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FAA moves to fire LaGuardia controllers who left early before fatal crash
Two controllers allegedly clocked out about an hour before an Air Canada jet hit a fire truck, killing both pilots. Duffy calls it timecard fraud; the NTSB has not linked the early shove to the collision.
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Judge again rejects Trump bid to move hush-money conviction to federal court
Hellerstein said paying Stormy Daniels was not an official act and Trump waited too long to remove the case. Trump’s team calls the ruling lawless weaponization; the judge says presidential immunity does not cover a cover-up.
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Judge rules Pentagon’s Anthropic supply-chain blacklist was illegal retaliation
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin found the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was First Amendment retaliation after the company refused unrestricted military use of Claude.
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Trump claims U.S. majority control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil
He calls it the biggest oil deal in history; officials describe a 100-year joint venture with 55 percent U.S. offtake, while outlets report no published contract and years before any pump-price effect.
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The medical examiner found Tyrin Johnson, 20, was shot once in the back on July 5. Family and critics say that undercuts the task-force account that he turned and pointed a gun; TBI says its investigation is still open.
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California judge rules Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel
Judge Noël Wise blocked Immigration and Nationality Act visa tools used against campus critics of Israel in a Stanford Daily case. The paper said visa-holding reporters self-censored; the administration had framed the same speech as a foreign-policy threat.
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Trump told DOJ to settle Live Nation-Ticketmaster case after Oval Office meeting
The Wall Street Journal reports the president ordered a settlement days after meeting CEO Michael Rapino; the White House says DOJ was not weaponized, and a Justice Department spokesperson called the Journal’s account categorically false. State attorneys general who refused the deal later won a monopoly verdict.
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow transgender troop discharges
Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the justices to lift a D.C. Circuit injunction so the Pentagon can discharge transgender service members while Talbott v. United States proceeds toward a January 2027 trial.
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U.S. seizes China-linked hacking platforms, then narrows who was breached
The Justice Department and FBI seized QScan and QTRouter domains used by China-linked group QTFY. Days later DOJ said named agencies were targets, and that only some were compromised.
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Grand jury says DeSantis administration misappropriated $10 million via Hope Florida
A leaked Leon County grand jury report finds $10 million from a Centene Medicaid settlement was routed through Casey DeSantis’s charity to political committees; jurors said they lacked evidence to charge anyone.
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Federal audit says Ohio MEP and Cleveland's MAGNET misused millions
Commerce's inspector general questioned $20.9 million in Ohio Manufacturing Extension Partnership costs. MAGNET CEO Ethan Karp calls the waste-and-abuse findings false and says MAGNET made no profit on pandemic PPE.
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Military judge sets June 2028 trial for accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Air Force Lt. Col. Michael A. Schrama scheduled trial for June 5, 2028, for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and three co-defendants, later than prosecutors asked, after plea deals were thrown out.
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Christian Castro left a Brownsville jail Thursday after a federal judge refused to order Gov. Greg Abbott to extradite him or to keep the sheriff from releasing him at the 90-day limit.
Open compositeArmy awards up to $2.2 billion for nuclear microreactors at five bases
Five vendors will own and operate microreactors at Forts Bragg, Campbell, Hood, Benning and Drum, aiming for a first Army-regulated reactor by September 2028.
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