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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in the hot seat this week, with two Senate hearings on his nomination to run the nation's top health agency. We dig into an exclusive Washington Post examination of his statements on vaccines and where lawmakers stand on his nomination.
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One of President Donald Trump's Day One executive orders that flew under the radar is provoking significant pushback from Congress — including from at least one House Republican.The Atlantic reported Tuesday that Trump is now apparently violating Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution with an executive order pausing the disbursement of...
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The White House said Tuesday it was working to get the Medicaid website portal back online.Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on social media, "The White House is aware of the Medicaid website portal outage. We have confirmed no payments have been affected — they are still being processed and sent. We expect the portal will be back online...
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Donald Trump's Justice Department fired employees involved in special counsel Jack Smith's investigation of the president, which critics have said weaponized the agency — a claim made for years by the right against the Biden administration. NBC News's Ken Dilanian reported that career officials fired by Trump's team are employees with legal...
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A federal judge reportedly issued a "brief administrative stay" halting President Donald Trump's freeze on federal grant funding.In Tuesday's order, Trump attempted to pause federal grants and loans to conduct an ideological spending review. As the order was set to take effect at 5 p.m., Politico's Kyle Cheney reported that a federal judge halted...
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President Donald Trump pledged to bring down grocery prices on "Day One," but instead, egg prices have soared. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed President Joe Biden, who left office on Jan. 20, for the high cost of eggs. She complained that prices increased under the previous administration and ignored the dramatic increase since Trump's...
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President Donald Trump announced a spending freeze that will have a ripple effect across the country, and even the MAGA base will feel the severity. This is so significant that MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace thinks it could change the game for Democrats. Speaking on her show Tuesday, Wallace said that by reaching out to Democrats to appear on her show,...
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CNN's Jake Tapper cornered far-right White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, as he tried to justify the Trump administration's discretionary freeze on federal grants announced by the Office of Management and Budget — and blame the media for the public's confusion on whether they're about to lose access to critical support programs."So let's...
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The Washington Post's Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by White House reporter Cat Zakrzewski to discuss President Trump's first week back in office – and what happened the night he decided to fire more than a dozen government inspectors general.Plus, Trump's pause on government grants and loans is throwing Washington – and government...
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President Donald Trump's sweeping executive order freezing federal loans and grants has put a number of key government programs in jeopardy, and none may be bigger than Medicaid, which provides health insurance to more than 70 million Americans.Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), writing on BlueSky, revealed that "my staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid...
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President Donald Trump is making his most aggressive move yet to try to bring the gears of the federal government — and powers delegated to Congress — under his direct control, former Bill Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich warned in a lengthy post to Facebook on Tuesday.Trump's order, which was given by the Office of...
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Press secretary Karoline Leavitt stepped on a legal landmine during her first White House press briefing Tuesday when she declared the administration doesn't believe in the constitutionality of birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship is outlined in the 14th Amendment and guarantees, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and...
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Oklahoma's superintendent of public schools adamantly proclaimed to CNN on Tuesday that he would do anything he could to further President Donald Trump's agenda — even if it meant informing on his own students. Ryan Walters appeared with anchor Breanna Keilar to discuss a measure approved by Oklahoma's Board of Education that requires families to...
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Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unloaded on President Donald Trump in an escalation of the brewing Democratic opposition to the new administration as it unleashes a barrage of new executive orders."Trump is holding all the nation's hospitals and vital services hostage to seize power from Congress and hand it over to...
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Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) are demanding answers on President Donald Trump's move to fire over a dozen inspectors general.According to Politico, the two senators — who are the chair and ranking member, respectively, of the Senate Judiciary Committee — sent a joint letter warning Trump that he did not follow the...
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President Donald Trump put a stop to several budget items that directly impact Americans, including some of his own supporters, on Tuesday when he announced a temporary freeze on spending. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said Trump is making this move because his party doesn't support passing a budget that makes such cuts. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace...
