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Health
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Kennedy launches federal push to taper patients off antidepressants, repeating debunked claim that quitting is harder than heroin.
CMS billing code rewards tapering patients
Source: Ars Technica
May 5, 2026
Federal Personnel
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VA opened internal investigations into employees who attended vigils for Border Patrol shooting victim Alex Pretti, including union leader photographed in news coverage.
Investigator emailed photo with face circled
Source: CNN
May 5, 2026
Immigration
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DHS shuts down immigration detention ombudsman office and blames Congress, but the cited funding bill never mentions the watchdog.
49 detainee deaths in Trump 2nd term
Source: NOTUS
May 5, 2026
Immigration
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Border Czar Homan threatens to flood New York with "more ICE agents than you've ever seen before" over sanctuary expansion bills.
Hochul: "Trump said only if I ask"
Source: WNYW
May 5, 2026
Fighting Back
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Illinois State Police investigates ICE killing of Silverio Villegas González eight months later, after damning Pritzker commission report.
Single father shot in back of neck
Source: The Chicago Sun-Times
May 5, 2026
Courts
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Federal judge accuses DHS of dangerous misconduct for hiding Dominican murder warrant and issuing inflammatory press release attacking her.
DHS press release branded judge "activist"
Source: The Providence Journal
May 5, 2026