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Putin plays the long game. He has punished Ukraine – and he won’t stop there | Yaroslav Hrytsak

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A US appeals court let stand an order blocking President Donald Trump from curtailing automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of the Republican's hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings reut.rs/3QqfJYM

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Senate rules were explicitly designed to protect the minority. Democrats should exploit them mercilessly to slow Trump and Musk before they destroy the country.

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Letter: Utah Attorney General’s tantrum on birthright citizenship has no standing

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Donald Trump is apparently so comfortable letting Elon Musk run the country that he's taken a second job as a theatre impresario.

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Why is the right so determined to undermine and dismiss D.E.I.? “It is because these widely varied efforts represent a commitment to integration, to opposing bigotry and racism, to offering an invitation to belong,” Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes.

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At the rally, U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin took the bullhorn and called Trump’s decision “ to slam the door shut on refugees” a “ betrayal of America and our values," adding that "nobody slammed the door shut in the face of" the Trump family, Melania Trump or Elon Musk.

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⚡️Trump's pick for FBI chief took money from Russian propagandist, WP reports. Kash Patel received $25,000 in 2024 from a company run by pro-Kremlin filmmaker Igor Lopatonok.

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Missing Madeline Shehu, from Penngrove, CA: Madeline Hally Shehu was last seen in Penngrove, California on February 5, 2025 missingpeopleinamerica.org/missing/Made...

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A group of 200 former national security officials urged congressional leaders to investigate the motive behind the Central Intelligence Agency’s buyout offers to staff, warning they were designed to “shape the workforce in a matter that prioritizes political loyalty.”

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Kash Patel Suddenly Can’t Seem to Remember His Long Record of Extremism "Clearly, Kash Patel is lying. He absolutely does know who I am," said far-right extremist Stew Peters, who had Patel on his show multiple times www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A Missouri woman convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and recently pardoned by President Donald Trump has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing a mother of two in a drunken-driving crash.

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Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: A Mighty Wind

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The Pentagon’s intelligence agency paused observances of Pride Month, Black History Month, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Holocaust Days of Remembrance, Juneteenth and other annual cultural events.

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Groups helping Americans find abortion pills report Instagram ‘shadow-banning’

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Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, one of the most extreme anti-immigration bills in recent memory, into law Wednesday, allowing law enforcement to detain and deport undocumented immigrants on the mere suspicion of committing a crime. https://newrepublic.com/post/190891/trump-signs-laken-ri…

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The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

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A man is accused of impersonating an ICE officer and raping a woman in North Carolina.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has decided to remove retired Gen. Mark A. Milley’s security detail, suspend his security clearance, and order an inspector general inquiry into his behavior as the Pentagon’s top officer.

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Breaking: President Trump signed an executive order to restrict access to medical treatments for transgender children and teens, including puberty blockers and hormones

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Breaking News: The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on criminal investigations into Donald Trump for the special counsel.

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"I stand before this monument of mutilated dreams, and I cannot help but think, eight decades after the liberation of Auschwitz, how much has humankind actually changed?"

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On Saturday, Trump announced that he favored the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza. Trump was not floating a theoretical policy. His administration is already taking steps to try to remove Palestinians from the area. What are the motivations of Trump's radical new policy? Follow the money.

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What Trump did flings the door wide open to run-of-the-mill corruption and potentially far worse.

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‘It will be dire for readers’: the disappearing voices of Australia’s independent publishers

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More than 80 days after Election Day, a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court remains unresolved. That's because the Republican candidate is contesting some 65,000 ballots.

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Letter: Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship is a cruel and unconstitutional assault on our democracy

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"Republicans don’t want people with any authority making appeals to our humanity in response to Trump’s cruelties. That’s the last thing MAGA wants."

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When measles vaccine rates plummeted in Samoa, health experts saw a looming crisis. But RFK Jr. saw an opportunity to study the health of unvaccinated children. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel,” one expert said.

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Breaking News: The Trump administration is moving to deport migrants who were allowed into the U.S. temporarily under Biden-era programs, an internal memo said.

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‘It's really cheap to get into politics and have influence."

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President Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship could render babies born to some asylum-seekers "stateless," according to a lawsuit filed by five pregnant women and several immigrant groups.

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BREAKING: The ICC is seeking to charge Taliban leaders for alleged gender-based crimes, as the group cracks down on women's rights in Afghanistan

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A woman who was blamed by French courts for her divorce because she no longer had sex with her husband has won an appeal in Europe's top human rights court, reigniting a debate in France over women's rights reut.rs/42mc3P7

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The Trump administration, seeking to stamp out federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, is calling on government employees to snitch on any colleagues that continue to follow such policies.

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The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention web site is down. Suspected gone; possibly the office itself too? www.whitehouse.gov/ogvp/

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A day after the Trump administration moved to vastly expand its powers to carry out fast-track deportations as part of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants, the American Civil Liberties Union has sued to try to stop it.

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