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Endangered Species ‘God Squad’ to Meet to Promote Oil Drilling

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will convene the Endangered Species Committee, or “God Squad,” for the first time in decades to exempt imperiled species in the Gulf of Mexico from protections to support offshore oil drilling, according to a Federal Register notice posted late Friday.

US Hits Military Targets on Iran’s Kharg Island as War Escalates

President Donald Trump said the US bombed military targets on a critical Iranian outpost in the Persian Gulf and threatened additional strikes targeting oil infrastructure if Tehran continued to block energy flows, in the latest escalation of the two-week conflict that has upended the region.

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Rahm Emanuel Wants Democrats to Ditch Culture War, Talk Prices

Rahm Emanuel says Democrats ‘lost the American people’ on cultural issues -- but he knows how they can win them back in November.

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Pentagon Boosted Guided Missile Procurement Before Iran Strikes

The Defense Department awarded $18.4 billion in unclassified spending for missile defense systems in fiscal 2025, with procurement for guided missiles within that market increasing by 52% from the previous year’s levels, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis.

Top 20: Agencies Push Billion-Dollar Enterprise Health Care Bids

Two enterprise-scale opportunities estimated to serve more than 150 million Americans would modernize government health service delivery as health care costs rise and federal agencies move to consolidate contracts around commercial solutions.

BGOV Bill Analysis: Senate-Amended Housing Package

The Housing and Urban Development Department would create new programs to support affordable housing, ramp up housing production in states and cities, and ease environmental regulations for federally funded housing developments under a Senate amendment to H.R. 6644.

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