White Supremacist Leader Faces Trial in Baltimore for Alleged Scheme to Sabotage City’s Power Grid

The white supremacist and neo-Nazi beliefs of a Florida man accused of plotting to destroy Baltimore’s power grid are not up for debate in federal court over the next two weeks, a prosecutor and defense attorney agreed at the outset of his trial Tuesday. Instead, jurors will decide whether Brandon Clint Russell, 29, participated in…

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Musk’s Critique of USAID Provokes Democratic Backlash; GOP Members Favor Merging It with State Department

The rapid decimation of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s workforce in recent days led congressional Democrats to vent their fury Monday over billionaire Elon Musk’s attacks on the agency, while Republicans said USAID was wasting taxpayers’ money and they would be content to see it absorbed into the State Department. Democrats said President Donald Trump had created a constitutional crisis over the agency, and late Monday…

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