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President Donald Trump's freeze on federal loans and grants has caused chaos across the United States and one group that ensures American seniors have food to eat is warning that it's already impacting their ability to fulfill their mission.Via Huffington Post reporter Arthur Delaney, Meals on Wheels issued a statement on Tuesday that painted a...
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A study released in the final days of Joe Biden's presidency could complicate Donald Trump's promise to "drill, baby, drill."The Department of Energy study was issued in December as the planned end point to the Biden administration's pause on liquefied natural gas, or LNG, exports until their climate and economic impact was more clear, and the...
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Donald Trump's tactics to ensure an "America First" foreign policy were on full display over the weekend as the president strong-armed Colombia into accepting planeloads of undocumented migrants that they previously turned away. But Trump's first instinct to threaten the trade ally with massive tariffs if they didn't bend to his will could actually...
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White House adviser Alina Habba lashed out at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) after he blasted President Donald Trump's freeze on federal grant programs."This decision is lawless, dangerous, destructive, cruel," Schumer said during a Tuesday press conference. "It's illegal. It's unconstitutional. I spoke to my [New York] attorney...
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Unless Democrats want to see eight years of J.D. Vance in the White House, they'll need to "pick a lane and stay in it like grandma white-knuckling her way" down the highway, writes MSNBC politics reporter Alexander Nazaryan in a new opinion piece.In other words, Democrats need to get over their identity crisis and come up with a platform that's...
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday promised major changes are coming soon to the way the school system in America operates.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said states should control their own education matters, which he said will happen "very soon.” The comments came after he praised Tennessee lawmakers who are debating a state...
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Kristi Noem began her first official news conference as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security with the national anthem, a prayer, and Trace Adkins' country song "Hot Mama."After participating in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids earlier in the day on Tuesday, Noem made remarks to DHS employees later in the...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) views his role as a "junior partner" to President Donald Trump — and in so doing, he is undermining the power of Congress as a co-equal branch of government, The New York Times reported."In the past couple of weeks, Mr. Johnson removed the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Michael R....
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CNN host Pamela Brown appeared stunned on Tuesday after Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) brushed off concerns about students being able to get lunches at school thanks to President Donald Trump's freeze of federal loans and grants.During the interview, Brown asked McCormick if he was really comfortable withholding funds that feed school children, and he...
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The United Nations confirmed Tuesday it had received notification from Washington of its withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement, a key campaign pledge of U.S. President Donald Trump.On his first day back in the White House, Trump announced the United States would leave the accord, which is managed by the UN climate change body. It...
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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston is one of four big city mayors called by congressional Republicans to testify at a hearing next month on so-called "sanctuary city” policies. Plans for the hearing, scheduled for Feb. 11, were announced Monday by House Oversight Committee Chair Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, who called it part of an...
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The Attorney General's Office did not violate the Missouri Sunshine Law when it refused to turn over records showing how it fulfilled a request, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. In a split decision, a three-judge panel ruled that the office reasonably concluded the records being sought by St. Louis attorney Elad Gross were...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to say whether President Donald Trump's order freezing federal grant funds would withhold health care benefits from Medicaid recipients.During her first White House briefing, ABC's Peter Alexander asked Leavitt about the funding freeze."So you're asking a hypothetical based on programs that you...
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"Abbott orders state police to help federal agents with immigration enforcement" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter that keeps...
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Tongliang Liu, University of Sydney Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek has sent shockwaves through the tech community, with the release of extremely efficient AI models that can compete with cutting-edge products from US companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Founded in 2023, DeepSeek has achieved its results with a fraction...
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CNN's Daniel Dale declared that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt employed a "classic spinmeister tactic" when she failed to directly answer questions about Trump's sudden freeze on all federal grants and loans.At issue was whether Americans who rely on federal assistance for things like food and medicine would lose their benefits.The...
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France could send troops to Greenland to defend against Donald Trump's threat to take control of the Danish territory, according to a high-ranking official.French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot told Sud Radio that France had discussed troop deployment with Denmark, which did not wish to proceed with the idea, reported Politico."If Denmark calls...
