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What Happened Today – May 17

May 17, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score 96 🟡
Slightly above average. 100 = average over past 60 days.
Previous 5 Days 168 | 200 | 160 | 160 | 104

7 Day Trending Story Categories: Justice Dept, Immigration, Courts
7 Day Trending Topics: Kristi Noem, DHS, FBI

🌪️ 📡 🚩 From a deadly terrorist bombing in Palm Springs to devastating tornadoes tracked by understaffed weather offices, Trump’s America faces real-life violence while his administration quietly enables more. Now they’re lifting bans on rapid-fire gun triggers, teaching debunked election fraud claims in classrooms, and amplifying assassination conspiracy theories online.

Meanwhile, his “solution” to the economic pain of tariffs? Telling Walmart to simply “eat the costs” rather than pass them to already struggling consumers.

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