George W. Bush has kept his feelings about Donald Trump’s policies almost completely to himself over the past decade, offering little more than a hushed “that was some weird shit” at the 2017 inauguration. But the Associated Press got their hands on footage from a recent private videoconference call where …
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Bono and Joe Rogan clashed over the humanitarian impact of DOGE’s cuts — specifically the planned gutting of USAID — during the U2 singer’s visit to the podcast Friday. During the episode, Bono confronted Rogan — a friend of the now-outgoing DOGE head Elon Musk — about a study that …
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A judge ruled this week that Donald Trump’s administration violated his order barring officials from deporting people to third countries by attempting to send a group of Asian immigrants to South Sudan — and directed them to maintain custody of the immigrants at a U.S. military base. On Friday night, …
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B en Vizzachero had his dream job, working as a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National Forest in California. He was moving up the ladder, had recently received a positive performance review, and was “making the world a better place,” he says. Yet, over Presidents’ Day weekend in February, …
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The lawyer working for Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) who now leads the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has a history of violence and racist remarks, 10 people who knew him allege. Jeremy Lewin recently became deputy administrator for policy and programs for …
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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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When veterans came home from war — from Vietnam, from Iraq, from Afghanistan — many of us didn’t stop serving. We traded our uniforms for suits. Veterans joined the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Commerce Department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and every agency flying …
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Last month, unelected shadow president Elon Musk told President Donald Trump’s Cabinet that he and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) had “accidentally canceled” Ebola prevention programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, which the new administration has tried to dismantle. With a chuckle, …
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It started with a “wood chipper.” Now it has reached the paper-shredder stage. When the shredder is tired, it will reach the burn-bag phase. The Elon Musk-led destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that began in early February, with a freeze of federal grants and an order …
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The Supreme Court rejected a bid by the Trump administration to continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid. In a 5-4 decision on Wednesday, the court declined to overturn a lower court ruling that ordered the administration to unfreeze over $2 billion in USAID funds to pay outstanding invoices …
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