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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has directed the withdrawal of 2,000 National Guard members deployed to Los Angeles.

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The Senate is about to vote on a sweeping cuts package that would gut funding for public broadcasting, global health, and foreign aid. That means local NPR and PBS stations are once again on the chopping block.

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A win! The Senate has agreed to restore roughly $400 million in funding for PEPFAR, the landmark HIV/AIDS program launched under President Bush that’s credited with saving millions of lives around the world. Keep speaking up, it makes a difference.

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NASA has reversed course and will not host the National Climate Assessments on its website, despite initially saying it would preserve access after the Trump administration removed them from the official climate science portal.

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Last night, the Department of Health and Human Services sent termination letters to employees who were originally fired in April but temporarily reinstated due to a lower court ruling. The Supreme Court cleared the way last week for those firings to pr…

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Something’s brewing. 👀

FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Deputy AG Todd Blanche were all spotted on the White House grounds Monday afternoon, seen by the internal White House press pool (ABC).

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired Joseph Tirrell, the Justice Department’s senior ethics attorney, a military veteran who spent nearly two decades serving his country in and out of uniform.

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The Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling that lifted a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s planned layoffs at the Department of Education. The decision permits the administration to move forward with dismissing nearly 1,400 employees,…

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A coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit today against the Trump administration, demanding the release of $6.8 billion in education funding that has been unlawfully withheld.

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This is a smart move by Fed Chair Jerome Powell. By proactively requesting an independent review of the D.C. headquarters renovation, Powell is doing exactly what leaders should do when under politically motivated fire: call for transparency and let th…

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The amount of mental gymnastics is crazy.

“The file is on my desk.”
“There is no file.”
“Obama and Hillary made the file to smear me.”
“Okay but actually there was never a file to begin with.”

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A DOGE staffer has assumed control over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), an agency traditionally independent from direct White House authority. Adam Blake, now serving as the DOGE-appointed lead at the NRC, has been tasked with carrying out dir…

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