A divided federal appeals court panel on Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt proceedings against the Trump administration over its deportation flights to El Salvador last month.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit indicated its order is intended to provide “sufficient opportunity” for the court to consider the government’s appeal and “should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion.”
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A federal judge in DC told lawyers for migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations, even though he was concerned about the administration’s actions.

“I am sympathetic to everything you’re saying, I just don’t I think I have the power to do anything,” Judge James Boasberg said at an emergency hearing this evening.

He said that, under a recent Supreme Court ruling, only the courts with jurisdiction over the Texas detention center where the migrants were being held had the power to intervene.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon.

Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg’s chief of staff, were all placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, will leave his role in the coming days for a new position at the agency, according to a senior administration official, amid a week of turmoil for the Pentagon.

Senior adviser Dan Caldwell, deputy chief of staff Darin Selnick and Colin Carroll, Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg’s chief of staff, were all placed on leave this week in an ongoing leak probe.
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BANNON TO STEPHEN A. SMITH: If you were president, would you let the Supreme Court come between you and your duty as commander in chief? Trump won’t. He swore an oath to protect the Constitution and the American people, and he’s acting on it.

BANNON COMPARES TRUMP TO FDR AND REAGAN IN HISTORIC FIGHT FOR WORKING AMERICANS

Bannon: Trump’s pulling in Black and Hispanic voters because he’s fighting for working class people. He’s the only one standing up to the oligarchs and the system that’s crushed working Americans.

President Trump posts a picture with the knuckles of Kilmar Abrego Garcia prominently featured with tattoos showing his gang affiliation with MS-13, which has been classified as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration.

A Massachusetts law banning assault weapons has been left in place by the First Circuit, despite a challenge under the Second Amendment.

The appeals court upheld the denial of a preliminary injunction against the law in a 36-page ruling released late on Thursday.

Assault weapons are currently banned in 10 states — California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington — as well as the District of Columbia.
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🥴The faculty senates in the Big Ten Academic Alliance are creating a “mutual defense compact” to fight against President Trump’s ongoing attacks on higher education.

The faculty senate of Rutgers University began the initiative, passing a resolution April 6 to establish the compact among the Big Ten’s 18 universities.

The resolution says it is in response to the Trump administration’s “legal, financial and political” attacks on academic freedom and the missions of universities.

Rutgers’s resolution has since been joined by at least four faculty senates at other Big Ten schools, with Michigan State University becoming the latest Tuesday.

In the Rutgers resolution, it says schools that participate should be willing to make legal counsel, experts and public affairs offices available to any institution that is facing pressure from the Trump administration.

A fund would also be created to provide “immediate and strategic support” to universities.
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The media company majority owned by President Donald Trump, Trump Media & Technology Group, said on Thursday it had asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate a recent short position in its stocks.

Hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies disclosed a roughly $105 million short position in Trump Media on Monday, according to a filing with Germany's federal Gazette Bundesanzeiger.

Trump Media, which is 53% owned by Trump and is the parent company of the Truth Social platform, said in a memo sent to the SEC on Thursday it was concerned Qube's short positions could involve "suspicious activity."

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BREAKING🔥: Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer has DENIED a request from democrats requesting approval from the committee's budget for travel expenses for their trip to El Salvador to meet with MS-13 gang member whose wife accused him of crimes and who is strongly suspected of human trafficking.

"If Democrats wish to travel to El Salvador and meet with a foreign illegal MS-13 gang member, they can spend their own money to do so. I will not approve a single dime of Oversight Committee taxpayer funds for use on the excursion Democrats have requested," he said in a post on X.

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The White House is starting to rebuild the National Security Council with aides top officials believe are staunchly aligned with President Trump's agenda after six people were ousted earlier this month, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. 

Derek Harvey, a military intelligence analyst and retired U.S. Army colonel, is expected to be named senior director for intelligence, according to sources.

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💥President Trump’s top economic adviser told reporters Friday the White House is exploring how to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell despite the legal guardrails on his position.

Kevin Hassett, chair of the White House National Economic Council, backed away from his previous concerns about Powell’s firing and said the White House was looking for ways to replace the Fed chief.

“The president and his team will continue to study,” if Powell can be fired, Hassett told reporters at the White House.

Hassett served as the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during Trump’s first term, during which the president frequently criticized and threatened to fire Powell.
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State Farm, the insurance company most exposed to the recent wildfires in Los Angeles, announced Friday that it had agreed to pay out 65% of the value of personal property claims before requiring itemization.

The company made the announcement after meeting with Special Presidential Envoy for Special Missions Ric Grenell, who has been President Donald Trump’s representative in California during the rebuilding effort.

Grenell posted on X earlier this week about his discussions with State Farm:

Until now, State Farm had only guaranteed fire victims 50% of the value of their personal property claims for losses in the fire. To receive the full 100%, the company required an itemized list of all lost objects — a task dreaded by those who had endured the disaster, as it required them to revisit their losses, again, for months.
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The Florida State University dining manager and his boss who was in town for a visit were both killed when a gunman opened fire.

Aramark Collegiate Hospitality regional vice president Tiru Chabba and FSU dining coordinator Robert Morales were gunned down at the Tallahassee campus on Thursday.

FSU student Phoenix Ikner, 20, wounded six others in his rampage through the university before he was shot and arrested by police.

