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Twin Cities lawyer weighs in on Trump’s executive order to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports

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Mulvaney says Trump’s Gaza Strip proposal ‘wasn’t him’

Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who served in President Trump’s first administration, said he was puzzled to hear the president lay out a proposal for the United States to take con…
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DOGE will keep limited access to Treasury payments system with 2 associates having ‘read-only’ view

Two Treasury Department employees affiliated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency will keep limited access to the highly sensitive payment system within the agency, following emergency court proceedings Wednesday that arose out of privacy concerns about DOGE’s access to the system.
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Netanyahu praises Trump plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday there was nothing wrong in Donald Trump’s idea of displacing Palestinians from Gaza after the U.S. president’s proposal drew international criticism.
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Netanyahu praises Trump plan to move Palestinians out of Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday there was nothing wrong in Donald Trump’s idea of displacing Palestinians from Gaza after the U.S. president’s proposal drew international criticism. Rights groups have condemned as ethnic cleansing Trump’s suggestion the previous day that Palestinians in the enclave should be permanently displaced, while also proposing a U.S. takeover of Gaza. In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu did not explicitly talk about Trump’s idea of the United States taking over the Gaza Strip but backed the idea of “allowing Gazans who want to leave to leave.”
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Trump administration agrees to restrict DOGE access to Treasury Department payment systems

The agreement came in response to a lawsuit accusing Treasury of committing an “unlawful action” by giving private info to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
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Musk ‘Buyout’ Deal Has More Than 40,000 Takers as Deadline Nears

The Trump administration’s offer to pay federal employees through the end of September if they agree to leave by the end of February has attracted more than 40,000 sign-ups as of Wednesday — about 2% of the federal civilian workforce.
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Musk ‘Buyout’ Taken by 40,000 Federal Workers as Deadline Nears

The Trump administration’s offer to pay federal employees through the end of September if they agree to leave by the end of February has attracted more than 40,000 sign-ups as of Wednesday — about 2% of the federal civilian workforce.
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Sources: Butler traded from Heat to Warriors, to ink new deal

The Heat are sending Jimmy Butler to the Warriors as part of a multiteam trade agreed to Wednesday, sources said. It was finalized after talks on a three-team deal that would have sent Butler to the Suns and Kevin Durant back to Golden State fizzled.
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Russia rejects Ukraine’s sovereignty and insists on further annexation

Russia has consistently rejected Ukraine’s sovereignty and justified its aggression with propaganda about so-called “historic lands”. Viktor Medvedchuk, the close associate of Russian ruler Vladimir Putin and former head of the banned Ukrainian Opposition Platform for Life party, has explicitly called for the annexation of Ukraine. Source: Institut…