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Trump Unable To Focus In Meeting As Pressure Of Booking Kennedy Center Summer Jazz Series Looms WASHINGTON—Amid efforts to prove himself as an effective chair of the performing arts organization, President Donald Trump was reportedly unable to focus in a national security meeting Friday, distrac...

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'Cowardice and Abdication': Democrats Grant Unanimous Consent to Adjourn Senate for 3-Day Weekend | Common Dreams "We're in a right-now hour-by-hour constitutional emergency and they have a duty to be at their posts."

'Cowardice and Abdication': Democrats Grant Unanimous Consent to Adjourn Senate for 3-Day Weekend www.commondreams.org/news/democra...

February 3, 2025 I’m going to start tonight by stating the obvious: the Republicans control both chambers of Congress: the House of Representatives and the Senate.

February 3, 2025
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'Chaos and Fear' at CDC Amid Order to Retract Journal Articles to Purge 'Forbidden Terms' | Common Dreams "How can the government decide what words a journal can use to describe a scientific reality? That reality needs to be named," one journal editor said.

'Chaos and Fear' at CDC Amid Order to Retract Journal Articles to Purge 'Forbidden Terms' www.commondreams.org/news/trump-cdc

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Trump’s Dictatorial Power Grab: Chaos, Cruelty, and Constitutional Collapse

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Minneapolis police chief calls Trump Jan. 6 pardons ‘slap in the face’ to officers Chief Brian O'Hara has joined a group of law enforcement leaders decrying President Donald Trump’s pardons for all who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Quakers Hit Trump Admin With Lawsuit Over Policy Allowing ICE Raids on Houses of Worship “Quaker meetings for worship seek to be a sanctuary and a refuge for all,” said one Quaker organization head.

Several Quaker congregations are suing the Trump administration over an order lifting a previous policy that had curtailed ICE agents from conducting raids in “sensitive locations,” including schools, hospitals and houses of worship.

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Freeze of Federal Grant Funds (Gift Article) A judge in Washington, D.C., has sided with activists who claimed the White House’s freezing of billions of dollars in already approved funding violated the law.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...