June 16, 2025 Christianists, Crime
NBC News reports: The suspect wanted in the slaying of a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, as well as in the shooting of a state senator and his wife, was found Sunday night armed and crawling in a field in a sparsely populated stretch of Minnesota, authorities said. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Vance Boelter’s capture at a news conference …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: The Trump Organization on Monday announced it was launching a new mobile phone business: Trump Mobile. It’s the latest new business the Trump Organization is getting into during President Trump’s second term in the White House, a dynamic that has raised various ethical concerns from his critics. Donald Trump Jr., the president’s oldest son, announced the new …
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June 16, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Washington Post reports: As part of the GOP campaign attacking the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office for the grim fiscal projections for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of tax and spending cuts pending in the Senate, Scott posted a one-minute video that was instantly ridiculed for its errors — nine, by our count. That’s one mistake every 6.66 seconds. …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
“Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History. “Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Axios reports: President Trump has not called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz more than 24 hours after a prominent Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband were killed in what officials have described as a “politically motivated assassination.” Saturday’s fatal shooting of Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman has exacerbated bipartisan security concerns among elected officials. When asked by ABC News …
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June 16, 2025 Immigration, Republicans
The Hill reports: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Sunday said he doesn’t believe ICE should “pull back on any kind of enforcement” after the Trump administration directed the agency to pause raids against workers in the agriculture, hotel and restaurant industries. Cotton told CBS News’s Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” that “we need to have robust worksite enforcement” after …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: Canada is rolling out the red carpet for some of the world’s biggest powers and their allies amid a perilous escalation in the Middle East and President Trump’s reshaping of global alliances. The annual meeting of the Group of 7 nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States — is an …
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June 16, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
Washington DC’s NBC affiliate reports: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said one of his picks for a crucial vaccine advisory panel is a professor at George Washington University. But News4 found the doctor hasn’t worked at the school in years. Kennedy named eight new members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, days after …
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June 16, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
Law & Crime reports: The legal disciplinary board for attorneys in California has affirmed a recommendation that former law professor John Eastman be disbarred over his role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election to favor President Donald Trump. On Friday, a three-judge panel on the California State Bar Court’s Review Department ruled on two separate …
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June 16, 2025 Business, Technology
The Associated Press reports: More than 1.15 million power banks are under recall across the U.S. after some fires and explosions were reported by consumers. Electronics maker Anker Innovations is recalling certain “PowerCore 10000” power banks because the lithium-ion battery inside can overheat. An overheating battery can lead to “melting of plastic components, smoke, and fire hazards,” Anker wrote. The …
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