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Brooke Nevils Revisits Matt Lauer Allegations, Explaining Why ‘Rape’ Was Harder to Say Than ‘Sexual Assault’
Brooke Nevils, a former producer at NBC News, has returned to public view to explain how language, power and fear shaped her sexual assault allegations against former television anchor Matt Lauer. In interviews tied to her forthcoming memoir, Nevils said the words she used to describe what happened in 2014-during the Winter Olympics in Russia-were constrained by cultural assumptions and workplace hierarchies rather than legal definitions. 
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Epstein Files Reveal Bill Gates Caught An STD And Asked For Antibiotics To Give Wife Melinda 'In Secret'
Newly released records from the United States Department of Justice have added a fresh and controversial dimension to the scrutiny surrounding Bill Gates's past association with Jeffrey Epstein. The documents, which include draft emails and letters, allege that Gates contracted a sexually transmitted disease and sought antibiotics to give his then-wife, Melinda Gates, without her knowledge. 
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ICE Expands Warrantless Arrests as Internal Memo Lowers Bar for Detention in Immigration Sweeps
An internal directive issued this week by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reshaping how immigration arrests are carried out across the United States, sharply expanding agents' authority to detain people without warrants during enforcement operations. The memo, reviewed by The New York Times, signals a decisive shift toward on-the-spot arrests with minimal judicial oversight, raising alarms among former officials and legal experts. 
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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Election Order, Says Constitution Bars Unilateral Voting Rules
A federal judge in Washington on Friday permanently blocked key provisions of President Donald Trump's executive order on election administration, ruling that the Constitution does not allow a president to unilaterally impose citizenship verification requirements on federal voters. 
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Trump Says DHS Will Stand Down in Democratic Cities Unless Help Is Requested as Protests Spread
President Donald Trump said Saturday that federal authorities will not intervene in protests or unrest in Democratic-led cities unless local officials formally request assistance, while vowing aggressive protection of federal property as nationwide demonstrations intensify following controversial immigration enforcement actions. 
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ICE Raid on Oklahoma Home Sparks Backlash After Agents Seize Cash, Phones From U.S. Family
Federal immigration agents executing a predawn search warrant in northwest Oklahoma City tore through a rented family home, seized phones and cash, and ordered a mother and her three daughters into the rain-despite the warrant naming people who did not live there-triggering public outrage and renewed scrutiny of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations involving non-suspect households. 
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Ex-CNN Anchor Don Lemon Arrested After DOJ Alleges ‘Criminal Reconnaissance’ at Minnesota Church
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was taken into federal custody this week after prosecutors alleged he crossed from journalism into unlawful coordination during a January protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota. The Department of Justice said the case centers on whether Lemon's actions constituted protected reporting or what it described as "criminal reconnaissance," a distinction that has placed the 59-year-old media figure under the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act. 
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Trump Nominates Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair, Testing Central Bank Independence at Pivotal Moment
President Donald Trump on Friday nominated former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the U.S. central bank, a move that caps months of speculation and places a longtime Fed critic at the helm during one of the most politically charged periods in the institution's modern history. The nomination immediately revived debate over Federal Reserve independence as inflation remains above target and the White House intensifies pressure for easier monetary policy. 
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U.S. Officials Held Multiple Meetings With Alberta Separatists as Canada Tensions Escalate - Report
Senior officials in the Trump administration held multiple meetings in Washington with leaders of a Canadian separatist group seeking to split Alberta from the rest of Canada, according to the Financial Times, injecting new friction into already strained U.S.-Canada relations. 
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5-Year-Old Detained With Father Falls Ill After ICE Arrest, Lawmakers Cite ‘Abysmal’ Texas Facility
A five-year-old Ecuadorian boy detained with his father after a federal immigration arrest in Minnesota has fallen ill at a South Texas family detention center, intensifying scrutiny of the Trump administration's interior enforcement push and the conditions inside large-scale facilities housing children. The case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a preschool student from Columbia Heights, has become a flashpoint for allegations that children are being used to facilitate arrests and then held in unsafe conditions.
