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A conservative legal scholar on the constitutionality of Trump’s first year

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✨ Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: constitution,Donald Trump news,Ilya Shapiro 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Jeff Bennett: Today marks one year since President Trump was sworn in for the second time. Over the past twelve months, the president has overstepped the limits of executive power, defied the Constitution, and reshaped the federal government.He imposed unilateral tariffs and asserted control over independent agencies. The Ministry of Justice began investigations into his political opponents. He has deployed National Guard and active-duty troops to American cities over the objections of local officials. He has launched military operations…

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Iran warns Trump against taking any action against Supreme Leader Khamenei

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✨ Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,Donald Trump news,Iran 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran on Tuesday warned Donald Trump against taking any action against the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, days after the US president called for an end to Khamenei's nearly 40-year rule. “Trump knows that if any aggressive hand extends toward our leader, we will not only cut off that hand, but we will set their world on fire as well,” said General Abolfazl Shekarchi, a spokesman for Iran’s armed forces. These…

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WATCH: Border Patrol and ICE leaders defend tactics used in Minneapolis operations

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✨ Explore this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: border patrol,greg bovino,immigration and customs enforcement,minneapolis,minnesota 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Top immigration officials praised the arrests they made in Minnesota and defended the tactics used by Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a news conference in Minneapolis on Tuesday. Watch the press conference in the video player above. "Over the course of this administration, over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens have been apprehended, as I said, here in Minneapolis over the last year," said Greg Bovino, a senior Border Patrol official. "And just in the last…

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LISTEN LIVE: The Supreme Court case over Trump’s attempt to fire Federal Reserve board member Lisa Cook

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Federal reserve,Jerome Powell,lisa cook,Supreme Court 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's unprecedented attempt to reshape the Federal Reserve puts the Supreme Court in a familiar position, as it weighs an emergency appeal from the president's lawyers in a politically charged case. The Supreme Court hearing is scheduled to begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. EST. Listen live in the player above. On Wednesday, the court will hear arguments on Trump's efforts to oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook based on allegations that she committed…

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Fact checking Trump’s marathon press conference a year into his second term

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💥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Fact Checks,politifact ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This article originally appeared on PolitiFact. On the one-year anniversary of the start of his second term, President Donald Trump spent 104 minutes in the White House press room listing his accomplishments. Trump began the briefing by showing a series of photos of people arrested by ICE in Minneapolis, the site of widespread raids and counter-protests, as well as the fatal shooting of a US citizen by an ICE agent. He watches: Trump joins White House press conference after…

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Justice Department subpoenas Minnesota Governor Walz and other officials in obstruction investigation

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🔥 Explore this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Department of Justice,immigration and customs enforcement,minneapolis,minnesota,subpoenas,Tim Walz ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors filed six grand jury subpoenas Tuesday for Minnesota officials as part of an investigation into whether they obstructed or impeded federal law enforcement during a sweeping immigration operation in Minneapolis-St. Paul area, said a person familiar with the matter. The subpoenas, seeking the records, were sent to the offices of Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Kawley Hare, and officials in Ramsey and…

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Watch: Mickey Sherrill is inaugurated as governor of New Jersey

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🚀 Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: inauguration,mikie sherrill,New Jersey,NJTV 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Mikie Sherrill, the first Democratic woman to win New Jersey's governorship, was sworn in Tuesday as the state's 57th chief executive. Watch coverage of Cheryl's inauguration, provided by NJ Spotlight News, in the player above. Sherrill, a former federal prosecutor and Navy helicopter pilot, previously represented New Jersey's 11th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Dale Caldwell was sworn in as the state's lieutenant governor. Caldwell, a pastor at Covenant United Methodist Church in Plainfield, has served as…

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WATCH LIVE: Trump joins White House for briefing after recent Greenland threats and tariffs

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✨ Explore this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,karoline leavitt,White House 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Republican Mike Johnson delivered a historic speech before the British Parliament on Tuesday, and he is the first Speaker of the US House of Representatives to address the Council. Johnson spoke as US President Donald Trump harshly criticized America's most trusted allies, posting overnight that the UK was acting "very stupidly" on national security and ramping up his claims of forcefully seizing Greenland in the Arctic. Trump and White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt are expected to hold…

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Surrounded by billionaires in Davos, Trump intends to show Americans how he will make housing more affordable

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: affordable housing,davos,Donald Trump news,Economy,World Economic Forum 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to use a keynote speech Wednesday to try to convince Americans that he can make housing more affordable, but he chose an odd backdrop for the speech: a Swiss mountain town where vacation ski chalets cost $4.4 million. On the anniversary of his inauguration, Trump will travel to the World Economic Forum in Davos — an annual gathering of the global elite — where he may meet many of…

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Senior EU official calls Trump’s Greenland tariff threat a mistake

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,EU,europe,European Union,greenland,tariffs ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: DAVOS, Switzerland - The European Union's top official on Tuesday described new tariffs that US President Donald Trump plans to impose on Greenland as a "mistake" between long-time allies and raised questions about Trump's credibility, while French President Emmanuel Macron said the situation could prompt the European Union to deploy one of its most powerful retaliatory tools. While anger over Trump's desire to control the vast Arctic island was the focus of an annual meeting of the elite…

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