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Feds Erase “Harm” From the Endangered Species Act, Opening Habitats to Bulldozers
Feds Erase “Harm” From the Endangered Species Act, Opening Habitats to Bulldozers The Departments of the Interior and Commerce on Thursday finalized a rule rescinding the longstanding regulatory definition of “harm” under the Endangered Species Act. Since 1981, “harm” had been defined to include actions that degrade or modify a threatened species’ habitat, not just…
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Judge Tosses Proud Boys’ Jan. 6 Convictions, Even While Saying Trump’s Version of Events Is “Fiction”
Judge Tosses Proud Boys’ Jan. 6 Convictions, Even While Saying Trump’s Version of Events Is “Fiction” U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, a Trump appointee, on Friday granted a Justice Department motion to dismiss with prejudice the remaining convictions of four Proud Boys members, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola, for their…
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Trump Trashes His Own Housing Bill, Then Lets It Become Law Anyway
Trump Trashes His Own Housing Bill, Then Lets It Become Law Anyway The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, the first major U.S. housing affordability bill in roughly 30 years, became law at 12:01 a.m. ET on July 11 without President Trump’s signature, after a 10-day waiting period expired since Congress formally presented it to…
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Trump Threatens “1,000 Missiles” as Iran Ceasefire Collapses
Trump Threatens “1,000 Missiles” as Iran Ceasefire Collapses President Trump said Friday that the ceasefire between the United States and Iran is over, as tensions escalated over control of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump had already ramped up his rhetoric against Iranian leadership in recent days, calling them “scum,” and the situation deteriorated further after…
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Trump Fires the Referees Right Before the Midterms
Trump Fires the Referees Right Before the Midterms President Donald Trump on Thursday, July 9, fired the two Democratic members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, notifying them by email; Hovland learned of his removal via a White House email while visiting a local election office in Missouri. Christy McCormick,…
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McConnell Goes Missing, and the Senate’s Spending Talks Collapse With Him
McConnell Goes Missing, and the Senate’s Spending Talks Collapse With Him Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins canceled a scheduled Thursday markup of four fiscal year 2027 spending bills after concluding Republicans lacked the votes to advance them out of committee. The GOP holds only a narrow majority on the panel, and Sen. Mitch McConnell’s…
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Obamacare Premiums Are About to Jump 14%, and Everyone Blames Someone Else
Obamacare Premiums Are About to Jump 14%, and Everyone Blames Someone Else Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing a median premium increase of 14% for 2027 in preliminary rate filings released this week, which would be the second-highest jump since 2018 if approved. Insurers say roughly 4 percentage points of the proposed increase stems directly…
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ICE Kills a Man Who Wasn’t Even the Target, and No One Can Agree Who Investigates
ICE Kills a Man Who Wasn’t Even the Target, and No One Can Agree Who Investigates An ICE agent conducting a targeted enforcement operation in east Houston fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, on Tuesday morning near Canal Street and Wayside Drive. The Department of Homeland Security said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle and…
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Planned Parenthood Drops $47 Million to Make Republicans Pay for Defunding It
Planned Parenthood Drops $47 Million to Make Republicans Pay for Defunding It Planned Parenthood Votes, the political arm of the nation’s largest abortion provider, announced Thursday it will spend $47 million in the 2026 midterms, the group’s second-largest election investment ever behind the $50 million it spent in 2022. The money will fund advertising, voter…
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Trump Declares the Iran Ceasefire Dead, and Congress Has No Vote on What Comes Next
Trump Declares the Iran Ceasefire Dead, and Congress Has No Vote on What Comes Next President Trump declared the fragile ceasefire with Iran “over” on Wednesday, and U.S. Central Command carried out a second consecutive night of strikes, hitting roughly 90 Iranian military targets including air defenses, drone and missile storage sites, naval assets and…