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Lisa Friedman / New York Times:
Trump Administration Erases the Government's Power to Fight Climate Change — The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that says greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change — Watch in our video player above. — The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined …
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Evan Bush / NBC News:
EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions — The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being. — ADD NBC NEWS TO GOOGLE — Listen to this article with a free account
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US EPA:
President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
President Trump and Administrator Zeldin Deliver Single Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
A look at false claims made by the Trump administration as it revokes a key scientific finding
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’
Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a ‘scam’
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Anna Kramer / NOTUS:
EPA No Longer Believes Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten Public Health
EPA No Longer Believes Greenhouse Gas Emissions Threaten Public Health
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Dharna Noor / The Guardian:
Trump's EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
Trump's EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
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New York Times:
Goldman Sachs General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler Resigns Over Epstein Ties — Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top Obama administration lawyer, is out at Goldman Sachs after emails showed a friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein spanning many years. — Goldman Sachs's top lawyer …
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Financial Times:
Top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign over Epstein links — Attorney to depart Wall Street bank on June 30 after new documents revealed extent of her ties to the sex offender — Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathy Ruemmler said she will resign this summer after documents released …
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Ken Sweet / Associated Press:
Goldman Sachs' top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler to resign after emails show close ties to Jeffrey Epstein — Kathy Ruemmler, the top lawyer at storied investment bank Goldman Sachs and former White House counsel to President Barack Obama, announced her resignation Thursday, after emails between …
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Wall Street Journal:
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner — Substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn't known — WASHINGTON—The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard …
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Wall Street Journal:
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem's Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS — Secretary, with close adviser Corey Lewandowski, faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations — Kristi Noem knew she needed a reset.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“If We Don't Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don't Have a Free Country” — Donald Trump's attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that's held since 1798. — During the 2024 campaign, after years of attacking the media as “enemies of the people,” …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now
Judge blocks Pete Hegseth's censure of Sen. Mark Kelly over troops video, for now
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Elena Moore / NPR:
Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon action against Mark Kelly over illegal orders video
Judge temporarily blocks Pentagon action against Mark Kelly over illegal orders video
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Politico:
House leaders say lawmakers can't attend Munich Security Conference as official delegation … The possibility some lawmakers won't attend the conference represents a major break with the yearslong precedent of bipartisan groupings joining a summit that offers unique perspective into high-level thinking in Washington and among allies.
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Megan Mineiro / New York Times:
Partial Federal Shutdown Shrinks Congressional Presence in Munich
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
DHS shutdown all but certain after failed Senate vote
DHS shutdown all but certain after failed Senate vote
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CNN:
House speaker condemns Trump Justice Department monitoring of lawmakers' Epstein document review — Federal agencies Epstein files Congressional news Donald Trump — Attorney General Pam Bondi obtained Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal's search history of the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files …
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Associated Press:
What independents think of Trump's recent immigration actions, according to a new AP-NORC poll — About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in sending federal immigration agents into American cities, according to a new AP-NORC poll that suggests political independents …
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Rebecca Santana / Associated Press:
Trump immigration officials shown video of Alex Pretti's death in tense Senate hearing
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Michael S. Derby / Reuters:
NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs — Americans are shouldering almost all of President Donald Trump's import tax surge, a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Thursday. — The bank said 90% of the tariffs imposed by the president …
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Jana Winter / Reuters:
Exclusive: Arizona sheriff blocks FBI access to evidence in Nancy Guthrie abduction, source says — An Arizona sheriff is blocking FBI access to key evidence in the investigation into the abduction of U.S. television journalist Savannah Guthrie's mother, impairing its ability to assist in the probe …
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Molly Parks / Washington Examiner:
Hawley calls on Minnesota attorney general to be indicted over fraud reports: ‘You ought to be in jail’ — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison called on each other to resign from their respective positions after a heated exchange in a Senate homeland security committee hearing on Minnesota oversight.
Gigi Douban / NPR:
Trump border czar Tom Homan announces Minnesota immigration surge is ending — The Trump administration will end the immigration enforcement crackdown in Minnesota that prompted widespread protests and claimed the lives of two U.S. citizens, border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Even Trump's own appointees are ruling against ICE's mass detention strategy … Even judges Trump appointed are largely against him: 44 of them have ruled against the administration in mass-detention cases. Twenty Trump-appointed judges have signed off on the policy.
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Associated Press:
Trump pardons 5 former NFL players for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking — President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned five former professional football players — one posthumously — for various crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.
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Jacqueline Sweet / The Intercept:
FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door — Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, at least one of whom works on counterterrorism, went to the home of a former member of a climate activism group for questioning last week …
Will Sommer / The Bulwark:
Candace Owens Gets Inside TPUSA's Head — TURNING POINT USA COMMUNICATIONS staffer Aubrey Laitsch was called into a meeting last month and abruptly told she was being fired, according to a video she posted online last week. — In her telling, the reason Laitsch was given for being let go involved …
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Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Prosecutor Seeks Dismissal of Charges Against Man Shot by ICE — The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota asked a judge to drop charges against the immigrant who was shot by an ICE agent, saying new evidence was “materially inconsistent” with what officials had claimed.
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Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Judge Ends Deportation Case for Mexican Father of 3 U.S. Marines — The arrest of Narciso Barranco, who was detained by federal agents while landscaping outside an IHOP in Southern California last June, garnered national attention. — An immigration judge has terminated the deportation case …
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Celisa Calacal / KCUR:
Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts — Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part …
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Konstantin Toropin / Associated Press:
Second US aircraft carrier is being sent to the Middle East, AP source says — The world's largest aircraft carrier has been ordered to sail from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, a person familiar with the plans said Thursday, as U.S. President Donald Trump considers whether to take possible military action against Iran.
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Tyler Austin Harper / The Atlantic:
The Multibillion-Dollar Foundation That Controls the Humanities … in 1964, an influential report identified a disquieting trend in academia. “Increasingly during the past few years,” it began, “concern has been expressed about the condition, in this country, of those fields of intellectual activity generally called the humanities.”
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