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    Rep. Jim Jordan to be questioned under oath on Ohio State Strauss sex abuse scandal

    After years of appeals, depositions are underway in the sexual abuse scandal involving Strauss, a former Ohio State University doctor. It has been seven years since the first lawsuits were filed against the university. Jordan is set to be deposed on Friday in Washington. Former Ohio State...
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    Trump requests 93% cut to Appalachian Regional Commission.

    Presumably when the coal mines come back, these people won't need to rely on taxpayer handouts. Trump requests 93% cut to Appalachian Regional Commission. The proposal is included in a discretionary budget, a year-to-year funding proposal that is different than the mandatory funding included in...
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    Exclusive: Trump team withholds $140 million budgeted for to help state/local entities fight fentanyl overdoses

    Exclusive: Trump team withholds $140 million budgeted for fentanyl fight The Trump administration has delayed and may cancel roughly $140 million in grants to fund fentanyl overdose response efforts, according to four staff members with close knowledge of the process at the Centers for Disease...
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    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fires his chief of staff and deputy chief for policy at Department of Health and Human Services

    Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has fired two top deputies at the Department of Health and Human Services, ABC News has learned. Heather Flick Melanson, Kennedy's chief of staff, and Hannah Anderson, deputy chief of staff of policy, are departing, according to a department spokesperson...
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    A rural Nebraska clinic blames its closing on Trump’s Medicaid cuts. Patients don’t buy it. "Horse Feathers"

    “Anyone who’s saying that Medicaid cuts is why they’re closing is a liar,” April Roberts said, as she oversaw lunch at the Curtis Area Senior Center. The retirees trickling in for fried chicken and soft-serve ice cream will be hit hardest when the clinic closes this fall, Roberts fears. Seniors...
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    Kentucky policeman shot in traffic stop; suspect flees to church, shoots 4, kills 2; suspect shot and killed, 'had connection with church members'

    Two women were shot and killed at a Kentucky church by a suspect who fled there after allegedly shooting a state trooper elsewhere, according to officials. A suspect allegedly shot a Kentucky State Police trooper near the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, KY, and then fled to a church [16 miles...
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    Dragon Bravo Fire destroys 50-80 structures at Grand Canyon North Rim; historic lodge gone

    The park initially managed it as a controlled burn but then shifted to suppression as it rapidly grew, fire officials said.
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    Vice president’s rumored vacation visit to Disney resort sparks impromptu protest

    A large crowd of protesters gathered outside Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel & Spa on Friday afternoon after local officials rumored a possible vacation visit from Vice President JD Vance. Orange County officials received intel of the VP’s visit to the area on Thursday. In an interview...
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    Important Message(s) from the Official White House Twitter Account

    I guess this is an admission he was born on Krypton and is not a natural born American. Too late to do anything now.
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    Randall County (TX) party chair charged with felony election fraud

    The chair of the Randall County Republican Party was booked into jail Monday on a state felony election fraud charge. Kelly Kenten Giles, 64, is accused of providing false information on his application and petition to run for the Randall County Republican Party Chair seat in December 2023 for...
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    Johnson Amendment Dead: IRS says church leaders can endorse candidates to their flock without risking tax-exempt status. Other 501c3's still can't.

    I.R.S. Says Churches Can Endorse Candidates From the Pulpit In a court filing, the tax agency said a decades-old ban on campaigning by tax-exempt groups should not apply to houses of worship speaking to their own members. The I.R.S. said on Monday that churches and other houses of worship can...
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    Canadian Armed Forces members planned to ‘forcibly take’ land in Quebec, facilitate terror act, RCMP say

    Four Quebecers, including two active members of the Canadian Armed Forces, who were allegedly involved in activities of “ideologically motivated violent extremism” with the intention of “forcibly take possession of land in the Quebec City area” have been arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted...
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    Fake AI voice impersonating Secretary of State Marco Rubio contacts foreign ministers and US officials via Signal

    LINK The security breach involved voicemails, sent via the Signal messaging app, and text messages to “at least five non-Department individuals, including three foreign ministers, a U.S. governor, and a U.S. member of Congress,” a diplomatic cable, obtained by The Washington Post, stated. The...
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    Trump says U.S. will send more weapons to Ukraine, after Hegseth halts some shipments

    "We're going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves," Mr. Trump told reporters during a White House event with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday night. "At President Trump's direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional...
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    Suspect dead after active shooter incident at Texas Border Patrol sector annex

    One McAllen police officer was struck in the leg, apparently when officers returned fire at the suspect, according to two officials familiar with the incident.
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    Expired license plate and looking like somebody else? ICE roils Helena MT as it plans to remove father, husband

    Martinez first came to the United States as a minor in 2008. He’s attempted to attain citizenship since turning 18, a process his wife, Maria Pacheco, describes as “very difficult.” He’s been living in Helena with Pacheco and their four children since July 2022. “The long version is federal...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/nws-cuts-texas-floods The Associated Press reported Saturday that flooding caused by a powerful storm killed at least 27 people, with dozens more—including as many as 25 girls from a summer camp along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County—missing after...
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    White House Press Secretary Leavitt suggests 'spiritual warfare', not AT&T, interfered with Trump phone call with faith leaders

    She commented, “There is spiritual warfare as we all know. It tried to break up our call today, as the president even alluded to.” [As for the President...] "I’m doing a major Conference Call with Faith Leaders from all over the Country, and AT&T is totally unable to make their equipment work...
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    Accelerationist member of white supremacist group charged in alleged plot to solicit murder of 'high-value targets' via Terrorgram Collective

    Noah Lamb was charged and indicted in Northern California federal court with eight counts of conspiracy, soliciting the murder of federal officials, doxing federal officials and interstate threatening communication, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Authorities allege that...