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#10 Attorney General Pam Bondi Announces Severe Federal Charges Against Three Tesla Arsonists - Cullen Linebarger for The Gateway Pundit, Rod X, Paul A. Szypula, Open Source Intel, and The Epoch Times on X
The Trump Administration has delivered brutal news to the scumbags torching Tesla cars and dealerships across the country. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced this afternoon that her office has charged three individuals with serious offenses. Each one of the lowlifes used Molotov cocktails to set Tesla dealerships and cars ablaze. “The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended,” Bondi said in a statement. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars. The first accused ‘domestic terrorist’ was arrested after throwing eight Molotov cocktails at a Salem, Oregon, Tesla dealership. She was also armed with an AR-15...
#9 Trump Administration Puts New York Governor 'On Notice' - Gabe Whisnant and Mandy Taheri for Newsweek, 1010 Wins on 92.3 FM, America First, ava, and Cuomo Watch on X
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said on Thursday that President Donald Trump and his administration are putting Democratic New York Governor Kathy Hochul "on notice" over New York City's ongoing congestion pricing, issuing the warning in a post on X, formerly Twitter. Newsweek has reached out to the Department of Transportation and Hochul's press office for comment via email on Thursday. New York City's congestion pricing plan has been a political lightning rod over the past few months, with Trump announcing the end of the initiative in February, writing on Truth Social, "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!"
#8 Husband of Former ‘Squad’ Rep. Cori Bush Charged With Wire Fraud Linked to COVID Relief Funds: DOJ - Louis Casiano for Fox News, Eyal Yakoby, Ms Trevian Kutti, Black Anomaly Rising, and Twitchy Team on X
The husband of former U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, a Missouri Democrat, has been charged with defrauding the government after allegedly accepting $20,000 in payments from the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection and Economic Injury Disaster Loan programs, the Justice Department said. Cortney Merritts, 46, of St. Louis, falsified details about his purported businesses to obtain loans from the Small Business Administration in 2020 and 2021, federal prosecutors said Thursday. He was charged with two counts of wire fraud. "Mr. Merritts intends to plead not guilty to the charges," Merritts' lawyer, Justin Gelfand of Margulis Gelfand DiRuzzo & Lambson, said in a statement. "As with any indictment, this is only the government’s version of the story. We look forward to litigating this case in federal court in Washington, D.C."
#7 Cuts Loom for Agency Funding Libraries and Museums, as Trump Installs New Leader - Jory Heckman for Federal News Network, Deputy Secretary Sonderling, Emerald Robinson, Matthew Mathis, Mark Bauerlein, and DOGE Updates on X
The largest source of federal funding for libraries and museums across the country is facing major cuts to its operations. The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a small, independent agency with approximately 75 employees, is expected to soon lose more than about half its workforce and will be reduced to only core statutory functions. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week eliminating IMLS “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” The executive order also targets six other small agencies and programs: the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency...
#6 Elon Musk’s DOGE Blocks $52 Million in Payments to World Economic Forum - Blockchain News, Kyle Becker/Elon Musk, AJ Huber, DOGE News, Molly Pitcher, and IHelpU2C on X
On March 20, 2025, a significant event occurred within the cryptocurrency space when Elon Musk's DOGE network blocked $52 million in payments destined for the World Economic Forum (WEF). This action was reported by Crypto Rover on Twitter at 10:35 AM UTC, causing immediate market reactions across various trading pairs involving DOGE (Crypto Rover, 2025). At the time of the announcement, DOGE/USD was trading at $0.22, but within 30 minutes, it surged to $0.25, reflecting a 13.6% increase (CoinGecko, 2025). Concurrently, DOGE/BTC saw a rise from 0.0000052 BTC to 0.0000059 BTC, a 13.4% increase, indicating a strong correlation with the USD pair (Binance, 2025). The trading volume for DOGE spiked from an average of 500 million DOGE per hour to 1.2 billion DOGE per hour, showcasing heightened market interest and liquidity (CoinMarketCap, 2025). On-chain metrics revealed that the number of active DOGE addresses increased by 20%, from 1.5 million to 1.8 million, suggesting broader participation in the network (Glassnode, 2025). This event also led to a 5% increase in the total value locked (TVL) in DOGE-based DeFi protocols, from $100 million to $105 million, indicating a shift in investor confidence...#5 Trump Withdraws Order Targeting Paul Weiss, Says Law Firm Promised Free Legal Work - Jasper Ward and Mike Scarcella for Reuters, Hans Mahncke/Donald J. Trump (community note), Michael S. Schmidt, Mark S. Zaid, and John Solomon on X
