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• Immigration Raids Blamed for Potential Food Crisis
  
  President Donald Trump's own Labor Department is warning that his administration's tough immigration enforcement could trigger a food crisis, citing "immediate dangers to the American food supply" caused by a collapse in the migrant farm labor force.
• Blagojevich to Newsmax: Senators 'Pandering for Cameras' With ICE Protest
  
  Democratic officials protesting outside a suburban Chicago immigration facility are more interested in political grandstanding than improving public safety, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich said on Newsmax on Saturday.
• Measles Outbreak Keeps Unvaccinated Kids Out of Schools
  
  A growing measles outbreak has forced hundreds of unvaccinated children out of classrooms in several states, prompting widespread quarantines and renewed warnings from health experts about declining vaccination rates.
• 4 Dead in Miss. HS Homecoming Shooting
  
  Four people were killed in a shooting in a town in the Mississippi Delta region after a high school football homecoming game there, Mississippi state Sen. Derrick Simmons told The Associated Press.
• No Survivors After Blast at Tennessee Explosives Plant
  
  Officials were investigating a blast that leveled an explosives plant in rural Tennessee, as families of the 18 people missing and feared dead waited anxiously Saturday for answers.
• Battle Lines Drawn Over Stone Mountain's Confederate Legacy
  
  The heroic images of three Confederate leaders carved into the granite face of Georgia's Stone Mountain have towered over the countryside outside Atlanta since the 1970s, paying silent homage to the Southern cause in the U.S. Civil War.
• 50-Year Wildlife Protection Law Faces GOP Challenge
  
  Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.'s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.
• Lawyers Seek Dismissal of Charges in UnitedHealthcare CEO Murder
  
  Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a New York federal judge Saturday to dismiss some criminal charges, including the only count for which he could face the death penalty, from a federal indictment brought against him in the December assassination of UnitedHealthcare's chief...
• Rahm Emanuel Praises Trump for Israel-Hamas Peace Deal
  
  Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff in the Obama administration and a former Chicago mayor, credited President Donald Trump on Friday for helping to broker a peace deal between Israel and Iran-backed Hamas terrorists.
• Dick Morris to Newsmax: After Gaza, Trump Should Focus on Regular Americans
  
  Political strategist Dick Morris said on Newsmax that President Donald Trump's recent success in brokering peace in the Middle East should now be followed by a renewed focus on improving life for ordinary Americans.
• N.Y. AG Indictment Shifts Spotlight Back to Cuomo
  
  New York Democrats are standing behind New York Attorney General Letitia James in the wake of her federal indictment. Except for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
• 51 GOP Senators Urge Kennedy, FDA to Take Mifepristone off the Market
  
  Fifty-one Republican senators are pressing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary to take mifepristone, one of the drugs used in medication abortions, off the market.
• EPA Laying Off Workers Amid Shutdown
  
  Workers with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be laid off by the Trump administration amid the government shutdown, according to an email received by employees in the agency's Resource Conservation and Sustainability Division, reports the Hill.
• Rep. Jackson to Newsmax: Trump's Health 'Incredible'
  
  Former White House physician Ronny Jackson said Friday on Newsmax that President Donald Trump remains in exceptional health and possesses the endurance to outwork nearly anyone in politics.
• Americans Struggling to Make Car Payments
  
  In the years since the COVID-19 pandemic, surging sticker prices and shrinking incentives from automakers have led more consumers, especially those with less purchasing power, to buy used cars and take out loans with longer terms.
• USDA Tapping Tariffs to Help Women, Children Amid Shutdown
  
  A food aid program designed to help low-income pregnant women, new mothers, and young children get access to healthy food, nutrition education, and health care referrals will be funded through October, the Department of Agriculture told congressional staff Thursday.
• ICE Arrests Illegal Driving Rig With N.Y. License for 'No Name Given'
  
  Federal agents have arrested an illegal alien caught driving an 18-wheeler in Oklahoma with a New York commercial driver's license issued to "No Name Given Anmol," the Department of Homeland Security said Friday.
• DOJ Closing In on Charges Against Bolton, Reports Say
  
  The Justice Department is preparing criminal charges against John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, according to exclusive reporting from MSNBC.
• DOJ Closing In on Charges Against Bolton, Reports Say
  
  The Justice Department is preparing criminal charges against John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security adviser, according to exclusive reporting from MSNBC. Prosecutors in Maryland are said to be weighing whether to seek a grand jury indictment or move faster by...
• Meuser to Newsmax Dems 'Deliberately Damaging' US in Shutdown Fight
  
  On Newsmax on Friday, Rep. Dan Meuser, R-Pa., accused congressional Democrats of putting politics ahead of Americans' livelihoods during the ongoing government shutdown, saying their actions are "deliberately damaging the United States."
• Hospitals Accused of Lying to Cover Child Trans Care
  
  The Department of Justice is investigating UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh over alleged fraudulent billing practices connected to gender-transitioning medical treatment for minors, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• Govt Worker Unions Ask Judge to Halt Shutdown Layoffs
  
  Unions representing scores of federal workers have asked a judge to intervene and halt the government shutdown-related layoffs that the Trump administration announced Friday.
• Department of Education Will Start Layoffs as Part of Shutdown
  
  The U.S. Department of Education said Friday it would lay employees off as workforce cut notices began to go out on the 10th day of the federal government shutdown.
• Sen. Blackburn: Telecoms Must Explain FBI Spying on Senators
  
  Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sent letters to three major telecom companies to ask why they cooperated with former President Joe Biden's FBI to allegedly track the private communications and phone calls of her and seven Republican colleagues.
• FCC Launches Major Crackdown on Chinese Telecom Gear
  
  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr says his agency has removed millions of listings from leading e-commerce and online retailers of telecommunications equipment made by Chinese companies deemed national security risks.

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