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Supreme Court Could Rule on Trump’s Tariff Authority Friday
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) The U.S. Supreme Court could issue a landmark ruling Friday on President Donald Trump’s authority to use tariffs, potentially reshaping presidential power. Alan Morrison, a law professor at The George Washington University, said signs indicate a ruling on tariffs is expected on Friday. “It seems highly unlikely that the court…
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Brown/MIT Shooter Reportedly ‘Vanished’ 12 Years before His Attack
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The man who allegedly killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor last month had “vanished” from his friends and family some 12 years earlier, according to a profile in the New York Times. The alleged shooter, 48-year-old Portuguese national Claudio Neves Valente, was once a promising physics student. He…
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Republicans Go on Attack in Hearing Over $9 Billion of Social Services Fraud
(Morgan Sweeney,The Center Square) Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state attorney general were either “complicit” in the now-estimated $9 billion of social services fraud that has taken place in the state in recent years or “asleep at the wheel,” according to Republican Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. “How could they allow this massive fraud…
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U.S. Seizes Two ‘Sanctioned’ Ships
(Sarah Roderick-Fitch, The Center Square) After the weekend strikes in Venezuela and the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the U.S. continues to seize sanctioned vessels operating in the Caribbean and North Atlantic. Two sanctioned ships were seized Wednesday morning in support of the U.S. operation to secure the Western Hemisphere. U.S. European Command confirmed…
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ICE Officer Fatally Shoots Lady Who Hit Him w/ Vehicle
(Headline USA) An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a Minneapolis driver who hit him with her vehicle on Wednesday, marking a violent start to the Trump administration’s latest illegal immigration crackdown. The 37-year-old woman, identified as Renee Nicole Good, was shot during a traffic stop in a snowy residential neighborhood south of downtown…
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DOJ Walks Back Claim Maduro is the Leader of a Narco-Terrorist Cartel
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) The Department of Justice has significantly revised its indictment against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro was kidnapped by US forces in Venezuela on Saturday, and pleaded not guilty to charges in a New York court on Monday. The New York Times’ Charlie Savage reported that the Department of Justice had removed nearly all…
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CIA Spy Dies in Prison
(Headline USA) CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who betrayed Western intelligence assets to the Soviet Union and Russia in one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in U.S. history, has died in a Maryland prison. He was 84. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons confirmed Ames died Monday. Ames, a 31-year CIA veteran, admitted being paid…
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House Committee to Hold Hearing Today on Minnesota Fraud
(The Center Square) The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform is set to hold its first of two scheduled hearings Wednesday on the “fraud and misuse of federal funds in Minnesota.” Three Republican Minnesota state lawmakers who “sounded the alarm” in the past on some of the rampant fraud of its social services…
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2,000 ICE Officers Sent to Minnesota in ‘Largest Immigration Operation Ever’
(Headline USA) The Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out by the agency — with 2,000 federal agents and officers expected in the Minneapolis area for a crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali nationals. “The largest DHS operation…
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Trump Anticipates Sending Troops to Occupy Venezuela
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said the US had no plans to hold elections in Venezuela. He said elections are currently impossible, and the country must first be helped by the US. “We have to fix the country first. You can’t have an election. There’s no way the people could even vote,” Trump said about…
