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DHS recalls all furloughed workers as partial shutdown nears two months

The Department of Homeland Security on Friday ordered every furloughed employee back to work, ending a staffing standoff that left the nation's largest security agency short-handed for nearly two months while Congress failed to pass a funding bill. The recall…
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Sotomayor complains about Trump's emergency Supreme Court appeals — but the Court keeps ruling in his favor

Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a law school audience Thursday that the Trump administration's use of the Supreme Court's emergency docket is "unprecedented in the court's history", a complaint that says less about executive overreach than it does about the liberal…
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Federal judge finds Pentagon in defiance of court order on press access

A federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday that the Pentagon is obstructing journalists and defying an earlier court order that required the Department of Defense to restore access to credentialed reporters, a finding that sets up a direct clash between…
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Oklahoma flags lowered after OHP Trooper Vernon Brake killed in I-35 crash

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered flags across the state to half-staff Friday after an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was killed in a crash on Interstate 35 earlier in the week. Trooper Vernon Brake was one of three people who died…
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Ohio man becomes first person convicted under Melania Trump's Take It Down Act

A 37-year-old Columbus, Ohio, man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to cybercrimes that included creating and distributing AI-generated sexually explicit images, marking the first conviction under the Take It Down Act, the law First Lady Melania Trump championed and…
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House Republicans block Democrats' bid to restrict Trump's Iran war powers

House Democrats showed up to a pro forma session Thursday and tried to force through a resolution limiting President Trump's authority to conduct military operations against Iran. They failed. Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), presiding as speaker pro tempore, gaveled the…
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Man accused of fatally stabbing woman on Charlotte light rail found incompetent to stand trial

The man charged with killing a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train last August will not face trial any time soon. Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., 34, has been deemed "incapable to proceed" after a psychiatric…
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Husband arrested after wife vanishes in Bahamas — and a 2015 domestic violence report adds troubling context

Brian Hooker was arrested by the Royal Bahamas Police Force in connection with the disappearance of his wife, Lynette Hooker, 55, who vanished during a boating trip near Elbow Cay last weekend. His lawyer called the arrest "shocking." But a…
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Fetterman breaks with Democrats again, vows to oppose Iran war powers resolution

Sen. John Fetterman announced Wednesday he will vote against his party's latest war powers resolution aimed at halting U.S. military strikes on Iran, making him, once again, the lone Democrat willing to back the administration's use of force in the…
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Ivanka Trump opens up about her mother's death, Kushner's cancer battle, and watching the Butler shooting unfold

Ivanka Trump broke down during a 90-minute podcast interview while discussing the death of her mother, her husband Jared Kushner's fight with thyroid cancer, and the moment she watched, poolside with two of her children, as a gunman opened fire…
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