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Today's Political News Compilation - Tuesday, February. 18, 2025

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Science under siege: Trump cuts threaten to undermine decades of research

By Evan Bush, Aria Bendix and Denise Chow

“This is simply the end.”

That was the five-word message that Rick Huganir, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, received from a colleague just before 6 p.m. two Fridays ago, with news that would send a wave of panic through the scientific community.

When Huganir clicked on the link in the email, from fellow JHU neuroscientist Alex Kolodkin, he saw a new National Institutes of Health policy designed to slash federal spending on the indirect costs that keep universities and research institutes operating, including for new equipment, maintenance, utilities and support staff.

“Am I reading this right 15%??” Huganir wrote back in disbelief, suddenly worried the cut could stall 25 years of work.

In 1998, Huganir discovered a gene called SYNGAP1. About 1% of all children with intellectual disabilities have a mutation of the gene. He’s working to develop drugs to treat these children, who often have learning differences, seizures and sleep problems. He said his research is almost entirely reliant on NIH grants.

The search for a cure for these rare disorders is a race against time, because researchers think treatment will be most effective if administered when patients are children. ...

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Russia 'cannot be trusted,' Zelenskyy says as Moscow follows US talks with attack

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged foreign partners to apply more pressure to Moscow.
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Bipartisan probation reform modeled off DeSantis and Jay-Z efforts primed for passage in VA

  • News source: FOX News
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Bipartisan Virginia lawmakers are putting forward a criminal justice reform bill proponents say is modeled after a 2022 Florida law that featured the unlikely pairing of Gov. Ron DeSantis and rap mogul Jay-Z.

State Del. Wren Williams, R-Stuart, is spearheading the effort that already garnered the support of the entire Democratic majority in Virginia’s lower House earlier this month.

The Democratic-majority state Senate is set to vote on its version of the legislation on Wednesday, after which it will then be conferenced into a final bill for Gov...
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Medicaid becomes flashpoint in House debate over Trump budget bill

  • News source: FOX News
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Medicaid is quickly emerging as a political lightning rod as House Republicans negotiate on a massive bill to advance President Donald Trump's agenda.

Some Republican lawmakers are worried about the level of spending cuts being sought by fiscal hawks to offset the cost of Trump's policies, arguing the current deal could force potentially unworkable cuts on Medicaid and other federal safety net programs.

"I'm concerned that $880 billion out of [the House Energy & Commerce Committee] is likely very steep cuts to Medicaid – and it's the very thing...
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Pro-union Trump nominee faces Senate grilling as at least one Republican vows to oppose her

  • News source: FOX News
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Former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a pro-union Republican, will go before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) on Wednesday for a confirmation hearing to be the next Secretary of Labor.

President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Labor will be questioned by committee senators beginning at 10 a.m.

Chavez-DeRemer has already found an opponent in Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who is a member of HELP.

"Her support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work, but it would preempt state law...
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Four Florida sheriffs tapped for council advising new state immigration enforcement board

  • News source: FOX News
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Four sheriffs in Florida have been appointed to a council advising the state's new Board of Immigration Enforcement.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters and Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell will make up half of the State Immigration Enforcement Council, which advises the board on how the state can best work with the Trump administration to enforce federal immigration laws.

The board was created last Thursday when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 2C into law. The council...
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Watch: A$AP Rocky leaps over court barrier to hug Rihanna after verdict

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Rapper A$AP Rocky has been found not guilty of firing a gun at a former friend.
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Trump imposes his vision on America in departure from first-term stumbles

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President Donald Trump is going further than ever before to enforce his decisions
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Leader of cultlike Zizians linked to 6 killings ordered held without bail in Maryland

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The leader of a cultlike group known as the Zizians that is linked to six killings in three states was ordered held without bail
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Elon Musk’s budget-slashing hits political reality of suffering Americans

  • News source: FOX News
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Nearly everyone agrees that the federal government has become this bloated monster that needs to be cut down to size.

The massive bureaucracy, attacked by some as evil, is absurdly overstaffed and wastes massive amounts of money.

What President Trump is doing in trying to shrink the size of government is popular – even if his billionaire budget-slasher, Elon Musk, is not – and many of the court battles are likely to be resolved in his favor.

But the equation is turned on its head when actual people feel the impact. And the media start highlighting...
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Facing Islamist threats, Bangladesh girls forced to cancel football matches

  • News source: BBC News - World
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There are concerns that extremist groups, which had been pushed to the fringes, have become emboldened again.
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Scores of whales to be euthanised after mass stranding in Australia

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Though 90 of the 157 stranded whales survived, they could not be saved due to complex conditions.
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Senate advances nomination of Kash Patel, Trump's pick for FBI director

  • News source: FOX News
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The Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to advance the nomination of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's pick for FBI director, clearing a procedural hurdle to set up a final vote on the controversial Trump ally to lead the federal law enforcement agency.

Lawmakers in the Upper Chamber voted 48-45 to advance Patel's nomination, as Democrats hold concerns that he would operate as a loyalist for the president and target the administration's political enemies.

This sets up a final confirmation vote later in the week. Some of Trump's other more...
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Chinese navy helicopter flies 'dangerously' close to Philippine plane

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Manila says it will file a formal protest over the latest incident in the South China Sea.
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Judge and DOJ attorney get into heated exchange over pronouns at Trump transgender military ban hearing

  • News source: Daniel Barnes and Zoë Richards | NBC News
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In a heated exchange Tuesday, a federal judge pressed the Justice Department on an executive order from President Donald Trump that directed the military to stop using preferred pronouns, arguing there was no link between pronouns and military readiness.

U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes had asked the Justice Department to explain to how pronoun usage would impact military readiness during a hearing on Trump's order.

“I don’t—” said Justice Department attorney Jason C. Lynch, before the judge interrupted him.

“Because it doesn’t," Reyes said...
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Musk opens up about dinner party that soured when Trump's name was invoked: 'Like methamphetamine and rabies'

  • News source: FOX News
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DOGE's Elon Musk opened up in an interview alongside President Trump with Fox News Sean Hannity about a dinner party where he said he realized how "real" Democratic animosity toward Trump can be.

"I happened to mention the president's name and it was like they got shot with a dart in the jugular that contained like methamphetamine and rabies," Musk said in the Tuesday night interview while recounting a situation where he mentioned Trump's name at a dinner party and quickly received pushback.

Musk imitated people at the party going crazy and...
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