🔥✈️🇺🇸 Foreign leaders flew into a militarily occupied Washington for a wartime summit, 3½ years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
NATO and EU heads pressed Trump on Ukraine while DC streets sat under armed patrols, restaurants down by one-third, democracy suffocating at home. This is what authoritarian rule looks like. Stopping it is on us.
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Oklahoma imposes political loyalty test on teachers trained in California and New York who seek certification to work in the state.
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Trump touts DC restaurant crowds after takeover, but diners fell 31% once troops arrived.
Trump vows executive order to ban mail-in ballots and voting machines despite lacking authority over state election rules.
ICE opens $1 billion Fort Bliss detention center with 1,000 beds and plans to expand capacity to 5,000 migrants.
Maine police officer Jon Luke Evans arrested by ICE for overstaying visa agrees to leave U.S. after town relied on faulty E-Verify clearance.
Newsmax pays $67 million to settle Dominion defamation lawsuit over 2020 election lies after judge found network defamed company.
Bondi and Patel install Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey as FBI co-deputy director with Dan Bongino after rift over Epstein files.
Trump administration considers converting $10.9 billion in Chips Act grants into 10% equity stake in Intel, making government top shareholder.
Zelenskyy joins European and NATO leaders at White House as Trump dodges war strategy, inflates peacemaker role, and faces coordinated pressure.
Comer says DOJ will begin turning over Epstein files Friday after subpoena, regardless of prior resistance.
House Speaker Mike Johnson vows to stop Newsom’s California redistricting as an “illegal power grab” while ignoring Texas doing the same.
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