Chabba, 45, lived in Simpsonville, South Carolina, and managed the Southeast region for the division of Aramark that provides catering to college campuses.

He was visiting FSU for meetings with staff and university officials and in the wrong place at the wrong time when Ikner opened fire.

Chabba worked for Aramark for more than 25 years, working his way up to his high-level position in October 2022.
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😓Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) announced Friday that his adult daughter, Cosette, died after battling cancer.

“Earlier this week, our daughter Cosette lost her battle with cancer. We are devastated by her passing, but take comfort knowing she is at peace with the Lord. We are grateful our family could gather together to spend her final days by her side,” Biggs said in a statement posted on X.

Biggs, 66, is a father of six and grandfather of 10, according to his campaign website. Public posts and photos indicate Cosette had children.
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🫠Former President Joe Biden’s attempt to bill $300,000 per speaking appearance is finding few takers, The Post has learned — as some of his own former aides say it’s time for the 82-year-old to leave the spotlight for good after reminiscing about “colored kids” Tuesday in his first public address since leaving office.

A source familiar with Biden’s faltering speaking career said that the 46th president’s standard pitch is $300,000 — 25% below Barack Obama’s $400,000 asking price upon leaving office in 2017.

It’s unclear how negotiable Biden’s rate is.

If travel is required, a private jet and expenses for five staffers also is expected for Biden, who has been repped since early February by the Creative Artists Agency.

“CAA is having trouble booking gigs, which isn’t surprising,” the tipster said.

A second source said they heard people close to Biden floating an even higher desired fee, despite the ex-commander in chief having a history of peddling glaring inaccuracies before his political career came to a crashing end when he delivered incoherent debate remarks that prompted a Democratic mutiny.

Biden’s use of “colored” to refer to black people while speaking at a disability conference in Chicago earlier this week has some former aides hoping he will spend more time at his Rehoboth Beach house.
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JUST IN🔥: FBI Director Kash Patel announces another arrest in the Tesla attacks. He says this individual set a fire to multiple Tesla vehicles at a dealership in Kansas City, MO on March 17th.

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https://x.com/alx/status/1913302470815604889

WATCH🚨: Tulsi Gabbard Takes The Daily Wire Inside The RFK Assassination File Drop

Speaking from the lab where government employees busily worked to prepare documents to be digitized, scanned in high capacity scanners, and then ultimately uploaded to the National Archives website, Gabbard said the files are ready to go after decades under lock and key.

“Of course there are a lot of different theories and questions surrounding these assassinations,” Gabbard explained on Thursday.

Kennedy’s autopsy report found that the senator was killed by a shot fired behind the ear — though Sirhan was standing in front of Kennedy — leading some to speculate that Sirhan did not fire the fatal bullet.

One proponent of the second gunman theory: Kennedy’s son, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“People will find in the release today, there is no ‘smoking gun,’ but there are a lot of things that have not been previously known that really call into question what really happened — and who was behind it, which includes conversations that were happening in other countries, and messages that were going around about the assassination itself.”

“There are more questions than answers,” she warned, adding that there are more than 50k other files to be uncovered and released.

Asked about what other countries were involved, Gabbard pointed out a diplomatic cable that’s part of the 10,000 files that National Archives staff had placed out for her to view.

“If you look on this memo alone, you see Kuwait, London, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Benghazi…all of these American embassies who were the recipients of this cable,” she explained. “People are going to have to go to the website and read for themselves to kind of get an insight into what the conversations were like before, and after, Senator Kennedy’s assassination.”
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😆🔥New York City Mayor Eric Adams delivered a diatribe against perceived critics and the media in a speech Friday morning at the African American Mayors Association, warning politicians in attendance a similar fate could befall them.

“Particularly if you are the first or second Black mayor, you inherit those who are part of an institution who say: ‘We are going to wait you out,’” said the mayor, referring to city bureaucrats he believes are deliberately sabotaging his agenda. “You inherit those who have their own agenda, who have long relationships with the media that they can leak and slip information and make calls on you.”

In his speech, Adams accused social service providers of relishing the poverty and poor education in low-income communities because it provided them with lucrative municipal contracts. And he said he was criticized — by whom, it was unclear — for hiring a diverse set of top aides.

The mayor went on to lambaste critics who have called the city chaotic despite his accomplishments that he says include Covid recovery, managing the massive influx of asylum-seekers and instilling confidence in bond rating agencies through sound fiscal management.

The mayor’s dyspeptic speech also quoted late comedian Joan Rivers’ signature line, “Can we talk?,” and contained allusions to the “deep state,” a theory that longtime government employees undermine elected officials they are supposed to serve.

Adams has begun to refer to the so-called deep state since promoting “Government Gangsters,” a book by FBI Director Kash Patel.
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🛸👽 - The equation N = R × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L in Anna Paulina Luna's post is the Drake Equation, developed by Frank Drake in 1961 to estimate the number of detectable extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy, often used in discussions about the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).

- Each term in the equation represents a factor in the likelihood of communicative alien life: R is the rate of star formation, fp is the fraction of stars with planets, ne is the number of planets per star that can support life, fl is the fraction that develop life, fi is the fraction with intelligent life, fc is the fraction that develop detectable technology, and L is the lifespan of such civilizations.
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Former White House Chief Medical Advisor Anthony Fauci earned $3.5 million in his first year of retirement from government and may have misled Congress about the date of his departure, documents reveal.

