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White House And Pentagon Clash Over $80M ReElement Critical Minerals Deal The Pentagon is reconsidering an $80 million conditional loan to rare-earths refiner ReElement Technologies, raising tensions with the White House over efforts to reduce US reliance on China for critical minerals, according to Bloomberg. The loan, announced in November through the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital (OSC), was part of a broader $1.4 billion critical-minerals initiative alongside Vulcan Elements. But officials reviewing the deal have questioned ReElement’s ability to scale production and meet long-term revenue targets, according to people familiar...

Trump DOJ Opens Civil Rights Probe Into Liberal New Jersey Town Over Gun Permit Delays The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division has opened an investigation into the city of Pennsauken, New Jersey, on Wednesday to determine whether the township police department's handling of firearm permits has become so slow that it violates the Second Amendment.  Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the division's Second Amendment Section would "defend law-abiding citizens from local authorities who infringe on the right to safely carry legal firearms." She added: "Our investigation aims to discover if allegations...