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The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don't Exist — The Trump administration's “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don't exist, according to the listed authors. — Copy — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says his “Make America Healthy Again” …
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New York Times:
White House Health Report Included Fake Citations — A report on children's health released by the Make America Healthy Again Commission referred to scientific papers that did not exist. — The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” …
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
The Trump administration's ‘MAHA Report’ cites nonexistent scientific studies — There's new evidence that the White House's “The MAHA Report: Making Our Children Healthy Again” relied in part on scientific research that doesn't exist. — After Donald Trump and his White House team unveiled …
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Mediaite, New Jersey Online, Raw Story and New Republic
Doug Palmer / Politico:
Second federal court rules against Trump's tariffs — The decision comes less than 24 hours after another court ruled against the president's use of an emergency law to justify tariffs on dozens of the United States' largest trading partners. — A second federal court has ruled …
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Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump tariffs reinstated by appeals court for now … WATCH NOW — A federal appeals court on Thursday granted the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower-court ruling that struck down most of President Donald Trump's tariffs. — The Trump administration had earlier told …
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Reuters:
US ruling that Trump tariffs are unlawful stirs relief and uncertainty — A U.S. trade court ruling that blocked most of President Donald Trump's tariffs and found he had overstepped his authority triggered some relief on financial markets on Thursday, while adding to the uncertainties weighing on the global economy.
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Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
Appeals court halts ruling that blocked Trump's tariffs — A federal appellate court on Thursday temporarily stayed a ruling that effectively wiped out most of President Trump's tariffs. — Why it matters: The intervention will deepen the chaos around the Court of International Trade's Wednesday order …
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Alexandra Koch / Fox News:
Federal judge blocks 5 Trump tariff executive orders
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Axios:
Leavitt says Supreme Court “must put an end” to tariff saga
Leavitt says Supreme Court “must put an end” to tariff saga
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Reuters:
US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority
US court blocks most Trump tariffs, says president exceeded his authority
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Trump's Stunning Streak of Losses in Lower Courts
Trump's Stunning Streak of Losses in Lower Courts
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New Jersey Online and USA Today
Jason Lalljee / Axios:
What to know about the court that paused Trump's tariffs
What to know about the court that paused Trump's tariffs
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Aaron Parnas / MeidasTouch News:
Judge Contreras Rules Trump-Era Tariffs Unlawful, Opening Door to New Legal Challenges
Judge Contreras Rules Trump-Era Tariffs Unlawful, Opening Door to New Legal Challenges
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Joseph Cox / 404 Media:
A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion — Earlier this month authorities in Texas performed a nationwide search of more than 83,000 automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras while looking for a woman who they said had a self-administered abortion …
Jonathan Cowan / Politico:
The Debate Over Transgender Rights Is a Liability for Democrats. Here's How to Neutralize It. — It's time for real discussion, dissent and debate, without fear of being canceled. — It will go down as one of the most infamous taglines in modern campaign history: “Kamala is for they/them — President Trump is for you.”
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Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing / Politico:
Gallego says concerns about trans athletes are ‘legitimate’
Gallego says concerns about trans athletes are ‘legitimate’
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Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ — The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe. … Secretary Marco Rubio's State Department published a reorganization chart Thursday morning showing massive cuts to diplomatic offices and functions, plus a few new additions.
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CNN:
White House pressure for increased immigration arrests strains law enforcement agencies — The Trump administration is building up federal manpower and resources to meet the White House's desire to triple the number of daily immigration arrests - signaling a renewed push to go well beyond efforts from previous administrations.
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Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Head of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations office forced to retire
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Newsweek and The Gateway Pundit
Congressman Steube:
Rep. Steube Introduces Make Autorail Great Again Act to Rebrand DC Metrorail as WMAGA and Trump Train — WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) today introduced the Make Autorail Great Again Act to block all federal funding to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority …
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
GOP bill would force D.C. to call its Metro the “Trump Train”
GOP bill would force D.C. to call its Metro the “Trump Train”
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The Hill, Newsweek and New York Magazine
Dana Goldstein / New York Times:
Live Updates: Judge Intends to Block Trump Effort to Stop Harvard From Enrolling Foreign Students — Students and faculty waged small acts of protest at Harvard's graduation ceremonies as the university's lawyers temporarily beat back the Trump administration's attacks in court.
