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Let’s hire plumbers to do the electrical work in the ballroom! The Trump administration is set to award a multimillion-dollar contract to a small Texas law firm without immigration expertise to provide legal representation for thousands of unaccompanied migrant children abcnews.com/US/small-tex...

Small Texas law firm set to receive $150M contract to represent unaccompanied migrant children

The Trump administration is set to award a $150 million contract to a Texas law firm without immigration expertise to represent migrant children in custody.

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Attacking the police is fine, but just don't peel any paint from the reflecting pool. A federal judge on Tuesday "reluctantly" granted the Justice Department's move to dismiss the final remaining prosecution stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Judge 'reluctantly' grants DOJ motion to dismiss final prosecution in Jan. 6 attack

A federal judge has "reluctantly" granted the DOJ's move to dismiss the final remaining prosecution stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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NEW: Republican officials were set to vote on a plan to cut almost half of Election Day voting locations in Tarrant County, a major Texas battleground county. But all that changed when outraged voters who packed the meeting room demanded their voting locations remain open.

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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🔥 NEW UNEARTHED AUDIO: Todd Blanche, Trump's “fixer” and nominee for Attorney General, is working to ban abortion in "every single state." Republicans in the Senate just voted to advance Blanche's nomination out of committee — he should be immediately disqualified as a partisan hack.

Gill: All 100 senators last week passed a non-binding resolution condemning any pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell. They're simultaneously considering confirming the guy who met with her and moved her to a low-security facility as the top cop in the United States. That is so insane to me.

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

A civilian medevac plane crashed into a New Mexico mountain after losing GPS during a U.S. military jamming exercise, killing all four onboard. WIRED reveals that during May's NAVFEST exercise at White Sands, the Air Force tested GPS disruption. The FAA warned signals could fail up to 400 miles away

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico