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PLAINVILLE, Conn. (CNN Newsource/WFSB/WKRC) - A middle school student was hospitalized and will face charges after carrying out a popular social media trend.

Michigan’s attorney general is posing as an anti-Trump champion. So why is she helping Trump’s FBI to target protesters?

For $40 billion-worth of health cuts to come as our government wants to spend $45 billion to become Amazon-efficient at shipping human beings to foreign prisons is establishing this nation as a beacon of cruelty.

Well, well, well, look who’s capitulating on his 145 percent tariff on China and now says an “80% Tariff on China seems right”?

Another memo told military academies to ignore ‘race, ethnicity or sex’ in admissions, but athleticism can be considered

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (D) on Friday reflected on being arrested outside of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility earlier in the day, arguing he was being targeted after visiting the New Jersey detention center with three Democratic members of Congress.

In the olden days of five months ago, the DOJ would announce an indictment when it happened, instead of first announcing their intention to send the FBI on a fishing expedition to find whatever evidence it can dredge up against specific targets.

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No later than 60 days after the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall supplement existing enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with State and local law enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals to increase the enforcement and removal operations force of the Department of Homeland Security by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have failed to depart voluntarily.

David Steiner, a former CEO of the nation’s largest waste management company who currently serves on the FedEx board of directors, is poised to take over control of the U.S. Postal Service, becoming the nation’s 76th postmaster general.

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These problems were not created because we don’t build things; rather, they are the outcomes of an economic system built on fabricated scarcity and the doctrine of maximizing profit, exploiting communities of color, and concentrating political and economic power.

Trump has put American automakers at a disadvantage with their British competitors, they complain

Lithium deposit valued at US$1.5 trillion discovered; promises to boost batteries, but worries local indigenous communities.

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More states join lawsuit against North Texas-based RealPage, accused of artificially inflating housing costs

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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said Friday that President Trump and his team are “actively looking at” suspending habeas corpus as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown.

A Wisconsin man charged with crimes for a school shooting committed by his daughter is the latest U.S. parent taken to court for violence caused by a child

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Democrats are blasting former President Biden’s reemergence in the spotlight following his interview Thursday on “The View,” his second major post-presidency interview.

The budget proposal comes amid a push from the Trump administration to open national parks for mineral extraction, mining, logging and drilling.

It remains unclear exactly what, precisely, the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) is. The Trump administration first described this Elon Musk-led project as a non-governmental advisory entity, then presented it via Executive Order as a technology-focused office inside the White House (a repurposing of the U.S. Digital Service) and simultaneously a new governmental Temporary Organization.[1] Since then, Musk’s amorphous DOGE has sent detailees (some very young and inexperienced)[2] into various departments to seize reams of data or to embed themselves inside the agencies, worked to unilaterally dissolve key agencies, and facilitated the reckless slashing of staff throughout the government.[3] DOGE is carrying out its destructive rampage under the guise of targeting “inefficiencies,” but in reality Musk and DOGE have gutted essential government services that everyday people rely on, ignoring actual inefficiencies.[4]

The United States should not forcibly transfer migrants to Libya, where inhumane detention conditions are well-documented, including torture, ill-treatment, sexual assault, and unlawful killings, Human Rights Watch said today. Based on numerous media reports citing US officials, the Trump administration may be poised to imminently deport an unknown number of detained migrants to Libya. A US judge ruled that the government cannot immediately proceed with deporting people to Libya.

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Wildfires driven by climate change contribute to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic costs from wildfire smoke in the United States, according to a new study.

19-year-old Ximena Arias-Cristobal came to the United States when she was a toddler

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May 8 (Reuters) - Citigroup (C.N), opens new tab must face a revived lawsuit claiming it caused more than $1 billion of losses by orchestrating and concealing a vast fraud at the now-bankrupt Mexican oil and gas services company Oceanografia, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.

On the same day that President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire between the United States and Yemen’s Houthis, an F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed off the deck of an aircraft carrier. The fighter was landing on USS Harry S. Truman when the “arrestment failed, causing the aircraft to go overboard,” U.S. Central Command told The Intercept by email.