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CISA funding at center of tough talk on countering China

Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday spoke out about the need for action against China’s threat to American infrastructure networks. That is despite as many as 100 GOP lawmakers voted to cut CISA’s funding in the last Congress over its efforts to combat online disinformation.

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A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship

A federal judge in Seattle heard the first arguments Thursday in a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.

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Trump’s new Justice Department leadership orders a freeze on civil rights cases

President Donald Trump’s new Justice Department leadership has put a freeze on civil rights litigation and suggested it may reconsider police reform agreements negotiated by the Biden administration, according to two memos obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.

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Key career officials at Justice Department reassigned to different positions, AP sources say

The Justice Department has reassigned key senior officials across multiple divisions as part of a leadership shakeup ahead of the expected confirmation of President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi. 

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Military deploys 1,500 troops to US-Mexico border; mission includes conducting deportation flights

As many as 1,500 troops along with other resources and assets began moving to the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday for a deployment that includes the use of military aircraft to conduct deportation flights and support for construction efforts to extend the wall that separates the two countries.

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Over 50,000 under evacuation orders or warnings as wildfire imperils homes north of Los Angeles

More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles, but fire officials said a rapid ground and air assault was giving them the upper hand.

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Teen fatally shoots a female student and himself at Antioch High School in Nashville, police say

A shooting in a Nashville high school cafeteria Wednesday left a female student dead and another student wounded, nearly two years after another deadly school shooting in the city that ignited an emotional debate about gun control in Tennessee.