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Caroline Kennedy, the cousin of Trump Health and Human Services Department nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has sent a letter to lawmakers warning against confirming him to a White House cabinet position.The Washington Post reports that Kennedy paints a harsh portrait of her cousin, whom she describes as manipulative and dishonest."I have known...
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On the heels of former U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Lansing) retiring, newly minted Michigan senior U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-Bloomfield Twp.) has announced he will not seek reelection in 2026, opening the field for what will likely be another hotly contested Senate race. In a video posted to YouTube Tuesday, Peters discussed his experiences working...
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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt promised never to lie during her first briefing on Monday,In the second question to Leavitt, Associated Press correspondent Zeke Miller asked the press secretary if she would vow to "tell the unvarnished truth, that is, not to lie, not to obfuscate to the American people.""I commit to telling the truth...
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Donald Trump's new press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, announced Tuesday that the president had solved the mystery of the New Jersey drones.Reports of mysterious flying objects over the state in December left many rattled as officials failed to explain why they were there — though the U.S. government said it had not identified any foreign or...
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) blasted President Donald Trump's attempt to "seize power" and behave as a "king" by freezing federal grants while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological review of programs.In a statement, Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, explained the stoppage of federal...
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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon announced that his War Room had been granted official access to the White House briefing room.On his Tuesday broadcast, Bannon said that co-host Natalie Winters would fill the White House correspondent role."Natalie's taking on a new assignment for the War Room," Bannon said. "Not simply going to be co-hosting our...
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In their "Main Justice" podcast on Tuesday, former Justice Department officials Mary McCord and Andrew Weissmann noted that the judges overseeing Jan. 6 cases aren't going quietly since Donald Trump issued pardons to many of those convicted.McCord said that the interim Washington, D.C. district attorney who has taken over under Donald Trump's...
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Social media erupted Tuesday with users shocked and upset with CNN's decision to let anchor Jim Acosta go — while keeping conservative commentator Scott Jennings. The ruckus started after Acosta announced on-air Tuesday morning that he was leaving the network after 18 years. "You may have seen some reports about me and this show. And after...
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Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) refused to attend a Republican retreat at President Donald Trump's Doral resort in Florida and said the party should be "doing our damn job" instead.In a statement on Tuesday, Roy blasted the lavish annual Republican policy retreat at Doral."If you're asking me to go spend money to go sit in a resort rather than doing our damn...
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by Michael BLUMAn idea floated by U.S. President Donald Trump to move Gazans to Egypt or Jordan faced a renewed backlash Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of Gazans displaced by the Israel-Hamas war returned to their devastated neighborhoods.A fragile ceasefire and hostage release deal took effect earlier this month, intended to end more than 15...
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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday that New York Attorney General Letitia James will "go to court right away" to challenge the federal aid freeze instituted by President Donald Trump's Office of Management and Budget. A White House budget office memo called for a freeze on federal dollars being spent by 5 p.m. on Tuesday. It effectively...
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Republicans control the U.S. Senate by a 53-47 margin, but the newest member of the Senate Republican Conference may prove to be a thorn in President Donald Trump's side over the next four years.On Tuesday, the Christian Science Monitor published an interview with Sen. John Curtis (R-UT), who was recently elected to replace the outgoing Sen. Mitt...
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The congressional Republican retreat at Donald Trump's golf resort in south Florida is offering a financial windfall to the president as returns to office, according to a report Tuesday.GOP leaders have huddled at the Miami-area Trump National Doral Golf Club to hash out details of a plan that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) hopes will get the...
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"Texas counties left scrambling after critical election equipment loses its certification" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune's daily newsletter...
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President Donald Trump's order pausing all federal grants and loans has created chaos around the country as charities, universities, and other institutions now have no idea if they will have the resources they need to complete their missions.Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein revealed on X Tuesday morning that "my phone has been blowing up over...
