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Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
With the White House's push for states to draw new maps ahead of the midterms not going as smoothly as planned, the Sunshine State is now entering the fray. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida could be the final state the White House can count on to pick up additional seats as part of the rare mid-decade redistricting cycle it has pushed ahead of the midterm elections. The Republican-controlled state officially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
This year, the holidays don't feel celebratory for many Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump administration's decisions. We're here to make sure those people do not go unheard. Help us hold the administration accountable. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military opened fire on two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs, congressional lawmakers learned ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration. That barred travel to the U.S. for citizens from 12 countries and restricted access to the U.S. for people from seven others. In a social media post earlier this week, Noem had suggested more countries would be included. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem holds a press conference, in Los Angeles, ...
Source: cnbc.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
For babies born in the next few years, "Trump accounts" could be a financial game changer. And for the policymakers and advocates who conceived of the idea, the accounts have another potential benefit: Improving capitalism's reputation, especially among young people. "What I'm really excited about is, we are creating a new generation of capitalists," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said at the White House on ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
that aims to make all nine of the state's U.S. House districts friendly to Republicans, after The bill passed in a 57-41 vote and now heads to the GOP-controlled state Senate, which is reconvening on Dec. 8. A number of vocal Republicans in the Indiana Senate have held out against redistricting, although it's unclear if they are enough to prevent it from passing. President Trump congratulated members of the state ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship. On his first day in office in January, President Donald Trump signed an order to end birthright citizenship for those born to parents who are in the country illegally, but the move was blocked by multiple lower courts. No date has been set yet for the Supreme Court arguments, and a ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
A US judge has ordered the unsealing of grand jury transcripts from the 2005 and 2007 investigation into convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The Florida judge granted the justice department's request for the material following Congress' passage last month of a bill ordering the release of all files on the disgraced financier. The law "applies to unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By Perry Stein and Gregory S. Schneider, The Washington Post A grand jury in Virginia on Thursday rejected Justice Department efforts to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, declining to indict her again after a judge dismissed the charges last week, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article James McCrery II will remain on the project in a 'consulting' role, the White House has said President Donald Trump replaced the original architect tapped to oversee his $300 million ballroom due to the massive size of the president's project, according to a report. James McCrery ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Vladimir Putin has offered India an "uninterrupted" supply of fuel. The offer was made at a summit in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi. Deals on energy, agriculture and labour were also signed during the two-day summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered India uninterrupted fuel supplies, eliciting a cautious response from India, despite the countries agreeing to expand trade and ...
Source: abc.net.au
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3 min read Rep. Adelita Grijalva said Friday she was pepper-sprayed and pushed around during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Tucson, Arizona, a claim that the Department of Homeland Security swiftly disputed. The Arizona Democrat said in a video on X the incident occurred near a restaurant she frequents and that she came upon a scene of "maybe 40 ICE agents, most of them masked, in several vehicles" ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
A federal appeals court endorsed President Donald Trump's firings of two independent agency officials despite their statutory safeguards against such at-will dismissals. Members of the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems Protection Board exercise the kind of executive power that makes their for-cause removal restrictions invalid under US Supreme Court precedent, the US Court of Appeals for the District ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Ongoing reports and analysis The Trump administration released its long-anticipated new national security strategy late Thursday night, laying out a vision that attempts to reconcile U.S. global dominance with a U.S. retreat from many aspects of its decades-long global role. The one through line in the strategy—which at various points both promotes and rails against interventionism—is advancing ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com