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Pam Bondi, a Trump loyalist who oversaw Justice Department upheaval, is out as his attorney general

(AP) President Donald Trump said Thursday that Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general, ending the contentious tenure of a loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw large-scale firings of career employees and moved aggressively to investigate the Republican president’s perceived enemies.

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Despite Trump's claims, there's no indication Iran's regime has lost power, Western officials and experts say

(NBC News) President Donald Trump said in his address to the nation on Wednesday night that regime change has occurred in Iran because all of the country's original leaders are dead. But there is no indication that the authoritarian government has lost its grip on power or that successors to assassinated leaders have made a break with the Islamic Republic’s ideology, according to multiple Western officials, U.S. intelligence assessments and regional analysts.The regime shows no sign of unraveling, and the people who have replaced senior leaders are known as equally hard-line or arguably even more militant than their predecessors, according to Western officials and experts on Iran.

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Fact Focus: False claims Trump made as he addressed the nation about Iran

(AP) President Donald Trump mischaracterized core elements of the U.S. economy and stretched the facts in claiming to have toppled Iran’s government as he addressed the nation Wednesday night in a time of soaring gas prices and persistent inflation. Here’s a look at some of his statements.

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Trump Sparks Outrage by Claiming Federal Government Can't Fund Daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid, Saying War Comes First

(IBT) US President Donald Trump has sparked criticism after saying the federal government cannot fund daycare, Medicare, or Medicaid, claiming the United States must focus on military protection. Speaking at an Easter Lunch reception at the White House on Wednesday, the president told guests that social programmes should be managed by individual states rather than the federal government. He said that states would need to raise their own taxes to cover such programmes, adding that the federal government's priority must be national defence.

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Trump: Government will have to 'force ourselves' on LA for World Cup

(USA Today) U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters the government will have to "force ourselves" on Los Angeles when the World Cup happens, saying he did not want any crime or problems. "We're gonna have to do something when it comes World Cup time, and we're gonna have to force ourselves upon them, which we have the right to do, because we don't want to have any crime, we don't want to have any problems," Trump told reporters at the Oval Office.

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Trump's MAGA allies have a new plan for mass deportations. It could splinter the coalition.

(Politico) A group of President Donald Trump’s MAGA allies released a playbook Wednesday to fulfill the largest deportation push in U.S. history. It could very well split Trump’s coalition. The plan from the Mass Deportation Coalition — an organization led by some prominent Trumpworld veterans, immigration restrictionist groups and hawkish policy experts — rests on one crucial pillar: A major immigration enforcement crackdown on workplaces, modeling the strategy that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration used to deliver the nation’s largest deportation initiative in history.

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Trump May Not Turn Over Official Records

(Political Wire) “President Trump’s Justice Department has concluded that a federal law requiring presidential records to be turned over to the government is unconstitutional,” Axios reports. “The finding is an indication Trump will be reluctant to give all of his official records to the National Archives at the end of his term, as presidents have done for nearly a half-century under the Presidential Records Act of 1978.”

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Trump polled advisers about replacing Tulsi Gabbard as intelligence chief

(The Guardian) Donald Trump has privately asked cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should replace his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, venting frustration that she shielded a former deputy who undercut his rationale for war with Iran, according to two people briefed on the discussions. It is not clear that Trump will actually fire Gabbard over the episode. Currently, there is no standout candidate to take the job, and advisers have cautioned that creating a high-profile vacancy before a successor is ready could cause unhelpful political distractions.

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30 Congressional leaders caught in Scotland using taxpayer money amid shutdown

(Raw Story) TMZ caught 30 members of Congress touring Scotland courtesy of taxpayer funding amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. The large group was captured on camera at Edinburgh Castle, a major tourist location, all while government workers have gone unpaid, according to a report on Wednesday. The image featured Rep. John McGuire (R-VA), Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC), Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), and Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) all taking a guided tour at the historic location.

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Larry Ellison's Oracle lays off up to 30,000 staff with 6am email

(The Independent) Tech giant Oracle has laid off thousands of its workforce in massive job cuts that could reportedly impact 30,000 employees globally amid the company’s push to fund more artificial intelligence infrastructure. Employees in the U.S., India, Canada, Mexico, and other countries began receiving job termination emails from “Oracle Leadership” at about 6 am local time Tuesday, sparking what could be the largest layoff in the company’s history, Business Insider first reported.

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