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HotAir, CBS News, New York Sun, MSNBC, The Harvard Crimson …, USA Today, New York Daily News, Daily Caller News Foundation and Boston.com
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John Fritze / CNN:
Supreme Court limits environmental review of major infrastructure projects — The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the scope of environmental reviews of major infrastructure projects in a decision that could speed up approvals of highways, airports and pipelines.
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court wants to make it easier to build
The Supreme Court wants to make it easier to build
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Anna Merlan / Mother Jones:
What We Don't Know Will Hurt Us — The DOGE-triggered brain drain has destroyed government science, endangered research, and left America fading to black. — On January 28, Dr. Troy Jacobs was in Ethiopia getting ready to board a plane from Addis Ababa to Washington, DC, when his phone and computer suddenly stopped working.
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
Statement on Chair Powell's meeting with the President — For immediate release — At the President's invitation, Chair Powell met with the President today at the White House to discuss economic developments including for growth, employment, and inflation.
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Whitmer Slams Trump for Plan to Pardon Kidnap Plotters Who Wanted to ‘Hog-tie’ Her — DOUBLE STANDARD — The extremists planned to kidnap ‘the b—h’ and two are in a supermax—but Trump said he might let them go free. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has condemned a move by Donald Trump …
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Christopher Robbins / Hell Gate:
Photos: NYPD Arrests Protesters Blocking ICE Vans Transporting Detained Immigrants — On Wednesday night in Lower Manhattan, the NYPD arrested dozens of protesters who were attempting to block the path of two vans that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were using to transport people they had recently detained.
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Wall Street Journal:
Big Law Firms 3, Trump 0 — Three judges across the political spectrum have now said the President's punitive executive orders are unconstitutional. — Click for Sound — President Trump dismisses court rulings against him as judicial overreach, and sometimes he's right.
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New Republic, JURISTnews, HuffPost and Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
The Punch That Launched Trump's War on American Universities — Threats to withhold billions in federal research funds to punish campuses grew heated after a 2019 altercation left a man with a black eye
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump finds more convicted congressional Republicans to reward with pardons — Thanks to the president's latest flurry of pardons, he's now pardoned most of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. — It's been a challenge keeping up with the flurry …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
This Swiss Village Was Buried by a Glacier. Climate Change Deniers Should Take Notice. — We are now yodeling our way to disaster. — Every product was carefully curated by an Esquire editor. We may earn a commission from these links. Here's how we test products and why you should trust us.
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Adam Gurri / Liberal Currents:
The Totalitarian Logic of Immigration Controls — There were many terrible moments in Donald Trump's nakedly fascist 2024 campaign, but I will personally never forget taking the time, in May, to read Radley Balko's extensive discussion of how mass deportation might work in practice.
Eric Levitz / Vox:
Why the right wants to ban this innovation before you get to try it — Conservatives want the government to dictate what you can and cannot eat. Or so Republican policymaking increasingly suggests. — Earlier this month, Montana and Nebraska became the latest US states to ban lab-grown meat …
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly questioned the safety of mRNA technology, which is used in the company's shot. — The Trump administration has delivered its latest blow to vaccines …
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Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Nellie Ohr made false statements to Congress about Trump-Russia investigation, FBI memo shows — A newly declassified FBI memo on Wednesday revealed that Nellie Ohr, a researcher for opposition research firm Fusion GPS, gave false testimony to Congress in 2018 about her involvement …
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Chuck Grassley, Blaze Media, The Daily Caller and New York Post
Megan Brenan / Gallup:
Record Party Divide 10 Years After Same-Sex Marriage Ruling — Republican support has dropped 14 points since 2022 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decade after the Supreme Court's milestone Obergefell v. Hodges ruling declared same-sex marriage a national right in the U.S., a steady 68% of Americans support it.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, Newsweek and PinkNews
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Far-right activist with history of anti-gay comments fired from leadership role at Kennedy Center after CNN investigation — Floyd Brown, a far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama …
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MeidasTouch News, The Hill, Mediaite, Raw Story and NewsMax.com
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Federal Circuit Issues Brief Administrative Stay in Our Tariff Case — Last night, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a unanimous ruling in the case against Trump's “Liberation Day” tariffs filed by Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five US businesses harmed by the tariffs.
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New York Times:
He Took a Wrong Turn Into Canada. The Price? 3 Weeks in ICE Custody. — An accidental trip over the Peace Bridge in Buffalo typically means a toll and a loss of time. But for Victor, crossing an international border carried a higher cost. — Visuals by Lauren Petracca
