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Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials saySep 22, 2025 7:58 am - The Trump administration is expected to unveil new efforts on Monday exploring how one medication may be linked to autism and another one can treat it, according to four people with knowledge of the plans who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the announcement was not yet public.
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Trump officials shut down bribery probe of border czar Tom HomanSep 21, 2025 4:23 pm - The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, was caught on tape accepting a bag filled with $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents in Texas in September 2024, w...
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Trump demands Bondi prosecute political foes in Truth Social postsSep 20, 2025 10:56 pm - President Donald Trump demanded that Attorney General Pam Bondi move swiftly to prosecute several political opponents in a series of extraordinary social media posts Saturday, a breakdown of traditional fire walls that have existed between the White House and Justice Department on prosecutorial discretion.
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MLB’s plan to take over local TV rights is a huge deal. Here’s why.Sep 20, 2025 9:55 pm - Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has made clear for years, with increasing specificity in recent months, that he wants to pull broadcast rights from all 30 teams back under MLB control.
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National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internmentSep 20, 2025 9:49 pm - The National Park Service has removed signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that make reference to climate change amid the Trump administration’s wider effort to remove information that it says undermines “the remarkable achievements of the United States.” A sign has also been removed from at least one additional park that referred to slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans.
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Trump’s media enforcer is relishing his Jimmy Kimmel momentSep 20, 2025 3:16 pm - Naming Brendan Carr to chair the Federal Communications Commission in November, President-elect Donald Trump heralded him as a “warrior for free speech.”Now, after spearheading the Trump administration’s successful push for ABC to take comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air, Carr has become a gleeful avatar of what critics say is a sweeping government crackdown on speech — and his backers see as an overdue reckoning with an instinctively liberal broadcast industry.
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Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized materialSep 19, 2025 8:44 pm - The Trump administration unveiled a new crackdown Friday on journalists at the Pentagon, saying it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey.
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Judge strikes down Trump’s $15 billion suit against the New York TimesSep 19, 2025 7:51 pm - A federal judge in Tampa struck down President Donald Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, saying that the 85-page complaint was “decidedly improper and impermissible” under the rules governing civil proceedings in federal court.
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Israel killed 31 journalists in Yemen strike, press freedom group saysSep 19, 2025 4:51 pm - Thirty-one journalists and media workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a report released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists.The attack was the deadliest against journalists since the Magindanao massacre in the Philippines 16 years ago and the second-deadliest the New York-based press freedom group has ever recorded.
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More employers fire workers over Kirk posts as pressure from right mountsSep 19, 2025 10:50 am - The wave of companies and other institutions firing or suspending employees over what they’ve said in reaction to the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk has expanded in recent days, as some of his supporters in and outside the government amp up a push against speech they say crosses lines.