Author name: Katie Herchenroeder

The United States military killed three more people on Friday in their 39th boat attack in six months, according to a tracker maintained by the New York Times. All told, the strikes by US forces have killed at least 133 people in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.  President Donald Trump’s administration has […]

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Hundreds of judges across the nation have ruled over 4,400 times that President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement arm is detaining people unlawfully, according to a new Reuters review of court documents. And that’s just since October.  The Trump administration’s immense increase in detainments rests, in part, on their decision to detain people while their immigration […]

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Elon Musk, who formally distanced himself from the White House last year, hasn’t stopped trying to influence American politics. Musk took a step stepped away from the Department of Government Efficiency—the agency he crafted and wielded against long held federal spending practices. But, contrary to what some expected, that didn’t signal indefinite distance from Republican […]

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Security detail for President Donald Trump’s budget chief and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought is being paid for by what’s left in funding for the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.  There isn’t much left of USAID after Trump and Vought worked together to dismantle the agency […]

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Federal officials from the Department of Homeland Security were eyeing a Kansas City warehouse for one of their next detention facilities for immigrants. The company that owns the Missouri warehouse, Platform Ventures, announced on Thursday that it is not moving forward with the sale.  The move comes after steep pressure from locals who have been […]

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In a humiliating loss for the Justice Department, a federal grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict Democratic lawmakers who made a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community that they can refuse to carry out illegal orders. The six Democrats featured in the 90-second clip are Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Mark […]

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President Trump’s Border czar, Tom Homan, announced Wednesday that the Trump administration will remove 700 federal immigration officers from Minneapolis. The decision, effective immediately, still leaves over 2,000 agents in the area, nearly four times the number of officers in the Minneapolis Police Department. Homan claimed that although he and the president shared the goal […]

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