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Friday, June 27, 2025

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California sued Fox News on Friday, accusing the network of defaming him in its coverage of a phone call he had with President Trump this month. read more


The Social Security Administration said Thursday that it had hired Edward Coristine, the 19-year-old nicknamed "Big Balls" who the White House said earlier in the week had left the Trump administration. Coristine joined the Social Security Administration this week as a special government employee, a type of temporary position with relatively few disclosure obligations, the benefits agency said.


Thursday, June 26, 2025

After six months of aggressive immigration enforcement and promises to focus on deporting violent criminals, the Trump administration has arrested and detained a small fraction of the undocumented immigrants already known to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as having been convicted of sexual assault and homicide, internal ICE data obtained by NBC News shows. read more


President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday sued every federal district judge in Maryland to challenge a standing court order that temporarily bars the government from deporting people after they have filed a challenge. The DOJ suing an entire bench is extremely rare " some legal experts said they have never seen such a lawsuit before. The move marks the Trump administration's latest escalation in its attempt to undermine federal courts and erode due process protections.


Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities 'highlights the illegitimacy of actions' read more


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More: Language requiring healthcare professionals to care for veterans regardless of their politics and marital status has been explicitly eliminated.

Doctors and other medical staff can also be barred from working at VA hospitals based on their marital status, political party affiliation or union activity, documents reviewed by the Guardian show. The changes also affect chiropractors, certified nurse practitioners, optometrists, podiatrists, licensed clinical social workers and speech therapists.

In making the changes, VA officials cite the president's 30 January executive order titled "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government". The primary purpose of the executive order was to strip most government protections from transgender people. The VA has since ceased providing most gender-affirming care and forbidden a long list of words, including "gender affirming" and "transgender", from clinical settings.

Medical experts said the implications of rule changes uncovered by the Guardian could be far-reaching.

They "seem to open the door to discrimination on the basis of anything that is not legally protected", said Dr Kenneth Kizer, the VA's top healthcare official during the Clinton administration. He said the changes open up the possibility that doctors could refuse to treat veterans based on their "reason for seeking care " including allegations of rape and sexual assault " current or past political party affiliation or political activity, and personal behavior such as alcohol or marijuana use".

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