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The USA has just dropped to 29th, its lowest position ever, in Transparency International's corruption index.

With a score of just 64 out of a possible 100, the USA is seen as much more corrupt than nearly all other developed countries.

This is Trump's America

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Opposition from as few as two Republicans could derail the effort.

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Jim Stolley, the chief counsel for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota, has left as government prosecutors grapple with a crush of cases.

The top lawyer for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota left the agency in recent days, exiting as a crush of litigation stemming from the immigration crackdown in the state has overwhelmed the court system.

The lawyer, Jim Stolley, the outgoing chief counsel for ICE in the state, has not publicly addressed the circumstances of his departure. Starting this week, emails sent to his government account generated an automated response noting that he had “retired from public service.” ....

New York has won a court order preventing work on the Hudson River's Gateway tunnel project from shutting down, state Attorney General Letitia James announced late Friday evening. Work on the project connecting New York and New Jersey had largely come to a halt just hours earlier amid a standoff with the White House. James and New Jersey Acting Attorney General Jennifer Davenport had sued the Trump administration on Feb. 3 seeking to prevent work on the project from stopping due to the lengthy federal freeze on funds for it. "This is a critical victory for workers and commuters in New York and New Jersey," James said in a statement. "I am grateful the court acted quickly to block this senseless funding freeze, which threatened to derail a project our entire region depends on."

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