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Trump’s Plans for Venezuelan Oil Are Rapidly Unfolding

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President Trump’s plans for Venezuela’s oil industry, insofar as there are concrete plans, appear to be solidifying. On Wednesday, Energy Secretary Chris Wright indicated that the United States will control the flow of Venezuelan oil “indefinitely.” The announcement came hours after President Trump revealed that Venezuela would be “turning over” up to 50 million barrels […]

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Wyoming Court Stops Abortion Bans

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Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming following a Tuesday decision in the state’s Supreme Court that said its two abortion bans, including a block on abortion pills, were unconstitutional. The court ruled that the bans violate a 2012 amendment to the Wyoming Constitution that protects an adult’s right to make their own healthcare decisions. One […]

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Europe Tells Trump: Greenland Is Not for Sale

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European leaders argued for Greenland’s sovereignty Tuesday amid President Trump’s continued threat to take over the island following his military operation in Venezuela to capture President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.  Greenland is an autonomous territory in Denmark. Citizens of Greenland are also citizens of Denmark and the European Union.  In a joint […]

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US Reduces Number of Vaccines It Recommends For All Children

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Federal health officials reduced the number of vaccines recommended for all children from 17 to 11 on Monday. According to the new schedule, some routine vaccines are now only recommended for “high-risk” children, while others, like the flu shot, can be administered through “shared clinical decision-making” that is based on individual discussions between the health […]

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Tim Walz Failed Minnesotans. Trump Is Revictimizing Them.

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Minnesotans who lost years of access to state-administered social services amid a series of fraud scandals under Gov. Tim Walz’s watch are now facing federal cuts to many of those same services by the Trump administration. Trump has made Walz the face of Minnesota’s fraud, boosting unsubstantiated conspiracy theories on Truth Social—one which accuses Walz […]

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Even Republicans Are Challenging Trump’s Claim That His Venezuela Campaign Is About Drugs

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Even some Republican lawmakers criticized the Trump administration’s assertion that it is engaging in a military campaign in Venezuela to block fentanyl trafficking into the US. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who is resigning from Congress on Monday following a split from Trump, said on Sunday that the president should target Mexico if he wants […]

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The Lie of “Self-Financing” Oil Wars

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The US attack on Venezuela relies on the same deception that justified the war in Iraq: the idea of self-financing wars with oil. President Trump said Saturday that the US will run Venezuela following the capture of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. “It won’t cost us anything because the money coming […]

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Trump’s Kennedy Center Takeover Plunges Further Into Chaos

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More artists have canceled their performances at the Kennedy Center after its Trump-acolyte-dominated board’s recent vote to add the president’s name to the performing arts center earlier this month.  The latest includes The Cookers, a jazz ensemble, which called off their New Year’s Eve show on Monday.  The band did not explicitly mention the name […]

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Trump Turned on Her Over Epstein Survivors

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said that her defense of survivors of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and threat to disclose the identities of some of the men who abused them broke her relationship with President Donald Trump, who said his “friends will get hurt” if she went through with it.  Greene’s claim came in remarks […]

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Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Suspect Says He Acted to “Speak Up” for Election Deniers

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The man who allegedly planted two pipe bombs in Washington, DC, the night before the January 6 Capitol riot told investigators after his arrest earlier this month that someone needed to “speak up” for people who believed that the 2020 election was stolen, according to a court filing on Sunday.  Federal prosecutors said that the […]

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Kara Swisher Calls RFK Jr. a ‘Predator’

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Kara Swisher, the veteran tech journalist who had a leading hand in uncovering the affair between then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and journalist Olivia Nuzzi, said in a Friday interview that RFK Jr. also needs to be held accountable given his long history as a “predator.” “It’s crazy that people don’t care,” Swisher said, […]

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In Complaining About Gag Order, DHS Violates Gag Order

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The Department of Homeland Security’s complaint about being under a gag order on Saturday in its case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the Trump administration illegally deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador earlier this year, likely violated the court order. Tricia McLaughlin, the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at the […]

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