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Trump Administration Suffers Double Legal Blow Within Hours

Published Aug 09, 2025 at 9:43 AM EDT The Trump administration suffered two legal defeats within hours on Friday. A judge in California ordered the release of a Syrian national it has been seeking to deport while a federal Rhode Island judge blocked the imposition of new conditions on domestic violence programs as part of the president's campaign against "gender ideology." Details of both cases were shared on X by Kyle Cheney, senior legal affairs reporter for Politico. Newsweek cont ...

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Beto O'Rourke Trashes Texas Republicans: 'These Motherf**kers Are Panicking'

Aug 9, 2025, 01:26 PM EDT Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke didn’t mince words when talking about Texas Republicans’ attempts to create a new redistricting map that would disenfranchise millions of non-white voters. “These motherfuckers are panicking right now,” O’Rourke said during an interview in New Orleans on Friday for Netroots Nation, a nonprofit organization for progressive activism. O’Rourke was referring to Republicans’ attempts to arrest dozens of House Democrat lawmakers who left th ...

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Vance and Lammy host Ukraine talks ahead of US-Russia summit

20 minutes ago US Vice-President JD Vance and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy have hosted a meeting of security officials near London to discuss the war in Ukraine. The talks are said to have been called at the request of the US. The pair were joined by Ukrainian officials and European national security advisers, with Lammy saying the "UK's support for Ukraine remains ironclad as we continue working towards a just and lasting peace". It comes as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelen ...

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Pardon attorney Ed Martin to oversee Schiff, New York AG fraud probes

08/09/25 10:23 AM ET Department of Justice (DOJ) pardon attorney Ed Martin has been assigned to oversee pressing cases for the Trump administration involving New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Martin will lead the DOJ’s Weaponization Working Group, which aims to crack down on “abuses of the criminal justice process.” His first assignments will require probing some of Trump’s most critical opponents. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) made a crimin ...

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Trump team pushes for ouster of top IEA official

08/09/2025 02:00 PM EDT The Trump administration is aiming to replace a top-ranking official at the International Energy Agency, amid a ratcheted-up U.S. pressure campaign on the Paris-based body, multiple energy industry insiders and former U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation told POLITICO’s E&E News. The agency’s second-in-command, a retired State Department official named Mary Warlick, is the main target for replacement, said the insiders, who were granted anonymity to speak fre ...

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Zelenskyy rejects Trump's proposal that Ukraine could swap territories with Russia

"Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier," Zelenskyy said in a Telegram message early Saturday. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy defiantly declared Saturday that his countrymen "will not give their land to occupiers," after President Donald Trump suggested that a peace deal would include some "swapping" of territories with Russia. "The answer to Ukraine's territorial question is already in the constitution of Ukraine," Zelenskyy said i ...

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues to remove 13 Democrats over quorum-breaking walkout

Aug. 8, 2025, 8:06 p.m. ET EL PASO, Texas - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit to remove 13 Democratic state legislators from office amid the ongoing standoff over redrawing U.S. House districts to help President Donald Trump and the GOP maintain their majority in the 2026 midterms. The suit, filed with the Texas Supreme Court on Aug. 8, asserts that the prolonged absence of the Democratic legislators amounts to an abandonment of their elected offices. The 13 Texas state De ...

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Brawls, racism and cocaine: Lawsuit reveals life inside Tesla plant where Musk was directly involved with HR decisions

Friday 08 August 2025 17:27 EDT Working conditions at Tesla’s manufacturing plant in Fremont, California, have allegedly gone from bad to worse, with sexual assaults aboard company shuttle buses, drug and alcohol use onsite, all-out brawls breaking out between employees and “prevalent” bigotry – including widespread use of the N-word, a bombshell lawsuit reveals. In a 159-page federal lawsuit filed Thursday and obtained first by The Independent, Ozell Murray, a former Fresno police officer in ...

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EPA axes contracts with unions

08/08/2025 07:32 PM EDTUpdated: 08/08/2025 07:56 PM EDT EPA on Friday canceled contracts with a host of unions, including the America Federation of Government Employees, the largest labor organization representing staffers from the agency, according to a letter viewed by POLITICO’s E&E News. In the memo to staffers, the agency said it was canceling the contracts to align with an executive order that President Donald Trump signed in March barring collective bargaining at more than two dozen ag ...

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Judge blocks Beto O'Rourke from providing financial support to Texas Democrats who fled state over redistricting

Aug. 8, 2025, 8:41 PM EDT A Texas district judge on Friday temporarily barred former Rep. Beto O'Rourke and his political group from helping to fund the Democratic legislators who have left the state to prevent Republicans from pressing forward with a redistricting plan aimed at expanding the GOP's narrow majority in the U.S. House. The ruling is a victory, albeit potentially a temporary one, for Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who sought the temporary restraining order accusing O'Rou ...

