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HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait

December 5, 2025 5:38 PM ET As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps at the federal Department of Health and Human Services. Only one of those portraits is of a transgender person: Adm. Rachel Levine, who served for four years as President Biden's assistant secretary for health. She was the first transgender person ...

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DHS agents target the Vietnamese community in New Orleans

Posted 5:04 PM, Dec 05, 2025 A DHS immigration enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Catahoula Crunch" began earlier this week in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a goal of 5,000 arrests over two months. Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino, who is leading the operation, arrived in the city earlier in the week. CBP has posted videos on social media showing arrests. One video shows agents pulling roofers from a job in Kenner, Louisiana, west of New Orleans. This focus on New Orleans ...

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NEW: Alleged Drug Boat U.S. Bombed Twice Reportedly Wasn't Even Heading to the States

Dec 5th, 2025, 6:40 pm The alleged drug boat hit with two American airstrikes in September was reportedly not bound for the United States. Admiral Frank Bradley, who oversaw the controversial double-tap bombing, told lawmakers on Thursday that the boat was set to meet and transfer drugs to a larger vessel, which the military was unable to locate. This second vessel was heading for the South American country of Suriname, two sources with direct knowledge of Bradley’s remarks told CNN. The ad ...

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GOP North Carolina senator lifts holds on DHS nominees after FEMA funds approved for his state

12/05/25 4:54 PM ET Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) said Friday he will lift his remaining holds on President Trump’s nominees to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the department approved disaster recovery funds for his state. Budd had holds on Sean Plankey, who was nominated to be director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Pedro Allende, who was nominated to be under secretary for Science and Technology. His announcement comes after the Federal Emergency Mana ...

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Education Department workers targeted in layoffs are returning to tackle civil rights backlog

Updated 7:16 PM EST, December 5, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is bringing back dozens of Education Department staffers who were slated to be laid off, saying their help is needed to tackle a mounting backlog of discrimination complaints from students and families. The staffers had been on administrative leave while the department faced lawsuits challenging layoffs in the agency’s Office for Civil Rights, which investigates possible discrimination in the nation’s schools and ...

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JUST IN: Judge Unseals Epstein Grand Jury Documents

Dec 5th, 2025, 2:43 pm A federal judge has ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's trial. Judge Rodney Smith's decision came after Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, signed by President Donald Trump in November. In its motion, the government argued, "The United States seeks to unseal the grand jury materials in this case and publicly release them, as well as lift any preexisting protective orders that would prevent th ...

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Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit what has widely been considered settled law since the 19th Century. By granting the appeal, the court is directly taking on the merits of a controversy that it largely avoided earlier this year, when it sided with Trump on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled ...

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FIFA gives President Donald Trump a peace prize in a departure from its traditional focus on sport

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was awarded the new FIFA peace prize on Friday at the 2026 World Cup draw -- giving the spectacle to set matchups for the quadrennial soccer tournament even more of a Trumpian flair. Trump, who has openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Price, had been heavily favored to win the newly created FIFA prize. He and FIFA president Gianni Infantino are close allies, and Infantino had made clear that he thought Trump should have won the Nobel for his efforts to ...

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Pam Bondi tells law enforcement agencies to investigate antifa groups for 'tax crimes'

Fri 5 Dec 2025 11.02 EST Last modified on Fri 5 Dec 2025 14.32 EST The US attorney general, Pam Bondi, instructed law enforcement officials on Thursday to investigate antifa and other supposed domestic terror groups, and specifically directed them to search for “tax crimes” the groups may have committed, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian. The document signals how the Trump administration and Bondi are ramping up efforts to crack down on leftwing groups. Antifa, short for antifascis ...

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Brian Cole Jr., suspect in D.C. pipe bomb case, ordered detained after first court appearance

December 5, 2025 / 1:49 PM EST Washington — The man suspected of planting pipe bombs outside the Republican National Committee and Democratic National Committee headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021, was ordered detained in his first appearance in federal court. The suspect, 30-year-old Brian Cole Jr., was arrested Thursday in Virginia and appeared at an initial hearing Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He faces two charges related to a pair of explosive devices that were ...

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HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait

2 hrs ago - December 5, 2025 5:38 PM ET As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps a ... (NPR)

DHS agents target the Vietnamese community in New Orleans

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GOP North Carolina senator lifts holds on DHS nominees after FEMA funds approved for his state

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