Bondi’s dismissal comes after reports that Trump was increasingly unhappy about her handling of Department of Justice files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and the DOJ’s failure to successfully prosecute several of the president’s political enemies.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will as acting interim attorney general, Trump said.
NASA’s Artemis II crew NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, arrived at Launch Complex 39B at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where the agency’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with Orion spacecraft atop stands ready for launch. The opening of today’s launch window is slated for just over 4 hours from now, at 6:24 p.m. EDT.
In the next few minutes, the crew will take the elevator up the pad’s fixed service structure and walk down the climate-controlled crew access arm to the White Room, their final stop before climbing aboard their Orion spacecraft. In this clean, controlled environment at the end of the crew access arm, the closeout crew will assist the astronauts with hatch operations and verify that all safety systems are ready for launch.
Since the late 1960s, pads A and B at Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39 have supported America’s major space programs, with Pad A used most frequently for launches under the Space Shuttle Program. After the retirement of the shuttle in 2011, Pad A helped usher in a new era of human spaceflight as launch pad for the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, which returned human spaceflight capability to the United States. Pad B saw the launch of NASA’s Artemis I mission in November 2022 and will continue to be the primary launch pad for America’s efforts to return to humans the Moon.
The goal, recover hundreds of billions of dollars in stolen taxpayer funds and reward the tipsters who help the federal government find the money.
It’s almost like a suitcase in an airport, if you see something say something,” Bessent told Fox News Monday.
Managed by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the program incentivizes whistleblowers with potentially huge paydays, upwards of 30% of what’s collected, to help the federal government recover stolen taxpayer money. It targets fraud in Medicaid & Medicare, government relief programs, and Covid-era economic relief. Beyond standard fraud, it covers money laundering, sanctions violations and the bank secrecy act.
Some considerations regarding birthright citizenship.
@Mark_McEathron on X:
A little history on the 14th Amendment and the “birthright citizenship” clause.
I’m reminded that a lot of people do not know the process involved in bringing an amendment from concept to to ratification and law, or why that process matters.
Jacob Howard (Senate) and John Bingham (House) were the two guys that drafted and presented the proposed amendment to Congress.
Once submitted, there is debate. Members of Congress express concerns, propose changes, and so on. These debates are recorded for posterity to look back upon to better understand what the legislation is intended to do.
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