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Missouri state Rep. Phil Amato (R) has introduced a bill that would require the state to maintain a database to track pregnant women who are at "risk" of having an abortion.

The Missouri House Democratic Caucus warned about Amato's HB 807 on social media this week.

"ARE YOU SERIOUS!?" the group asked on Facebook. "Tomorrow in the Missouri House of Representatives, the Committee on Children and Families will discuss a bill that's being branded as a reform to the adoption system. In reality, HB 807 would require the state to TRACK PREGNANT WOMEN in a database."

"We have to imagine even conservative Missourians would be horrified by this idea. The elected Republicans in Jefferson City need to hear from us loud and often that this is an extreme government overreach and a creepy, draconian measure aimed at scaring our fellow citizens," the post added.

According to the bill's text, the "Save MO Babies Act" would establish a registry within the Department of Social Services the Division of Maternal and Child Resources under the guise of promoting adoptions.

"The Division is required to make and maintain a central registry of each expecting mother who is at risk for seeking an abortion and a central registry of each prospective adoptive parent who has successfully completed certain screenings, background checks, home studies, and other investigations to ensure the fit of the prospective parent to adopt a child," the bill said.

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"The Division can share records, information, and findings with federal, state, or local child welfare agency personnel and law enforcement agencies, including those outside of this state, in the performance of the Division's duties," the document warned.

According to Missouri's bill tracking system, a public hearing for the measure was held Tuesday morning.

White House aide Stephen Miller launched into a barrage of shouting aimed at CNN's Brianna Keilar Tuesday as she grilled him on cuts being made by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and the sensitive information the billionaire's team might be accessing.

An animated Miller proclaimed, "You may assert there is no waste in the Pentagon. You may assert there is no waste in Treasury. You may assert there's no wasted in HHS."

Keilar tried to interrupt, "Stephen. Stephen, I don't think anyone — "

"Then why are you not celebrating these cuts?" Miller exploded, raising his voice to shouting level. "If you agree there is waste, if you agree there is abuse, if you agree there is corruption, why are you not celebrating the cuts, the reforms that are being instituted. Every day that no action is taken, the entire salaries of American workers that are taxed disappear forever!"

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"Stephen, let's calm down," Keilar admonished. "We're not having a debate —"

"Well, you're clearly trying to debate me, and I will be as excited as I want to be about the fact that we are saving Americans billions of dollars, that we are ending the theft and waste and grift and corruption, that we are stopping American taxpayer dollars from subsidizing a rogue federal bureaucracy that has been relentlessly weaponized against the American people."

Keilar and Miller continued to argue over one another until Keilar finally said, "Stephen, I'm just asking — I wanted to get your position on some things. We're not taking a position here, we wanted to get some answers."

Miller shot back, "It doesn't sound to me like you are indifferent or unbiased on these questions, but thank you."

His response left Keilar visibly shocked. She responded by saying goodbye.

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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Department of Government Efficiency Chair Elon Musk demanded access to the gold stored at Fort Knox.

Writing on Musk's social media platform X, Lee said he was repeatedly denied access to the facility after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) encouraged an audit of the nation's gold stores.

"As a U.S. senator, I've tried repeatedly to get into Fort Knox," Lee wrote on Monday.

"You can't come to Fort Knox," the senator claimed he was told.

Musk responded by suggesting the gold was "stolen."

"Who is confirming that gold wasn't stolen from Fort Knox?" he asked. "Maybe it's there, maybe it's not. That gold is owned by the American public! We want to know if it's still there."

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Musk shared a meme in a follow-up message: "Looking for the gold at Fort Knox... ANNND IT'S GONE."

The billionaire has said that he wanted to do a "live video walkthrough of Fort Knox."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) received a surprising defense from a Trump-supporting attorney after "border czar" Tom Homan threatened to investigate her for allegedly impeding law enforcement.

Homan repeated Sunday that he asked the Department of Justice to look into Ocasio-Cortez's recent live webinar called "Know Your Rights With ICE," where migrants were advised on what to do if confronted by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.

"I asked the Department of Justice, where is that line on impediment, right? It's a broad statute," Homan told CNN's Dana Bash. "Because you can call it 'Know Your Rights' all you want. We all know what the bottom line is. The bottom line is, how do they evade law enforcement?"

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Attorney Jonathan Turley posted to social media Monday, "Border Czar Tom Homan doubled down last night that Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) might be prosecuted for hosting a forum on ‘Know Your Rights’ for accused illegal aliens. Such a prosecution would be an assault on free speech rights."

But Turley couldn't help but take a swipe at the ultra-liberal AOC in a second post, accusing her of being no friend to the First Amendment.

"While AOC has never been a defender of free speech, principle demands something more from the rest of us who value the First Amendment. Just as VP Vance offered a powerful defense of free speech in Europe, this baseless threat undermines the high ground achieved in Munich," Turley wrote.

The "high ground" Turley referred to was a stunning speech given by Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Council. He slammed Germany over censorship and encouraged the government to listen to the country's far-right political parties. Vance was criticized at home and abroad, with Rep. Laura Gillen (D-NY) slamming Vance as "embracing a group that flirts with Nazism."

In response to Homan's repeated threats, Ocasio-Cortez posted, "Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start."

Emergency crews raced to a Delta Airlines airplane at Toronto Pearson International Airport, and the images stunned CNN anchors who remarked the plane appeared to be "upside down on the runway."

The crash happened Monday afternoon, with CNN anchor Boriz Sanchez telling viewers crews were responding to a "landing incident." The plane originated from Minneapolis, Minnesota, according to the report.

"Yeah. I mean we're calling it a landing incident but this is really serious," remarked fellow anchor Brianna Keilar.

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She later added, "Ther appears to be — from afar — but we can see wheels that look — its upside down."

"Yeah it looks to me to be some kind of landing gear issue on the way down," replied safety analyst David Soucie. The plane may have slid off the runway.

CNN later reported all souls were accounted for. The number of injuries wasn't immediately known.

The most recent incident follows multiple plane crashes in the United States, with 67 people killed in a collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a military Blackhawk helicopter in Washington, D.C.

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President Donald Trump's administration, guided by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), reportedly began firing staff responsible for air traffic control amid more than a half dozen recent airplane crashes.

The Associated Press reported that probationary employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began receiving emails on Friday night saying they would be terminated.

"The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing, and navigational aid maintenance," the AP reported after talking to one anonymous air traffic controller.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association was "analyzing the effect of the reported federal employee terminations on aviation safety, the national airspace system, and our members," the group said in a statement.

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The firings come just days after a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines passenger jet in Washington, D.C., killing over 60. Since then, at least six other plane crashes and wrecks have reportedly occurred.