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Democrats say the president cannot take money from the proceeds of seized oil and control it himself, calling it a ‘slush fund’ that would fly in the face of the Constitution.

The plan is to put the money in offshore accounts controlled by Trump, and outside the purview of the US Treasury. That's a recipe for Trump stealing it all for himself.

ICE appears to have murdererd a legal observer in cold blood.

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“She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said.

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It's called armed robbery

Importantly, this took deepfake undressing from a tiny niche to a huge thing:

This means that it's no longer a niche or really exceptional thing, but that harassment of women with this method is now pervasive.

The president said Tuesday that some Venezuelan oil will be shipped to U.S. refineries. He faces challenges getting firms to put their money into the country’s shattered industry.

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The California Republican’s sudden passing, on the same day that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s resignation took effect, made the party’s House math even trickier.

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The funding pause could jeopardize child care and other programs that serve hundreds of thousands of households in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York.