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Two communities seeking cleaner, cheaper energy are resisting pressure to extend deals that bind them to getting power from one of the nation’s dirtiest plants.

Minnesota has a lower fraud rate in these programs than the country as a whole, so this is just revenge for forcing ICE to do a partial pullout.

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A Block Club investigation found dozens of protesters arrested by state police are still facing criminal charges for minor infractions, such as sitting on a concrete barrier — even after Gov. JB Pritzker vowed to protect their First Amendment rights.

When he was first released, he says some of his documents — including his identification and work permit — were not immediately returned to him.

For a couple of weeks, he says he felt stuck. Without identification, he was afraid to move around freely. Without his work permit in hand, he couldn’t return to work.

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Sounds like another release is in the making. Prime your scripts and scrapers!

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it was looking into whether it had improperly withheld documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files after several news organizations reported that some records involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump were not among those released to the public.

The announcement followed news reports saying that a massive tranche of records released by the Justice Department did not include several summaries of interviews that the FBI conducted with an unidentified woman who came forward after Epstein’s 2019 arrest and claimed to have been sexually assaulted by both Trump and Epstein when she was a minor in the 1980s.

They're not just saying "you have to write this gender on your license" — they're declaring drivers licenses people already have to be invalid.

A chase in Newark by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pursing a van they had tried to pull over Wednesday resulted in a crash that hospitalized the van driver and involved a third vehicle that three minors were passengers in, city officials said.

“The chase led to an accident at Clinton Avenue and 10th Street, involving several vehicles, one of which had three children as passengers, two 15-year-olds and one 12-year-old,” Mayor Ras J. Baraka said in a statement Wednesday afternoon.

Baraka said the incident exemplified the threat to public safety posed by ICE agents using aggressive tactics on city streets.

The defendants were initially accused of serious crimes. But when asked for evidence, the government dropped their cases.

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These are all risks that the U.S. military is acutely aware of, and they are magnified because of the likely lack of support from any allies—aside from Israel—for U.S. operations against Iran. The United States could still successfully strike targets in Iran, but it is far from clear that such attacks would bring major concessions from the regime. The president would be well advised to take these considerable risks and costs into account before starting a war without an obvious exit strategy.

Documents released by the Justice Department briefly mention a woman’s unverified accusation that Donald J. Trump assaulted her in the 1980s, when she was a minor. But several memos related to her account are not in the files.

NPR also showed that a lot of pages are missing

Critics said they were concerned about actions Mr. Pearce had taken as a lawmaker to try to sell public lands to private interests. The Vet Voice Foundation, an advocacy group made up of military veterans, is helping to organize a campaign against Mr. Pearce’s confirmation and has created a “Sell-Off Steve” website.

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police are investigating after officers were pelted with snowballs while responding to a massive snowball fight at Washington Square Park in Manhattan.

A video of the fracas shows two uniformed officers pacing a walkway in the park Monday as snowballs fly at them from all directions, hitting the officers and covering them in snow.

The officers, growing visibly frustrated, shoved at least two people to the ground as snowballs continued to whizz by. At one point, a person runs up behind an officer and mushes some snow onto his head. One of the officers can be seen rubbing his eye toward the end of the video.

Federal law requires noncitizens to carry proof of their lawful status.

The idea is to set people up for a 2nd arrest, and deportation alongside that.

Potential executive order would enlist banks in the White House’s illegal-immigration crackdown

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In January, FinCEN issued an order requiring banks and money transmitters in two Minnesota counties to file information about overseas transactions greater than $3,000, far lower than the normal $10,000 threshold for flagging cash transactions. Banks already think the $10,000 limit should be raised and have struggled to comply with the Minnesota order, according to some people familiar with their efforts.

The Washington Post has an article as well now

The conspiracies are true — a small group of elites set the agenda for the country.

They're billionaires, politicians, judges and more. And they meet at private camp Bohemian Grove.

The membership is secret, but Daniel Boguslaw came to us with a full list of everyone involved.

Turns out the coordination of Project 2025 was begun at the Bohemian Grove

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces boarded a third sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean after tracking it from the Caribbean Sea in an effort to target illicit oil connected to Venezuela, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

An organization that tracks ship movements said the vessel was the only tanker left to pursue after more than a dozen fled the coast of Venezuela following the capture of the South American country’s authoritarian then-president, Nicolás Maduro.

U.S. Southern Command said in a post on X that U.S. forces boarded the Bertha overnight, conducting “a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding.”