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Two-Tiered Justice: Local DAs Shield Noncitizens from Immigration Consequences

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District attorneys across the country are accused of providing illegal immigrants preferential treatment when they commit crimes, allowing them to remain free in the country and put U.S. citizens’ lives at risk. The related reports seem to indicate that when the arrested person is a U.S. citizen, they are denied much of the leniency shown to illegal immigrants accused of the same crime. 

The House Judiciary Committee and its Immigration Subcommittee released a report this week detailing how Arlington County, Virginia’s Commonwealth’s Attorney, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, “obstructs the enforcement of federal immigration law and shields foreign national criminals from accountability.” Dehghani-Tafti’s campaign received $515,000 from George Soros-affiliated political entities, Fox News reported last October.

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Jack Smith to Testify in Front of Senate Judiciary Committee Next Week

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Special Counsel Jack Smith

The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Friday that former Special Counsel Jack Smith will testify in front of the panel next week about his Arctic Frost investigation.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has led the Senate’s investigation into Smith and his alleged efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump and his allies, which included the revelation that Smith subpoenaed phone records of multiple GOP lawmakers during the Arctic Frost investigation.

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China’s Xi Opens Door to More American Students, Lawmakers and Experts Warn of Influence Operation

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China and Trump

Chinese President Xi Jinping extended a formal invitation to American students, proposing that as many as 100,000 “young Americans” come to China to study in the coming years. But lawmakers have long warned that the country’s student program serves as a vector of Chinese influence. 

“I am glad to announce an invitation for 100,000 young Americans to visit China for exchanges and study in the coming five years,” the Chinese president said in remarks at the White House on Thursday.  

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GOP Megadonor Scales Back Donations over SAVE America Act Failure: Report

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A major Republican donor has scaled back his donations to the party this cycle, reportedly due to frustration with the GOP’s inability to pass a landmark voter ID bill.

Tim Mellon, who gave $200 million in 2024, is reportedly frustrated with the Senate for not passing the SAVE America Act, a national voter ID and election integrity bill that has the support of President Donald Trump, according to the New York Times.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson Urges the U.S. to Bring an End to Iran War

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Mike Johnson

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday joined a growing chorus of Republican voices who are calling for an end to the conflict between the United States and Iran, claiming the U.S. has done its part in keeping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

Republicans, including Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson, have largely cited the cost of the war, including its impact on the United States economy by causing fuel prices to rise, which Americans are feeling in their wallets.

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House Panel Alleges Biden-Harris DOJ ‘Ran Roughshod’ over Constitution in Jack Smith’s Trump Probe

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Jack Smith

The House Judiciary Committee concluded in a report released Wednesday that the Biden-Harris administration wielded the Justice Department as a weapon and “ran roughshod” over constitutional protections and the separation of powers in order to spy on Republican members of Congress. 

The report, which the committee released on Wednesday, summarizes several years worth of investigation conducted by the committee into the tenure of Special Counsel Jack Smith, his investigations into President Donald Trump, and how he used those investigations to obtain privileged phone records from lawmakers.

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Dolly Parton’s Manager Accuses Her Nephew of Threatening Her Estate, Files Restraining Order

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Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton’s longtime manager Danny Nozell filed a restraining order against Parton’s nephew Bryan Seaver on Tuesday, accusing the singer’s former head of security of threats, extortion and intimidation against the estate.

Seaver was the person who publicly announced his aunt’s death on social media last month, stating that she died after a brief battle with cancer. She died surrounded by her loved ones at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Tennessee.

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Agent in Jack Smith Case Says He Was Kept in Dark That Subpoenaed Phone Data Belonged to Congress

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US Atty Jack Smith

A federal agent assigned to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of Donald Trump said prosecutors kept him in the dark that phone data he was gathering under grand jury subpoenas belonged to members of Congress and that he would have had reservations about doing so if he had been told, according to explosive testimony released Tuesday night by the House Judiciary Committee.

Retired Justice Department Inspector General Special Agent Brian Burnett was quoted in the transcript as saying that during his decades working at the DOJ’s watchdog, he never once was asked to collect congressional phone data and did not learn until after he retired in late 2024 that he had unwittingly done so as part of his work for Smith’s team prosecuting Trump in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot investigation code-named Arctic Frost.

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Supreme Court Gives Custody of Baby to Biological Parents over Surrogate in Abortion Related Case

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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan declined Tuesday to get involved in a custody battle over a baby in a case related to surrogacy and abortion. 

Kagan, who oversees emergency cases that stem from California, declined to refer the case to the full Supreme Court and declined to block a lower court’s order that gave custody of the baby to his biological parents, despite their request that the surrogate have an abortion when the then-unborn baby was diagnosed with a serious heart problem, which she refused.

