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Trump executive order leads to $100 energy bill hike for hundreds in Alabama

(Popular Info) Donald Trump promised that, as president, he would drastically lower Americans' energy bills. But hundreds of Alabama residents are receiving a $100 surcharge on their energy bills as a direct result of Trump's actions in the White House. The surcharge occurred because one of Trump's executive orders froze a grant that assists low-income residents with their energy bills. In an email, an Alabama official confirmed that the letter from Huntsville Utilities was genuine and the $100 increase was the direct result of Trump's EO.

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What Musk and Trump are doing is worse than Project 2025

(Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump’s early actions in office have in many cases expanded upon proposals from Project 2025's conservative policy blueprint that the Republican tried to distance himself from on the campaign trail, a Reuters review found. From actions halting U.S. aid abroad to fortifying the southern border and restrictions on transgender athletes, Reuters identified more than a dozen Trump executive orders or other policy moves that exceed in ambition or scope what Project 2025’s 900-page “Mandate for Leadership” book advocated in a series of detailed policy proposals.

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Bannon Warns Trump and Musk: There's 'A Lot of MAGAs on Medicaid' and They 'Can't Take a Meat Axe To It'

(Mediaite) Steve Bannon offered a warning to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on Thursday, saying Medicaid is a “complicated” program to cut. Trump tapped Musk to lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” a roving group that has gone from department to department ostensibly to cut costs by laying off personnel and freezing money already been appropriated by Congress. The moves have prompted a wave of lawsuits and a series of rebukes from judges.

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Eric Adams just became the poster child for Pam Bondi's new corruption stance

(MSNBC) It has rarely hurt a politician’s fortunes to insist that they will clean up their opponent’s rampant abuse of power. Claims of waste, fraud and corruption are part and parcel with American politics, dating back to the earliest days of the republic. But while the second Trump administration is saying many of the right words, its first month makes clear that far from combating bribery and other forms of corruption, it has moved to ignore, underplay, or even embrace a blossoming culture of kickbacks.

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Zelensky says no peace deal without Ukraine involvement

(BBC) Ukraine will not agree to any peace deal proposed by the US and Russia without its involvement, President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned, after Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin pledged to begin talks to end the war. "We cannot accept it, as an independent country," Zelensky said.

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Musk will face consequences for interfering in German election, says front-runner Merz

(Politico) Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk should be prepared to face consequences for meddling in the German election campaign if he takes office. “What happened in this election campaign cannot go unchallenged,” Merz, the front-runner from the center-right conservative alliance, told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. “It can be a political response. It can be a legal response. I want to analyze this calmly after this election campaign.”

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GOP Sen. Wicker blasts Hegseth's "rookie error."

(Politico) "U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a “rookie mistake” when he said a return to Ukraine’s pre-war borders was “unrealistic,” Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker said Friday. Hegseth on Thursday pulled back some of the comments he made about Ukraine a day earlier, where he said that NATO membership for Kyiv was off the table and that the country could not return to its internationally recognized borders.

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Alaska US Senators Introduce Bill That Would Again Designate North America's Tallest Peak as Denali

(US News & World Report) Alaska's Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali — weeks after President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for the name to revert to Mount McKinley. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, in a statement Thursday, said that in Alaska, the peak is Denali.

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No Tubman, No Rainbows: Defense Schools Prepared for Hegseth's Wife

(New York Times) Harriet Tubman posters, origami paper cranes and rainbows have been disappearing from the halls of the American schools at NATO headquarters in Belgium, a response to the Trump administration’s rollbacks of diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Teachers were worried that they would be seen as signs of Black, Japanese and gay culture — and thus run afoul of the new rules from Washington.

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U.S.-Russia Talks are 'obsolete' after Chernobyl Drone Strike -- Kallas

21 min ago - MUNICH — The European Union’s top diplomat said that any talks between the United States and Russia were now “obsolete” following a drone strike at Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant that Kyiv blamed on Moscow. “It ... (Moscow Times)

Judge temporarily halts mass firings at CFPB, preserves agency data

21 min ago - 02/14/2025 05:52 PM EST A federal judge Friday temporarily stopped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from continuing mass firings of employees, throwing up an initial roadblock to President Donald Trump’s fast-moving efforts to dismantle ... (Politico)

UNIFIL vehicle torched as Hezbollah supporters block airport road anew

47 min ago - A vehicle emblazoned with the logo of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Lebanon was torched late Friday as supporters of Hezbollah again blocked the road to Beirut airport. The charred vehicle lay abandoned by the roadside as Lebanese troops deployed in ... (Naharnet Newsdesk)

