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The DOJ says it met its legal duty in releasing 3.5 million pages of Epstein files. The two lawmakers who wrote the transparency law say heavy redactions are shielding at least a half-dozen powerful men the law never allowed it to hide.
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A federal judge ordered President Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center by June 12. Hours before the deadline, the DOJ filed a notice of appeal to keep it in place.
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A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the USDA's '2026 Conditions,' which tied SNAP and other food aid funding to states' compliance with unrelated political demands.
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Bernie Sanders forced the Senate to vote on blocking a $659 million bomb sale to Israel. The resolutions failed, but he put every senator on the record.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signed a partnership agreement with Ontario Premier Doug Ford while calling President Trump's Canada rhetoric 'reckless and disrespectful.'
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Justice Department lawyers urged a federal judge to reject a lawsuit seeking to block a planned UFC fight on the White House grounds, arguing the challenge came too late and would upend months of planning.
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The Florida Supreme Court declined to block new Republican-drawn U.S. House districts for the 2026 midterms in a 6-1 ruling — but it never ruled the maps legal, and the gerrymandering lawsuit continues.
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The New Jersey Senate passed a bill creating a new crime for threatening or blocking reproductive and transgender healthcare patients, with penalties up to 10 years. It awaits an Assembly vote before it could become law.
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Ohio lawmakers stripped a provision from House Bill 795 that would have banned Medicaid payments to family caregivers, reversing course after disabled Ohioans and families testified at a Statehouse hearing.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin introduced a package of bills that would require presidents to disclose - and bar them from accepting - any payments from people they pardon. It is a proposal, not law, and faces long odds in a GOP-controlled Congress.
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A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the USDA from conditioning SNAP funding for 39 million Americans on unrelated political demands.
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A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction blocking the USDA from conditioning SNAP funding - which feeds 39 million Americans - on unrelated political demands. Twenty states and DC sued.
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