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FBI Director Kash Patel is expanding the administration's probe into how security vulnerabilities of President Donald Trump's Qatar-gifted Air Force One jet leaked to The New York Times — and Secret Service agents are now in the crosshairs.

According to The Times, the FBI "has sought to speak with several people who traveled aboard the Qatari-gifted plane that President Trump flew on to Turkey last week, including asking some to turn over their mobile phones," and among those being grilled are the Secret Service agents who flew with the president to the summit.

A conservative Haitian pastor who helped marshal support for President Donald Trump spoke out on Wednesday, saying many people in the community are feeling betrayed by an administration that is trying to strip some of their right to live in the U.S., according to a new report.

Rev. Daniel Ulysse, who leads the Haitian American Republican Caucus, spoke with Mother Jones about what life has been like for members of his group during the second Trump administration. Last year, the administration abruptly ended Temporary Protected Status for more than 300,000 Haitians, a move that the Supreme Court ruled was legal last week, even though it would force the people to return to a war-torn country.

A new monkey wrench was thrown in House GOP leadership's plan to pass new floor rules that will allow the chamber to resume conducting business — this time, from far-right pro-Trump Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL).

According to NOTUS, Fine, who first came to Congress in a special election last year, "has been telling colleagues he wants Trump to get rid of" longtime outside adviser Alex Bruesewitz. "But recently Fine has ramped up this effort."

Vice President JD Vance walked away from The Hill empty-handed on Wednesday after he tried to win over Republicans who are wary of the $95 billion reconciliation package that President Donald Trump is trying to push through Congress before the midterms, according to a new report.

The reconciliation package includes roughly $67 billion for defense, $20 billion to support America's agriculture industry, and some elements of Trump's SAVE Act, which would reshape how U.S. elections are conducted, Axios reported. During a pitch meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Vance "did little to ease concerns" shared by House Republicans about how the bill will play with their base as the midterms approach, the outlet reported.

President Donald Trump's officials in the FBI have curbed another local law enforcement agency's attempt to investigate a killing at the hands of immigration agents, a pattern that "should alarm every American," according to one analyst.

The FBI has refused to share evidence with Houston investigators related to the killing of 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, which is complicating the homicide investigation that local law enforcement has opened, according to Houston Mayor John Whitmire. Mary Trump, the president's niece and a psychologist, noted in a new Substack essay that the move is the latest in a long series of actions aimed at obscuring investigations into wrongdoing by federal agents.

The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to crack down on political dissent, Ken Klippenstein reported on his Substack — using a three-letter acronym.

The whole situation, he said, recalls how the George W. Bush administration constantly raised the boogeyman of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and this acronym came to be a scare word disparaging anyone who would dare question the Iraq war — even though ultimately no active weapons of mass destruction program existed in Iraq at the time of the 2003 invasion.