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Trump promises to end birthright citizenship and shut down the border – a legal scholar explains the challenges these actions could face

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During his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on immigration that would make it harder for refugees, asylum seekers and others to try to enter the U.S. – and for some immigrants to stay in the country.

On Monday night, Trump signed executive orders that included declaring a...Read more

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Philly Fraternal Order of Police seeks to restore secrecy around police shootings and disciplinary records in upcoming contract

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PHILADELPHIA — When Philadelphia’s police union was negotiating its last contract in 2021, calls to “abolish” and “defund” the police still echoed across the city.

The national reckoning over police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s murder had not yet stalled. City Council voted 16-1 in May of that year to create a new ...Read more

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What's behind Minnesota town's high crime rate?

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BEMIDJI, Minn. — Not many people were window shopping downtown during the cold snap last week, but Kevin Johnson kept his gift shop full of Paul Bunyan merch and buffalo plaid open as he packed up holiday decorations.

As co-chair of the city’s downtown alliance, he talks all the time about the crime rate in Bemidji. It historically hovers ...Read more

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She needed an abortion but Kentucky's ban prevented it. 'Somebody is going to die,' doctors warn

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When Genevieve Postlethwait’s water broke in her sleep one July morning, she knew something was wrong. At 17 weeks pregnant, it was too soon for this to be normal.

That afternoon at her OB-GYN’s office, Genevieve and her husband saw their daughter’s moving shape on an ultrasound screen. But she looked different — opaque, hard to see, ...Read more

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Nearly 100 acres of agriculture land slated for community solar development in Maryland

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BALTIMORE — A fifth community solar project has entered Harford County’s development pipeline and is set to add nearly 40 acres to the roughly 61 acres already dedicated to community solar generating systems in Harford County.

Per state law, these systems allow property owners to build solar power systems on their land as long as the ...Read more

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LA fire rebuilding might be on collision course with Trump immigration crackdown

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LOS ANGELES — The breeze was tinged with smoke from the fires that burned through Pacific Palisades as dozens of workers finished up the brick facade of a sprawling home in the tony Brentwood Park neighborhood.

The talk was in Spanish, an unremarkable fact given the language has been the lingua franca on most construction sites in Southern ...Read more

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Christian legal group that helped topple Roe shifts fight to DEI

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It was late 2022 when hundreds of lawyers across America joined in a virtual Lord’s Prayer for Jeremy Tedesco and his mission to promote Christian values in corporate America.

A senior counsel at the country’s most powerful conservative legal group that helped orchestrate the end of Roe v. Wade, Tedesco was getting ready to spread the ...Read more

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Childhood vaccination rates, a rare health bright spot in struggling states, are slipping

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Jen Fisher can do only so much to keep her son safe from the types of infections that children can encounter at school. The rest, she said, is up to other students and parents in their hometown of Franklin, Tennessee.

Fisher’s son Raleigh, 12, lives with a congenital heart condition, which has left him with a weakened immune system. For his ...Read more

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Colorado lawmakers back bill targeting price gouging, especially in grocery stores

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DENVER — Colorado grocery stores and other sellers of “necessity” goods would be prohibited from “unfairly or unconscionably” raising prices on their products under new legislation proposed by state lawmakers.

The measure, House Bill 1010, is part of a push by lawmakers of both parties this year to address Colorado’s high cost of ...Read more

Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency ‘flies in the face of the facts’ of violent insurrection, retired federal judge explains

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In the first hours of his second term, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly everyone convicted of crimes associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol – including former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio – and commuted the sentences of 14 more, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.

CNN reported that ...Read more

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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and state leaders reflect on MLK, Trump's 'troubling' speech

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Gov. Wes Moore and other top Black Maryland officials reflected on Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy Monday night as they vowed to fight for civil rights in President Donald Trump’s second term.

“I know today — because I’ve had a lot of conversations with folks — about the complexity of having this inauguration on Martin Luther King ...Read more

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Trump signs executive order reversing Biden-era restrictions on oil and gas exploration in Alaska

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the first hours of his second term reversed Biden administration orders that restricted oil and gas development in Alaska.

Trump signed several executive orders during an inauguration day event at the Capitol One Arena. One of Trump’s orders rescinded dozens of ...Read more

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Trump pulls security clearances over Hunter Biden laptop letter

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of 50 former U.S. intelligence officials who had cast doubt on conservative attacks on former President Joe Biden’s son, delivering on a campaign promise to exact retribution against what he sees as a “deep state” conspiracy against him.

The former intelligence ...Read more

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Democratic state representative from Western Pa. dies, leaving the House tied 101-101

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A Democratic lawmaker from Allegheny County died over the weekend, leaving the state House of Representatives evenly split at 101-101 seats between the two parties.

Rep. Matt Gergely, 45, who won a special election in 2023 and was re-elected in November, died Sunday.

Gergely's cause of death was not immediately disclosed, but he had suffered a...Read more

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Trump plans to enact 25% tariffs on Mexico, Canada by Feb. 1

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he planned to enact previously threatened tariffs of as much as 25% on Mexico and Canada by Feb. 1, reiterating his contention that America’s two immediate neighbors are allowing the flow of undocumented migrants and drugs into the country.

“We’re thinking in terms of 25% on Mexico and Canada, ...Read more

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Trump orders US to withdraw from World Health Organization

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources.

The order, which was among a flurry of executive actions Trump signed Monday in the Oval Office, says the “WHO ...Read more

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Trump plans to combat immigration with troops and a state of emergency

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took steps Monday to fundamentally and drastically change how the nation handles immigration, saying he would sign executive orders to ramp up deportations, declare a national emergency at the southern border and deploy military troops there.

Trump said he would immediately halt all illegal entry at the ...Read more

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Trump orders US exit from Paris pact, hobbling climate fight

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. to withdraw from the landmark Paris Agreement, launching another retreat in the global fight against climate change by the world’s wealthiest nation.

The move was widely expected since Trump pulled the U.S. from the emissions-cutting pact during his first term and had vowed do to it ...Read more

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Trump immediately flexes presidential powers: 1,500 pardons and a raft of executive orders

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President Donald Trump quickly flexed the sweeping powers of the presidency following his second inauguration at the Capitol on Monday, signing a slate of executive orders that would radically alter U.S. policy if allowed to stand.

He also pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of his loyalists — more than 1,500 people — who stormed the ...Read more

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Trump says he's pardoning nearly all Capitol riot defendants

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday said he was pardoning nearly all of the people charged or convicted with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, fulfilling one of his campaign promises hours after he was sworn in as president.

Trump announced mass clemency for roughly 1,500 people to reporters gathered at the White House. He...Read more