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Politico reports: The White House’s Department of Government Efficiency office has targeted a behavioral diversity program to be cut from Brookfield Zoo. Problem is, it has nothing to do with diversity, equity and inclusion in the traditional DEI sense. “It’s about bio-diversity and animal welfare,” said Brookfield Zoo Chicago Senior VP Andrea Rodgers. The funding cut wasn’t a complete surprise, …

The Daily Beast reports: Trump’s policies could cost the U.S. economy $90 billion this year in lost tourism and export revenue, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs. Many foreign visitors are avoiding the U.S. over concerns about increased hostility at the border, including reports about European tourists being detained for weeks in U.S. immigration centers. Others are angry about Trump’s …

CTV News reports: An American who is “distressed” by the way the United States government has been treating Canada, has bought advertising space in Vancouver to apologize to Canadians. Posters on lighted billboards near the Vancouver Art Gallery show the maple leaf, with the words, “Dear Canada, we are so very, very, very sorry.” It is signed, “Your American friends.” No names …

The watchdog group CREW reports: The New York Times recently reported that industry lobbyists anxious about the Trump administration’s delayed release of a new batch of H-2B visas, which allow foreign workers to do seasonal work in the United States, held a fundraiser last month at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Less than two weeks later, the Trump administration announced that the …

“This is town hall strictly for my constituents. You need to understand this is not a place to protest. This isn’t a place to stand up and scream and yell. If you’re planning to act up, scream, and protest, you’re going to be thrown out, and that’s the way it goes. “We know how the Democrat Party is organizing and …

The Scranton Times-Tribune reports: A former Lackawanna County reverend who was caught trying to set up a sexual liaison with a child during online chats with an undercover police officer pleaded guilty Friday to a felony charge of unlawful contact with a minor. Robert John Morgan, 76, entered his plea in exchange for prosecutors dropping additional charges against him. Kingston …

“Could you imagine if our prisons were like the one in El Salvador where you’re in shackles? It’s a harsh prison. And look what’s happening in El Salvador. They love this president down there because he has made it so much safer. You talk to anyone who is here from El Salvador, and they will say, when we go back …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Tuesday threw out a U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule capping credit card late fees at $8, after the agency agreed with opponents that the rule adopted during President Joe Biden’s administration was illegal. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas granted a joint request by the CFPB and a coalition of …

TRUMP: “He’s [Bukele] made it a very safe place. People go and they feel very secure and safe. He’s also built one, but other also prisons, very big ones; and we’re using his system because we’re getting rid of our criminals from out of the United States who were allowed to come in by Biden. We’re getting them out, and …

The Washington Post reports: The Trump administration is using personal data normally protected from dissemination to find undocumented immigrants where they work, study and live, often with the goal of removing them from their housing and the workforce. At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, for example, officials are working on a rule that would ban mixed-status households — …