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The Trump administration has officially dropped all criminal theft charges against Charles and Heather Maude, a South Dakota ranching couple previously accused of unlawfully using 25 acres of federal land managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The case, which dates back to the Biden administration, drew national attention and was widely viewed by conservatives as an example of government overreach targeting rural Americans.
In a high-profile press conference held Wednesday on the front steps of the USDA’s Whitten Building in Washington, D.C., top officials in the Trump administration—including U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. . .
