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White House says Trump is still weighing using American military to obtain Greenland from Denmark
Greenland has come back into focus for the administration after the U.S. arrested former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro over the weekend. Maduro has been indicted in New York on drug trafficking and weapons charges.
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You Vote: Trump is setting his sights on Greenland, following Venezuela move. What do you think?
"We need Greenland from a national security situation," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday. "It's so strategic. Right now, Greenland is covered with Russian and Chinese ships all over the place.
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Former CIA agent Aldrich Ames, who spied for Russia, dies in prison at 84
Ames, a 31-year veteran of the CIA, spent nearly a decade spying for Russia during the 1980s and 1990s
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U.S. Supreme Court urged to take up Maine parental rights case
In a petition to the high court, attorneys for the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute ask justices to consider a lawsuit filed by Amber Lavigne, who claims the Great Salt Bay Community School a guidance counselor encouraged her 13-year-old to wear a chest binder and use a different name and pronouns at school, without consulting her.
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Rubio imposes visa restrictions on European officials who attempted to censor American free speech
"The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship," Rubio posted on X. "Today, the State Department will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course."
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SCOTUS rejects Trump administration request to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago
President Donald Trump has sought to deploy the National Guard in Chicago in the face of aggressive pushback from the citizenry and local government over Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations in the Windy City.
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Fifth Circuit squashes challenge to Texas ban on foreign land purchase
Law prohibits the purchase of certain private property in Texas by governmental entities. companies and individuals that are domiciled in a country named in three recent Annual Threat Assessment reports.
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More than 260 Tren de Aragua leaders and members have been federally indicted under Trump
Trump designated TdA as an Foreign Terrorist Organization for the first time in U.S. history in February and directed the Department of Justice and other federal agencies to eradicate it from the U.S.
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DHS replaces 'random lottery' for H-1B visa recipients with priority based on income, skill
Existing system "was exploited and abused by U.S. employers who were primarily seeking to import foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay American workers," USCIS spokesperson says.
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Former GOP Sen. Ben Sasse says he has advanced pancreatic cancer: 'it’s a death sentence'
"I’m not going down without a fight," Sasse says, citing "jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same."
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Dogs on meth, 'binge drinking ferrets' featured in Rand Paul's Festivus report on wasteful spending
Long after NIAID director's retirement, Anthony Fauci's beagle experiments are "still funded by three different Fauci-era NIAID grants which have cost taxpayers over $13.8 million so far," says report informed by anti-testing watchdog.
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Nearly 100 Minnesota mayors decry 'widespread fraud, unfunded state mandates' in letter to Walz
"Fraud, unchecked spending, and inconsistent fiscal management in St. Paul have trickled down to our cities," risking mayors' ability to "sustain core services without overburdening local taxpayers," they tell governor, lawmakers.
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Trial for ex-NY governors' aide accused of selling influence to China ends with hung jury
A federal prosecutor told the judge that the government wants to retry the case "as soon as possible."