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Friday, January 24, 2025

Popular Information takes a deep dive into the business of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. The article does a great job of laying out the $2 billion in funding Kushner raised from Saudi Arabia and how that money intersects with President Trump. "Bloomberg and Semafor were the only two major media outlets that covered Kushner's new partnership with the Trump Organization. Foreign governments financing a major development by a company owned by the future president days before the inauguration is newsworthy. " read more


On Tuesday, Daniel Ball's case tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was formally dismissed after he received a full pardon from President Trump. But by Wednesday, Ball was arrested once more on a pending federal gun charge . read more


State Rep. Bruce Skaug (R-Nampa) introduced the bill which would make Idaho the only US state to give preference to a firing squad. read more


Two students are dead and one injured after a 17-year-old male student armed with a handgun opened fire in the cafeteria of Antioch High School in Nashville on Wednesday morning. read more


In attempting to ban transgender people, Donald Trump issued an executive order that directs federal agencies to recognize gender as immutable and defined at conception. One of the many problems with that idea is that male sexual development doesn't begin until about a month and half into pregnancy. We are all female at conception. read more


A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump's mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation " to correct an "injustice" and trigger a "national reconciliation" " was "flatly wrong" and a "revisionist myth." read more


Multi-millionaire Dale Vince, a green energy industrialist and campaigner, points to America as a warning: "Across the Atlantic, we see more clearly than ever what happens when the extreme wealth of super-rich men becomes an attack on the public good" read more


Thursday, January 23, 2025

The Daily Beast's Michael Daly writes about the death of Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick after Jan. 6 and the impact Trump's pardons has on the officer's legacy. read more


Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde isn't the only religious leader leveling criticism at President Donald Trump this week. read more


House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced Wednesday the creation of a new select subcommittee to investigate events before and after Jan. 6, 2021. read more


Amid a flurry of executive orders, some of which were signed live on TV on inauguration night, the US president issued several orders that repeal Biden-era directives that had expanded healthcare access and options for lower-income and middle-class Americans. read more


President Donald Trump has pardoned two D.C. police officers who were convicted after one chased a man riding a moped, which ultimately led to his death, and the other helped cover it up. read more


A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents' immigration status. read more


Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affected the nation's agricultural sector, causing alarm that food prices could skyrocket in the near future as a result of Donald Trump's aggressive immigration policies. read more


NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Bishop Mariann Budde about her homily Tuesday, where she made a plea directly to President Donald Trump. read more


One of Trump's executive orders could imperil billions in funding for projects that states have already begun working on, some experts said. read more


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