Fauci received several six-figure deposits through 2023 totaling $1.15 million according to a 141-page financial disclosure obtained by Open The Books, a government watchdog group.

The documents do not describe the source of the deposits.

Fauci leveraged his celebrity status as the top trusted messenger on COVID-19 to pad his earnings in 2023, just as newly empowered Congressional investigators sharpened their focus on the ways Fauci betrayed the public’s trust at the pandemic’s height.
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President Donald Trump's Oval Office erupted into chaos after a young family member of Dr. Mehmet Oz collapsed during his swearing-in ceremony. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had sworn-in Oz as administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Services. After the brief ceremony was over, Trump held a back and forth with reporters in the room.

That was hastily cut short, when the young girl collapsed - with Oz, a medical doctor, rushing to assist her. White House aides started yelling at the press to depart the scene. 'Thank you press, get out right now,' one aide is heard yelling. 'No photos!' someone said.

The White House soon provided the press with an update - the young family member was fine.

'A minor family member fainted during Dr. Oz;s swearing in ceremony in the Oval Office. We are happy to say she is OK,' a White House official said. Her fainting spell brought another rollicking mini press conference in the Oval to a dramatic conclusion.
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They're holding their hands under someone woman's mouth at the very end, like maybe she was sick. 🤷‍♀️

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Dr Oz's granddaughter got sick causing chaos to erupt 👇👇

Bill Melugin reports that Fox News has been handed over a bodycam image along with the HSI report from 2022 when "Maryland Family Man" Kilmar Abrego Garcia was stopped by the Tennessee Highway Patrol on suspicion of being engaged in human trafficking.

Turns out, there were 8 people with NO LUGGAGE who gave authorities the SAME home address as Garcia's home. Garcia was cagey and evasive during questioning, but was not arrested.

He adds, "DHS says the report has yesterday’s date due to redactions made of law enforcement sensitive info for public consumption, but this is an old document."

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April 17, 2020- the moment Dr. Fauci began his coverup of the lab leak and referenced the “Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication that stated COVID-19 originated naturally.

The official government website for COVID now blames Fauci for purposely pushing the lie 🔥

https://x.com/patri0tcontr0l/status/1913267312662118841

CNN🙄: A member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency kept Consumer Financial Protection Bureau staffers working for 36 hours straight to send out mass layoff notices at the agency, screaming at those he thought weren’t working fast enough, according to a declaration filed Friday in a legal case over the terminations.

“DOGE member Gavin Kliger managed the RIF. He kept the team up for 36 hours straight to ensure that the notices would go out yesterday (April 17). Gavin was screaming at people he did not believe were working fast enough to ensure they could go out on this compressed timeline, calling them incompetent,” said an unidentified member of the team working on the reduction in force, or RIF, notices. The person used a pseudonym in the filing for fear of retaliation.

The CFPB started sending RIF notices to about 1,500 of the 1,700 agency staffers yesterday.

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JUST IN: Dr. Oz has been sworn in as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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NY Times - so time will tell if this is true: The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the latest leader of the agency had been installed without his knowledge and at the behest of billionaire Elon Musk, according to five people with knowledge of the change and the sensitive discussions that precipitated it.

Mr. Bessent believed that Mr. Musk had done an end run around him to get Gary Shapley installed as the interim head of the I.R.S., even though the tax collection agency reports to Mr. Bessent.

Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency pushed the appointment through White House channels, but Mr. Bessent was not consulted or asked for his blessing, the people said. They spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversations.

Mr. Bessent got Mr. Trump’s approval to unwind the decision. The next acting head of the I.R.S., which has seen a conveyor belt of temporary leaders under Mr. Trump, is expected to be the deputy secretary of the Treasury, Michael Faulkender. He would hold the role until the president’s nominee for the permanent role, former congressman Billy Long, if approved by the Senate, takes over.
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What if an entire class of “MAGA” social media influencers were created to emotionally manipulate you, keep you frustrated, keep you angry, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, **keep you blind to what’s really going on, so they could try to destroy the Trump team support at this crucial time?

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU FOLLOW.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may not proceed with agencywide job cuts, while a D.C. federal court weighs whether the terminations would violate a preliminary injunction blocking the agency from shutting down.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court for the District of Columbia said from the bench Friday that a written order blocking the layoffs would come out later in the day.
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The Trump administration on Friday will announce that it's moving ahead with a new rule, previously known as "Schedule F," that will make it easier to remove federal employees it believes are undercutting President Trump's agenda.

By stripping civil service protections from about 50,000 people — roughly 2% of the federal work force — Trump is continuing his far-reaching effort to trim the federal bureaucracy and make it more answerable to him.

The Office of Personnel Management's new rule — dubbed "Schedule Policy/Career" — will allow many career civil servants to be classified as "at will" employees, making them easier to remove.

Trump aides argue they need greater flexibility to fire civil servants who are underperforming, engaging in misconduct or undermining Trump's policy plans.

