Day: April 28, 2025

Fired DOJ Lawyer Blamed Trump Admin in Abrego Garcia Case, but Did Not Raise ‘Guatemala’ Mention in ‘Withholding of Removal’ Order

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Erez Reuveni, the attorney who was fired by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after stating in a legal filing that the Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador as the result of “an administrative error,” complained to U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis that he was “frustrated” by the lack of information supplied by his client, the federal government under the Trump administration, regarding the reason for the Salvadoran’s deportation to his homeland.

Reuveni did not note that the final deportation order signed by U.S. Immigration Judge David A. Jones in 2019 included a “withholding of removal” order that forbade his deportation to one of two nations, either Guatemala or El Salvador.

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Open Records Request for 2022 Traffic Stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia Denied by Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security Without Explanation

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Garcia traffic stop

The Open Records Request filed on April 17 by Tennessee Star Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy, seeking video and written records from the Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) stop of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in December 2022, was denied on Monday without explanation by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security (TDOSHS). 

The Tennessee Public Records Act provides state agencies with seven business days to respond to valid Open Records Requests, and explicitly states that “[f]ailure to respond to the request” constitutes “a denial,” which gives Leahy the right to sue to compel the agency to take action.

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White House Says Trump Would Veto Effort to Eliminate ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs

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Donald Trump

The Trump administration issued a formal veto threat Monday morning regarding a bipartisan resolution that would terminate the president’s emergency powers underpinning his sweeping global tariffs.

The Senate is set to vote as early as this week on a resolution to rescind Trump’s national emergency declaration justifying the imposition of broad tariffs on imported goods. The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said the president would veto the resolution in the event the resolution makes it to his desk, according to a statement of administration policy exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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Media Shows No scrutiny of Study Claiming Oil Companies Made the World $28 Trillion Poorer

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Climate protest

A new study published in the journal Nature concludes that the world would be $28 trillion richer if we hadn’t used fossil fuels. Were it not for the “extreme heat” fossil fuel companies are causing, the researchers from Dartmouth College explain, we’d have a much wealthier planet. 

With such dramatic conclusions, multiple outlets in the legacy media breathlessly reported the findings. A report in CBS News quotes celebrity climate scientist Michael Mann supporting this type of research. A D.C. court recently sanctioned Mann in his libel suit against two bloggers, saying he “acted in bad faith when they presented erroneous evidence and made false representations to the jury and the Court.” CBS News’ report makes no mention of this. 

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Catholic Church Begins Delicate Process of Assessing Francis Legacy, Where Next Pope Will Take It

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Pope Francis

With the official funeral for Pope Francis having concluded, Catholic Church leaders now begin the process of addressing the Pope’s unfinished business and deciding who will be the next Pope to carry out that process. 

Over his 12-year papacy, Francis – who in some corners was referred to as “The Woke Pope” – was a transformative but polarizing figure. He worked tirelessly in service of sometimes divisive issues including LGBTQ+ rights, the role of women in the church, a welcoming policy toward migrants and refugees, casting the fight against climate change as a moral issue and prioritizing the normalization of relations with China.

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Wisconsin Judge Awaits May Pre-Trial Hearing, Faces Five Years of Prison

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Judge Dugan Arrest

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan has been temporarily replaced on her cases as she awaits her May 15 pre-trial hearing on a pair of charges.

Dugan is charged with obstruction of a federal proceeding and concealing an individual to prevent discovery or arrest. The obstruction charge could lead to up to a $100,000 fine and a year in prison while the second concealment charge can lead to up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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Top Democrat on House Oversight Committee Announces Retirement

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Gerry Connolly

Democratic Virginia Rep. Gerry Connolly announced Monday that he will not seek reelection and will resign as the top Democrat on the powerful House Oversight Committee.

Connolly, 74, explained his decision to retire in light of his esophageal cancer diagnosis, which he said had returned. The Virginia Democrat defeated New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for the top spot on the House Oversight Committee in January, which outlets had described as a generational fight in the Democratic Party.

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Feds Arrest over 100 Illegal Migrants After Raiding Gang-Infested Nightclub

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Colorado Springs Arrest

More than 100 illegal migrants were arrested during a Sunday morning raid of a Colorado nightclub infested with gang activity, according to federal officials.

In one of the latest moves to combat illegal migrant criminal activity, an underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was raided in a joint operation by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Trump administration announced. In addition to the arrest of over 100 illegal migrants, drugs and weapons were also seized.

