Noam Laden

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Veterans Protest VA Cuts In Indianapolis Indiana, USA – 14 Mar 2025(Washington, D.C.) — Transgender members of the military face a tough deadline today. Active-duty troops must leave voluntarily or risk being discharged under the Trump administration’s reinstated ban. Reserve members have until Saturday. The policy was upheld by the Supreme Court. The Department of Defense has been moving quickly to remove about a thousand transgender service members from the U.S. military.

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Luigi Mangione court appearance(New York, NY) — New York prosecutors have released Luigi Mangione’s manifesto, that they say shows his motive for killing UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. The handwritten documents, that were recovered following Mangione’s arrest in Pennsylvania last December, say the suspect had originally thought about planning a bombing, but decided against it, worried that innocent bystanders would be hurt.

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(Newark, NJ) — An air traffic controller at Newark Airport says he would not fly out of airport right now with all the problems that have plagued Newark over the last few months. Jonathan Stewart tells CBS News that he left his job in the air traffic control tower at Newark after the recent equipment failures. He says the jobs had just become too stressful with the radar outages and the amount of overtime he was forced to work.

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DC: Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre Holds Final White House Press Briefing of the Biden Administration(New York, NY) — One of former President Biden’s press secretaries is parting ways with the Democratic Party in order to become an independent. Karine Jean-Pierre’s decision was confirmed in a press release for an upcoming book about her time working in the White House. “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines” is set to be released this fall.

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(Washington, DC) — President Trump is about to ban travelers from 12 countries, citing big security risks. Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday, that goes into effect on Monday, and will fully restrict and limit the entry of nationals from a dozen countries. The list includes Afghanistan, Iran, Haiti, Somalia and Sudan. People from seven other countries will have partial restrictions, including Cuba and Venezuela.