Such civil servants in nonpartisan roles traditionally have had job protections that shielded them from the political whims of whoever was in the White House. But Trump and many of his backers have long believed that a "deep state" of Washington bureaucrats was undercutting his agenda.
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While President Donald Trump met with Angel Mom Patty Morin, whose 37-year-old daughter Rachel Morin was murdered by an illegal alien MS-13 gang member in Maryland, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met in El Salvador with a deported illegal alien accused of being an MS-13 gang member, domestic abuser, and human trafficker.

Trump met with Patty Morin this week in the Oval Office as she also took to the White House press secretary podium to tell the establishment media of the brutal rape and murder her daughter, a mother of five, suffered at the hands of an illegal alien MS-13 gang member in her home of Harford County, Maryland, in 2023.
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CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE: You guys are seeing a ton more @Reuters articles being posted from me lately because they have absolutely been ON IT. While I don't always agree with their takes, this news junkie recognizes their hard work. Typically, they're the first to report most big stories lately.

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Ah, it’s that time of year again.

The days are getting longer.
The birds are chirping.
The flowers are blooming.
And the media is trying to bait us into another race war.

Can’t wait for another summer of love! ☀️🌈

JUST IN: A U.S. judge on Friday denied Sean "Diddy" Combs' bid to delay his upcoming sex-trafficking trial by two months.

U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian said the hip-hop mogul made his request too close to his trial. Jury selection is currently scheduled to start on May 5, with opening statements on May 12.

Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to five criminal counts including racketeering and sex trafficking. Prosecutors with the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office say Combs used his business empire to sexually abuse women between 2004 and 2024.
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Harvey Weinstein won a legal victory in his rape and sexual assault retrial in Manhattan, as his pleas to get out of the “hell hole” he calls Rikers Island were granted by the judge.

The former Hollywood power broker will be transferred from the infamous New York City lockup to Bellevue Hospital, a judge ruled Thursday. Weinstein will be allowed to stay at the Kips Bay hospital until the conclusion of the trial.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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💥🔥SAVAGE! - Gloves are OFF!

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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary announced on Thursday a policy to limit employees of companies regulated by the agency, such as pharmaceutical firms, from serving as official members on FDA's advisory committees, where legally allowed.

The directive on Thursday is aimed at promoting "radical transparency" and mitigating perceived industry influence and conflicts of interest, Makary said in a statement, opens new tab.

Makary, in a post on social media platform X, said the FDA has a history of being influenced unduly by corporate interests.
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JUST IN: Capital One has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to acquire and merge with Discover Financial Services, the agency announced Friday.

The move helps pave the way for the merger’s completion, pending the approval of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. The deal received the green light from the Justice Department’s antitrust arm earlier this month.

The all-stock deal, first announced over a year ago, would give Capital One a major leg up against competing credit card-issuing banks such as JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup (C), which don’t process transactions themselves.
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QUIET PART OUT LOUD: "Democracy is what put us through school shooter drills and schools shootings. It's what put us through the climate crisis and so much more."

- DNC Vice Chair David Hogg

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BREAKING: A U.S. judge on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport hundreds if not thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted, tortured or killed there.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston last month had issued an order that temporarily blocked the administration from fast-tracking deportations, hobbling its ability to remove migrants subject to final orders who in some cases have legal protections preventing them from being sent back to their countries of origin.
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Texas has experienced multiple earthquakes over the last day, with the most recent clocking in as a 3.3 magnitude quake.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the tremor at 9:01am ET in the state's western region, 19 miles from Mentone.

And a 2.3 magnitude earthquake hit the same area about two hours earlier.

Seismic activity above 2.5 in magnitude can often be felt and cause minor damage.

However, no damages or injuries have been reported after the 3.3 magnitude earthquake.

The USGS captured an estimated 10 minor tremors in the area over the last 24 hours, ranging from 1.7 to 2.4 magnitude.

While West Texas has several fault lines, the earthquakes were likely caused by induced seismicity—earthquakes triggered by human activities, particularly oil and gas operations.

Those operations cause quakes mainly through wastewater injection, increasing underground pressure and lubricating faults, making them more likely to slip.
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Judicial Watch announced yesterday that it received 52 pages of documents from the U.S. Department of Justice showing White House staffers suggesting edits to transcripts of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding his handling of secret documents.

The documents were obtained thanks to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records of communication between the agency and White House regarding the altered transcripts of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s October 2023 interviews of President Biden in the criminal investigation into Biden’s theft and disclosure of classified records.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's mass layoffs included senior negotiators in talks with the pharmaceutical industry over renewing the user fee programs that fund the regulator's drug review system, six sources familiar with the matter said.

The firings of most of the negotiators and their project managers throw into disarray the complex process of reauthorizing the agreements, overseen by Congress, under which big pharma and generic drug companies pay for the FDA's review of their products, several experts said.

The experts and sources said the loss of those FDA employees jeopardizes the agency's preparations for the looming reauthorization process for the program that funds its budget for one of its core functions, reviewing drug products that can be life-saving and approving treatments that are safe and effective.
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More details are emerging Friday about Florida State University shooting suspect Phoenix Ikner as law enforcement are trying to piece together what motivated the 20-year-old student to allegedly open fire at his school, killing two and wounding six.

Months before the shooting, Ikner was quoted in an FSU student newspaper article about anti-Trump protests at the school and was identified as a political science major, according to WFLA.

