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Trump crackdown could 'blow up' his big bill after latest attack on Senate deal: report

A key Democratic negotiator says the Trump administration’s offshore wind crackdown is endangering a hard-won Senate deal on permitting reform, Politico reports. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) reacted after the Justice Department told a federal court late Tuesday that it wants to reopen the permit for the New England Wind project off Massachusetts. It’s…

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Raw Story· Oct 21, 7:37 PMTrump crackdown could 'blow up' his big bill after latest attack on Senate deal: report

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'Out of context': Court smacks down Trump's attempt to render rights 'meaningless'A federal appeals court rejected a Trump administration argument that asserted the government could perpetually "reset" a six-month maximum limit on detentions for re-detained immigrants, making their rights "meaningless." The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday in the case of Kaveh Abedi, an Iranian man whom Immigration and Customs…

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Neil Bush, brother of George W. Bush, says he voted for TalaricoFormer President George W. Bush’s brother announced Tuesday that he voted for Democrat James Talarico in the high-stakes Texas Senate race. In a post on Facebook, Neil Bush wrote that while he normally stays out of politics, he had serious concerns about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee in the race. “I have...

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New Mexico attorney general sues Epstein's attorney and accountant, claiming abuse cover-up at ranchThe lawsuit seeks to stop attorney Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn from accepting any payments from Epstein's estate, estimated at more than $100 million.

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Justice Department fights Minnesota judge’s contempt order against government attorneyThe attorney was initially ordered to pay $500 every day after ICE failed to return a detainee’s personal property.

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Sixth Circuit questions whether format counts when it comes to courtroom accessA Michigan activist is claiming a First Amendment violation after a court refused to provide copies of audio from her brother’s criminal hearing where the presiding judge "lost her temper."

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Meta ordered to pay $25bn to New Mexico in Cambridge Analytica data-privacy caseJury had found Meta misled consumers after Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign obtained user data without consent A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta Platforms to pay $25bn on ⁠Wednesday after a jury found the company had misled consumers in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump ’s 2016 presidential…

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Bite of Seattle shooting suspect released on electronic home monitoring - Wed, 21 Oct 2026 PSTA King County Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered that a 15-year-old suspect in the fatal Bite of Seattle shooting be released from juvenile detention. The boy is accused of firing a handgun indiscriminately into a crowd of people attending the food festival at Seattle Center on July 26. Seattle police arrested him at the scene, and he was charged…

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Democrats sue Trump administration over 'threats and intimidation' ahead of electionDemocratic leaders and election groups filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the Justice Department (DOJ) on Tuesday, seeking to block federal officials from pressuring states to remove voters from their rolls ahead of the November midterm elections. The 44-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, accuses the…

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Judge shreds Trump's 'voluminous and unreliable' plot to curb voting in CaliforniaA federal judge in San Francisco has blocked parts of a Department of Homeland Security campaign to question suspected noncitizen voters, finding it likely violates the Voting Rights Act by intimidating people who help others vote. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted a preliminary injunction Wednesday to the California Nurses Association…

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow Big Bend border wall constructionThe Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to clear the way for border wall construction to resume around Texas’s Big Bend region. Solicitor General D. John Sauer called a lower judge’s block on the construction “baseless” and said it disrupts the government’s ability to secure a quarter of the southern border. “Such judicial...

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