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GOP Lawmakers Say ActBlue Is Not Taking Fraud Concerns Seriously Ahead of Midterms

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As the midterm elections approach, Republican lawmakers are concerned that the Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue is failing to take fraud prevention seriously, even after their probe of the company uncovered lax security practices. Lawmakers allege that lack of oversight allowed foreign donations to flow to progressive causes. 

“My concern from the beginning was that ActBlue did not have the fraud prevention standards that are needed to make sure that foreign money is not coming into U.S. elections, and what we reveal in the report … is clear indications that Act Blue is continuing to not make fraud, preventing fraud, a priority,” House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis, told the Just the News, No Noise TV show. 

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Keep the Lights On, Sideline Big Brother: Trump EPA Rollback Could Save Ratepayers $310 Billion

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Lee Zeldin

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a repeal of nearly all the Biden administration’s 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards for greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants, an action the agency said would save taxpayers $310 billion through 2047. 

“Costs will go down for consumers on their electric bills, and it will also mean that electric generators can invest money into the electric grid, into ensuring grid stability, so that when folks need the lights to stay on, that they will stay on, and that electricity will be there when it’s needed most for businesses, for hospitals, for families across the country,” EPA deputy administrator David Fotouhi told Just The News.

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Feds Arrest, Indict Hundreds in Trump Voter Fraud Crackdown: ‘Catching It All over the Country’

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Since the Trump Justice Department warned state and local election officials that they could be charged with allowing fraudulent voting activities, more than 200 arrests and indictments have been secured in a crackdown on election fraud and noncitizen voting, and that number could double soon, a top official revealed to Just the News.

“I think there are a lot of nervous election officials because I think some of them know that they’ve been looking the other way when this is happening, and we’re catching it all over the country,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said Monday night in an interview on the Just the News, No Noise television show.

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Vance Announces Obamacare Fraud Crackdown: 750K Enrollees Get the Boot

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JD Vance

Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday announced a major crackdown on fraud linked to the Obamacare exchanges, saying that the government would remove roughly 750,000 people from the system.

“We are stopping Obamacare enrollment for about 750,000 people who we believe are fraudulently enrolled in the program,” Vance said. He also announced additional verification efforts for another 419,000 people to confirm their residential status and income eligibility.

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Trump Signs Deal with Greenland, Announces Plan to Build Two Military Bases There

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Denmark and greenland

President Donald Trump signed an historic deal Tuesday for a strategic alliance with Greenland and announced plans to build two U.S. military bases there as part of an effort to enhance security in the Arctic region.

While Trump floated the purchase of Greenland during both of his terms, he ultimately concluded a security agreement with Kingdom of Denmark to keep out non-NATO military bases and expand U.S. access to the island.

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Federal Appeals Court Revives Missouri’s GOP-Friendly Redistricting Map, Despite SCOTUS Ruling

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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that Missouri must use its Republican-favored 2025 redistricting map in November, despite the Supreme Court declining twice this month to intervene in the dispute.

The Supreme Court allowed a decision from the Missouri Supreme Court to take effect earlier this month, which ordered Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to use the 2022 map that favored Republicans in a 6-2 split.

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‘You Will Pay a Political Price’: MAHA Leaders Threaten Trump, RFK Jr. for Perceived mRNA Betrayal

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When the second Trump administration refused to settle a lawsuit to reinstate in-person prescribing requirements for an abortion pill — instead launching a safety review with no end date — pro-life activists warned it would depress GOP voter turnout this fall.

The old guard of the Make America Healthy Again movement, focused on reducing the power of the pharmaceutical industry and subjecting vaccines to far higher scrutiny, delivered an even more blunt message to President Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: You’re on the brink of civil war.

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Prosecutors Zero In on John Brennan’s Role in Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative in Conspiracy Case

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John Brennan

With the confirmation that former CIA Director John Brennan received a subpoena to testify in the ongoing “grand conspiracy” weaponization probe based in Florida, prosecutors appear to be zeroing in on how the ex-spy was at the beginning, middle, and aftermath of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. 

Brennan is currently a senior national security and intelligence analyst for NBC and MSNBC, and according to one speakers’ bureau, Brennan’s speaking fee typically ranges from $50,000 to $75,000. His security clearance was officially revoked by President Trump in January of last year.

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Fox News Joins Rival Networks in Suspending Pooled Coverage After White House Turns Away CNN

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Trump press room

Fox News has joined its rival networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and even CNN — in suspending pool coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House on Monday turned away CNN. 

