President Donald Trump signed an executive order today that takes aim at ticket scalpers and “rent-seeking behaviors surrounding the ticketing industry.” The order denounced scalpers for using “bots and other unfair means to acquire large quantities of face-value tickets” and reselling them at “an enormous markup on the secondary market, …
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Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update mocked nearly every Trump administration official involved in the scandal of inadvertently providing attack plans to a journalist via a Signal group chat. On Monday, The Atlantic reported that National Security Adviser Mike Waltz accidentally added the publication’s editor-in-chief to a chat in which Defense …
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“I think we are making a mistake,” wrote Vice President J.D. Vance in the now-infamous chat group discussing plans to carry out military strikes in Yemen. To his credit, Vance has been consistent in his skepticism about the use of American military power to solve the world’s problems. It is …
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Donald Trump played the strongman in a Saturday interview. The president said he is growing increasingly frustrated with Russia and its refusal to sign a Ukraine ceasefire agreement as well as with Iran for not reaching a nuclear deal with the U.S. Trump said he is “very angry” and “pissed …
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Fresh off J.D. Vance‘s embarrassingly truncated visit to Greenland, President Donald Trump said that using “military force” to seize the semi-autonomous territory from Denmark is not “off the table.” “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker in a Saturday phone call. “No, I never take military …
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The Trump administration is revoking students’ immigration status without notifying them or their schools, according to Zeteo. Citing documents and interviews with university officials, Zeteo reported that “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status — an authority typically left to university staff.” Sometimes, ICE …
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has obtained a list from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that reveals just how terrifyingly easy it is for the government to designate a Venezuelan immigrant as an “Alien Enemy,” including allowing ICE officers to declare tattoos and items of clothing as containing gang …
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Columbia University announced Friday that its interim president, Katrina A. Armstrong, was stepping down. The news arrives a week after the university caved to a list of demands from the Trump administration, which refused to restore $400 million in federal funding unless drastic concessions were made. Armstrong had replaced former …
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Reports that Donald Trump’s top national security officials accidentally shared their Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic in real-time drove the news in official Washington in recent days. But it wasn’t the only damaging leak of information held by the administration this week. Two Trump administration spreadsheets — which each …
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Donald Trump wants to end union rights he says could “interfere” with America’s national security interests. On Thursday night, the president signed an executive order aimed at preventing groups of employees who deal with national security from collective bargaining. The move comes as federal unions have been challenging the administration’s …
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