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Thursday, July 17, 2025

U.N. ambassador nominee Mike Waltz denied any sensitive information was shared during a controversial mobile app chat in March while undergoing a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday. read more


Afghanistan was granted Temporary Protected Status in 2022 under the Biden administration following the U.S. military withdrawal and the Taliban's return to power. read more


Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Democrats that deny quorum for an emergency special session called by Governor Abbott, 'should be hunted down'


Louisiana voted for Trump. But it also relies heavily on Medicaid benefits, which are set to face steep cuts under the president's new One Big Beautiful Bill Act. read more


House Republican leaders are under fierce internal pressure to send members home for the summer amid deepening anxiety over a possible vote on the Jeffrey Epstein controversy.


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@#18

The landslide mandate that Pres Trump often claims?

Hardly .

For comparison ...

United States presidential election
en.wikipedia.org

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2000: Bush: 47.9%, Gore: 48.4%
2004: Bush: 50.7%, Kerry: 48.3%
2008: Obama: 52.9%, McCain: 45.7%
2012: Obama: 51.1%, Romney: 47.2%
2016: Trump: 46.09%, Clinton: 48.18%
2020: Harris: 51.31%, Trump: 46.35%
2024: Trump: 49.74%, Harris: 48.27%
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Based upon the popular vote, it looks like Pres trump squeaked by ...

But a mandate? Laughable.

Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein article
www.nbcnews.com

... President Donald Trump on Friday took legal action less than 24 hours after The Wall Street Journal published an article saying Trump sent a letter to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003 that included a drawing of a naked woman.

The lawsuit, which seeks at least $10 billion in damages and a jury trial, names the Journal's parent company, News Corp.; its publisher, Dow Jones; two reporters for the newspaper; News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, and chief executive Robert Thomson, as the defendants.

"We have just filed a POWERHOUSE Lawsuit against everyone involved in publishing the false, malicious, defamatory, FAKE NEWS 'article' in the useless 'rag' that is, The Wall Street Journal," Trump wrote on Truth Social. ...



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@#3 ... Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers ...

www.axios.com

... The images of masked, heavily armed immigration agents snatching people off the streets and taking them away in unmarked cars have shocked many Americans -- and led to a simple question: Is all of this legal?

- - - It is -- at least for now.

Why it matters: Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created after the 9/11 attacks, its agents have operated with vastly more enforcement power, less transparency and fewer guardrails than local police.

- - - ICE's rules were designed largely to give the agency broad leeway in helping the FBI identify and arrest domestic terror suspects.

- - - Now the Trump administration is using that power to go after unauthorized immigrants " potentially millions of them " with a frequency and aggressiveness that has sent ripples through communities nationwide.

Zoom in: Under Trump, critics say, ICE has become the closest thing the U.S. has to a secret police force.

- - - ICE agents aren't required to wear body cameras, can cover their faces, don't have to provide badge numbers or identify themselves, can arrive in unmarked cars and don't need a warrant from a judge to detain someone.

- - - Like those with other federal enforcement agencies, they can ignore rules that govern local police departments, particularly those local agencies with histories of abuse or that operate under court-imposed restrictions on racial profiling.

- - - In some cases, ICE agents can even arrest U.S. citizens " but they aren't supposed to place them in immigration detention units. Even so, a few U.S. citizens have been detained in recent ICE raids because of agents' mistakes or negligence. ...


Paramount (PARA) Suitor Skydance Meets With FCC, Seeking OK for Deal

www.bloomberg.com

... Skydance Media Chief Executive Officer David Ellison met with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr on Tuesday appealing to the regulatory chief to approve his film studio's pending merger with Paramount Global.

The transaction has "significant public interest benefits," according to a letter to the FCC signed by Skydance attorney Matthew Brill recapping the meeting. Ellison, the son of Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison, his family and RedBird Capital Partners, "represent fresh leadership with the vision and experience" needed to drive the new company's long-term growth "in a changing media landscape," accordin ...


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