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In a brutal demonstration of federal purchasing power, the General Services Administration (GSA) has effectively erased a Minnesota hotel from the government marketplace. The Hampton Inn Lakeville has been terminated from all federal lodging programs after it refused to accommodate…
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Trump Just Froze $10 Billion to Blue States Over Fraud Fears – Can a President Do That?
The letters went out Monday morning. California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York would lose over $10 billion in federal funding for child care and social services. The reason cited: fraud concerns. The political pattern: all five are Democratic-led states.…
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From Mobsters to Presidents: The Fifth Amendment’s Most Controversial Moments
Frank Costello’s hands filled the television screen. The rest of him was off-camera—a compromise between his lawyers and the Kefauver Committee. But those hands, fidgeting and gesturing as he invoked the Fifth Amendment dozens of times, became one of the…
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Defense Secretary Hegseth Initiates Proceedings to Demote Senator Mark Kelly Over “Illegal Orders” Video
The conflict between the Trump administration and its critics has moved from the campaign trail to the court-martial docket – or at least, the administrative equivalent. In a move that legal scholars are calling “novel” and political opponents are calling…
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“I Am Here, Kidnapped”: Maduro’s Courtroom Outburst
The image is surreal, yet historic: Nicolas Maduro, the man who ruled Venezuela with an iron fist for over a decade, sitting in a Manhattan courtroom in tan jail garb, complaining to a federal judge that he has been kidnapped.…
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Trump Admin Slaps $15K ‘Insurance Policy’ on High-Risk Visas to Stop Overstays
The State Department has added seven new countries—five of them in Africa—to a list requiring travelers to post a refundable bond of up to $15,000 before entering the U.S. The policy, spearheaded by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, aims to…
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Trump Didn’t Ask Congress – Maduro’s Reign Ended in Handcuffs
Delta Force operators struck Venezuela’s largest military complex before dawn Saturday. By nightfall, President Nicolás Maduro was in a Brooklyn detention center, his wife was in federal custody, and President Trump announced the United States would “run” Venezuela temporarily. No…
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Can a President Pardon Himself? Constitutional Ambiguity Meets Political Reality
The pardon power sits in Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution. Seventy-eight words. No explicit exceptions. No Supreme Court ruling on whether a president can use it on himself. Legal scholars spent decades treating it as a hypothetical. Then…
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Trump’s Bizarre Explanation for Hand Bruises Raises New Questions About His regimen
President Donald Trump has launched a vigorous defense of his physical and mental fitness, taking to social media on Friday to declare himself in “PERFECT” health. The proclamation comes just a day after a candid interview with The Wall Street…
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Collateral Damage? Residents Sue DHS Claiming Tear Gas Meant for Protesters is Poisoning Their Homes
A confrontation between federal immigration enforcement and protesters in Portland, Oregon, has spilled into the federal courts, with a new lawsuit accusing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) of “poisoning” a nearby low-income housing community. REACH Community Development, a nonprofit…