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{beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment   The Big Story Trump eyes staff cuts at NPS, FWS, USGS, BLM Cuts to the federal agencies that manage national parks, science and public lands are expected to result in firings across the West, Southeast and Great Lakes, among other places, Trump administration plans reveal. © Getty…

Republican leaders are making plans for a new, longer continuing resolution (CR) to fund the government at current levels as the government shutdown drags into its fourth week. Consensus is growing that the GOP-crafted “clean” CR to fund the government through Nov. 21 — which passed the House in September but has been voted down…

President Trump on Tuesday confirmed his legal team is seeking money from his own Justice Department as compensation for past investigations into his conduct. Trump was asked about a New York Times report that his legal team is demanding $230 million in compensation.  “I don’t know the numbers, I don’t even talk to them about…

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) filed a lawsuit Tuesday over GOP leaders’ refusal to seat a newly elected Democratic lawmaker. The suit asks a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to declare Adelita Grijalva a member of the House and allow someone else to administer the oath if Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) won’t do so. Mayes’s…

Jon Stewart on Monday said President Trump resembles a king based on several allusions made by Republicans, days after millions took to the streets on “No Kings Day.” “The Daily Show” host played a series of clips of the president’s allies and pundits referring to Trump as “a miracle worker,” “God’s chosen instrument for this…