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is withdrawing an executive order that targeted law firm Paul Weiss, saying the firm "acknowledged the wrongdoing" of an attorney who investigated the president and has pledged $40 million in free legal work to support the administration. The surprise move, which comes amid a wave of attacks by the Republican president on prominent law firms, follows a meeting between the president and Paul Weiss' chairman, Brad Karp, according to the White House. During that meeting, Karp acknowledged the wrongdoing of Mark Pomerantz, a former partner at the New York firm, who was involved in the Manhattan district attorney's investigation into Trump's hush money payments to a porn star, the White House said...#4 RFK Jr. Plans to Eliminate GRAS Food Standards for Most Products - Luke Gentile for The Washington Examiner, Holden Culotta, Chef Andrew Gruel, Anna Matson and DogeWatchReport on X
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday his intention to eliminate the Generally Recognized As Safe standards for most domestic products. “We’ve launched a review of the GRAS standards, and we’re going to get rid of the GRAS standards for most products,” Kennedy told Fox News. “The GRAS standards is a standard that was adopted in 1958. It was adopted because, when FDA was created to regulate food, there were foods that were generally recognized as safe.”
#3 DOGE Blocked In Court From Social Security Systems With Americans’ Personal Information, for Now - Lindsay Whitehurst for AP, CNN Breaking News, Alex Swoyer, Steve Ram, and Albert N. Milleron on X
A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from Social Security systems that hold personal data on millions of Americans, calling their work there a “fishing expedition.” The order also requires the team to delete any personally identifiable data in their possession. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander in Maryland found that the team got broad access to sensitive information at the Social Security Administration to search for fraud with little justification. “The DOGE Team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion,” she wrote...
#2 California Couple Deported After Living in U.S. for 35 Years - Josh DuBose for KTLA 5, Ames, Ireene Almayda, Fox 11 Los Angeles, Charisse Van Horn, and Twoface632 on X
An Orange County couple that came to the United States without authorization some 35 years ago raised three daughters, and now have a new grandson was deported to Colombia earlier this week, according to media reports. Nelson Gonzalez, 59, and his wife Gladys Gonzalez, 55, originally entered the states near San Ysidro before ultimately settling in Laguna Niguel and starting their family. While the couple tried numerous legal avenues to remain in the country over the years, including appeals to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Board of Immigration Appeals, a spokesperson for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Orange County Register that the Gonzalezes had “exhausted all legal options to remain in the U.S. between March 2000 and August 2021,” and were ultimately in violation of immigration law...
#1 Trump Signs Executive Order to Dismantle US Department of Education - Rachel Leingang and Hugo Lowell for The Guardian, Anna Matson, Kristi/Ron DeSantis, Bannon's War Room, Pammsy Now, Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, Kimmie, and Proud American on X
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that instructs the US education secretary, Linda McMahon, to start dismantling the Department of Education, seemingly attempting to circumvent the need to obtain congressional approval to formally close a federal department. The administration may eventually pursue an effort to get Congress to shut down the agency, Trump said at a signing ceremony at the White House on Thursday, because its budget had more than doubled in size in recent years but national test scores had not improved. The federal government does not mandate curriculum in schools; that has been the responsibility of state and local governments, which provide 90% of the funding to schools. Nevertheless, at the White House, Trump repeated his campaign promise to “send education back to the states.”
And Now for Something Special 
The Old Man and the Stork: An Unlikely Friendship That Captivated a Nation - Andy Corbley Good News Network
Now from Turkiye comes the story of an annual spring reunion that has captivated the hearts of a nation for 14 years. It involves a simple rural fisherman Adem Yilmaz, waiting in his boat for the return of a dear friend: a white stork named Yaren. Casting his lines and nets upon the beautiful Uluabat Lake near Yilmaz’s home of Eskikaraagac Village in the region of Bursa, he has waited patiently, eagerly, for the white stork’s arrival. “Yaren generally comes at the beginning of the month, and when it didn’t show up, I feared something had happened to it,” Yilmaz told National News. “I spent a week in sorrow, thinking it might have faced danger on the way. But thankfully, Yaren has returned. This morning, it came to my boat and ate the fish I had brought for it.”