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Hundreds cheer Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego as Democrats take offensive against Trump's tax bill

9 min ago - By THOMAS BEAUMONT Updated 4:36 PM CDT, August 9, 2025 DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Hundreds of people cheered Sen. Ruben Gallego at a town hall meeting in eastern Iowa Saturday as the first-term Arizona Democrat assailed the massive, Republican-backe ... (AP)

6 wounded, including 5-year-old girl, in Baltimore 'mass shooting'

26 min ago - Six people were wounded, including a 5-year-old girl, in a "mass shooting" in a Baltimore neighborhood Saturday night, police said. The gunfire broke out shortly before 8:50 p.m. as people near the intersection of Spaulding and Queensberry Avenues ga ... (ABC News)

Storms kill 1, injure another and displace hundreds of inmates in Nebraska

2 hrs ago - By MARGERY A. BECK Updated 4:46 PM CDT, August 9, 2025 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Strong storms before dawn Saturday in eastern Nebraska killed one person and seriously injured another in a state park and displaced hundreds of inmates after two prison h ... (AP)

North Korea is removing some of its speakers from their tense border, South Korea military says

4 hrs ago - Updated on: August 9, 2025 / 2:20 PM EDT Seoul, South Korea - South Korea's military said Saturday it detected North Korea removing some of its loudspeakers from the inter-Korean border, days after the South dismantled its own front-line speakers use ... (CBS News)

London police arrest 365 people as pro-Palestinian protesters defy new law

4 hrs ago - By DANICA KIRKA Updated 12:47 PM CDT, August 9, 2025 LONDON (AP) — British police said they arrested 365 people in central London on Saturday as supporters of a recently banned pro-Palestinian group intentionally flouted the law as part of their ... (AP)

'This is not a judge': Jasmine Crockett pokes huge hole in Texas lawmaker arrest warrants

4 hrs ago - August 9, 2025 1:24PM ET The warrants issued to arrest Texas Democrats who fled the state to stymie a GOP attempt to redistrict the state lack the legal weight to do what the Republicans want them do. That is the opinion of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-T ... (Raw Story)

NY Republican Mayoral Candidate Wants Trump To Stay Away From Packed Race

5 hrs ago - Aug 9th, 2025, 9:40 am New York Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa wants President Donald Trump to stay out of the election, arguing it will only boost Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani. Sliwa joined Fox 5’s Morgan McKay on Politics Un ... (MEDIAite)

Trump team pushes for ouster of top IEA official

5 hrs ago - 08/09/2025 02:00 PM EDT The Trump administration is aiming to replace a top-ranking official at the International Energy Agency, amid a ratcheted-up U.S. pressure campaign on the Paris-based body, multiple energy industry insiders and former U.S. off ... (Politico)

Beto O'Rourke Trashes Texas Republicans: 'These Motherf**kers Are Panicking'

6 hrs ago - Aug 9, 2025, 01:26 PM EDT Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke didn’t mince words when talking about Texas Republicans’ attempts to create a new redistricting map that would disenfranchise millions of non-white voters. “These motherfuc ... (Huff Post)

Pardon attorney Ed Martin to oversee Schiff, New York AG fraud probes

7 hrs ago - 08/09/25 10:23 AM ET Department of Justice (DOJ) pardon attorney Ed Martin has been assigned to oversee pressing cases for the Trump administration involving New York Attorney General Letitia James and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Martin will lead th ... (The Hill)

Trump Administration Suffers Double Legal Blow Within Hours

8 hrs ago - Published Aug 09, 2025 at 9:43 AM EDT The Trump administration suffered two legal defeats within hours on Friday. A judge in California ordered the release of a Syrian national it has been seeking to deport while a federal Rhode Island judge blocked ... (Newsweek)

Vance and Lammy host Ukraine talks ahead of US-Russia summit

8 hrs ago - 20 minutes ago US Vice-President JD Vance and UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy have hosted a meeting of security officials near London to discuss the war in Ukraine. The talks are said to have been called at the request of the US. The pair were joine ... (BBC)

Kristi Noem leveled by National Sheriff's Association CEO for creating staffing chaos

9 hrs ago - August 9, 2025 9:11AM ET Local law enforcement leaders are growing increasingly frustrated with DHS s Secretary Kristi Noem's recruitment efforts, which they say have aggressively targeted members of their own ranks amid nationwide police shortages. ... (Raw Story)

Trump signs new peace agreement that includes the 'Trump Route'

10 hrs ago - Trump could meet Putin, Zelenskyy as Ukraine war deadline set by US nearsScroll back up to restore default view. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump and the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a peace agreement at the White House on Aug. 8 ... (USA Today)

Ousted Vaccine Regulator Vinay Prasad to Return to FDA

10 hrs ago - 1h (Bloomberg) -- Vinay Prasad, who was recently ousted as the top vaccine and gene therapy regulator at the US Food and Drug Administration, is returning to his role, the Department of Health and Human Services said Saturday. Prasad is returning at ... (msn/Bloomberg)

Couple alleges racial profiling in Border Patrol stop they recorded on video

10 hrs ago - A couple detained by Border Patrol in Boulevard said they believed agents did not have reasonable suspicion to stop them at all, recording the interaction and alleging they were racially profiled, pulled over by an unmarked vehicle as they were scopi ... (NBC San Diego)

IRS, White House clashed over immigrants' data before tax chief was ousted

11 hrs ago - August 9, 2025 at 12:16 p.m. EDT The Internal Revenue Service clashed with the White House over using tax data to help locate suspected undocumented immigrants hours before Trump administration officials forced IRS Commissioner Billy Long from his po ... (Washington Post)

Whitmer told Trump in private that Michigan auto jobs depend on a tariff change of course

12 hrs ago - Updated 10:12 AM EDT, August 9, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met privately in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump to make a case he did not want to hear: the automotive industry he said he wants to save were bein ... (AP)

Pfizer Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by FDA

13 hrs ago - Sat 9 Aug 2025 05.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 9 Aug 2025 05.01 EDT Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this fall, prompting Moderna to fill possible gaps in supply, according ... (The Guardian)

WGA Toss Out Park Chan-wook & Don McKellar For Writing On HBO's 'The Sympathizer' During 2023 Strike

13 hrs ago - By Dominic Patten August 8, 2025 11:06pm The Robert Downey Jr. produced and starring The Sympathizer came and went last year with a lot less fanfare than many expected due to the talent involved and the fact the miniseries was based on Viet Thanh Ngu ... (Deadline)

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