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Trump pardons 2 auto workers on stage during rally in Alaska

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President Trump during a political rally in the state late Tuesday granted onstage pardons to two Alaska auto shop owners who pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act — an unusually public use of the president's clemency power.

The president said the two men — Zachary Czubak and Patrick Fleming — were "wrongly charged," and cast the charges against the two men as an example of how the Biden-era Justice Department "viciously targeted the Alaskan way of life."

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Trump says oil, gas and mineral exploration "getting ready to begin" in Greenland

President Trump said Wednesday that "massive" oil, gas and mineral exploration is preparing to begin in Greenland. In a statement posted on his Truth Social platform, Mr. Trump said "Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin in our new and beautiful Greenland," but did not give more details. The president added that "there are Experts that are saying that the amount of easily available Oil is far greater than that of almost any land, anywhere in the World."

USABC News

Federal judge grants preliminary injunction continuing to block Trump's media ban

A federal judge late Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction continuing to block the Trump administration's move to bar CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly's injunction orders the defendants to continue to preserve the status quo while the case proceeds. It follows a temporary restraining order the same judge issued last month blocking Trump's attempt to ban the news organizations from the White House.

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Judge extends White House access to banned media outlets CNN, MS Now and Politico

District court judge Timothy Kelly was ruling after the Trump administration blocked access to the three outlets in September A federal judge ordered the White House on Tuesday to continue allowing journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico to access the building as the media coalition’s lawsuit against the Trump administration plays out. Timothy Kelly, a district court judge, had on 24 September granted a 14-day reprieve for the news organizations, which six days earlier had been banned by the president in an extraordinary move from entering the White…

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New details in text messages between Jane Doe and frat members

It was a Monday evening around dinner time when a text popped up on Jane Doe's cellphone on Oct. 21, 2024, less than 48 hours after a night of excessive drinking, drug use and group sex at the Chi Phi fraternity house on the Cornell University campus. Over two weeks of intermittent texting, in messages obtained by CBS News, Doe told one of the fraternity members they shouldn't feel shame and asked him to look for earrings she thought she lost that night.