The president-elect pledged to impose wide-ranging restrictions and roll back civil rights protections for transgender students.
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Trump’s defense choice stuns Pentagon, raises questions about Fox News host’s experience
Pete Hegseth is opposed to programs that promote equity and inclusion, has questioned the role of women in combat and advocated pardoning service members charged with war crimes.
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Trump taps Musk, Ramaswamy to oversee ‘drastic’ changes to U.S. government
President-elect Donald Trump picked Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to lead a new commission on cutting government spending and regulation.
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Explosion at Kentucky business injures 11 workers, shatters windows in surrounding neighborhood
The explosion, which happened at Givaudan Sense Colour in Louisville, knocked out windows and blew in doors in nearby homes and businesses.
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Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira sentenced to 15 years in prison
The Massachusetts Air National Guard member pleaded guilty earlier this year to 6 counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act.
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Judge delays ruling on whether to scrap Trump’s hush money conviction
Prosecutors are considering how to proceed in light of last week’s election, while Trump’s lawyers are arguing for dismissal so he can run the country.
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Navy confirms finding sunken U.S. warship known as ‘the dancing mouse’
The wreck of the USS Edsall, a lone American destroyer that fought a Japanese fleet, has been found in the Indian Ocean, the U.S. Navy says.
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Federal judge blocks Louisiana law that requires classrooms to display Ten Commandments
U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles in Baton Rouge said the law had an ‘overtly religious’ purpose and is ‘unconstitutional on its face.’
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Trump eyes Rubio for secretary of State, Waltz for national security adviser
Both Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz have more hawkish foreign policy views than the incoming president, who ran on a platform of restoring peace to a war-torn world.
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Trump picks South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary
The president-elect is off to a rapid start rolling out his picks for key administration jobs as he prepares for a return to the White House in January.