Mark Hays is the Associate Director, Cryptocurrency and Financial Technology at Demand Progress Education Fund and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund. Days before taking the oath of office, Donald Trump and his family launched a new cryptocurrency token — known informally as a meme coin — called $TRUMP, as …
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The original Law & Order premiered on Thursday, Sept. 13, 1990. Fourteen million people tuned in. Thirty-four years later, on Dec. 16, after years of the show’s early seasons being inexplicably absent on American streaming services, the first 20 seasons — all 456 episodes — were released on Hulu, and …
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The first Saturday Night Live since Donald Trump‘s second inauguration began with the Republican president interrupting the signing of the Declaration of Independence–which Lin-Manuel Miranda had begun to rap about–in order to proclaim that he’s in his “king era.” Trump (James Austin Johnson) proceeded to defend his actions thus far, …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Donald Trump‘s second inauguration, his dozens of controversial executive orders, and the salute by Elon Musk that has neo-Nazis and white nationalists overjoyed. Co-anchor Colin Jost noted that during his oath, Trump was seen not placing his hand on the Lincoln Bible. “Well, he …
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President Donald Trump endorsed the idea of relocating Palestinians in Gaza, proposing to send refugees to Jordan and Egypt to “clean out” the Gaza Strip. Speaking about his recent conversation with King Abdullah of Jordan, Trump told reporters on Air Force One, “I said to him, ‘I’d love for you …
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Vice President J.D. Vance attacked the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which came out against some executive orders signed by President Donald Trump, including ones that would allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to enter churches and schools. Vance accused the church of helping immigrants to help “their bottom line.” Archbishop …
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The Trump administration is working on an asylum agreement with El Salvador. The deal would allow the United States to deport migrants who are not from El Salvador — including possibly Venezuelan gang members — to the small Central American nation to seek asylum, CBS News reported, citing two sources …
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Consumers in the United States are about to pay the price for Donald Trump seeking revenge. The president announced “emergency tariffs” of 25 percent on all Colombian goods to the United States, along with other “retaliatory measures,” because President Gustavo Petro refused to accept two U.S. military flights of deported …
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Last year, Donald Trump and his 2024 staff were worried about U.S. intel suggesting there could be an Iranian plot to assassinate the former and now current American president. Yet, in the waning months of that election, Trump — who survived a separate attempt on his life just before his …
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The last time Dr. Julius Winston Garvey saw his father, Marcus, was in London in 1938, when he was just five years old. Dr. Garvey remembers glimpses of his life with him, like their trips for ice cream or the times his dad looked on as he ran through the …
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