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Thursday, April 17, 2025

Donald Trump's administration is accusing New York Attorney General Letitia James of mortgage fraud, and has made a criminal referral to the the justice department seeking federal prosecution. read more


"I'm oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real. And that's not right," the Alaska Republican senator said this week. read more


Alphabet's Google illegally dominated two markets for online advertising technology, a federal judge said on Thursday, dealing another blow to the tech titan in an antitrust case brought by the U.S. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that Google unlawfully monopolized markets for publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges which sit between buyers and sellers.


Wednesday, April 16, 2025

[U.S. attorney for D.C. Ed] Martin is now interim U.S. attorney for D.C. and Trump's pick to serve full time in the role. But as a conservative activist and former Missouri Republican official, he appeared more than 150 times on RT and Sputnik ... read more


Opinion from The Guardian. There are some spectacles of US decadence and decline that almost seem too on the nose -- the sort of orgies of vulgar provocation or fantastic lack of self-awareness that exceed the limits of parody, so that if they were in a novel, you'd think the writer was laying it on a little thick. Among these is the all-female flight by Blue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-owned rocket tourism company ... read more


When Desoto Regional Health System took out $36 million in loans last year to renovate a rural hospital that opened in 1952, officials were banking on its main funding source remaining stable: Medicaid, the joint federal-state health program for low-income people and the disabled. read more


A federal judge said Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for failing to return two planes deporting migrants to El Salvador ... read more


Harvard will not agree to demands pushed by the Trump administration as a condition for maintaining nearly $9 billion in federal funding, the school's president said Monday. read more


Hungary's parliament on Monday passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities ... read more


A user with a Russian IP address tried to log into National Labor Relations Board systems just minutes after the Department of Government Efficiency moved to access and extract troves of sensitive data from inside the agency, according to an extensive whistleblower disclosure released Tuesday. read more


Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. read more


A researcher attributed the increase to awareness and improvements in detecting the developmental disorder. read more


If the president asked Sandra Fuentes what the biggest need in her community on the Texas-Mexico border is, the answer would be safe drinking water, not more border security. And if Trump put the same question to Jose Grijalva, the Arizona mayor would say a hospital for his border city, which has struggled without one for a decade. read more


Republicans across the country have been booed and heckled during recent town hall events following Trump's return to office, as polls suggest Americans oppose some of his key actions taken so far, including mass firings of federal workers and new tariffs. read more


Jennifer Rubin: Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a political prisoner, just as surely as were Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian (held in Iran), Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich (incarcerated in Russia), WNBA star Brittney Griner (held in Russia), or Paul Whelan (also held in Russia). All five were imprisoned without adequate justification by dictatorial governments read more


Under pressure from the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service -- the Pentagon's fast-track tech development arm -- are resigning over the coming month ... read more


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