The article was later updated to say "An earlier version of this article included a quote from the gunman in the April 17 shooting at FSU and was removed at the decision of our editors to maintain ethical journalistic standards and avoid amplifying the voice of an individual responsible for violence."

Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil also said Ikner "has been steeped in the Leon County Sheriff’s Office family, engaged in a number of training programs that we have," according to The Associated Press. "So it’s not a surprise to us that he had access to weapons."

The two people who were killed were not FSU students, according to authorities, who believe that the suspect acted alone.
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Meanwhile, a former classmate of the shooting suspect is now claiming Ikner is a "white supremacist and Trump supporter"🤥🤥

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The Trump administration on Thursday ordered a social media vetting for all U.S. visa applicants who have been to the Gaza Strip on or after January 1, 2007, an internal State Department cable seen by Reuters showed, in the latest push to tighten screening of foreign travelers.

The order to conduct a social media vetting for all immigrant and non-immigrant visas should include non-governmental organization workers as well as individuals who have been in the Palestinian enclave for any length of time in an official or diplomatic capacity, the cable said.
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The Education Department announced Friday it was requesting records from Harvard University over allegations of inaccurate foreign financial disclosures, the latest in a series of administration moves against the prestigious school, which has refused to bow to White House demands.

The federal agency said the Ivy League’s foreign reports show “incomplete and inaccurate disclosures.”

The Department of Education wants Harvard to turn over a list of all gifts and grants from all foreign sources, information regarding all expelled foreign students since 2016, information regarding all faculty affiliated with or from a foreign country and those involved in the expulsion of foreign students, among other things.
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Meanwhile, over on TikTok, posts like this are popping up:

TikToker says, " Hey, to all of the people who are against Karmelo Anthony, me as a black man in America, white people, I'm telling you and I'm telling you now, (if) you ever even think to approach me, bully me, harass me, think you're going to be with your twin brother or twin whatever and do anything to me, I too will pokey, pokey, pokey, pokey, pokey you as well, straight - This is not the Jim Crow era. This ain't 400 years ago. This ain't 1619. This ain't back in them days. Y'all don't want to end up like Austin. Leave black people alone. Y'all didn't play fair for 400 years. We ain't playing fair with y'all either."

🎥 @LibsofTikTok

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THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR🤬: Frisco PD responded to a call reporting shots fired at the home of Jeff Metcalf, father of slain teen Austin Metcalf. No one was home at the time, though Metcalf arrived about 5 minutes after the call. The home had been swatted, per CBS 19.

Metcalf's son Austin was fatally stabbed at a track meet in April and another student, Karmelo Anthony, has been charged in his death. When he was questioned by police, he admitted to having stabbed Metcalf.

Father Jeff Metcalf had attended a press conference on Thursday that was held by the family and representatives of Anthony. Before the conference began, he was escorted out.

Dominique Alexander, a spokesperson for the Anthony family, said, "The father being at this press conference, these are my words, don't quote anybody, is a disrespect to the dignity of his son."
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THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR🤬: Frisco PD responded to a call reporting shots fired at the home of Jeff Metcalf, father of slain teen Austin Metcalf. No one was home at the time, though Metcalf arrived about 5 minutes after the call. The home had been swatted, per CBS 19.

Metcalf's son Austin was fatally stabbed at a track meet in April and another student, Karmelo Anthony, has been charged in his death. When he was questioned by police, he admitted to having stabbed Metcalf.

Father Jeff Metcalf had attended a press conference on Thursday that was held by the family and representatives of Anthony. Before the conference began, he was escorted out.

Dominique Alexander, a spokesperson for the Anthony family, said, "The father being at this press conference, these are my words, don't quote anybody, is a disrespect to the dignity of his son."
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Code Pink, the liberal antiwar group known best for disrupting hearings in their trademark fuchsia garb, may need to register under a 1938 law requiring disclosure of political behavior benefiting foreign entities or governments, according to a top Senate Republican.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote a letter Wednesday to FBI Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi openly considering whether Code Pink, as well as the New York-based socialist "incubator" The People’s Forum, must register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

"The Department of Justice has a duty to ensure compliance with the [FARA, which] remains a priority tool to combat adversarial foreign governments from influencing public policy and opinion in the United States," Grassley wrote.
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If you go to covid.gov, it redirects you to ➡️ https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/

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💥🔥Covid.gov has a new look 🤣🤣

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As families across the nation gather to celebrate Easter, I extend my gratitude to the dedicated East Wing Staff for their tireless effort in preparing the upcoming White House Easter Egg Roll.

This cherished tradition, rooted in history since 1878, brings joy, storytelling, and laughter to America’s children. I look forward to watching all of the smiles light up this memorable day, on Monday.

May this Good Friday inspire hope and faith for all Americans and our friends around the world.

- FLOTUS

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One-third of fires responded to by the Los Angeles Fire Department over the last six years involve the homeless, according to a newly released department memo.

The memo found rubbish fires — half of which involve the homeless — became the department’s top service call type in 2024 and said falling LAFD staffing and rising homeless dispatch volume leave the department overextended.

The report says that while homeless individuals make up just 1.2% of LA’s population, they are responsible for 12% of LAFD emergency medical services incidents and 33% of fires. This means compared to other people in Los Angeles, homeless people are 10 times more likely to use EMS services and 28 times more likely to be “involved” in a fire — all at taxpayers’ expense.

