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Mediaite reports: Joel Valdez, the acting deputy press secretary for the Department of Defense, took to social media on Wednesday to rage against recent Washington Post reporting on the cost of Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “expansive” security detail. The Post published a bombshell scoop on Wednesday morning titled, “Hegseth’s expansive security requirements tax Army protective unit.” The report carried the byline …

Axios reports: The U.S. Gulf Coast is facing billions of dollars in yearly property damage by 2050 due to extreme weather tied to climate change, per a new analysis. Even as Gulf states are still reckoning with the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina two decades later, more pain and loss seems inevitable. Damage from extreme weather will cost $32 billion …

Via press release from Sec. Marco Rubio: Today, I am designating Kimberly Prost of Canada, Nicolas Guillou of France, Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji and Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order 14203, “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court.” These individuals are foreign persons who directly engaged in efforts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) …

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department is demanding that hospitals turn over a wide range of sensitive information related to medical care for young transgender patients, including billing documents, communication with drug manufacturers and data such as patient dates of birth, Social Security numbers and addresses, according to a copy of a subpoena made public in a court filing …

NBC News reports: Japanese American groups criticized the construction of a new immigrant detention center in Texas at a military base that was used during World War II to imprison people of Japanese descent. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, which opened this past weekend, will be able to hold as many as …

The New Republic reports: You may recall that the president has a meme coin, $TRUMP. Days before his second inauguration, the president—who told Fox News in his first term that he was not “a big fan” of cryptocurrencies, which he deemed possibly “fake”—made his own foray into crypto. The meme coin’s value quickly rocketed to around $75. It dropped shortly …

Fox News reports: The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is moving to make English the sole language used for all agency business, Secretary Scott Turner said Tuesday. The move is in line with President Donald Trump’s executive order in March to make English the official language of the United States. In a memo sent out Monday, HUD deputy …

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Variety reports: Jack White has blasted President Donald Trump on social media, calling him a danger “not just to America but the entire world and that’s not an exaggeration.” Earlier this week, White had posted a photo of the Oval Office on Instagram, calling it “disgusting” after Trump transformed it into a “vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler’s dressing …

CNN reports: Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday announced what she has billed as a significant reorganization of the nation’s top intelligence agency that she promised would cut the workforce by nearly 50% and “save taxpayers at least $700 million per year.” Gabbard has already reduced the size of the ODNI’s workforce by more than 500 staffers — …