April 15, 2025 Crime, Religion
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 …
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April 15, 2025 Fox News, State Television
“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 …
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April 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
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 …
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April 15, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump cultists
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 …
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April 15, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Corruption
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 — …
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April 15, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The New York Times reports: President Trump threatened Harvard’s tax status in a post on social media, escalating a showdown between the federal government and the nation’s wealthiest university. Mr. Trump’s post came a day after the Trump administration said it would freeze $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard, which is refusing demands that it make changes to policies and …
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April 15, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Guardian reports: Some of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign donors and investors, who collectively have hundreds of millions of dollars in financial ties to the US president, are positioned to potentially profit from any American takeover of Greenland. The administration is in part aiming to secure rare minerals that are essential for the US tech industry and national security, and to …
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April 15, 2025 Fox News, State Television
Via press release from Fox News media relations: Greg Gutfeld, host of the eponymous number one late night show Gutfeld! and co-host of cable’s most-watched program The Five, will helm a three-part game show series for FOX Nation entitled “Greg Gutfeld’s What Did I Miss?” The first of three episodes will drop on Monday, May 12th followed by episode two …
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April 15, 2025 Elon Musk, Trump Administration
NPR reports: In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board. The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential information about employees who …
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April 15, 2025 European Union, Trump Administration
Politico Europe reports: There’s at least one mainstream European politician JD Vance is a fan of: iconic French postwar leader Charles de Gaulle. In an interview with British news and opinion website UnHerd, the U.S. vice president said that de Gaulle — who led the French World War II resistance against the Nazis and was president from 1959 to 1969 …
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