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- Some federal agencies have been stonewalling the Government Accountability Office since Trump’s return to office, with GAO leadership saying it’s encountered “significant access issues.”
- Senate Democrats faced intraparty backlash last year after working with Republicans to fund the government without extracting concessions. Now, many are giving them credit for uniting against Trump.
- Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is promoting a long-disproven conspiracy theory about the U.S. secretly supporting bioweapons manufacturing in Ukraine, just before she leaves her post at the end of the month.
- Sixty-five unions representing more than 15 million workers gathered for the first time since 2022 at the AFL-CIO conference — and speaker after speaker rallied against unlimited AI use.
- Former Rep. Devin Nunes has not run for office since 2020. Federal regulators want to know why he still has a whopping $14.5 million in campaign funds.
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NEW: The emerging US-Iran deal covers Lebanon, per American+Iranian officials But it's still the biggest vulnerability in the agreement — testing if Trump can restrain Israel, defy backlash from Bibi & co (including domestically) + de-escalate regionally - Construction workers readied Friday to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after a judge denied a last-minute effort to keep Trump’s mark atop the storied Washington institution.
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Tulsi Gabbard is claiming that she has "new evidence" of the US funding bioweapons research in Ukraine. Much of her evidence was already publicly available - The Pentagon has again delayed cleaning up “forever chemicals” at nearly 200 U.S. military locations, including at sites where the chemicals have contaminated local drinking water.
- A federal judge in Washington on Friday denied a last-minute bid to halt the upcoming UFC fight at the White House, ruling that the plaintiffs in the case failed to show they’d be harmed by the event going forward as planned.
- The Trump administration has said that its long-promised border wall would not include a physical wall in Big Bend National Park. But a new DHS notice rolling back environmental protections has skeptics concerned.
