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In defiance of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Republican-led Florida Legislature passed a bill late Tuesday night anointing Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson as the state’s chief immigration officer and zapping millions of dollars from the governor’s office for immigration enforcement.

The bill cleared the chambers by a 21-16 vote in the Senate and 82-30 in the House after Senate President Ben Albritton and House Speaker Daniel Perez agreed to changes worked out after conversations with the Trump administration designed to make the bill, dubbed the Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy Act (or TRUMP Act), tougher and potentially more appealing to DeSantis.

A handful of Senate Republicans from rural Georgia have signed onto a new bipartisan attempt to fully expand Medicaid through a conservative-friendly option that gained traction last year after a decade of firm GOP resistance.

Four state senators hailing from south Georgia lent their names to a new Senate bill filed Tuesday that would expand health care coverage through a program that uses federal funding to purchase private insurance for individuals on the marketplace instead of adding more people to the state-run Medicaid program.

Wisconsin Democrats announced legislation Tuesday that would block state and local government officials from cooperating with federal deportation efforts — getting ahead of an expected bill from Republican lawmakers this week that would instruct the opposite.

The legislation comes as President Donald Trump has launched highly publicized immigration raids across the country yielding close to 1,000 arrests. Last week, the new administration threw out guidelines limiting enforcement in or near “sensitive” areas, including places of worship, schools, health care facilities, relief centers and social services centers.

Growing up in Cameron, Candis Yazzie said that conversations surrounding uranium have always been evident within her community on the western edge of the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon.

She remembers first learning about the dangers of uranium from the superhero characters “Gamma Goat” and “Rad Rabbit” when her grade school teachers handed out comic books published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Navajo Environmental Protection Agency as educational material.

NEW ORLEANS – Evidence unveiled Tuesday in federal court showed St. John the Baptist Parish President Jaclyn Hotard’s family stood to make money from a land deal she helped facilitate through rezoning efforts.

Hotard testified that she was unaware of the connection at the time.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt received glowing coverage from the New York Times for her press briefing debut despite delivering a performance that other observers have described as an "embarrassment."

In a report about Leavitt's first briefing, the Times described her as "steely and unflinching" despite the fact that she made a completely false claim about the Biden administration spending tens of millions of dollars to send condoms to Gaza.

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" condemned president Donald Trump's sweeping and likely unconstitutional pause on federal government funding, and said it hurt many of his own voters.

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration's halt on congressionally approved grants and loan for many programs, and the Rev. Al Sharpton said the budget freeze would cut through his MAGA base of support.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is already making life difficult for House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Writing on X, Greene claimed that Republicans had accomplished practically nothing during their retreat at President Donald Trump's resort in Doral, Florida.

A Democratic lawmaker knocked down claims by one of Donald Trump's top advisers justifying a sweeping halt to federal government funding.

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller told CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday night that "the career federal service in this country is far left, left-wing," claiming that 98 percent of USAID employees had made donations to Kamala Harris or other "left-wing" candidates," and Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-PA) told the same network the following morning that he was simply wrong.

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Donald Trump's mass deportations and threats against federal disaster relief could decimate efforts to rebuild after wildfires and floods in multiple states, including some that backed the newly inaugurated president.

Thousands and thousands of homes have been destroyed or damaged across the U.S. by climate-fueled disasters in California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas, and in each state recovery depends on restoration or resilience workers who travel from place to place cleaning up and rebuilding in hazardous conditions, reported The Guardian.

The Democrats have "rope-a-doped" President Donald Trump, according to Trump's longtime acquaintance Rev. Al Sharpton.

Sharpton appeared on MSNBC on Wednesday, and brought up his past relationship with Muhammad Ali.

Most of Donald Trump's economic policies – such as tariffs, additional fiscal stimulus and mass deportations – are expected to add to inflation, according to a new analysis.

The inflation rate has declined rapidly since peaking at 9.1 percent in the summer of 2022 but remains above the Federal Reserve’s target at 2.9 percent, and comments from the central bank's December policy meeting indicate there will probably be more inflation, according to economist and market strategist Rebecca Patterson in a column for the New York Times.