“The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting,” the pool members, including Fox, said in a statement. 

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DOJ Opinion Finds 18-Year-Olds Can Buy Handguns

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The Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) on Friday released an opinion declaring that a portion of the U.S. code preventing persons aged 18-20 from buying handguns is unconstitutional.

“The provision prevents young adults, who are members of ‘the people’ to whom the Second Amendment applies, from owning ‘arms’ in common use for self-defense,” the OLC opinion read. “This places the burden on the government to show that the restrictions are consistent with the Nation’s tradition of firearm regulation, which it cannot do.”

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Judge Refers Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner for Federal Prosecution

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Larry Krasner

A federal judge asked federal prosecutors Tuesday to investigate Philadelphia’s Democratic District Attorney Larry Krasner over allegations he may have obstructed justice and possibly committed other crimes in his handling of a post-conviction case.

U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond Jr. disqualified Krasner and one of his deputies from handling the case, which was related to a man seeking to overturn his second-degree murder conviction. Krasner has sided with the man.

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FBI Agent Proposed Criminal Probe into Elon Musk over OPM Email Policy, Email Reveals

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An FBI agent proposed launching a criminal investigation into Elon Musk while he led efficiency efforts–known as DOGE– in the Trump administration last year alleging he and a co-conspirator “encouraged, abetted, aided, etc.” government employees to transmit sensitive information in violation of official policy and for using “twitter” for official government business, according to an email released on Tuesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee. 

Senator Chuck Grassley, the Chairman of the committee, made the email public during a hearing with FBI Director Kash Patel on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. 

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Comer Demands Release of Ilhan Omar Immigration Evidence So Congress Can Weigh Expulsion

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Ilhan Omar

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee is vowing to pursue a contempt vote against financier Leon Black for refusing testimony in the Jeffrey Epstein probe and calling on the Trump administration to release any evidence showing whether Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar broke immigration laws and should be expelled from Congress.

Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., made the comments Monday night after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin and White House border czar Tom Homan indicated such evidence involving Omar exists and is under investigation.

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Senate Fails to Advance Trump-Backed Crypto Clarity Act Bill

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The Senate failed Tuesday to advance the Clarity Act, which is a cryptocurrency bill that would establish the first comprehensive federal framework for the industry.

The Senate voted 49-50 against a motion to proceed with consideration of the Trump-backed Clarity Act, failing to reach the required 60-vote threshold, after all Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted against it.

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Kennedy Center Board Votes to Close for Renovations After Court Ruling

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The board of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday voted to close for renovations after a federal judge ruled it could not add President Donald Trump’s name to the facility to secure his personal financial support.

The vote marked the third time the board voted to close the venue, NBC News reported. After Trump returned to the White House, he replaced the members of the board and overhauled its performance list.

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McConnell Makes Official Return to U.S. Senate After Months Long Absence

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Mitch McConnell

Former Senate Republican Leader and Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced Monday that he has officially returned to the upper chamber from his months-long absence, which came after he suffered a fall in June.

McConnell, 84, has been out of the Senate since June 14 after he was hospitalized from the fall. He was discharged to his home from a rehabilitation center to continue his recovery and to undergo further therapy last month.

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Mamdani Sues Trump Admin over Rule Blocking Green Cards for Welfare Recipients

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New York

New York City Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday announced a joint lawsuit with other mayors against the Trump administration over a planned rule that would block green cards and visas to people using welfare programs.

“The new public charge rule seeks to push immigrant families away from the programs that have kept people fed and healthy for decades. New Yorkers will be afraid to see a doctor or ask for help they are legally entitled to,” Mamdani said, according to Politico.

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After Court Loss, Oregon Stops Blocking Christian Widow from Adopting over Gender Identity Views

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Mikie Sherrill

More than a year after an appeals court found Oregon was likely to lose a First Amendment challenge by a Christian widow it banned from adopting her foster kids, owing to the mother’s beliefs on marriage and gender identity, the Beaver State has thrown in the towel completely.

It accepted a stipulated order and judgment that reinstates Jessica Bates’ adoption application and bans the state from rejecting it based on her religious beliefs that sex belongs in traditional marriage and “a person should identify and seek to live consistent with his or her biological sex,” including Bates’ desire to “make day-to-day caregiving decisions consistent with” those beliefs.

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25 Years After 9/11: How the Attacks Defined Every President Since

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George Bush

On that fateful day 25 years ago today, when Islamic terrorists used hijacked commercial airliners to strike at the heart of Western civilization and kill thousands, the skyline of New York City and America’s soul changed forever. The Sept. 11 attacks, the deadliest on United States soil in history, and their aftermath, have also essentially haunted every presidential administration since. And the echoes of those first post-9/11 months still shape the U.S. today. 

