Federal Agencies
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DOJ audits find about $2 million in questionable costs from crime victims grants
One audit involving Nevada’s Division of Child and Family Services identified more than $365,000 in questioned costs at Miracle Minds Therapy, also known as United Citizens Foundation
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Trump battleship-building plan will cost $275 billion, shipyard capacity in doubt: CBO report
Each of the 15 nuclear-powered "Trump-class" battleships will cost more than $18 billion, which puts them in the range of the Navy's Ford-class super carriers.
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Eight days of fury: Paper trail exposes FBI bid to probe Trump as Russian asset for firing Comey
When is lawfare disguised as justice? Newly declassified documents show the FBI opened a full investigtion over a sitting president after a firing that the Justice Department had itself recommended on non-Russia grounds. The question of what evidence should be required to be made clear before the Bureau investigates the president isn't a settled matter of history but an unresolved one about the standards still in place today.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia might be deported to Uganda: report
Abrego Garcia was released from federal custody less than one day ago.
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IRS aims to reverse mass layoffs, rehire some fired employees
The firings were previously part of the Trump administration's federal restructuring plan. The Department of Government Efficiency encouraged all departments at the time to reduce its staff by at least 20%.
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Feds lose 'at least $1.5 billion' in tobacco tax revenue due to consumer changes and old policies
Congress has not adopted GAO's tobacco tax policy recommendation from 13 years ago.
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Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell told DOJ she never saw Trump in an inappropriate situation
Maxwell told Blanche that she never saw the president “in any inappropriate setting” with young girls that Epstein introduced him to.
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops probe into company with ties to Don Jr.
The investigation began under the Biden administration, and the bureau said it was politically motivated against firearms companies and Donald Trump, Jr.
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FBI to change recruiting standards, allowing more recruits from other federal agencies: report
The plan will reportedly reduce the recruits' training at the academy in Quantico, Va., from 18 weeks to eight weeks, and no longer require a bachelor’s degree
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Georgia ICE arrests up 367 percent from 2021, making for 'safer streets, open jobs
According to a Department of Homeland Security news release, some of the “worst of the worst” arrested in Georgia include noncitizens who have been convicted of trafficking drugs, statutory rape, a hit-and-run, sexual battery against minors, and child molestation.
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National Guardsman crashed into car in DC, injuring driver, ticketed for running red light
The car's driver had minor injuries, but the fire department used extrication tools to remove them from the car
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State Department to impose sanctions on China petroleum products made from imported Iranian oil
The department said this move is to stem "the flow of revenue" that the Iranian regime uses to fund terrorism and oppression of the Iranian people.
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US attorney Jeanine Pirro ends felony charges for carrying registered rifles, shotguns in DC
"We will continue to seize all illegal and unlicensed firearms, and to vigorously prosecute all crimes connected with them," said U.S. Attorney for DC Jeanine Pirro