Days after National Public Radio (NPR) sued the Trump administration over attempts to cut off its federal funding, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has also filed a lawsuit, claiming that the proposed cuts violate the First Amendment. Trumpsignedan executive order earlier this month ordering the government “to cease Federal funding …
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Bernard Kerik, who served as New York City’s police commissioner on Sept. 11 and later pleaded guilty to federal corruption and tax crimes, died on Thursday at the age of 69. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed Kerik’s death “after a private battle with illness,” and praised Kerik as “a warrior, …
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I t’s an early May afternoon in Washington, D.C., and as a group of demonstrators gather outside of the Capitol protesting cuts to Medicaid, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is in her congressional office, excitedly pulling bright pink, blue, and yellow yarns out of her purse. “I am knitting a cardigan; I …
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Sen. Joni Ernst is encouraging her constituents to think big-picture about the Medicaid cuts in the “big, beautiful” bill President Donald Trump and House Republicans passed last week. The Iowa Republican tried to justify the cuts —which are expected to kick at least 10 million people off the health care …
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court dealt a body blow to America’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The court issued a unanimous decision that will buttress the Donald Trump administration’s efforts to gut the law and fast track fossil fuel projects. Environmental advocates contend that the result of …
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The Trump administration has plans to turn the idea of “remigration” — a term associated with the far-right in Europe and the forced removal of all immigrants back to their native countries — into an official federal office that will be dedicated to escalating deportations across the United States. In …
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It’s Elon Musk’s last day as an official employee of the federal government, “but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way” — at least according to President Donald Trump’s announcement of his parting press conference with the billionaire. In an Oval Office presser that …
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Elon Musk’s use of ketamine was so intense during the 2024 campaign that he complained it was negatively affecting his bladder function, according to a New York Times report detailing the billionaire’s drug use as he joined President Donald Trump’s circle last year. The Times paints a picture of a …
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President Donald Trump‘s assault of theSmithsonianInstitution and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives continued on Friday. The president announced on Truth Social that he was firing Kim Sajet, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, and accused her of being “a highly partisan person.” “Upon the request and recommendation …
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Donald Trump was blocked by a federal court on Wednesday from imposing a sprawling set of import taxes on nearly every country. The ruling was in response to two separate lawsuits by businesses and state officials who accused the president of overstepping his authority to issue those tariffs, leaving them …
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