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Trump loyalist Kash Patel is confirmed as FBI director by the Senate despite deep Democratic doubts

By ERIC TUCKER
Updated 3:25 PM CST, February 20, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday narrowly voted to confirm Kash Patel as director of the FBI, moving to place him atop the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency despite doubts from Democrats about his qualifications and concerns he will do Donald Trump’s bidding and go after the Republican president’s adversaries.

“I cannot imagine a worse choice,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told colleagues before the 51-49 vote by the GOP-controlled Senate. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska were the lone Republican holdouts.

A Trump loyalist who has fiercely criticized the agency he will now lead, Patel will inherit an FBI gripped by turmoil as the Justice Department over the past month has forced out a group of senior bureau officials and made a highly unusual demand for the names of thousands of agents who participated in investigations related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Patel has spoken of his desire to implement major changes at the FBI, including a reduced footprint in Washington and a renewed emphasis on the bureau’s traditional crime-fighting duties rather than the intelligence-gathering work that has come to define its mandate over the past two decades as national security threats have proliferated. ...

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Federal judge orders Trump admin to comply with previous order to lift foreign aid freeze

  • News source: FOX News
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered Trump administration officials to comply with his previous order to temporarily lift a freeze on nearly all foreign aid, temporarily restoring it to programs worldwide.

In his order, Judge Amir H. Ali, a Biden appointee, said Trump administration officials had used his Feb. 13 order to temporarily lift the freeze on foreign aid to instead "come up with a new, post-hoc rationalization for the en masse suspension" of funding.

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Katya Adler: Far right looks for election breakthrough as Germany falters

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The AfD party could become the second biggest in the German parliament after elections on Sunday.
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Man disguised as lawyer kills gang leader in court

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Police say the gunman used a revolver which was smuggled in a hollowed-out book by a female suspect.
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Trump 'very frustrated' and Zelensky must strike minerals deal, says adviser

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The comments overshadowed Zelensky's meeting with US envoy Keith Kellogg in Kyiv.
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Elon Musk waves 'bureaucracy chainsaw' gifted by Argentina

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Argentina's president gifted Elon Musk a chainsaw to symbolise cuts to bureaucracy.
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Ukraine working on new potential deal with US over mineral resources: Sources

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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A U.S. official with knowledge of the negotiations said a new version of the deal between the two countries has been put on the table.
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Canada beats US in revenge hockey rematch played on political thin ice

  • News source: BBC News - World
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The two countries battled it out at the final game of the 4 Nations Face Off amid a tense political backdrop.
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Hong Kong's main opposition party announces plan to dissolve

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Once Hong Kong's largest opposition party, the Democratic Party has suffered since China's crackdown.
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What does Jack Ma's return to the spotlight in China mean?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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Analysts say the Alibaba founder's re-emergence could signal a policy change in Beijing.
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Inside Mexico's border troop deployment following Trump's tariff threats: Can it make a difference?

  • News source: Gabe Gutierrez and Erika Angulo | NBC News
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More than 2,500 Mexican troops, from the states of Tlaxcala, Durango, Yucatán and Mexico City, have fanned out along this historically violent border city in a show of force, NBC News reported.

The troops are part of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s attempt to stave off President Donald Trump’s executive order announcing tariffs on Mexican, Canadian and Chinese goods coming to the U.S., a move aimed at pressuring the three countries into stopping the flow of fentanyl and immigrants into the U.S.

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Musk's private security detail deputized by U.S. Marshals Service, sources say

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Members of Elon Musk's private security detail have been deputized by the U.S. Marshals Service, granting them certain rights and protections of federal law enforcement agents, four sources familiar with the move confirmed to CBS News Thursday.

The move comes after several people within Musk's orbit relayed a heightened concern about safety for the tech billionaire, including several death threats in recent weeks.

The Tesla CEO turned Trump adviser referenced that concern while on stage at a conservative gathering outside Washington, D.C., on...
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Trump administration has cleared migrants out of Guantánamo Bay

  • News source: Courtney Kube and Julia Ainsley | NBC News
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The Trump administration has flown all of the migrants it had held in Guantánamo Bay out of the facility there, NBC News has learned from three sources familiar with the operation and flight data.

In response to a lawsuit, the Trump administration said that there were 178 immigrants, all from Venezuela, housed at Guantánamo Bay as of early Thursday.

A senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News that 177 of the 178 migrants at Guantánamo Bay were deported on Thursday. The one other person was sent to a detention facility in the...
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Trump's DOGE stays on track after pair of federal judge rulings

  • News source: FOX News
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Facing pressure from Trump, Costa Rica and Honduras begin taking deportees

  • News source: Javier CÓrdoba | The Associated Press and Megan
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A group of families and children hailing from Uzbekistan, China, Afghanistan, Russia and more countries climbed down the stairs of an airplane in Costa Rica's capital Thursday, the first flight of deportees from other nations Costa Rica agreed to hold in detention facilities for the Trump administration while it organized the return back to their countries.

The flight of 135 deportees, half of them minors, added Costa Rica to a growing list of Latin American nations to serve as a stopover for migrants as President Donald Trump ’s administration...
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