LAFD says it believes these numbers understate the number of homeless-related fires and medical emergencies it responds to, meaning the costs are likely even higher.
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Rep. Andy Barr plans to announce next week that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by former GOP leader Mitch McConnell, according to two people familiar with his plans and granted anonymity to discuss them.

One of those people, a Republican in Kentucky, provided an invitation to a “special campaign announcement” on Tuesday evening in Richmond.

Barr, a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, had been considering a run to succeed McConnell since even before McConnell officially announced in February that he would not seek reelection next year.
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday that his state would due the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over cuts to the federal AmeriCorps volunteer program.

AmeriCorps was established by President Bill Clinton to provide volunteer opportunities on American soil (the Peace Corps, established under President John F. Kennedy, focuses on volunteer service abroad).

Elon Musk’s DOGE made cuts to the program this week, after half of AmeriCorps’ 600 employees had already accepted a voluntary severance package. Many volunteers across the nation were also let go from the agency.

Newsom claimed that AmeriCorps volunteers were essential to the response to recent California wildfires.

In a profane statement, Newsom claimed that Trump was telling California and America: “Go f*** yourself.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signaled a potential end to the tit-for-tat tariff hikes between the U.S. and China that shocked markets, and that a deal over the fate of social media platform TikTok may have to wait.

"I don't want them to go higher because at a certain point you make it where people don't buy," Trump told reporters about tariffs at the White House.

"So, I may not want to go higher or I may not want to even go up to that level. I may want to go to less because you know you want people to buy and, at a certain point, people aren't gonna buy."

Trump's comments further pointed to a diminished appetite for sharply higher across-the-board tariffs on dozens of countries after markets reacted violently to their introduction on April 2.
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🔥President Trump has appointed Fox News host Mark Levin and a host of others to lead his “revamped” Homeland Security Advisory Council.

“I am proud to announce the formation of my revamped Homeland Security Advisory Council [HSAC], which is comprised of Top Experts in their field, who are highly respected by their peers,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Thursday.

Levin, who is the host of Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin”, will be joined by ex-NYPD detective Bo Dietl, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster and Florida state Sen. Joseph Gruters.

“It is a big honor to serve on HSAC, and I know the new Members, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, Mark Levin, Bo Dietl, and Joseph Gruters, will do an incredible job,” Trump continued.
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Burrrrt when’s the arrests happening???!!! 😭😭😭

Yes these type of criminals are part of the swamp.

‘A federal grand jury has charged Behrouz Parsarad, an Iranian national, for his role as the founder and operator of Nemesis Market, a dark web marketplace for illegal drugs and criminal cyber-services, such as stolen financial information, fraudulent identification documents, counterfeit currencies, and computer malware.’

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/iranian-national-indicted-operating-online-marketplace-offering-fentanyl-and-money

JUST IN: President Trump's DOJ has APPEALED Judge Boasberg’s contempt ruling for deporting over 200 people to El Salvador despite a court order halting such actions.

The appeal argues that the Executive Branch’s authority overrides the judiciary’s attempt to enforce the halt, citing constitutional separation of powers.

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A federal judge on Thursday issued new restrictions on Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, extending a ban on its access to Americans' personal data in Social Security Administration systems.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander temporarily blocked Musk and DOGE from accessing American's personal data in the SSA system last month, but the ban was set to expire Thursday, per Reuters.

The Trump administration had failed to prove why DOGE needed "unprecedented, unfettered access to virtually SSA's entire data systems in order to accomplish" its goals, Hollander wrote.

Meanwhile, the labor unions and advocacy group that had brought the lawsuit against DOGE had succeeded in showing "that their members will suffer irreparable harm in the absence of a preliminary injunction," she wrote.
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💥Tulsi Gabbard announces the Robert F Kennedy assassination records have been released:

Here they are: https://t.co/Jhq6XWLNmZ

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😁Happy Friday!😁

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Convicted FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith — whom Judge James Boasberg gave a slap on the wrist for his crimes years before becoming a public foe of President Donald Trump’s deportation policies — was more deeply involved in the deeply flawed Crossfire Hurricane investigation than previously known.

Clinesmith, who worked on both the FBI’s Hillary Clinton email investigation and on the Trump-Russia collusion inquiry, pleaded guilty to falsifying a document during the bureau’s efforts to renew FISA authority to wiretap Carter Page, who was an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign.

Newly-declassified details about Clinesmith’s involvement include a wide swath of information about his role in the case. He was a key go-to for former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and fired FBI special agent Peter Strzok throughout the debunked collusion saga and a main driver in obtaining a FISA warrant against Page based on the infamous Steele dossier.

Clinesmith also granted his seal of approval on a document describing the FBI’s pretextual briefing of then-candidate Trump, was deeply involved in the investigation into retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, played a role in going after former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, and more. He also helped the FBI push its  “Cross Wind” investigation, which Just the News can confirm related to the targeting of security expert Walid Phares, which resulted in no accusations of wrongdoing and no charges.
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♟️Chess, not checkers…

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“SHOT HEARD AROUND THE WORLD”: President Trump has officially proclaimed April 19, 2025, as a day of commemoration to mark the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, recognizing the start of the American Revolutionary War.

