The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can resume mass firing of staff at federal agencies. On Tuesday, the court lifted an order from a lower court blocking the enforcement of a February executive order in which President Donald Trump laid out plans for large scale firings and …
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In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back to the United States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed, in turn, that he did not “have the …
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Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has “joked” about. Built in eight days, …
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President Donald Trump’s administration deported eight immigrants to South Sudan, a dangerous country where most of the men have no ties, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday. The Friday night deportations come after two federal judges refused to block the move, citing recent rulings by the Supreme Court. The …
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After publicly feuding with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, announced Saturday that he has started a new political party. Musk made the announcement a day after Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on Friday, which Musk called a “disgusting abomination.” Musk said he could …
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Donald Trump used the antisemitic term “Shylocks” while speaking at an event in Iowa Thursday night. The president employed the slur to describe predatory loan lenders while discussing the newly passed domestic tax and spending bill, which he has dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill.” “Think of that: no death tax, …
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The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” —Donald Trump and the GOP’s sprawling legislative packagethat will cut taxes on the rich, supercharge the administration’s immigration raids and arrests, and gut green-energy initiatives while kicking millions of Americans off their health care and other social services — is now law. The president signed …
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia described a harrowing account of his detainment during the nearly three months he was wrongfully imprisoned in El Salvador thanks to Donald Trump’s administration, claiming he was beaten, deprived of sleep, and psychologically tortured. According to court papers filed by his lawyers on Wednesday, upon his arrival …
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke for eight hours and 44 minutes on the House floor on Thursday, in a marathon speech delaying the passage of = Donald Trump’s Medicaid-and-food-assistance slashing, tax-gift-for-the-wealthy abomination of a reconciliation bill. The speech breaks the record for longest ever delivered on the House floor, …
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Republicans are clapping each other on the back after passing one of the most destructive pieces of legislation to ever target the American poor and middle class. Donald Trump and the GOP’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” belly-flopped through Congress not because it makes sense economically, environmentally, or morally — but …
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