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Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) identified a clear pattern in a key tranche of files that appear to be missing from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files — and what they might reveal about a large-scale effort by the Justice Department to shield President Donald Trump.

These files, per earlier reports, pertain to an unnamed woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by both Epstein and Trump in the 1980s, when she was a minor.

Police confirmed on Wednesday that a nearly blind Burmese refugee dumped at a Tim Hortons in Buffalo, New York, by Border Patrol agents last week has been found dead, unable to find his way back home through miles of freezing weather.

The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Rohingya who fled persecution in his home country, has sparked fury on social media, with experts horrified at the cruelty of his treatment — and others suggesting federal agents should face homicide charges over the incident.

A whistleblower revealed a "terrifying" warning about President Donald Trump's new immigration force recruits during an interview on CNN.

Ryan Schwank, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement trainer, told CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday that ICE's decision to reduce its training standards for new recruits is already having disastrous impacts. He warned that those impacts will likely get worse as new recruits are required to pass fewer training courses than their veteran peers.

An FBI official who served on a working group tasked with carrying out President Donald Trump's retribution campaign is calling it quits, according to a report.

Marshall Yates, the FBI's congressional affairs director, is expected to step down from the FBI on Friday, CBS News reported, citing sources. The former Capitol Hill operative cited a desire to spend more time with family.

A blind refugee in Buffalo was found dead after Border Patrol agents dumped him across town from his house with no means of getting back, according to a report.

According to the nonpartisan Investigative Post, "Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead. City Hall spokesperson Ian Ott said Shah Alam, 56, was found by B District officers after they responded to a call for a dead body on the first block of Perry Street shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will transfer a large office building to the General Services Administration in a step toward shrinking the department’s footprint in and around Washington, D.C., Secretary Brooke Rollins said Wednesday.

More than 70% of offices at the USDA’s South Building, in Washington, sit empty on any given day, while deferred maintenance costs have piled up past $1 billion, Rollins said at a press conference in front of the building.

A Democrat spoke out on Wednesday after her guest was "forcibly removed" from President Donald Trump's State of the Union address yesterday.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) invited Aliya Rahman, a disabled woman who was seriously injured by Trump's immigration agents in January, to attend Trump's SOTU on Tuesday. At one point, Rahman was removed from the speech while other attendees in the gallery stood quietly, Omar posted on X.

The House Republican caucus faces a new fight as Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) prepares to force a vote to expose all reports of alleged sexual misconduct by sitting members of Congress.

According to NBC News, "The South Carolina congresswoman’s resolution would require the House Ethics Committee to release all sexual misconduct or harassment reports involving members or their staffers. She introduced it after numerous outlets, including NBC News, revealed that GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, sent sexually explicit text messages to a former aide with whom he allegedly had an affair. The aide later died by suicide and an attorney for her husband confirmed the authenticity of the texts to NBC News."

Observers blasted Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday after he announced the Trump administration's first moves in its new "war on fraud."

Vance said on Wednesday that the Trump administration is pausing certain Medicaid payments to Minnesota in response to allegations of fraud in the state's social services programs. Vance said the move was to ensure the state "takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."

The images of immigration enforcement officials dragging Aliya Rahman from her car when she was trying to get to a doctor’s appointment outraged many Americans, and now she’s been arrested, she says, for standing in the House gallery during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday.

“Would you like to know why I was told that I was removed and arrested? The sergeant of arms told me it was because I was standing up,” Rahman told Amy Goodman on Wednesday on the radio program “Democracy Now.”

A Democratic mayor squared off against a MAGA pundit on Wednesday over her "racist' defense of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.

Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and Natalie Winters, co-host of Steve Bannon's podcast, "The War Room," got into a heated shouting match on the latest episode of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" after Winters claimed that Democrats support illegal immigration because they want to lower wages for American workers. She also claimed that immigrants are "destroying" American culture.

The Texas Education Agency received initial approval Wednesday to correct roughly 4,200 errors in its elementary school curriculum.

Voting 8-6, the State Board of Education preliminarily approved the changes to Bluebonnet Learning after delaying a vote in January. Members had said they needed more time to review copyright concerns, formatting errors and typos. The final vote is expected Wednesday or Thursday.