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Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources — Sources say he faces charges of illegally transporting migrants within the U.S. — Undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. — Murray Osorio PLLC via AP
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Abrego Garcia indictment led top federal prosecutor in Tennessee to resign: Sources — The decision to pursue the indictment against Kilmar Abrego Garcia led to the abrupt departure of Ben Schrader, a high-ranking federal prosecutor in Tennessee, sources briefed on Schrader's decision told ABC News.
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Appeals court largely reinstates Trump's ban on AP's access to White House
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Trump live updates as Abrego Garcia returns to U.S. — and Trump-Musk feud still brews
Trump live updates as Abrego Garcia returns to U.S. — and Trump-Musk feud still brews
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in US custody after being illegally deported and will now face criminal charges
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is back in US custody after being illegally deported and will now face criminal charges
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Abrego Garcia Charged With Illegally Transporting Migrants
Abrego Garcia Charged With Illegally Transporting Migrants
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Abrego Garcia to return to US to face charges
Abrego Garcia to return to US to face charges
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Abrego Garcia Is Returned to U.S. From El Salvador
Abrego Garcia Is Returned to U.S. From El Salvador
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Philip Wang / Axios:
Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia returning to U.S.
Wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia returning to U.S.
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Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say — The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort which could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.
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The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute — The Alarming Part of the Musk-Trump Dispute — At the height of the juvenile flame war on Thursday between the world's richest man and its most powerful one, Donald Trump posted a barely veiled threat on his website Truth Social.
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Musk already lost his war against Trump — Polling shows that Republicans are almost 12 times more likely to side with the president than Elon Musk. — There is only one person who is unquestionably able to both maintain a high level of public visibility and stay on President Donald Trump's good side.
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Trump tells ABC Musk ‘lost his mind’; ‘not particularly’ interested in talking to him
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Trump, White House aides signal a possible détente with Musk
Trump, White House aides signal a possible détente with Musk
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Trump tells CNN he's ‘not even thinking about Elon’ and won't speak to him ‘for a while’
Trump tells CNN he's ‘not even thinking about Elon’ and won't speak to him ‘for a while’
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Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records — As Elon Musk leaves Washington, the team he formed to ferret out waste and abuse won dual victories in the Supreme Court. — The Supreme Court on Friday let members of the Department of Government Efficiency …
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Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans — The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration two victories Friday in cases involving the Department of Government Efficiency, including giving it access to Social Security systems …

Supreme Court allows DOGE to access Social Security data
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Republican said Sikh should not be allowed to deliver House prayer — Rep. Mary Miller (R-Ill.) posted — then quickly deleted — that a Sikh should have “never been allowed” to lead the House of Representatives' daily prayer on Friday after initially incorrectly calling the man a Muslim.
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Rep. Mary Miller faces bipartisan fury over “ignorant” Sikh comment
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Mary Miller says she's ‘deeply troubled’ by Sikh man leading House floor prayer in deleted xenophobic post
Mary Miller says she's ‘deeply troubled’ by Sikh man leading House floor prayer in deleted xenophobic post
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Trump-Musk split exposes how reliant NASA has become on SpaceX — Elon Musk's threat Thursday to decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft would have left NASA reliant on Russian capsules to get its astronauts into space. — Why it matters: Musk's rift with President Trump exposes …
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Why Trump probably can't cut Musk loose
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Proud Boys Leaders Sue U.S. Over Jan. 6 Prosecutions — Lawsuit seeks $100 million in damages after their conviction, imprisonment for roles in Capitol attack — Five members of the Proud Boys, once convicted of masterminding the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol, are accusing …
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Trump administration to pay nearly $5M in wrongful death lawsuit of Jan. 6 rioter shot by police
Trump administration to pay nearly $5M in wrongful death lawsuit of Jan. 6 rioter shot by police
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Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people — Across the government, officials are rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign. — Early this spring, the Food and Drug Administration fired nearly 50 workers in the Office of Regulatory Policy …
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The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think — As the war between Donald Trump and Elon Musk worsens, what's truly odd about this whole spectacle is that the actual substantive disagreement between them seems to be of little interest to media observers.
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He's a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn't Great. … Visuals by Martina Tuaty — Dominick McGee was walking into the White House in April and couldn't believe his luck. He was a self-proclaimed “nobody” just three years ago when he started working alone from his apartment …

Democratic congressman steps up his work to pull Musk toward his party for the midterms — Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., talked with one of Elon Musk's “senior confidants” on Thursday about whether the ex-DOGE leader, now feuding with Donald Trump, might want to help the Democratic Party in the midterms.
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Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself — Trump's administration is marshaling vast public resources and more than $1 billion worth of taxpayer money to flatter the president … Vice President J.D. Vance was seated directly across from the president …
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DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts — We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said.
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Former U.S. attorney Damian Williams leaves Paul Weiss for Jenner & Block — The former prosecutor is leaving a firm that made a deal with the Trump administration for one that fought it. — Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, is leaving the law firm Paul Weiss …
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University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters — Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted — The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators …
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Former federal inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Bureau of Prisons deputy director — Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate rehabilitation. — A former federal inmate who was pardoned by President Donald Trump …

The latest personnel purge at the FBI adds to a destabilizing problem — Almost immediately after Donald Trump's second term began, FBI officials targeted by Republicans have been ousted. — Among the many problems that have emerged in federal law enforcement during Donald Trump's second term is the campaign against key personnel.
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SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles — Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity.
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DHS memo details how National Guard troops will be used for immigration enforcement — National Guard troops would be used in immigration-enforcement activities, including in “night operations and rural interdiction,” as well as “guard duty and riot control” inside detention facilities …
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Tesla becomes desperate with Cybertruck, launches biggest discount yet — Tesla has announced that it now offers interest-free loans on the Cybertruck until the end of the month. The move is the equivalent of a roughly $10,000 discount and shows that Tesla has reached a new level of desperation in trying to sell the Cybertruck.
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Trump Planning to Extend TikTok Deadline—Again — The move would mark Trump's third extension, as he seeks to stave off enforcement of a law requiring that the app be banned in the U.S. or sold — WASHINGTON—President Trump is planning to give TikTok another lifeline.
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