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A former official in the government's Office of Management and Budget denounced a temporary pause to all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government as "a massive fraud" carried out by its not-yet-confirmed director Russell Vought.Topher Spiro, who served as associate director of health care programs under former president Joe Biden,...
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President Donald Trump's latest attempt to purge government officials is blatantly illegal, according to experts — and all but certain to trigger a lawsuit.This week, the president moved to clean house at the National Labor Relations Board, the agency responsible for investigating and adjudicating claims of violations of labor union law in the...
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A confrontational legislative hearing Monday — with a witness calling a state senator a fascist and lawmakers battling over whether the state should put a bounty on undocumented immigrants — set the tone for this year's debate on immigration and the state's role in border security. The most aggressive approach, in a bill filed by state Sen....
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Kristi Noem began her tenure as Department of Homeland Security secretary by dressing up as a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent and calling human beings "dirt bags." In an X post on the official DHS secretary account, Noem shared a five-second video of herself wearing an ICE vest. "Here in New York City this morning, we are...
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) on Tuesday angrily condemned President Donald Trump's decision to pause all federal grants and loans in a move that many critics have called flatly illegal.Appearing on Jim Acosta's show on CNN, DeLauro outlined the danger facing many of her constituents from Trump's unprecedented actions."I think this is really...
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One of President Donald Trump's most litigious associates just lost in court yet again.According to Law & Crime, former Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) was handed a blow by a federal appeals court, which upheld a lower court's ruling that gave summary judgment in favor of journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines, which he sued for defamation after they...
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out many of President Donald Trump's first moves as likely to be overturned by legal challenges — but he said they still signaled the direction he wanted to take the government.The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday fired more than a dozen officials who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's investigations into...
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President Donald Trump ran as a law and order candidate who would crack down on crime — but that was always a farce from the start, Amanda Marcotte wrote for Salon Tuesday.And she added his first week in office suggests he will in fact make crime significantly worse.In a sense, she argued, this is only to be expected from a man who was facing...
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Dr. Paul Offit, the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, went on CNN Tuesday to shred Republicans who are willing to fall in line and confirm anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run the Department of Health and Human Services.During his appearance on the network, host Brianna...
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A transgender woman inmate serving her sentence in a women's federal prison sued the Trump administration on Sunday, arguing that Republican U.S. President Donald Trump's recent executive order narrowly defining sex violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, is "motivated by discriminatory animus" toward trans people, and...
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A CNN panel cornered a Republican strategist who tried to assert that President Donald Trump was justified in his purge of career Justice Department prosecutors because they fall under the executive branch — after years of bemoaning that former President Joe Biden weaponized the very same agency.Scott Jennings, who has served as an advisor on...
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Donald Trump's political enemies are preparing themselves for the possibility of retribution now that he's returned to office.Former president Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons shortly before leaving the White House last week to some high-profile Trump critics – and some members of his own family – to protect them from potential prosecution,...
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Bills introduced by Oklahoma lawmakers seek to make changes to the state's cockfighting laws by reducing the penalties for participating or allowing robotic participation in the fights. But opponents of cockfighting argue that reducing the penalty would send the wrong message to Oklahomans about the "cruel” and "outdated” form...
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President Donald Trump on Monday urged the House of Representatives to renew his tax cuts.This comes as the GOP-controlled Congress attempts "to overcome internal differences on how to pay for" the president's "sweeping tax cuts, with hardline conservatives determined to reduce an annual federal deficit approaching $2 trillion," according to...
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A pair of CNN panelists clashed over Elon Musk's straight-arm greeting that many compared to the Nazi Sieg Heil salute.The tech mogul performed the gesture twice during Donald Trump's post-inauguration rally last week, but he insisted later it was meant to demonstrate that his "heart goes out" to fellow MAGA supporters. Washington Post columnist...
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Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers on Tuesday shredded President Donald Trump's moves to purge the United States Department of Justice of lawyers who once worked for former special counsel Jack Smith.Appearing on CNN, Rodgers said that Trump's efforts to fire or sideline multiple career DOJ officials sends a "terrible message" to the rest...
