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#10 Trump Administration to Announce Plan to Remove Artificial Food Dyes From US Food Supply - Deidre McPhillips and Kristen Rogers for CNN, Eric Daugherty, I'm Queenie, Alex Clark, Ian Jaeger, and NBC News on X
The Trump administration plans to take action to remove artificial food dyes from the nation’s food supply, according to a media advisory sent by the US Department of Health and Human Services on Monday. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary will share more about the administration’s plans on Tuesday, the advisory said. In January, when former President Joe Biden was still in office, the FDA announced that it had banned the use of red dye No. 3 in food, beverages, and ingested drugs. The move came more than 30 years after scientists discovered links to cancer in animals... Ha McNeill, a Harvard graduate and the former Chief of Staff to ex-Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator David Pekoske, is set to assume the role of TSA Deputy Administrator this week. Pekoske, appointed by President Joe Biden and confirmed by a Democrat-controlled Senate, was recently fired by President Donald Trump on January 20th, 2025, shortly after President Trump was officially inaugurated. During the Biden administration, Pekoske served as acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary before Alejandro Mayorkas’s Senate confirmation... A group of House Democrats was denied a visit Monday with Kilmar Abrego Garcia during their trip to El Salvador to advocate for his release. The wrongfully deported Maryland father and Salvadoran immigrant remains imprisoned in his home country after he was moved out of the brutal Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, earlier this month. Four House Democrats—including Yassamin Ansari, Maxine Dexter, Maxwell Frost, and Robert Garcia—are traveling to El Salvador. This follows Senator Chris Van Hollen’s trip last week, when he met with Abrego Garcia for roughly one hour at a hotel before returning to the United States... The U.S. Supreme Court jumps back into the culture wars Tuesday, as the justices tackle a clash between two bedrock values in American public schools: On one side is the longstanding tradition of local school boards determining class curriculum for everyone. On the other side is the notion that public schools should accommodate religious objections to some materials by allowing parents to opt their kids out of some classes. At the center of Tuesday's case is the school system in Montgomery County, Md., the most religiously diverse county in the United States, with 160,000 students of almost all faiths. The school board approved five storybooks with LGBTQ+ characters for use in elementary school classes. The avowed purpose was to teach students tolerance and respect for LGBTQ+ students and parents. But some parents objected, contending that exposure to the approved materials conflicted with their religious beliefs... Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Monday after the federal government said it was freezing $2.2 billion in grants and sought what university officials described as "unprecedented and improper" control over the Ivy League institution. "The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting," Harvard President Alan Garber said in a message Monday announcing the lawsuit. The suit, filed in federal district court in Massachusetts, accuses the administration of flouting the First Amendment and other federal laws and regulations. The 51-page complaint asks a federal judge in Massachusetts to declare the president’s “freeze order” unconstitutional and to order the government to reverse any terminations of — or freezes to — federal funding... A bipartisan duo of senators is looking to back the efforts a growing number of states around the country are taking to ban or limit students’ use of cellphones in classrooms. A recent Associated Press study found that nine states have already implemented statewide restrictions related to cellphones in schools, while another 39 are exploring them. That’s caught the attention of Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., who have proposed a bill to provide federal funding to incentivize classroom cellphone restrictions... The commander of Fort McCoy was relieved of duty after the U.S. Army base failed to install photos of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on a wall displaying their chain of command. Col. Sheyla Baez Ramirez was suspended as garrison commander of Fort McCoy in Wisconsin. "This suspension is not related to any misconduct," the U.S. Army Reserve Command said in a statement. "We have no further details to provide at this time while this matter is under review." Hegseth on Sunday reposted an X post claiming: "Commander of Fort McCoy, whose base chain-of-command board was missing photos of Trump, Vance, and Hegseth, has been SUSPENDED."
#9 Pro-DACA Biden Holdover To Assume Role Of Deputy TSA Administrator - Laura Loomer Loomered, Lili, MAG 1775, True Explorer, and Ana's Writing Nook on X
#8 Who is Cardinal Robert Sarah? Favorite of Conservatives as Anti-Woke Pope - Amira El-Fekki for Newsweek, Nick Sortor, Joey Mannarino, Trad West, and Sanoj Thomas on X
Conservative Christians have flooded social media with support for Cardinal Robert Sarah to succeed the late Pope Francis because of his strong traditionalist stands on sexuality and church doctrine, as well as his opposition to mass immigration and Islamism. The rising profile of the African cardinal, 79, comes at a time of ideological division within Catholicism, as the Church grapples with questions of modernity, sexual identity, and religious pluralism, and also as more right wing political movements in Europe and elsewhere have challenged what they see as the orthodoxy of a liberal global elite...
#7 Four Democrats Denied Visit With Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador Trip to ‘Fight Like Hell’ for His Release - Alex Woodward for Independent, Ian Jaeger, I Meme Therefore I Am, Derrick Evans, Washington Examiner, and Brahm Resnick on X
#6 Supreme Court Weighs Who Should Decide Public School Curriculum: Judges or School Boards? - Nina Totenberg for NPR, Nicki Neily, The New York Sun, Howard Bashman, The Epoch Times, and KVUE News on X
#5 With Millions in Default on Student Loan Payments, Collections to Resume - Sareen Habeshian for Axios, U.S. Department of Education, Angela Morabito, Eric Daugherty, Dave Bondy, and Beverly A. Pekala on X
With millions of borrowers behind on student loan payments, the Department of Education announced Monday it will start referring those in default for debt collection. The big picture: Some 5.3 million borrowers who are in default could see their wages garnished if they don't resume payments. The move ends a five-year pause of no penalties for those who did not make payments on their student loans...
#4 Harvard Sues Federal Government After Trump Administration Slashed Billions in Funding - Gary Grumbach and Tim Stelloh for NBC News, Benny Johnson, Cynical Publius, Pop Base, Brian Kilmeade, and Alex Morey on X
#3 As a Nationwide Push to Ban Cellphones in Schools Grows, Congress Looks to Get Involved - Ryan Nobles and Frank Thorp V, Claudia Rowe, Senator John Cornyn, Mario Nawfal, Sarah Huckabee Sanders/Tom Cotton, and RSCC on X
#2 Army Suspends Commander After Trump, Vance, Hegseth Vanish From Command Board - Morgan Phillips for Fox News, Amuse, Right Angle News Network, I Meme Therefore I Am, and Derrick Evans on X
#1 Warp-Speed Off A Cliff: The Fall of Dr. Peter Marks - Michelle Edwards for UncoverDC, Tracy Beanz, Pierre Kory, MD MPA, The HighWire
After five bewildering years of censorship, lies, injuries, and death at the hands of an experimental gene-damaging injection that was forced upon humanity to solve a manipulated global crisis, for now, times appear to be changing. And while that change can't come soon enough, the villains who exploited society to keep the unprecedented mass-injection scam alive must be held accountable. At the top of that list—orchestrating the scheme from behind the scenes—is Dr. Peter Marks, the former high-ranking U.S. government official tasked with overseeing the regulation of products like vaccines and gene therapies to ensure they are safe and effective and support public health goals in the best interest of American citizens...
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