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House Democrat Unveils Articles of Impeachment Against Trump

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Axios   Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) on Monday introduced seven long-shot articles of impeachment against President Trump. It’s the first time this year a House Democrat has tried to impeach the president or a member of his administration — though it will almost certainly not be the last. Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who was censured last month for disrupting Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, has said he is planning articles of impeachment as well. READ THE FULL STORY               

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WSJ: Meta’s AI Chatbots Engaged in Explicit Sexual Roleplay with Minors

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Breitbart   A Wall Street Journal investigation has revealed that Meta’s AI chatbots on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in “romantic role-play” with users that can turn sexually explicit, even with accounts belonging to children. In a statement to Breitbart News, the social media giant says it has “taken additional measures” The Wall Street Journal reports that in a rush to popularize AI-powered digital companions across its social media platforms, Meta made internal decisions to loosen restrictions and allow its chatbots to engage in sexual roleplay with users, according to people familiar with the matter. This includes interactions with accounts registered to minors as young as 13. Despite warnings from staffers that this could cross ethical lines, Meta cut deals with celebrities to use their voices for the chatbots and quietly made an exception to its ban on “explicit” content to allow for romantic and sexual scenarios. Test conversations conducted by the Wall Street Journal found that both Meta’s official AI and user-created chatbots readily engaged in and escalated sexually explicit discussions, even when users identified themselves as underage. READ THE FULL STORY                     

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Education Department Temporarily Halts Student Loan Forgiveness Tracker After Court Order

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Washington Examiner   The Education Department temporarily halted a loan forgiveness tracker on borrowers’ accounts in response to a court order blocking the student loan forgiveness program under the SAVE, ICR, and PAYE plans.  “The payment counter has had a banner on it for probably almost two months now, and it basically stated that your payment could be inaccurate,” an Education Department communications official told the Washington Examiner. “It was a big disclaimer, so the payment counters are temporarily unavailable while we update the back end of the system.” On Sunday, Reddit users first flagged the disappearance of the student loan forgiveness tracker, which the Biden administration implemented for borrowers in income-driven repayment plans. READ THE FULL STORY 

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Chinese Manufacturers Flood TikTok to Subvert Trump’s Tariff Agenda

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TikTok China

Chinese manufacturers are flooding TikTok with viral videos aimed at undermining President Donald Trump’s tariff crackdown, turning the platform into a digital battlefield over American trade policy.

Thousands of Chinese businesses, outraged by Trump’s aggressive tariffs on imports, are bypassing traditional supply chains and pitching to U.S. consumers through slick, comedic videos on TikTok, according to MIT Technology Review. Many of these posts “expose” the hidden manufacturing origins of luxury goods, framing Trump’s tariff efforts as harmful not just to Chinese workers, but to American buyers.

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Tennessee House Majority Whip Johnny Garrett Remarks on ‘Successful’ 2025 Legislative Session

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State Rep Johnny Garrett

Tennessee House Majority Whip Johnny Garrett (R-Goodlettsville) reflected on the recently-adjourned 2025 legislative session of the Tennessee General Assembly during a conversation Friday with The Tennessee Star’s CEO and Editor-in-Chief Michael Patrick Leahy where he applauded state lawmakers for their “successful” work, specifically when it came to passing a “good conservative budget.”

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Hegseth Calls Biden’s Military COVID Vax Mandate ‘Unlawful,’ Provides Guidance to Restore Careers

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the Biden administration’s military COVID-19 vaccine mandate “unlawful,” and issued a memo directing Pentagon officials to reinstate service members affected by it and remove any related disciplinary actions from their record.

Hegseth’s announcement on Wednesday follows Trump’s executive order from January reinstating military members who were discharged for refusing to follow the Defense Department’s COVID vaccine mandate implemented by the Biden administration.

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New Memos Expose McCabe’s Defiant Cover-Up in FBI’s Disastrous Trump-Russia Hoax

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Andrew McCabe

On May 21, 2017, Andrew McCabe rebuffed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s suggestion to recuse himself from the Trump-Russia investigation, dismissing concerns over his wife’s political campaign as irrelevant to his leadership. Declassified memos reveal McCabe’s resolve to steer the probe, even as later reports by John Durham and Michael Horowitz exposed deep flaws in the FBI’s handling of the collusion allegations.

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