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Duffy blasts Biden, Buttigieg for ignoring report about failing air traffic control system: 'DID NOTHING!'

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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called out the Biden administration for allegedly neglecting a government agency's report about the poor state of the air traffic control system.

In an X post on Tuesday, Duffy shared an excerpt from a report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) entitled "Air Traffic Control: FAA Actions Are Urgently Needed to Modernize Aging Systems." The report was published on Sept. 24, 2024.

"A government watchdog warned Biden & Buttigieg about the failing air traffic control system," Duffy wrote.

"Look at this report. They knew the air traffic control system was strained AND STILL DID NOTHING!"
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Tillis puts onus on Trump to avoid Boasberg picking US attorney after Martin's nomination appears sunk

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Sen. Thom Tillis' office brushed off concern that a left-wing court could select an interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia after the North Carolina Republican bucked President Donald Trump's pick for the role, putting the onus on the Trump administration to select a successor and avoid involvement from federal judges.

Tillis, R-N.C., sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is overseeing the confirmation process of Ed Martin, Trump's pick to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin has served as interim U.S...
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Carney tells Trump that Canada 'won't be for sale, ever'

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The Canadian PM responds firmly as the president proposes a "wonderful marriage" of incorporating Canada into the US.
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Trump administration to garnish wages of 5.3 million defaulted student loan borrowers this summer

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The Trump administration resumed collection efforts on defaulted student loans Monday after a roughly five-year hiatus — and affected borrowers could begin feeling the financial consequences sooner than experts expected.

The U.S. Department of Education released new details on what actions it plans to take, when.

Here's what to know.

The Education Department said it began this week alerting around 195,000 student loan borrowers in default that their federal benefits will be subject to garnishment in 30 days.

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White House calls Yemen ceasefire a 'WIN' – experts warn Houthis may not hold the line

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President Donald Trump’s sudden halt to U.S. airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthi militants is drawing praise as a potential breakthrough – and doubts over whether it will last.

Trump on Tuesday at the Oval Office marked the formal end of "Operation Rough Rider," a 50-day bombing campaign that targeted more than 1,000 sites across Yemen.

"The Houthis have announced that they don’t want to fight anymore," Trump said during remarks at the White House. "They say they will not be blowing up ships anymore. And that’s what the purpose of what we were doing...
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Fox News Politics Newsletter: Another Trump Win at SCOTUS

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Welcome to the Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.

Here's what's happening…

-Identity of second wrongfully deported Maryland man revealed as Trump admin fights his return to US

-Trump admin removes Biden-era transportation safety board vice chair

-Supreme Court flare-ups grab headlines as justices feel the heat

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in lifting a lower court's order that paused the Pentagon's transgender military...
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Federal judge orders return of deported migrant to US, rejecting Trump request

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BALTIMORE, MD – A federal judge on Tuesday refused to change her order requiring the Trump administration to bring back a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker deported to El Salvador, citing due process protections.

At a hearing Tuesday in Baltimore, U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallagher, a Trump appointee, rejected the government's request to amend her earlier ruling which ordered the government to return Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan, to U.S. soil.

But she also agreed to pause the ruling for 48 hours – enough time for the...
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'Off our streets': ICE makes major arrest of internationally wanted 'suspected terrorist'

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EXCLUSIVE: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made a high-profile arrest on Monday in Maryland.

DHS told Fox News Digital that Joel Armando Mejia-Benitez, 38, is a "validated MS-13 gang member" from El Salvador who had no visas "approved or pending" at the moment of his arrest.

"ICE Baltimore arrested Joel Armando Mejia-Benitez an MS-13 gang member with an Interpol Red Notice. He first entered the country illegally in 2005 and was deported. He then reentered our country at an unknown date before he was arrested by HIS Baltimore in 2014. He...
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White House rips blue state Dems using 'lawfare' to protect wind industry

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President Donald Trump is facing a legal challenge to another one of his executive orders, this time over his temporary withdrawal of offshore wind energy leases and review of wind power permitting practices.

The District of Columbia and 17 states are suing Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and a slew of other officials over the administration’s move to do what they describe as halting progress to undertake an "amorphous, redundant, extra-statutory, and multi-agency review of unknown duration."

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GOP to grill blue state governors on sanctuary policies in high-profile hearing

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Three blue state governors are being summoned to Washington, D.C., to testify on their sanctuary policies before the Republican-run House Oversight Committee.

Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., is announcing a hearing set for next month, June 12, featuring three Democratic leaders – New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

"Sanctuary policies only provide sanctuaries for criminal illegal aliens. Former President Biden created the worst border crisis in U.S. history and allowed criminal illegal aliens to flood...
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Trump says U.S. will stop bombing Houthis after group "capitulated"

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President Trump said Tuesday the U.S. military will "stop the bombing of the Houthis effective immediately," announcing the Yemen-based militant group had promised to end its campaign of strikes against American commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea.

Details on the arrangement remain sparse. He said the Houthis "capitulated" and "announced to us … that they don't want to fight anymore," and the United States will "take their word."

The Houthis have not commented publicly on the apparent agreement.

"They've said, 'please don't bomb us...
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EU plans to end Russian gas imports by end of 2027

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The European Union vowed to end energy relations with Russia after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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French hunter given suspended sentence for killing protected bear

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The 81-year-old man said he had no choice but to shoot the animal after it attacked him during a hunt.
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Peru imposes curfew after kidnap and murder of 13 mine workers

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A local prosecutor says there is a "war" raging in the area between illegal and legal gold miners.
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Trump calls Obama Library "a disaster," blames "woke" construction

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President Trump took shots at former President Barack Obama's Presidential Center in Chicago while meeting with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Tuesday, calling it "a disaster" and blaming "woke" construction workers.

Most of the Oval Office meeting focused on tariffs and the relationship between Canada and the U.S., with Carney emphatically telling Mr. Trump that Canada is "not for sale" and "won't be for sale, ever," while Mr. Trump called the border between the U.S. and Canada "artificial" and again raised the idea of Canada joining the...
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