“Two and a half centuries ago, a small band of minutemen answered the call of freedom in the legendary Battles of Lexington and Concord, an epic tale of American strength and the first major armed conflict of the Revolutionary War,” the proclamation reads.

The document highlights the confrontation in Lexington at dawn on April 19, 1775, when 77 American minutemen, led by Captain John Parker, stood against British troops. The resulting gunfire left eight Americans dead—the first casualties in the fight for American independence.

“The British ambush at Lexington became known as the ‘shot heard ’round the world,’ prompting thousands of brave young men to leave behind their homes and livelihoods to fight for our freedom on the frontlines of the American Revolution,” the statement reads.
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Jesse Watters just absolutely BURIED the entire Democrat Party for losing their minds over the so-called "Maryland dad," Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a verified MS-13 gangbanger and illegal who beat his wife....

WATCH THIS.

‼️President Donald Trump will walk away from trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday.

“We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months on end. So we need to determine very quickly now, and I’m talking about a matter of days whether or not this is doable in the next few weeks,” Rubio said in Paris after meeting European and Ukrainian leaders.

“The president feels very strongly about that. He has dedicated a lot of time and energy to this … this is important, but there are a lot of other really important things going on that deserves just as much, if not more attention.”

Rubio’s warning came amid signs of some progress in US talks with Ukraine.
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We often talk about kayfabe, and its’ prevalence on the world stage.

I’ve often drawn connections between President Trump, his relationship to Vince McMahon, and his time in the WWE.

Linda McMahon is again serving in President Trump’s administration. Having also done so in his first term.

We saw The Undertaker, Kane, and even Stone Cold Steve Austin come out in support of President Trump. These 3 were arguably the biggest stars in the WWE in the 90’s save for The Rock.

We also often talk about the culture war, in which, pro wrestling - especially its fanbase - had become pretty left leaning and woke.

Is the fanbase as large as the NFL, or NBA? No. But it is still a very large fanbase, and a decent swath of society that still must be snapped out of their slumber.

The WWE is the biggest wrestling promotion in the world. Worth billions of dollars.

As an example: Wrestle Mania weekend rivals many of the nation’s other largest sporting events - including the Super Bowl.

Recently we saw Paul Levesque, also known as “Triple H” - the CEO of WWE in the crowd with Dan Bongino and President Trump at a UFC fight.

Roman Reigns is the face of the WWE, and has been for the last decade.

He is also related to Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) and is a member of the legendary Anoa’i family. A family which wrestlers such as Rocky Johnson, Rikishi, The Rock, Umaga, The Usos and many more came from.

Recently, he did an interview with Vanity Fair, in which he admitted to being a Trump supporter despite being a registered Democrat.

This? This is EXACTLY what we need to bring people over to our side.

Roman Reigns, the face of the WWE admitting that he is a Trump supporter is an absolutely huge win in the culture war.

ESPECIALLY amongst 18-24 year olds. A demographic we desperately need.

Like it or not, pro-wrestling may have, and very well may be playing a way bigger role in saving the country than we realize.

[P.S - At this year’s Wrestle Mania, John Cena will be vying for his … *17th* WWE Championship.]

“It’s like he needs that adversary,” he says. “He needs that opposition to bounce off of. He needs that competitive motivation or something.” Trump’s pugilistic approach, of course, is not unlike WWE’s own template.”

“To be honest,” Anoa’i says, “the world seems to be more like wrestling than any other form of entertainment.”

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Find someone that looks at you the way democrat senators look at MS-13 gang members.

https://x.com/trumpwarroom/status/1913069285422895400?s=46

President Trump announces the formation of the new Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), led by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

New Members: South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster, Mark Levin, Bo Dietl, and Joseph Gruters.

Tasks: To develop new policies/strategies that will help secure the Border, deport illegal criminals, stop the flow of Fentanyl and other illegal drugs, and MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN.

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Troll level: master 🤣

Now that he’s been confirmed healthy, he gets the honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody 🇺🇸🤝🏼🇸🇻

https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1913035243918864742?s=46

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the “death camps” & “torture”, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!🍹

-President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele

Join us for Episode #9 of Absolute Storm!

Tonight we discuss Antitrust boomerangs, MS-13, and we discuss the potential of a storm coming soon.

We also have our usual DJT/Flynn and Elon notes and comms, as well as our Patriotic Performance segment, and the debut of "Our Sacred Honor" - A segment focusing on our military.

Tune in at 9:00pm ET for Episode 9 of Absolute Storm!

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#MedalofHonor recipient @Dakota_Meyer reenlisted today in a ceremony hosted by @SecDef, and attended by @USMCSgtMaj, and @DNIGabbard in the Hall of Heroes at the Pentagon.

By returning to service, Sgt. Meyer is the only living Medal of Honor recipient currently serving in the United States Marine Corps.

https://x.com/USMC/status/1912989776149467598

BREAKING‼️: A federal grand jury in New York on Thursday returned a four-count indictment against alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione that charges him with two counts of stalking, firearms offense and murder through the use of a firearm, a charge that makes him eligible for the death penalty.

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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Wednesday denied an emergency appeal by four Mexican nationals facing deportation. The request asked the court to temporarily block their removal so they could file a formal petition for review.

Kagan denied the application without comment and did not refer the matter to her colleagues on the court.

