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President Donald Trump has largely hobbled the U.S. refugee resettlement program since retaking office last month — but he gave one group of people special consideration for resettlement.

On Friday, Trump signed an executive order condemning South Africa's new land expropriation law, which was designed to address the ongoing harms wrought on the country by the racist apartheid regime. The law, noted The Associated Press, "allows the government to take land in specific instances where it is not being used, or where it would be in the public interest if it is redistributed."

WASHINGTON — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Friday released the text of the budget resolution that will lay the groundwork for Republicans in Congress to overhaul border security, boost defense funding and address energy extraction — if the two chambers can broker a deal.

The South Carolina Republican announced earlier this week he would move ahead with the first steps in the Senate amid an ongoing stalemate in the House GOP over both process and policy.

A letter written by a top federal prosecutor to Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency promising to investigate in blistering terms individuals who he’s referred for prosecution doesn't pass the smell test for CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams.

The analysis came Friday after a letter written by Edward Martin, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, emerged and came under a heavy microscope by Williams, a former federal prosecutor himself.

President Donald Trump announced through his Truth Social platform on Friday that he is revoking the security clearance for former President Joe Biden.

"There is no need for Joe Biden to continue receiving access to classified information. Therefore, we are immediately revoking Joe Biden’s Security Clearances, and stopping his daily Intelligence Briefings," said Trump. "He set this precedent in 2021, when he instructed the Intelligence Community (IC) to stop the 45th President of the United States (ME!) from accessing details on National Security, a courtesy provided to former Presidents."

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But Dearborn voters say their only viable option in 2024 was to punish Democrats, leveraging their influence as a minority community on their core issue.

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Torres was picked up at sea by the US Coast Guard while fleeing Cuba in mid-2022 and held for seven months at Guantanamo Bay before being transferred to the United States, where she was eventually granted asylum.

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The three-times-married billionaire signed an executive order on Friday to open a "Faith Office" at the White House, led by the televangelist Paula White, Trump's so-called spiritual advisor.

President Donald Trump just had another one of his executive actions held up in the federal judiciary: This time, by one of his own appointed judges.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols — a member of the conservative Federalist Society who Trump appointed to the bench in 2019 — announced that he was imposing a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration's proposed firing of roughly 2,200 employees with the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID. Politico legal correspondent Kyle Cheney tweeted that Nichols may also require that Secretary of State Marco Rubio (who is USAID's acting director) reinstate approximately 500 USAID employees who have already been placed on leave.

Democratic hopes of retaking the House in 2026 appeared to have started in Silicon Valley, where House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) met with more than 150 tech donors in an attempt to make inroads into the once-solidly blue voting bloc, according to media reports.

He has his work cut out for him. The meet-and-great in affluent Los Altos Hill last week came at a shaky moment with the tech world – and the money they control – taking a rightward swing as President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

President Donald Trump has moved on from joking about acquiring Canada as a U.S. state to thinking it's a good idea, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence Beth Sanner told CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday.

Trump has repeatedly made this suggestion as a solution to the trade war he started with Canada, imposing massive tariffs on their goods before agreeing at the last minute to a one-month delay while Canada moves forward with a pre-existing plan to secure its border with the United States. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau caused a stir north of the border this week when he was caught on hot mic expressing his concern that Trump's interest in acquiring his country was "a real thing."

President Donald Trump is MAGAfying the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

In a post to his Truth Social app, Trump continued his blitz on the nation's capital by aiming at overhauling the Kennedy Center, a memorial to President John F. Kennedy that puts on more than 2,000 performing arts shows and events each year.

The fear of President Donald Trump’s unchecked executive powers over the next four years drove a Michigan lawmaker to take matters into her own hands and undergo a surgical procedure to become voluntarily sterile, according to media reports.

Michigan Democratic State Rep. Laurie Pohutsky revealed her drastic decision publicly Wednesday as she joined hundreds of protestors at the state Capitol – one of dozens of demonstrations held nationwide in opposition to Trump’s second administration.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) raised an uproar on the X platform on Friday after the newly Trump-dominated Federal Communications Commission issued an investigative threat against the broadcasting license of San Francisco-based local news station KCBS for reporting on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in San Jose.

"This is authoritarian s---. Trump is opening up an investigation (boilerplate government harassment) of a TV station simply because it was covering ICE deportations," posted Murphy. "When the regime decides what is news and what isn’t, you’re not in a democracy anymore."