In recent months, Donald Trump asked advisers for a “list” of staff at the National Archives who he should purge, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Trump said the list was to include, but not be limited to, Archives officials involved with the effort to get the Biden-era …
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The Super Bowl halftime show has changed a lot since the late 1960s, when college marching bands took to the field for mid-game entertainment. But in recent years, one element of the show has been remarkably consistent: right-wing chuds protesting that the Black superstars performing are dull, untalented, or somehow …
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The new boss at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had a jarring message for staffers Monday morning, in an internal memo leaked to Rolling Stone: “Stand down from performing any work task.” The message came from Russell Vought — a Project 2025 architect who was confirmed by the Senate last …
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Donald Trump‘s plan to forcibly displace Gazans so the United States can “own” the Gaza strip amounts to “ethnic cleansing” and is against international law, a United Nations expert said. The president on Tuesday announced, in a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “The U.S. will take over …
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The early rise in value of Donald Trump’s memecoin, $TRUMP, helped some investors to earn significant profit while its crash caused more than 810,000 crypto wallets to lose $2 billion combined, according to an analysis reviewed by The New York Times. Meanwhile, Trump and his family have brought in approximately …
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J.D. Vance has signaled the Trump administration may try to ignore judicial orders, which could trigger a constitutional crisis. The vice president wrote today on X, “If a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to command …
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President Donald Trump announced his plans to gut theboard of trusteesof the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, along with his intention to boot its chairman, billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein. In his place, Trump declared that he would reinstate himself as head of the revered cultural …
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A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive and confidential information within the Treasury Department. In a decision Saturday — which followed 19 state attorneys and unions suing the federal government over DOGE’s access to the Treasury’s payments system — …
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A week before President Donald Trump was set to be sworn-in in front of a scaled-down crowd at the Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C. felt completely still. Eight years earlier, the city had been electric with dissent, planes and busloads full of protesters already arriving, eager to demonstrate their displeasure with …
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The Vice President and Elon Musk, the de-facto head of government under Donald Trump, are tag teaming on social media to promote the reinstatement of Marko Elez, a key Musk deputy who departed his post inside the Treasury Department amid a Wall Street Journal exposé linking him to racist social …
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