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160 national security staffers are sent home as the White House aligns its team to Trump’s agenda  The Associated Press

The party’s over: Trump White House cracks down on aides drinking with lawmakers in Washington  Yahoo! Voices

Hundreds of “illegal immigrant criminals” arrested, hundreds more flown out of U.S. by military, White House says  CBS News

Trump’s controversial Pentagon pick Pete Hegseth confirmed by Senate  The Guardian US Manu Raju explains the significance of McConnell’s ‘no’ vote on Hegseth  CNN DAVID MARCUS: GOP trio missed the whole point of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth  Fox News Pete Hegseth: five

Israel receives names of four female hostages Hamas is due to release Saturday  CNN Live updates: More hostages and prisoners set to be released during Israel-Hamas ceasefire  CNN Family of freed hostage Liri Albag: ‘She showed superpowers and survived hell,’ our hearts

Trump, longtime California antagonist, praised the state during LA fires visit  POLITICO Trump meets with California residents, fire and law enforcement officials to see LA wildfire damage first hand  Fox News Altadena residents feel forgotten as Trump tours Pacific Palisades fire devastation  Los

President Trump made good on a campaign promise to ask the Department of the Interior to recognize the Lumbee people of North Carolina — a tribe whose Native identity has long been called into question. (Image credit: Chris Seward)

5 likely choices for who really ran the disastrous Biden White House  Fox News

When the German philosopher Immanuel Kant puzzled over why nature looks beautiful to us, he considered the case of replicas. Imagine, Kant wrote in the late 1700s, a jovial innkeeper who, for lack of a nightingale to enchant his guests,

TEL AVIV, Israel — Hamas militants handed over four captive female Israeli soldiers to the Red Cross in Gaza City on Saturday after parading them in front of a crowd. Israel was set to release 200 Palestinian prisoners or detainees