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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...
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    Florida Republican Says Abortion Law Fear Delayed Her Care for Ectopic Pregnancy

    Representative Kat Cammack went to the emergency room in May 2024 and needed a shot of methotrexate to help expel her ectopic pregnancy. Florida's ban took effect on May 1, 2024, making abortions illegal after six weeks with narrow exceptions. The penalties for those who violate the ban are...
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    Veep JD Vance drops in to Los Angeles to spread misinformation about downtown unrest, call Sen. Padilla 'José' in mistaken[?] reference to terrorist

    Forced to back up his boss' decision to needlessly send National Guard troops and Marines to Los Angeles, Vance utters fantastic false claims about recent events. JD Vance refers to Sen. Alex Padilla as 'José Padilla' in remarks blasting Democrats during L.A. visit "What I see here today is the...
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    Trump's Juneteenth message: "Too many holidays in America ... The workers don't want it either!"

    On Juneteenth, Trump says the US has 'too many' holidays "Too many non-working holidays in America," Trump wrote on Truth Social late Thursday. "It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed." The president said that the frequency of holidays "must...
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    Ohio lawmakers to introduce bill banning abortion, criminalizing the procedure; would overturn constitutional amendment approved by Ohio voters

    The "Ohio Prenatal Equal Protection Act" would overturn the amendment to the Ohio constitution, voted on in 2023, that establishes "an individual right to one's own reproductive medical treatment, including but not limited to abortion" before viability. "[It] is a very, very simple and...
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    Finland withdraws from Ottawa landmine treaty; joins Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland

    MPs approved the measure to withdraw from the agreement by a vote of 157 to 18.
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    Medicare and Social Security go-broke dates pushed closer due to rising health care costs, new SSA law

    Medicare insolvency moves from 2036 to 2033. Social Security from 2035 to 2034. Nancy Altman, president of Social Security Works, an advocacy group for the popular public benefit program said in a statement that “there are two options for action: Bringing more money into Social Security, or...
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    Trump admin’s 3,000 ICE arrests per day quota is taking focus off criminals and ‘killing morale’: insiders

    The Trump administration’s mandate to arrest 3,000 illegal migrants per day is forcing ICE agents to deprioritize going after dangerous criminals and targets with deportation orders, insiders warn. Instead, federal immigration officers are spending more time rounding up people off the streets...
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    88 children taken into protective custody after child abuse reported at Iowa church camp

    According to the Louisa County Sheriff's Office, reports of child abuse and endangerment were made at the Shekinah Glory Camp of the Kingdom Ministry of Rehabilitation and Recreation. The sheriff's office says, in collaboration with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, Iowa Division...
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    Jan. 6 defendant Kyle Colton asks judge to apply Trump’s mass pardon to child pornography charge

    Kyle Travis Colton, 38, was arrested in December 2023 and charged with five counts in a 15-page criminal complaint and statement of facts after he allegedly told passengers on a flight from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles “that he was part of the ‘second wave’ of rioters.” Then, in February...
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    South Carolina state lawmaker RJ May facing 10 counts of federal child sex abuse material charges will stay in jail

    Rep. RJ May, R – Lexington, is charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material. Those charges carry a maximum 20-year prison sentence, with a minimum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina, the...
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    Federal immigration raid at Omaha meat production plant sparks annoyance from corporate management

    Chad Hartmann, president of the food packaging company, said the front office was stunned by the aggressive nature of federal officials’ raid and confused by why the company was targeted. “My biggest issue is: why us?” Hartmann said. “We do everything by the book.” The plant uses E-Verify, the...
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    Senate GOP Budget Picture: Senate Republicans Plan to Release Major Revisions to Trump’s Tax Bill

    The Senate Finance Committee’s plan to extract savings from the Medicaid and — perhaps — Medicare health insurance programs could depart in key respects from the version of the giant bill that narrowly passed the US House in May. The release of the panel’s draft will likely touch off a new round...
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    Multiple immigration sweeps reported across Los Angeles, with a tense standoff/protest downtown; SEIU union leader arrested

    Videos showed federal agents running after people in the parking lot of the Home Depot in Westlake, not far from downtown Los Angeles Another raid occurred at a business in the Garment District near 9th and Towne streets, with agents in riot gear detaining workers at a clothing store as dozens...
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    In now- deleted post, Rep. Miller is "deeply troubled" by 'Muslim' man [actually Sikh] leading House floor prayer in 'A Christian Nation'

    Mary Miller says she’s ‘deeply troubled’ by Sikh man leading House floor prayer in deleted xenophobic post The Republican member of Congress initially misidentified the man — who was invited to the House by another member — as Muslim Miller wrote on X that the man, Giani Surinder Singh, “should...
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    Grenade launchers, guns, explosives seized from white nationalist extremists in WA; two members of military arrested

    Two suspects, both in the military, were booked into jail on multiple firearm-related offenses. Each are being held on $500,000 bail, and will likely face additional federal charges. An FBI SWAT team raided an address in Lacey and seized over 35 firearms, armor and other weapons surrounded by...