The federal government on Tuesday is slated to implement a freeze on tens of billions of dollars in federal grants. President Donald Trump ordered the stop as part of his larger effort to purge the government of programs and expenditures promoting diversity initiatives. The suspension is already having a wide-ranging …
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This story was published in partnership with Drilled, a global multimedia reporting project focused on climate accountability. In December, the Biden administration quietly announced the finalization of its long-awaited study on liquefied natural gas, or LNG, exports. While Joe Biden is no longer president, the study’s release could complicate President …
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As President Donald Trump moves to purge DEI and “woke” programs from all swaths of the federal government in a frenzy of executive orders and directives, his supporters are cannibalizing one of their own. In 1999, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) became the first woman to graduate from The Citadel military …
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As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. prepared to sit for his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, former U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy is warning senators that her cousin is a “predator” who is “addicted to attention and power.” In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, and later published online, Kennedy wrote …
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U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan has partially blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an order halting the distribution of billions — potentially trillions — in federal funds and grant money to government programs. AliKhan ordered the administration to “maintain the status quo” until Feb. 3 in regard to the continued …
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Kash Patel will sit down in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday to explain why he should be confirmed to lead an agency he seems to despise. Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said he would shut down the agency’s headquarters “on Day …
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Donald Trump’s first week in office was defined by a torrent of executive orders and proclamations, with the president openly hailing the beginning of a transformative era of American politics. While Trump is more than happy to brag about the orders he’s signed cracking down on undocumented migrants, targeting transgender …
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On any given day over the last two-and-a-half years, outgoing White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would show up to work with no idea how that day might unfold. She might get to announce from the lectern that President Joe Biden had just protected millions of acres of Arctic wilderness, …
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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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