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Donald Trump’s picture could soon be on every new U.S. passport.The State Department is finalizing a plan to put the president’s face in the travel document, The Bulwark reports, citing two sources with knowledge of the passport redesign, one of whom provided pictures. The new passports will include Trump’s second inaugural portrait superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, along with his signature in gold.According to The Bulwark, there will be a “limited run” of 25,000 of these Trump passports, which are still waiting to be approved. While the current U.S. passport includes an image of Mount Rushmore, which has the heads of four presidents, this would be the first stand-alone image of a U.S. president, living or dead, in a passport. No foreign passports have included pictures of heads of state, and U.S. passports have previously carried the signature of the secretary of state, but not the president.Trump has made a habit of putting his name on things in his second term as president, from the U.S. Institute of Peace to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He’s put banners with his face on federal buildings and created a website for prescriptions called TrumpRx.gov.This new passport is supposedly part of the 250th anniversary of American independence, and comes as the Treasury Department hopes to produce two coins with Trump’s face on them: a $1 coin with Trump’s face on it for general circulation and a commemorative coin that would be “as large as possible.” The president seems intent on having Americans feel shame every time they open their wallet or travel overseas.

When you’re out and about, your face isn’t just visible − it’s captured. John Keeble/Getty Images Jonathan S. Weissman, Rochester Institute of Technology A woman strolls into a grocery store, thinking about grabbing some apples. Before she even reaches the produce aisle, a security camera has scanned her face. Whether the system is checking for […]

The settlers are increasingly crossing the border into Syria, with at least tacit support from the Israeli military.

Apollo Global Management bankrupt two of Maine’s largest paper mills, selling them for scraps and wiping out more than 1,000 jobs. Now the CEO is cutting checks to keep Susan Collins in office.

The Department of Justice just indicted former FBI Director James Comey again. This time, it’s over an Instagram post. No, seriously. Almost a year ago, Comey drew massive backlash from the right after he posted a picture of seashells arranged on the beach in North Carolina that read, “8647.” He claimed he’d come across the shells, already arranged, while taking a walk and assumed it was a political message. Some accused the former FBI director of calling to “86,” or kill, the forty-seventh president, Donald Trump. Comey faces two charges. One for allegedly “knowingly and willfully [making] a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States,” and one for “knowingly and willfully [transmitting] in interstate and foreign commerce a communication that contained a threat to kill the President.” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stated the charges during a press conference Tuesday afternoon and said the investigation had been ongoing for 11 months.At the time, the Secret Service tracked Comey down on vacation with his family. He deleted the post and apologized. “I didn’t realize some folks associate those numbers with violence. It never occurred to me but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” he said last year.Kristi Noem, then-secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard both called for Comey to be jailed. Speaking to Fox News in May, Trump dismissed Comey’s apology: “He knew exactly what that meant. A child knows what that meant.”The government’s first indictment of Comey for allegedly giving false testimony and obstructing a probe about the FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election quickly fell apart at the seams last year.The seemingly flimsy case was initially plagued by warnings from prosecutors that there wasn’t enough evidence to indict Comey in the first place, and concerns around how evidence had been handled. Eventually, a judge ruled that U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had been improperly appointed, and the indictments she’d signed for Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James were subsequently voided. This story has been updated.

A new memo circulating on Capitol Hill details why the US is obligated to cut weapons to Israel – even if Israel wants to buy them with its own money.