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China has quietly extended its military reach far across the Pacific by building dozens of ports, airports, and communications projects at key points in a vast region that could shut out the United States and its allies in the event of war, a new report says.

Abuse of Power Despite a recent injunction reinstating access, an AP spokesperson confirmed their journalists were denied access to an Oval Office press event on Monday.

One group of people is hearing a different message from the Trump administration than most Americans: the nation’s judges. The disparities have emerged across a range of lawsuits and issues amid President Donald Trump’s aggressive political agenda. “You’re saying one thing in public. You’re saying a different thing in court,” Judge Ana Reyes, a Joe Biden appointee, told Justice Department lawyers last month in a case over the administration’s policy aiming to bar transgender members from the military. She added: “The court is not going to be gaslit.”

Censorship of Press Donald Trump again lashed out at 60 Minutes, this time angry over two segments the newsmagazine ran on Ukraine and Greenland. The president’s attacks on the media and 60 Minutes are nothing new; what’s different this term is he’s tried to assert authority over independent agencies that regulate the media business.

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has joined a multistate lawsuit with 15 other states and the District of Columbia against the Trump Administration for revoking $185 million in funding for Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. prosecutors plan to review the case of a former FBI informant who admitted to fabricating bribery claims against former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, according to a court filing on Friday. The disclosure came as prosecutors, together with defense lawyers for the informant, Alexander Smirnov, asked a federal judge to release him from prison while he appeals a six-year prison sentence.

“But this goes far beyond law firms and lawyers,” Susman Godfrey said. “Today it is our firm under attack, but tomorrow it could be any of us. As officers of the court, we are duty-bound to take on this fight against the illegal executive order.” On Friday, Susman Godfrey—which won a successful $787 million lawsuit against Fox News over the network’s airing of 2020 election conspiracies—filed a suit against a Trump executive order it says was meant to “exact revenge.”

“’The Bell Curve,’ which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there,” the paper reports. “But a critique of the book was pulled.” The video Jeffries shared is on the subject of a purge of books from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis at the direction of Hegseth’s office, on the premise that they are DEI-related content.

A disaster relief agency?! The Department of Homeland Security has administered lie detector tests to about 50 staffers in recent weeks, including FEMA’s acting administrator and roughly a dozen officials at the disaster relief agency, as part of an intensifying effort to root out what the department alleges are leaks of national security information.

California on Friday defied a Trump administration order to certify that the state's 1,000 school districts have ended all diversity, equity and inclusion programs despite federal threats to cut billions of dollars in education funding if the state does not comply.

Since the confrontation, Trump has demanded an apology from the Maine governor. "We need a full throated apology from the Governor herself, and a statement that she will never make such an unlawful challenge to the Federal Government again, before this case can be settled," he wrote on social media. A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funding that was allocated to Maine from the U.S. Department of Agriculture — funds that had been withheld following President Trump's clash with Maine Gov. Janet Mills over the issue of transgender athletes.

"Now I’m back in Australia, I’ll speak with my lawyers. Something has to be done about the way I was treated. Hope this never happen to nobody else."

The Trump administration has ordered State Department employees to report on any instances of coworkers displaying “anti-Christian bias” as part of its effort to implement a sweeping new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government.

The F.B.I. has suspended an analyst on Kash Patel’s so-called enemies list after Mr. Patel told lawmakers that the bureau under his leadership would stay out of the political fray and not punish employees for partisan reasons.

Donald Trump’s White House has a threatening message for anyone who might even be perceived to disagree with the president: Don’t. Or else. Even though he has promised to end what he viewed as “weaponization” of the Department of Justice, Trump is treating people who disagree with him more like the “enemy from within” he talked about during the presidential campaign.

Dear Active, Reserve, Veteran, Spouse, Family Member & Friend, This has never happened to our Constitutional Federal Republic. There is no due process and transparency. Many executive acts are now being done without consulting “We the People” which has caused great damage to our nation’s reputation and to tax payers. If enough voters become fed up with the current dictatorship, and are willing to vote against the those members in congress and the senate, who blindly follow the current administration, it could change the course of the current administration's dive into despotism. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives will be up for vote 33 of the 100 seats in the U.S. Senate will be up for vote Thirty-nine state and territorial U.S. gubernatorial elections will be contested Numerous state & local elections will be held as well Plan ahead: Do your part – vote and spread the word. 2026 United States Elections Military members pledge allegiance to the Constitution and the United States, promising to support and defend it, not to a despot and his political allies who are a threat to our nation and to our allies.

Both the commanding officer and command master chief of Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron 4, based in Virginia Beach, Virginia, were fired on Friday, the Navy announced. Cmdr. Brett Robblee and Command Master Chief Felix Phillips were relieved “due to a loss of confidence in their ability to perform leadership duties,” a brief Navy news release says.

The Pentagon’s newest push to trim its workforce and spending could mean that on-base grocery stores and shops designed to save service members and their families money could ultimately be sold off to the private sector.

Panic, fear, uncertainty, and anger. Those are the emotions mental health clinicians who work for the US Department of Veterans Affairs describe as they prepare for the VA's mandatory return-to-office directive. Some are being summoned to offices as soon as Monday, April 14. Representatives from the VA say they are planning to have the back-to-office effort completed by May 5.

NAPLES, Italy — A $5.2 million Navy logistics facility that recently opened in Greece will Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2025-04-11/greece-souda-bay-logistics-warehouse-17429835.html Source - Stars and Stripes

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — U.S. service members will join Japanese police and local officials Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2025-04-11/joint-military-police-patrols-okinawa-17438692.html Source - Stars and Stripes

Let's see if things change... The head of the Navy personnel expects that gaps at sea will drop by 2,000 by the end of the fiscal year, he told a Senate Armed Services Committee subcommittee. Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. Richard Cheeseman, who will retire this summer, testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee personnel subcommittee, along with his counterparts in the other services, discussing the successes in recruiting for the current fiscal year and ongoing challenges to meet a 100 percent fill rate

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