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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
The fate of President Donald Trump‘s tariffs looks likely to end up before the Supreme Court after a dramatic 24 hours of rulings and appeals in multiple courts. On Wednesday evening, the U.S. Court for International Trade ruled Trump‘s sweeping tariffs policy was unconstitutional, but less than a day later the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit temporarily reinstated the tariffs.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
The White House is seeking to more than triple the number of daily arrests made by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the Trump administration ups its efforts to deport illegal immigrants. The Department of Homeland Security’s overarching goal is to deport at least 1 million illegal immigrants by the end of President Donald Trump’s first year back in office. That number is nearly quadruple the migrants deported in fiscal 2024 during the Biden administration’s final year.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s latest budget proposal includes a provision to expand the ability of local police to assist with deportations, marking her latest shift away from the district’s sanctuary city policies. Inserted into Washington, D.C.’s 2026 budget proposal, released Tuesday, is a request to repeal a banning police from assisting federal immigration authorities in carrying out deportations.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
EXCLUSIVE — Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) on Thursday introduced legislation that seeks to increase accountability for vaccine manufacturers in the wake of allegations that such companies deliberately misled the public about the risks of COVID-19 vaccines. Green reintroduced the Vaccines In Trial And Liability Act, which would strip liability protections from any company found to have lied about vaccine trial data.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
The Department of Health and Human Services cut over $750 million in funding for Moderna to develop an mRNA bird flu vaccine for humans. The Biden administration awarded the vaccine manufacturer a $590 million grant in January from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. The funding followed another $176 million award for an mRNA-based H5N1 avian influenza vaccine that HHS granted Moderna in July 2024.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Wall Street began the stock trading day trending upwards hours after a federal trade court blocked President Donald Trump’s sweeping “Liberation Day” tariffs, but quickly leveled out. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 saw slight gains of less than 100 points Thursday morning, while the Nasdaq Composite increased by over 190 points early in the trading day. Less than an hour after opening, the Dow dropped back down, and the other gains also diminished.
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1 week ago | 
denvergazette.com | Jack Birle |Emily Hallas
The fate of President Donald Trump's tariffs looks likely to end up before the Supreme Court after a dramatic 24 hours of rulings and appeals in multiple courts. On Wednesday evening, the U.S. Court for International Trade ruled Trump's sweeping tariffs policy was unconstitutional, but less than a day later the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit temporarily reinstated the tariffs.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
The Department of Labor is cutting roughly $400 million in grants meant to provide states with funding to modernize their unemployment insurance systems. The department confirmed the cuts in a statement to the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. A spokesperson said hundreds of millions in federal funding sent to support the unemployment benefits system had been abused and spent on “bureaucratic and wasteful” equity projects.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Missouri’s Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday effectively banning most abortions in the state, resulting in Planned Parenthood canceling abortion appointments. Chief Justice Mary R. Russell handed down a decision vacating two lower court rulings from Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang that had temporarily restored access to abortion services.
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1 week ago | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Emily Hallas
Elon Musk, the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency, expressed irritation that DOGE took on the role of “whipping boy,” suggesting that it unfairly took the brunt of the blame for every controversial change made under the Trump administration. For months, Musk took a verbal beating from Democrats over his work at DOGE, the bureaucracy-slashing task force he spearheaded that scrutinized government agencies for waste and fraud on behalf of President Donald Trump.
