By Mariana Alfaro, The Washington Post Former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), president-elect Donald Trump’s failed choice for attorney general, plans to host a new show on the conservative network One America News starting next year. Gaetz, a staunch right-winger who faced allegations of sex trafficking, lasted just eight days as Trump’s pick to lead the […]
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Justice Department IG seeks new protections on seizing communications
By Perry Stein, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The Justice Department during Donald Trump’s first presidential term used concerning and surreptitious tactics to obtain communications from members of Congress, their staffers and news reporters as prosecutors investigated public leaks of sensitive government information, according to a report released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s inspector general. […]
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Justice Department IG seeks new protections on seizing communications
By Perry Stein, The Washington Post (c) 2024 The Justice Department during Donald Trump’s first presidential term used concerning and surreptitious tactics to obtain communications from members of Congress, their staffers and news reporters as prosecutors investigated public leaks of sensitive government information, according to a report released Tuesday by the Justice Department’s inspector general. […]
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Top border official under Biden to step down before Trump takes office
By Nick Miroff, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Troy Miller, the top official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection during most of President Joe Biden’s term, is preparing to retire at the end of December, according to an email sent to agency staff Tuesday. He is a 31-year veteran of the agency. Miller ran the […]
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Top border official under Biden to step down before Trump takes office
By Nick Miroff, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Troy Miller, the top official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection during most of President Joe Biden’s term, is preparing to retire at the end of December, according to an email sent to agency staff Tuesday. He is a 31-year veteran of the agency. Miller ran the […]
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Trump has a new family separation problem
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 If there’s a problem that epitomizes the arduousness – and likely the impracticality – of President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, it might be the fate of the U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants Trump wants to mass deport. Trump reiterated Sunday that his goal is to deport […]
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Trump has a new family separation problem
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 If there’s a problem that epitomizes the arduousness – and likely the impracticality – of President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term agenda, it might be the fate of the U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants Trump wants to mass deport. Trump reiterated Sunday that his goal is to deport […]
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Colleges scramble to shield programs amid growing hostility from GOP
By Susan Svrluga, Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson · The Washington Post (c) 2024 University leaders are bracing for an onslaught of aggressive legislation and regulations amid growing hostility from an ascendant Republican Party that depends less and less on college-educated voters. For years, conservatives have seen colleges and universities as unwelcoming and disdainful of their values. Tensions between […]
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Colleges scramble to shield programs amid growing hostility from GOP
By Susan Svrluga, Laura Meckler, Hannah Natanson · The Washington Post (c) 2024 University leaders are bracing for an onslaught of aggressive legislation and regulations amid growing hostility from an ascendant Republican Party that depends less and less on college-educated voters. For years, conservatives have seen colleges and universities as unwelcoming and disdainful of their values. Tensions between […]
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Trump sees the investigators, not the rioters, as the Jan. 6 criminals
By Philip Bump · The Washington Post (c) 2024 History will tell the story of the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in direct terms. President Donald Trump, increasingly desperate to block Joe Biden’s inauguration to replace him, summoned his supporters to Washington for a “wild” protest. Hundreds of thousands came, including members […]