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Trump admin approves $2.1 billion sale of Patriot interceptors to Ukraine
The department said that no American money was spent in the deal and that the sale of 500 Patriot missiles is being funded through donations from Canada, Germany and Norway through a U.S. program.
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Appeals court reinstates First Amendment challenge to California restrictions on workplace meetings
The California Policy Center argues the law limits its ability to hold mandatory employee meetings about political issues central to its work.
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DOJ asks federal judge to separate certain ballots in Alaska Senate race, halt certification
The request is the latest update in the "decoy Dan Sullivan" Alaska saga, which comes after DOJ's top prosecutor in the state confirmed that a criminal investigation into the scandal tied to the Democratic Senate nominee is ongoing.
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More than 200 children rescued, 350 child sex offenders arrested in one month
The operations are nationwide and involve staff from all 56 FBI field offices and U.S. Attorney’s offices.
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International human smuggling ring exploiting Canadian visa system thwarted by US
The smuggling incidents occurred in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Swanton Sector, where record high illegal crossings occurred during the Biden administration, The Center Square first reported.
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Trump budget targets 'valley of death' with new military contractor accountability model
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the House Armed Services Committee that funding alone will not solve the problem – the procurement system itself must change.
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Nonprofit flies troops home for milestones they can't afford to miss
The program offers to fly junior enlisted service members home for special occasions if they first spend 25 hours volunteering off-base in their communities.
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Former NFL player sentenced to more than 16 years in jail for nearly $200M of Medicare fraud: DOJ
Prosecutors said the defendant, Joel Rufus French, 47, of Armory, Mississippi, sold patient information and fraudulent doctors’ orders for orthotic braces that patients neither wanted nor needed.
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Jeffrey Epstein's brother Mark suggests newly released suicide note is fake
Mark Epstein argued that the release of the note is intended to support the claim that he died by suicide while awaiting his trial in 2019.
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Newly released suicide note matches Epstein's handwriting, experts say
Three handwriting analysts told AP that the documents shared highly distinctive similarities in spacing, punctuation, formatting and letter formation, strongly indicating they were authored by the same person.
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WATCH: Pentagon publicly releases video of US military disabling 2 additional Iranian tankers
"U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) enforced blockade measures against two Iranian-flagged unladen oil tankers attempting to pull into an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman," read a CENTCOM statement.
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Small Georgia town reinstates police force after mayor fires them over social media posts
The Cohutta town council voted to reinstate the officers with backpay after learning that the firings did not follow the town charter which mandated that employees be given 30 days notice.
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Trump indicates US could move troops from Germany to Poland
The Pentagon previously indicated that the U.S. would move 5,000 troops from Germany in the next six to 12 months.