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Appeals court says requirement that parents be ‘present’ during child interrogations does not mean ‘attentive’
Colorado’s second-highest court ruled on Thursday that the requirement for parents to be present when police interrogate their child in custody means only that the parent must be “physically present,” not “mentally present” as well. Under the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, law enforcement is required to inform a suspect of their rights…
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Wisconsin Supreme Court justice won’t recuse herself in union case after conflict of interest accusations
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz announced she would not recuse herself from a future case regarding union laws in the state despite pressure from the GOP for her to do so. Late last year, a Dane County judge overturned Act 10, a 13-year-old Wisconsin law that sharply curtailed the bargaining rights of most public…
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Roughly 75,000 federal employees take Trump resignation offer
Some 75,000 federal employees accepted the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” deferred resignation offer, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The figure represents less than 4% of the more than 2 million federal workers currently employed and is less than the 5% to 10% estimate officials were hoping to hit through…
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Denver school district sues to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants
Denver Public Schools filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to prevent federal agents from arresting unauthorized immigrants at schools. If approved, the order filed in U.S. District Court on Wednesday would pause implementation while the case proceeds through the legal system. Bill Good, a Denver Public Schools spokesperson, said that he…
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Egypt to present ‘comprehensive vision’ for long-term Gaza plan
Egypt will produce a “comprehensive vision” for how to reconstruct Gaza that does not include the removal of Palestinians from the enclave, the foreign ministry announced. Leaders from Egypt and Jordan have rejected President Donald Trump’s idea that both countries take in hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians while the United States leads a reconstruction…
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Lawmakers pursue oversight of troubled Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s forensic lab
After more than a week of an emotional rollercoaster involving the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the state House approved a revision to unit’s 2024-25 budget that will allow the agency to roll over $3 million into the next fiscal year. The money will fund a backlog of test kits tied to more than 1,400 sexual…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Americans are ‘cheering’ DOGE on
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) slammed Democratic lawmakers for fighting the Department of Government Efficiency‘s accomplishment of “the very issue that most Americans really care about.” Greene is the chairwoman of the DOGE subcommittee, which had its first hearing Wednesday. Throughout the hearing, ranking member Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) and Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Greg…
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House passes bill to curb high-speed border chases after agent killed on duty
The House voted to crack down on high-speed chases near the southern border, marking the latest immigration-focused bill to be prioritized in the new GOP majority. The Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act, named after a Border Patrol officer who died in the line of duty, passed the House in a 264-155 vote on Thursday.…
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Karoline Leavitt promises to reveal more ‘receipts’ on behalf of DOGE
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt suggested she would pull “receipts” from the Department of Government Efficiency‘s findings at every briefing if necessary. Leavitt appeared on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime hours after the White House press briefing Wednesday, during which she pulled government contracts to back up DOGE’s claims. After holding up handfuls of…
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WATCH LIVE: Linda McMahon testifies before Senate ahead of education secretary confirmation vote
Linda McMahon is testifying before the Senate at 10 a.m., ahead of her confirmation vote to be secretary of education. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); McMahon served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration in President Donald Trump‘s first administration. Trump has vowed to eliminate the Department…