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Suspects charged with plot to attack White House UFC event

Suspects charged with plot to attack White House UFC event

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has charged five people in connection with an alleged plot to use explosives and snipers to target wealthy people and prominent politicians who attended a UFC fight Sunday on the White House lawn. All five individuals have been arrested in connection with the planned plot, which never transpired, and are in custody, according to a Justice Department ...

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Congress must review Iran agreement, senators say

Congress needs to be able to review the agreement between the Trump administration and Tehran that is intended to end the Iran war, senators in both parties said Monday. President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the United States and Iran had reached a memorandum of understanding to end the war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and begin more comprehensive negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program ...
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USDA subpoenas California Department of Social Services for SNAP participant data

The U.S. Department of Agriculture subpoenaed the California Department of Social Services on June 4 for SNAP participant data as a part of the federal agency’s latest efforts to root out fraud in government spending. USDA is requiring California, and three other states, to turn over records with personal information related to individuals’ eligibility for the food assistance program, known as ...
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GOP immigration funding bill clears House, heads to Trump

WASHINGTON — House Republicans cleared a $70 billion reconciliation package Tuesday to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term. On a party-line vote of 214-212, the House cleared the reconciliation bill that the Senate passed last week. Independent Kevin Kiley of California, who caucuses with the Republicans, voted no. Final passage of the measure ...
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Justice Department seeks to strip U.S. citizenship from convicted Feeding Our Future fraudster, 16 others

MINNEAPOLIS — The federal government announced it is seeking to strip U.S. citizenship from 17 foreign-born residents accused of serious offenses, among them a Minnesotan charged in the Feeding Our Future fraud scandal. The U.S. Department of Justice said on Monday that the Immigration and Nationality Act allows for naturalized citizenship to be revoked if that status was illegally acquired by ...
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Lawsuit seeks to shut down UFC White House event

A week ahead of an event the promotion says is not political and not transactional, an effort is being made to shut down UFC Freedom 250. A lawsuit has ​been filed by, in part, a military veteran from Virginia that says the UFC's show at the White House is "deeply corrupt," ⁠in part because Donald Trump is giving his friend, UFC CEO Dana ‌White, and the UFC "unfettered access to ​the White House and Lincoln Memorial to stage a private, for-profit sports event, with all the promotional and branding opportunities that accompany such access."
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Judge halts Trump SNAP funding restrictions in lawsuit by 20 states

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing new conditions on billions of dollars in federal nutrition funding, siding with a coalition of Democratic-led states that argued the requirements threatened programs serving low-income families. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun granted a preliminary ​injunction sought by 20 states and the District of Columbia, temporarily halting the U.S. Department of Agriculture's effort to tie funding to compliance with a range of federal policy priorities, according to ⁠reports from AP News, Newsweek and Reuters.
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Top Trump artificial intelligence adviser to leave the White House

A tech investor who shaped the Trump administration’s pro-industry artificial intelligence policies will depart the White House at the end of the month. Sriram Krishnan has informed administration officials that he plans to leave his post as the White House senior policy adviser for AI to start an outside institution that will influence technology policy, according to a person familiar with his plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the private discussions.
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