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President Donald Trump is overhauling the federal government in ways big and small, including a refresh of his desk at the White House. Trump has ordered work done on the Resolute Desk, which has been used by presidents beginning with Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880. ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, IT’S TRUMP FILING THE LAWSUITS (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…

President Donald Trump threw his support behind the idea of a “DOGE dividend,” a check that could be mailed out to 80 million households next summer under X CEO Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative. “There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens, and 20% goes to…

Hamas handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including the two youngest. The remains of the elderly Oded Lifschitz and Yarden Bibas and her two children, Airel Bibas and Kfir Bibas, who were 4 years old and 8 months old at the time of their abduction, were handed over in black coffins. The two…

Four NASA senior officials working on the agency’s moon program, Artemis, will retire this week. These officials were part of the team that succeeded in launching Artemis I as “the first flight test of the integrated Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket,” according to NASA’s website. The unmanned rocket flew 40,000 miles beyond the…

President Donald Trump is thinking of adding local government to his list of responsibilities. Returning to Washington, D.C., from Florida late Wednesday, he mused that the federal government should “take over” the district. “I think that we should govern the District of Columbia,” Trump told reporters Wednesday. “I think that we should run it strong,…

(The Center Square) – The Colorado House Education Committee passed a bipartisan bill Wednesday requiring all public schools to have a policy on cellphones. House Bill 1135 requires that schools decide on a specific policy on student use of a “communication device,” but it does not specify what that policy should be. The committee voted nearly unanimously,…

(The Center Square) – The battle within the Arizona government raged on this week as Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican proposal for faster election results, citing increased restrictions on voters. Arizona Republicans, who have majorities in both the state Senate and House, have called the legislation, House Bill 2703, one of their most important…

(The Center Square) – California gas prices have risen “an average of $0.38 per gallon since the event and may increase further” since a Feb. 1 fire shut down the Martinez refinery that produces 10% of the state’s gasoline capacity, according to a new letter from the state’s Division of Petroleum Market Oversight.  The letter…

(The Center Square) – Nonprofit status of the billion-dollar NCAA could be next in the crosshairs, says a North Carolina congressman. The organization generating nearly $1.3 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2023, anchored by March Madness, has been scorched for its policies allowing men to compete in women’s athletics, use women’s locker rooms, and…

(The Center Square) – Chicago’s city council has tabled consideration of an $830 million bond issue favored by the mayor. Mayor Brandon Johnson wanted the bond money for infrastructure projects, even though the additional debt would cost taxpayers millions of dollars in the future. The city council met Wednesday and deferred a potential vote on…