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The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk has appeared to endorse a message about race-based emigration from his native South Africa, after President Donald Trump threatened the country over new land expropriation laws. Trump railed against the new law, calling it a “human rights VIOLATION” and threatening to cut funding to the country in response. Musk quoted an X message by …

The New York Times reports: The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name. Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the trademark “Proud Boys” and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in …

The Washington Post reports: A Senate panel voted Tuesday to narrowly advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the nation’s health agencies. Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist seeking to run the Department of Health and Human Services, has been the focus of an intense lobbying campaign, with public health leaders calling him a …

CBS News reports: The Senate Finance Committee is considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination on Tuesday, with a key vote on whether to advance his confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services after a pair of fiery hearings last week. Kennedy appeared Wednesday before the finance committee for a confirmation hearing, before testifying to the Senate Committee …

Jacksonville, Texas’s NBC affiliate reports: A Longview gymnastics instructor is accused of sexually assaulting a minor. 52-year-old Matthew Orban is charged with sexual assault of a minor. According to the indictment, the incident involving Orban occurred on or around March 1, 2016, when he “intentionally and knowingly caused the penetration of the sexual organ” of a child younger than 17 …

NOTUS reports: Tech billionaire Elon Musk is working to shut down government agencies and cancel congressionally approved funding — and many Republican lawmakers are just fine with it. “He’s doing exactly what he should be doing,” Sen. Rick Scott said Monday night. “He’s going through every agency and looking at how to make sure the money’s spent right.” Wait, isn’t …

Florida Politics reports: Eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 2018 ban on bump stocks that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire at machine gun-like speeds, Florida should do the same, says state Rep. Toby Overdorf. Overdorf, a Palm City Republican, has filed legislation (HB 6013) to repeal a ban on the controversial gun accessories, which have been …

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 Environmental Protection Agency employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time. Many had been hired to work on programs that Congress created through two recent laws, doing things like helping communities replace …

Axios reports: El Salvador’s president has offered to “house in his jails dangerous American criminals” and accept deportees of any nationality, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday night. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s [photo] offer is “the most unprecedented and extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world,” per remarks by Rubio. Rubio made the announcement that was criticized by …

The Huffington Post reports: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Monday appeared to strike a nerve with the Trump White House over his criticism of newly-titled “special government employee” Elon Musk, aka the richest man in the world. Walz, the 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee, wrote on X that the social media platform’s billionaire owner “is a terrible president.” White …