President Trump’s administration has ordered a developer to halt construction on a nearly complete offshore wind farm off Rhode Island’s coast, casting the future of the state’s largest renewable energy project into doubt. In a stop-work order issued on Friday afternoon, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it is seeking to address national […]
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from federal custody pending criminal trial
The case of Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man originally from El Salvador, raised basic questions of due process in Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants after he was arrested and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, violating a U.S. immigration judge’s 2019 order prohibiting his deportation to his home country.
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Trump DOJ hired lawyer who compared Jan. 6 prosecutions to the Holocaust
Before joining the Justice Department this year, attorney Jonathan Gross said Jan. 6 prosecutors were “evil people. They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye.”
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Trump delivers pizza to National Guard working on his DC crackdown
President Trump thanked National Guard soldiers and police officers involved in his crackdown on what he has described as rampant crime in Washington, D.C.
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Massacres in eastern Congo cast doubt on U.S. mediated peace deal
Rwanda backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo killed hundreds of villagers in July, according to Human Rights Watch, raising doubts about Trump backed peace process.
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One civilian injured in crash with D.C. National Guard military vehicle
The military vehicle, which is designed to withstand explosive attacks, collided with a “civilian vehicle” just after 6 a.m. on Wednesday in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
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Too much to pack, not enough hugs: A Kenyan man’s last 48 hours in America
Samuel Kangethe has lived in the U.S. for nearly two decades, but an unresolved immigration case has made him deportable. He’s decided to return to Kenya, leaving his wife and three children behind.
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National Guard says members patrolling D.C. ‘may be armed’
National Guard members and federal law enforcement officers are patrolling the city as part of President Trump’s effort to assert federal control over policing in the District.
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Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit
Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.
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Trump and Putin meet today in Anchorage. Here’s what to know
President Trump had pledged to use his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin to broker a deal. But he’s been vague about potential outcomes from his Friday summit.