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NEW: Officials say the suspected gunman who fatally shot two people and wounded five others at Florida State University, 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, was the son of a local sheriff’s deputy.

Law enforcement confirmed the weapon used was the deputy’s personal handgun.

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🚨 Florida State (FSU) shooter Phoenix Ikner was RABIDLY anti-Trump

Because OF COURSE he was.

“I think it’s a little too late, Trump is already going to be inaugurated on Jan. 20 and there’s not really much you can do unless you outright revolt…” Phoenix previously told FSUNews

He was also documented as taking part in anti-Trump, pro-Palestine protests on campus.

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1912972692317204956?s=46

A Trump administration official last month asked the Internal Revenue Service to look into concerns from Mike Lindell, the pillow entrepreneur and a leading denier of the 2020 presidential election, that he had been inappropriately targeted for an audit, according to three people familiar with the matter and an email viewed by The New York Times.

David Eisner, a Treasury official, wrote an email in March to a top I.R.S. official that Mr. Lindell, “a high-profile friend of the President recently received an audit letter, from what I understand, his second in two years.” Mr. Eisner wrote that Mr. Lindell “is concerned that he may have been inappropriately targeted” and then signed off the message.

I.R.S. officials did not act on the email, and instead referred it to the agency’s inspector general, according to the people.
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WATCH🥴: Elizabeth Warren says that if President Trump fires Fed Chair Powell the stock market will crash:

"This is a president who has shown himself willing to violate laws, including willing to violate the Constitution of the United States... If Chairman Powell can be fired by the President of the United States, it will crash the markets in the United States... If interest rates in the United States are subject to a President who just wants to wave his magic wand, this doesn't distinguish us from any other two-bit dictatorship around the world where everyone knows. What you really, your big investment risk is, will that dictator wake up in the morning and have a tummy ache and decide to cause this problem or favor that friend?"

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Sweet sweet KARMA. 🤍

A U.S. appeals court has denied the U.S. Justice Department's request to prevent a lower court from probing whether the Trump administration complied with an order to return a man wrongly deported to El Salvador, court records showed on Thursday.

The appeals court also denied the Justice Department's request to halt an order requiring it to "facilitate" the man's return.
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President Trump has for months privately discussed firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, according to people familiar with the matter, but he hasn’t made a final decision about whether to try to oust him before his term ends next year.

In meetings at the president’s private Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, Trump has spoken with Kevin Warsh, a former Fed governor, about potentially firing Powell before his term ends and possibly selecting Warsh to be his replacement, the people said.
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The Trump administration threatened to revoke Harvard University's eligibility to host foreign students, tightening its squeeze on the school after campus leadership refused to cave in to its demands.

The heightened pressure comes after the Trump administration cut $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to the university amid a broader campaign against elite higher education institutions.

Trump said earlier this week that Harvard should lose its tax exempt status, accusing the Ivy League school of pushing politics and ideology.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem warned Harvard that its certification to enroll foreign students is "contingent upon" it complying with federal immigration rules, in a Wednesday letter to the university obtained by the New York Times.
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🤣Life comes at ya fast, @ChrisVanHollen: Many in the GOP are calling for Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) to be charged with violations of the Logan Act after the lawmaker traveled to El Salvador to demand the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an El Salvadoran national who was deported from the US over his ties to the violent MS-13 gang.

Political consultant Roger Stone wrote, "Why hasn’t this US Senator been arrested for violation of the Logan Act? It’s illegal to conduct your own foreign policy."

Women for America First executive director Kylie Jane Kremer wrote, "Senator Van Hollen should be immediately arrested upon returning to the United States from El Salvador & indicted for violating The Logan Act, as well as Treason, for attempting to bring an already deported illegal alien & MS-13 gang member back to the US."
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UPDATES: The shooter allegedly went into the student union with a shotgun. They went through the rounds with the shotgun, then they switched to a handgun. When the individual was taken into custody after being shot at, they believe by law enforcement, the handgun was on his person.

Again, that shooter was taken into custody, seen face down on the ground. Law enforcement at this point has cleared multiple rooms. Almost every building and every room that they intend to clear has reportedly been cleared.

They are moving into the investigative phase but that is always a very fluid situation - it can go from one situation to another, but that's their understanding. Tallahassee PD is going to be the lead law enforcement agency for this investigation and potentially will have a press conference at 4:00 PM.

Earlier reports indicated there were 2 sh00ters, but according to other sources, that is incorrect. There was just one.

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We don’t get to decide what we “deserve” for our thoughts, intentions and actions. It may seem counterintuitive but that concept of “deserving” something in exchange for our efforts is actually Attachment and holds an element of Fear within it.

What we DO get to decide, however, is that we are deeply worthy of all the Blessings and wonders that the Universe has to offer.

And sometimes, when things seem to go wrong, we need to remember to look for the Blessings in those experiences, too.
They’re there, but we have to Choose to see them.

Everything actually works for your Highest Good. Do you Believe this? Or are you operating in Fear-mode?

In Love,
~TR 💖

PS - And that doesn’t mean that when “bad” things happen, we are supposed to plaster a smile on and pretend we are A-OK and that we feel “Blessed”.
The real secret lies in ACCEPTING exactly how you DO feel and then moving through the experience from a place of Honesty and Authenticity. Only then can the pain actually pass and the Treasure be found. 😇