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“Last year, after an assassin tried to take my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thomas generously mailed me one of his Purple Hearts. Many of the other veterans showed me the same unbelievable gesture of kindness, including three-time Purple Heart recipient John Ford and Gerald Enter Jr., who also came along with us and did us a great, great favor. Gerald, …

The Daily Mail reports: Steve Bannon is in the early stages of planning an audacious run for president in 2028, well-placed sources have told the Daily Mail. The campaign would divide the Make America Great Again movement Bannon helped build by setting up a herculean battle with Vice President JD Vance, who is all but certain to launch his own …

“It is unfortunate that the Secretary just canceled a half a billion worth of work, wasting the money which is already invested. He has also conceded to China an important technology needed to combat cancer and infectious disease. President Trump wants to Make America Healthy Again and Make America Great Again. This works against both of President Trump’s goals.” – …

The Guardian reports: JD Vance’s team had the Army Corps of Engineers in Louisville, Ohio, take the unusual step of changing the outflow of a lake to accommodate a recent boating excursion on a family holiday, the Guardian has learned. The request from the US Secret Service was made to “support safe navigation” of the US vice-president’s security detail for …

LINDA MCMAHON: “So as I have spoken to some of the senators about this, I said, we’re gonna take this. The funding will come from the Department of Education.” HACKED VOICE: “So let’s talk free speech. Linda McMahon is a corrupt billionaire donor who knows nothing about education…” SCOTT WALKER: “Apparently, it’s the CCP didn’t like that. They’re cutting into …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump is establishing a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. “The L.A. Olympics is shaping up to be a wonderful moment for America. It’s going to be incredible. It’s so exciting,” Trump said Tuesday as he signed an executive order at the White House establishing the task force. Trump praised …

CNN reports: The National Weather Service has received permission to hire 450 meteorologists, hydrologists and radar technicians just months after being hit hard by Department of Government Efficiency-related cuts and early retirement incentives. The new hiring number includes 126 new positions that were previously approved and will apply to “front-line mission critical” personnel, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official …

Reuters reports: The Trump administration plans as soon as Tuesday to formally axe a program launched by billionaire former Trump adviser Elon Musk requiring federal employees to summarize their five workplace achievements from the prior week, two people familiar with the matter said. The Office of Personnel Management, the federal human resources agency that implemented Musk’s push to slash the …

The New York Times reports: The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter. The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting termination letters to the 60 nonprofit groups and state agencies that received the grants under the …

Raw Story report: Trump’s agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, doubled down in a Fox Business interview on Tuesday on prior comments that people at risk of losing their health coverage due to new Medicaid restrictions should just go work on farms. “You’ve suggested that Medicaid people, if they got a work requirement under the new rules, they should go work on …

ABC News reports: One full “day” on the moon is two weeks of light followed by approximately two weeks of darkness (in Earth time). Nuclear energy, referred to as fission surface power, or FSP, in the directive, is a “sustainable” and “high-powered” energy source that can survive through the lunar night and be deployed on other celestial bodies, like Mars, …

“This is why California is a monoparty state. That’s why Democrats have a supermajority and, you know, that’s why they have two Democrat senators. That’s why they have a Democrat governor. And it’s such a massive majority because of this type of redistricting, which is incredibly insincere. Whenever Republicans start to get a stronghold, they just carve it apart. I’m …

CBS News reports: The Florida Department of Health is warning about the risks of drinking raw, unpasteurized milk after 21 people, including six children under the age of 10, were sickened by E. coli and campylobacter bacteria linked to raw milk from the same farm. Seven people have been hospitalized, and two have developed severe complications. “Sanitation practices in this …

Politico reports: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will announce expedited plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon, the first major action by the former Fox News host as the interim NASA administrator. The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” the directive states, a sign of …

ABC News reports: A new analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax cut and spending bill passed last month will create $718 billion in additional debt-service costs, bringing the law’s overall debt projection to $4.1 trillion over 10 years. “As a result, and net of any changes in borrowing for federal credit programs, the …

The Daily Beast reports: JD Vance’s waistline may have gotten a digital nip and tuck courtesy of the GOP. To mark his 41st birthday on Saturday, the party’s official X account posted a photo of Vance overlaid with the message: “Happy Birthday Vice President J.D. Vance.” Vance’s thumb appears to be cut off, while the stars on the flag behind …

“The data can’t be propaganda. The data has to be something you can trust, because decision makers throughout the economy trust that these are the data that they can build a factory because they believe, or cut interest rates because they believe. And if the data aren’t that good, then it’s a real problem for the US. So imagine if …

CBS News reports: The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, an ardent loyalist of President Trump and a Fox News fixture, confirming the cable news personality to a top prosecutor post in Washington, D.C. Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, was confirmed in a 50-45 vote. She has been in the job as U.S. Attorney …

Mediaite reports: The official GOP social media accounts posted an image Thursday evening of President Donald Trump standing in front of a car with a caption saying “Making Automobiles Great Again” — drawing swift mockery because the automobile pictured was not only not American, it was a Russian Lada. Ladas were first manufactured in the Soviet Union in 1970 and …

The Associated Press reports: U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday. The fraction of kids exempted from vaccine requirements rose to 4.1%, up from 3.7% the year before. It’s the third record-breaking year in a row for the exemption rate, …