in damage to the Capitol from the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.”

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On March 17, Popular Information published an internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo exposing a scheme to end phone service for new claims, which would have forced up to 85,000 elderly and disabled people each week to travel to field offices to verify their identities.

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“Brevard Public Schools has opted not to renew a Satellite High School teacher's contract after she referred to a student by a name other than their legal name without parental permission.”

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“The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law, a March 31 internal memo obtained by Mississippi Today shows. One of the now deleted research collections focused on ‘race relations’ and the other on ‘gender studies.’”

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“[North Carolina] lawmakers are considering what would be one of the most restrictive abortion bans in the country. House Bill 804… would make abortion after conception illegal except only to save the life of the mother. There are no exceptions for rape or incest.”

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Trump and his allies have said that the federal deficit is an existential threat that necessitates immediate spending cuts. Elon Musk, as the leader of DOGE, has pushed for spending cuts across the government. Meanwhile, the bulk of federal discretionary spending is spent on the military.

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“Blanche, the second-ranking official in the DOJ and President Donald Trump’s defense attorney during his 2024 criminal trial, wrote that NCET, or the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, was disbanded “effective immediately.”

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“The IRS has agreed to share confidential taxpayer data to help the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigration, according to a new court filing.”

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“The Tennessee Senate on Thursday approved legislation that could subject churches and charitable organizations to lawsuits if they provide housing aid to immigrants without legal status who go on to commit a crime.”

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