Bondi orders federal inmate transferred to Oklahoma for execution

47 min ago - Associated Press Bondi orders federal inmate transferred to Oklahoma for execution SEAN MURPHY Fri, February 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM EST 2 min read OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump's newly installed attorney general, Pam Bondi, has ordere ... (Associated Press)

'Unitary executive' theory may reach Supreme Court as Trump wields sweeping power

48 min ago - February 14, 2025 6:16 AM EST Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Donald Trump's broad assertions of power appear to be advancing an aggressive version of a legal doctrine called the "unitary executive" theory that envisions vast exec ... (Reuters)

JD Vance Says U.S. Troops Fighting Russia In Ukraine Is 'On The Table' In Stunning Reversal

1 hr ago - Feb 14th, 2025, 11:11 am Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal on Thursday that the U.S. sending troops to fight Russia in Ukraine remained on “the table” – the latest stunning statement from inside the Trump administra ... (MEDIAite)

Former CFPB official warns 12 years of critical records at risk

1 hr ago - Emily Peck The former chief technologist at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warns that twelve years of critical records could be "irretrievably lost" in the DOGE purge of the agency, per an affidavit filed in federal court Friday. Why it mat ... (Axios)

Judge extends temporary block against Elon Musk's access to Treasury Department records

1 hr ago - WASHINGTON − A federal judge in New York on Friday extended the temporary block against Elon Musk, President Donald Trump’s appointee to look for government waste, from gaining access to confidential government information. New York Attorn ... (USA Today)

Seventh prosecutor in Eric Adams case resigns and calls out Trump's former lawyer in scathing letter

1 hr ago - A federal prosecutor assigned to the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams resigned Friday in a blistering letter that accused top leaders at the Justice Department of looking for a “fool” to dismiss the criminal charges. T ... (cnn)

Historic Black church takes on Proud Boys and wins: 'We want to see more victories'

1 hr ago - Published 6:05 a.m. ET Feb. 14, 2025 WASHINGTON ‒ A historic Black church's recent court victory against the Proud Boys could spur others to also challenge far-right extremist groups, according to several faith leaders, civil rights activists a ... (USA Today)

Vance Tells Europeans to Stop Shunning Parties Deemed Extreme

2 hrs ago - Vance Tells Europeans to Stop Shunning Parties Deemed Extreme His comments, a week before Germany's elections, seemed to specifically target efforts to sideline the hard-right Alternative for Germany. By Jim Tankersley, Steven Erlanger and David E. S ... (New York Times)

Musk-linked group offered $5m for proof of voter fraud - and came up with nothing

2 hrs ago - Fri 14 Feb 2025 10.00 EST In May 2024, a flashy ad went viral on social media warning that “across the country, there are real cases of fraud and abuses of the [election] system that have eroded our trust”. The ad pledged that “whistle ... (The Guardian)

Mass layoffs now paused at US nuclear weapons agency

2 hrs ago - The Department of Energy has paused the firings of hundreds of employees who work for a key agency maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, multiple sources tell ABC News. Managers with the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are f ... (ABC)

Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines

2 hrs ago - Updated 2:39 PM EST, February 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed Friday by President Donald Trump ... (AP)

Forest Service fires 3,400 people after 'deferred resignation' deadline passes

3 hrs ago - Agriculture Forest Service fires 3,400 people after 'deferred resignation' deadline passes The cuts amount to about a 10 percent reduction in the agency's workforce. https://static.politico.com/Fd7/38%2F2d8f779346e1a17606677fce525c/https-delivery-get ... (Politico)

Ben & Jerry's says parent Unilever mandating silence on Trump

3 hrs ago - February 14, 2025 10:55 AM EST Updated 4 hours ago NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Ben & Jerry's accused its parent Unilever (ULVR.L) of demanding its silence toward U.S. President Donald Trump, as it prepares to spin off the ice cream brand later t ... (Reuters)

Trump, Elon Musk Invited to SNL 50 Anniversary Special: Report

3 hrs ago - Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special on Sunday is already considered one of the hardest tickets to get, given tiny capacity of Studio 8H (which typically holds about 250 guests) and the sheer volume of former cast members, celebrities, ... (Consequence)

Trump Admin Adds Note Rejecting 'Gender Ideology' on Sites Court Ordered Them to Restore

3 hrs ago - FDA and HHS sites now note that “The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children.” Emanuel Maiberg, Jason Koebler · Feb 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM After being forced by a court order to restore ... (404 Media)

The White House bans the AP indefinitely over the use of 'Gulf of Mexico'

3 hrs ago - The Trump White House said Friday that The Associated Press is banned from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely. -snip- President Donald Trump said last month that the US government would rename the body of water the “Gulf of America.& ... (CNN)

Elon Musk's DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

3 hrs ago - WASHINGTON — Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s ... (HuffPost)

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