Like many authoritarian rulers, Trump now finds himself in the trap of his own corruption: he cannot afford to lose power. To relinquish office would be to invite criminal prosecution and potentially, prison.

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Trump fires CDC director Susan Monarez, who declined to fire agency leaders or to accept all recommendations from a vaccine advisory panel selected by anti-vaccine conspiracist R.F. Kennedy Jr.

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Denmark’s foreign minister has called in the senior U.S. envoy in Copenhagen following reports that American operatives attempted to sway political developments in Greenland. “Greenland’s strategic importance means it will always attract attention from abroad,” Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said in a statement. “It would not be surprising if we see renewed efforts by external players to try to shape the Kingdom’s future.”

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Donald Trump’s second term has unleashed sweeping abuses of power across immigration, education, healthcare, public health, and the environment. International students and scholars have been detained or deported without cause, universities and law firms punished for dissent, independent agencies undermined, and federal workers threatened. Cuts to healthcare, research, student aid, and small business programs have endangered families and jobs, while environmental protections were rolled back. These moves reveal an authoritarian effort to silence critics and concentrate power, whilst seeking to militarize Sanctuary Cities.

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A federal judge on Monday said the Trump regime is “absolutely forbidden” from removing mistakenly deported man Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the U.S., for now. Judge Paula Xinis blocked Abrego Garcia’s deportation to Uganda until she can hold a hearing to determine whether the administration will let him contest his removal to the third country. The bid to deport him comes just 3 days after he was freed from custody in a criminal case filed against him in federal court in Tennessee. He filed suit after he was taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody Monday when he reported for a check-in at ICE’s Baltimore field office.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is ramping up training for new agents as the agency's director said he wants to train 10,000 new agents by the end of the year. ICE is recruiting retired federal workers to join its enforcement, legal and investigative units as a part of a broader campaign to beef up hiring to rid the nation of people of color.

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As Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops in Washington continued on Wednesday, protesters booed Vice President JD Vance during a photo op with the guardsmen stationed in the city. People jeered Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller as they visited Union Station, blocks from the U.S. Capitol which has seen it's police federalized in a fake claim of a crime wave.

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Donald Trump is preparing to sign a new executive order that he hopes will do away with mail-in voting, as he falsely claims mail ballots can be manipulated and voting machines are “highly inaccurate” in a bid to suppress the vote and hold on to power.

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Donald Trump thought he was hosting an episode of the EU Apprentice as he was outsmarted by European leaders at the White House during his farcical Ukraine summit, delivering Putin's talking points, and saying a whole lot of nothing to end the war.

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Despite meeting for three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska, Donald Trump emerged without announcing any agreements and with little to share publicly. Known for using international platforms to his advantage, Trump was notably restrained, offering almost no specifics when standing alongside Putin at the summit’s conclusion.

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