President George W. Bush called out Iran for sponsoring terrorism in the wake of the attacks. And his successor 15 years later, Donald Trump, despite campaigning a third time for the White House on a message of “no new wars,” just this year launched an operation aimed at defanging the Islamic Republic’s military, destroying its nuclear program, or toppling the Mullah-led regime. His administration justified its action in part because of Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism. 

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Lutnick Insists Trump’s $5,000 Dividends Won’t Come from Taxpayer Money

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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick this week insisted that President Donald Trump’s promised $5,000 dividend checks to U.S. citizens would not use taxpayer money.

Trump made the promise during the Republican midterm convention, saying that U.S. citizens would receive the payments only if Republicans won both chambers of Congress in the midterms. Lutnick, for his part, suggested that the government would raise the money through administrative fees.

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Judge Receives Public Reprimand for Allegedly Allowing Illegal Immigrant to Escape ICE Custody

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Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

The Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in Massachusetts, issued a public reprimand Thursday against Judge Shelly Joseph, who was accused of allowing an illegal immigrant to escape the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In 2018, Joseph was accused of colluding with the illegal immigrant’s attorney and a court officer to allow him to escape out a back door of the courthouse following a hearing on charges including drug possession, the Associated Press reported. 

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Scalise Warns That Democrats Will Impeach Trump If They Win Control of Congress in November

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise warned Republican voters Wednesday night in Dallas that Democrats would impeach President Donald Trump if they win back control of Congress later this year.

Scalise’s speech was part of the first ever Republican midterm convention, which is taking place in Texas. The two-day event will feature speeches from multiple GOP leaders and President Donald Trump is expected to speak both nights. 

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Fetterman Says He Will ‘Always’ Stand ‘with America’ in Surprise Video Appearance at GOP Convention

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John Fetterman

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman made a surprise appearance in a video Wednesday at the Republican midterm convention, stating that although he is a Democrat, he is “always going to stand with America.”

The appearance comes during the first ever Republican midterm convention, which is taking place in Texas. The two-day event features speeches from multiple GOP leaders and President Donald Trump is expected to speak both nights. 

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Trump Admin Proposes Leaving Illegal Migrants, Those in U.S. Temporarily from Future Census

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The United States Census Bureau proposed new rule changes Wednesday that would exclude illegal migrants and migrants in the U.S. on a temporary lawful basis from future censuses. 

The proposed rule changes seek to only count U.S. citizens and permanent residents in censuses moving forward, which could significantly alter how much political representation and federal funding each state receives, according to NBC News. 

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Students at Utah College Were Kirk Was Assassinated to Protest One-Year Memorial Event

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Charlie Kirk

A one-year memorial event Thursday at Utah Valley University where Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated is facing opposition from some students, including some who plan to protests.

They are upset that the university plans to shut down its public campus in Orem to “provide time and space for reflection” for students, staff and faculty to use however they wish. They argue that the university’s administration has decided to “hand over our campus” to Turning Point USA, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. 

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Justice Department Busts Global, Online Scam Operation, Seizes $52M in Laundered Money: Pirro

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D.C. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro on Wednesday announced a large-scale bust linked to an illegal marketplace for scam services that resulted in the seizure of $52 million in laundered funds.

The operation targeted Xinbi Guarantee and included a strike force deployed to Madagascar to storm 13 Chinese-run compounds, according to the Justice Department. 

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Kavanaugh Declines to Lift Block on New Missouri Congressional Map in Time for November Elections

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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Tuesday declined to lift a block on the use of a new congressional map in Missouri in time for the November midterms, meaning the state will need to use its previous map despite using the updated one in the primaries.

Kavanaugh denied a request from Missouri Republicans in a one-sentence order without explanation, minutes before the statutory deadline approached to lock in the state’s ballot, according to The Hill. The justice handles all emergency cases that stem from Missouri.

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Trump Asks Supreme Court to Reinstate Citizenship Records System Used to Remove Non-Citizen Voters

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President Donald Trump on Monday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a citizenship records system his administration used to remove noncitizen voters from the rolls.

The Department of Homeland Security used the data program, known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), to conduct voter roll audits, CNN reported. 

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Trump Justice Department Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down State and Local AR-15 Bans

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AR 15

The U.S. Justice Department is urging the Supreme Court to strike down categorical bans on AR-15 rifles in Connecticut and Cook County, Illinois, arguing that the restrictions violate the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

The position was presented in a brief filed Friday by Solicitor General D. John Sauer in two cases before the Supreme Court: Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins. 

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