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Firefighters were desperately trying to stop a cluster of fast-moving blazes in southeast Australia on Tuesday, as thousands of acres of national park burned and a farming community was forced to evacuate.Lightning strikes on Monday evening ignited several fires in the Grampians National Park, a forested mountain range about 300 kilometres (186...
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by Marisol RIFAIA Frenchman is set to stand trial on Wednesday accused of fatally stabbing his former partner, who had complained of enduring years of abuse and repeatedly reported him to the authorities over his harassment.On July 2, 2021, the body of 31-year-old Sandra Pla was found in a pool of blood at her home in the southwestern French city...
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As the federal government looks at ways to cut costs and fund Trump-administration measures, a congressional committee is considering a cut that could take billions from school breakfast and lunch programs. That cut could impact more than 280,000 students in Ohio alone, and 728 schools in the state, according to data from the Food Research & Action...
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by Valentín DÌAZColombia on Monday sent two military aircraft to repatriate migrants from the United States after being forced to back down in a blazing row over deportations with President Donald Trump.President Gustavo Petro on Sunday stepped back from the brink of a full-blown trade war with the United States after Trump threatened Colombia...
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” The quote is attributable to a 1965 sermon Martin Luther King Jr. gave the day after "Bloody Sunday,” when civil rights protestors were attacked and beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In a period rife with ugliness and hate, King exhorted his beleaguered...
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order ridding the military of what he called "transgender ideology," in a potentially major setback for LGBTQ rights.In a series of orders related to the military that Trump told reporters he had signed on Air Force One, he also called for the building of a U.S. version of Israel's Iron Dome...
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U.S. President Donald Trump once again hinted at the idea of serving a third term, saying he was "not 100 percent sure" he was barred from doing so under the Constitution, which forbids it.Trump has repeatedly alluded to the possibility that he might go beyond the current two-term limit for US presidents -- but while he often strikes a...
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California hit back against Donald Trump's claims that the military "turned on the water" to fight ongoing wildfires in the Los Angeles area.The president signed an executive order seeking to get around federal and state laws covering the state's water system to provide enough resources to fight the wildfires, which have been mostly contained after...
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A dispute between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican leaders of the Legislature over conflicting views of an immigration crackdown escalated Monday after the governor labeled as "bizarre” lawmakers' proposal to strip him of immigration enforcement powers. Following Senate President Ben Albritton's and House Speaker Danny Perez's rebuke of...
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This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. In his frenetic first week back at the White House, President Donald Trump allowed immigration raids at schools, sidelined federal employees focused on diversity and ended civil rights...
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The Trump administration on Monday night announced a total pause in federal grants and loans in an order that seems to usurp the United States Congress's constitutional powers to control public spending.As Politico's Playbook writes, the sweeping order halts grants and loans "issued to research bodies, charities, universities and community...
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Hakeem Jeffries posted an example of what I think is a problem in Democratic communications. Call it "the magic-word thing.”The House minority leader said: "House Republicans pretended not to know about Project 2025 last year. Now they are implementing it. We will hold them accountable for lying to the American people.”Now, given that the last...
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by Sara HUSSEINHaving shattered assumptions in the tech sector and beyond about the cost of artificial intelligence, Chinese startup DeepSeek's new chatbot is now roiling another industry: energy companies.The firm says it developed its open-source R1 model using around 2,000 Nvidia chips, just a fraction of the computing power generally thought...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen met on Tuesday in a show of unity after U.S. President Donald Trump again stressed his designs on Greenland.Trump has signaled his desire for the Arctic island, which is believed to hold large untapped mineral and oil reserves, to become part of the United States.Neither...
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Nepali airlines have resumed rescue helicopter flights to the Everest region, an aviation industry official announced Tuesday, following weeks of suspension prompted by protests from locals citing environmental impact and loss of income from trekkers.Helicopters are a key means of transport and crucial for emergency rescue in many remote regions...
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