The law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss) is facing blowback from the legal community after agreeing to provide $40 million in pro bono representation to the Trump administration in order to avoid being punished by the president for representing his political rivals and defending laws …
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Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, suggested on a podcast this week that missing Social Security checks aren’t a big deal, and that only a “fraudster” would actually complain if their monthly benefit didn’t come in the mail. “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month,” …
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I once took refuge from my political day job by attending laugh-filled game nights at the home of a person now firing tens of thousands of federal workers. For Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s right-hand man at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), life has always been a game. A …
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Brig. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Sr. was the first Black general in the U.S. Army, promoted in 1940. His son, Gen. Benjamin O. Davis Jr., became the first Black general in the U.S. Air Force in 1954. Their historic achievements broke racial barriers and paved the way for greater inclusion …
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In 2017, Kellyanne Conway, then a senior counselor to President Donald Trump, was reprimanded by her own party when she told Fox News viewers to go out and “buy Ivanka’s stuff.” The comment, a response to Nordstrom dropping Ivanka Trump’s products from their stores, was treated as a gross ethics …
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Minnesota state Senator Justin Eichorn resigned from jail on Thursday, after being arrested earlier this week on charges of arranging to solicit a minor for prostitution. The MAGA Republican was arrested on Monday after being caught in a sting operation orchestrated by Bloomington Police. According to law enforcement in the …
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Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday intended to “eliminate” the Department of Education, effectively reducing the department to its most bare-bone functions. He did so at a White House ceremony, surrounded by children sitting at school desks. “My administration will take all lawful steps to shut down the …
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President Donald Trump‘s executive order banning transgender people from military service was blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Ana C. Reyes issued a preliminary injunction allowing trans members to continue serving in the military, ruling that the new policy violated the Constitution’s equal protection clause. “Indeed, …
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Donald Trump’s return to the White House has been marked by a campaign of autocratic, verging on fascist action to match the brazen rhetoric from his campaign. The president has sought to strip the citizenship of children born in this country by fiat, and declared the sexual identities of millions …
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Elon Musk, who is leading Donald Trump’s unprecedented purge of the federal workforce, claimed it doesn’t make sense that people dislike him because he’s only ever “done productive things” and has “never done anything harmful.” Americans — to an ever increasing proportion — disagree. As tens of thousands of federal …
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