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Trump's Border Patrol chief accused of regularly soliciting sex workers abroad

Six current and former Border Patrol agents are coming forward to accuse the agency's chief, Michael Banks, of repeatedly soliciting sex workers while overseas, reported the conservative Washington Examiner on Wednesday.

"Banks 'bragged' to colleagues while in his previous management role at Border Patrol about paying for sex with prostitutes while traveling in Colombia and Thailand over the course of a decade," said the report. "Banks’ behavior was said to have been investigated by Customs and Border Protection officials twice, including last year, but the investigation ended abruptly while Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was in office, leading to more questions."

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Kristi Noem's husband breaks silence on leaked fetish photos in cryptic response

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's husband, Bryon Noem, revealed he plans to speak about the leaked photos of his alleged fetish for cross-dressing amid questions over whether he compromised national security, according to reports on Wednesday.

An investigation from The Daily Mail on Tuesday uncovered "hundreds" of messages between Bryon Noem and three women in the fetish scene. Photos obtained by the Mail showed him dressed as a woman with fake breasts. He allegedly sent a secret group of online acquaintances at least $25,000 via Paypal and Cash App.

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Trump 'library' will sit on prime real estate finagled away from minority college for $10

President Donald Trump confirmed his presidential library will be more like a high-rise hotel, and it will be built on a parcel of prime downtown Miami real estate finagled from a college that primarily serves minorities.

The 79-year-old president shared AI-generated video of his planned presidential library Monday on social media, but he told reporters in the Oval Office the following day that the project will closely resemble the self-branded hotels he developed as a private businessman – but he used his political powers to purchase the valuable property for next to nothing, as reported by NPR and WTVJ-TV.

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Secretive US military moves 'tell a lot' about impending Trump address: analyst

At least a dozen U.S. attack aircraft were spotted arriving in England Monday evening, with more "expected" to have arrived Tuesday night, leading journalist and analyst Adam Cochran to suspect a U.S. ground invasion of Iran to be imminent, news of which he predicted may be shared Wednesday night during President Donald Trump’s mysterious address.

“[These aircraft] are used to protect boots on the ground,” Cochran wrote Wednesday in a social media post on X to his nearly 300,000 followers. “It can tell us A LOT about what the military thinks is ahead for Iran – and what Trump may announce tonight.”

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Trump FEMA chief doubles down that God teleported him to Waffle House: 'Haters gonna hate'

In the wake of CNN's bizarre report that President Donald Trump's Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster chief Gregg Phillips has claimed that he was "teleported" to a Waffle House 50 miles away, Phillips doubled down, proclaiming "haters gonna hate" in a post to Truth Social.

The new comments were flagged by Andrew Kaczynski of CNN's KFILE.

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22 states accuse Trump of violating court order on Medicaid-ICE data sharing

A coalition of 22 states told a federal court that the Trump administration appears to have violated a court order that limited the types of health data that could be shared with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation proceedings.

Back in December, a court allowed ICE to pull some basic information from Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program that primarily covers people with low incomes, to help the agency find people who are in the country illegally.

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Freshwater Fish Migrations Collapsing Worldwide

More than 300 species of migratory freshwater fish are in dire need of “urgent coordinated cross-border collaboration” amid a crisis of rapid collapse, according to a report released Tuesday at a key United Nations conservation conference in Brazil.

“Some of the longest, most important migrations of species on Earth are happening beneath the surface of the world’s rivers and many are rapidly collapsing,” the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals’ (CMS) annual “Global Assessment of Migratory Freshwater Fishes” report states.

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Protests over Trump's 'damaging and dangerous' term spark outside US Embassy

An anti-Donald Trump protest has taken place outside the US Embassy in London, England today (April 1).

Protestors from the campaign group Fossil Free London gathered outside the embassy to host a demonstration against the president and his administration. Campaigners on the ground say the protest has been carried out over the Trump admin's actions in Iran and the subsequent impact on crude oil prices.

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Trump's legal nemesis makes major prediction about president's pet Supreme Court case

President Donald Trump's executive order eliminating birthright citizenship is going to go down in flames at the Supreme Court, former ethics czar and impeachment attorney Norm Eisen confidently predicted on MS NOW's "Morning Joe" Wednesday.

"So, Norm, your organization, Democracy Defenders, co-counsel to the ACLU in this case, challenging Donald Trump's use of the executive order here, defending the 14th Amendment," said anchor Willie Geist. "This is not the first time that a case like this around birthright citizenship has been argued before the Supreme Court. What is the case you all will be making today?"

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Trump breaks major oil blockade promise as GOP hawks trip over excuses

President Donald Trump went back on his vow that the U.S. will blockade all money and oil headed to Cuba, with a Russian oil tanker making its way to the communist-controlled island.

But according to The Washington Post, some of the GOP's most staunch anti-Cuba crusaders are tripping over themselves to excuse Trump's empty words.

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Beaming conservative's false claims repeatedly smacked down on CNN: 'Just patently false!'

A conservative commentator met repeated pushback on "CNN This Morning" for justifying President Donald Trump's attempts to take over this year's midterm elections.

The 79-year-old president signed his second election-related executive order in this term directing the Department of Homeland Security to create federal lists of citizens and ordering the U.S. Postal Service to transmit mail ballots to only those voters, and conservative activist Terry Schilling insisted Trump was addressing a real issue and not simply trying to tip the scales in Republicans' favor.

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Trump claims Iran 'just asked' US for ceasefire — and hits them with new 'oblivion' threat

President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that Iranian leadership had “just asked” the United States for a ceasefire in the ongoing U.S. war against Iran, celebrating the news in a statement shared on social media, while also issuing Tehran a grave threat.

“Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors, has just asked the United States of America for a CEASEFIRE!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear. Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!”

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JD Vance's 'weird moment' involving demons leads analyst to say VP's plan is 'faltering'

Vice President JD Vance is making an effort to win over the Christian right but appears to be failing at his task, a political analyst has claimed.

Vance appears set on winning over the Christian conservatives across the country and is rolling out stories of demon belief, but his plan may fall well short of expectations, according to Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte. "Even for JD Vance, it was a weird moment," Marcotte wrote of his recent Benny Johnson podcast appearance.

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