Judge halts Trump's federal aid freeze amid nationwide chaos
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...
View ArticleTrump White House blames high egg costs on Biden's 'mass killing' of chickens
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,...
View ArticleMSNBC's Nicolle Wallace thinks Trump's cuts 'completely resuscitated the...
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...
View ArticleJake Tapper shuts down Stephen Miller as Trump aide blames media for mass...
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...
View Article'Strongly agree': Major law enforcement group lines up behind DeSantis and Trump
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis got an assist from a leading law enforcement organization as his push to see through a sweeping illegal immigration package in his state is being met with resistance –...
View ArticleConservative economist scoffs as GOP gov defends 'terribly-written' Trump...
A conservative economist has some harsh words for Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) after he tried to justify President Donald Trump's massive freeze on federal grants, and accuse everyone of overreacting to...
View Article'Insane': Legal experts blast Trump's 'unbelievable' new firings as 'attack...
Legal experts called into question yet another brazen firing from President Donald Trump, who moved to oust two Democratic Equal Employment Opportunity Commission members.Trump fired Commissioners...
View ArticleTrump blitz leaves US government workers feeling 'under siege'
by Elodie SOINARDStunned American federal workers feel "under siege" after President Donald Trump issued a flurry of orders aimed at reforming the US government, some have told AFP, as they grapple...
View ArticleClimate change made ferocious LA wildfires more likely: study
by Issam AHMEDHuman-driven climate change set the stage for the devastating Los Angeles wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the dangerous overlap between flammable...
View ArticleNew film explores radicalization from perspective of IS 'Brides'
by Andrew MARSZALIt has been 10 years since a teenage Shamima Begum and two friends secretly left Britain to marry Islamic State group fighters in Syria.Over the past decade Nadia Fall, a British...
View ArticleWhite House urges TikTokers to apply for press passes
Donald Trump's new press secretary on Tuesday invited TikTokers and podcasters to apply for White House press passes, in an effort to reach beyond the mainstream media that the US president often...
View ArticleOpenAI tailors version of ChatGPT for US government
OpenAI on Tuesday launched a bespoke version of its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool for use by the United States government.Big money government contracts are often tech firm targets, and OpenAI...
View Article'Trump administration is in trouble': Ex-GOP lawmaker slams latest action...
Former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) on Tuesday went after President Donald Trump’s attempt to freeze federal grant funding and offered a warning for the new administration.“The executive [branch] has very...
View Article'Fantastic!' MAGA cheers as Trump touts order to ban 'barbaric'...
President Donald Trump declared Tuesday he signed an executive order to ban what he called the "chemical castration and medical mutilation" of children in the United States. The president said the...
View ArticleTrump administration offers to pay every federal worker to resign: report
President Donald Trump’s promise to tighten federal spending is set to hit roughly 2 million federal employees Tuesday who will start receiving emails allowing them to take a “deferred resignation,”...
View Article'When you let AI write your Executive Orders': Critics react after Trump's...
Very quickly after President Donald Trump's Office of Management and Budget ordered a freeze on federal grants, U.S. District Judge Loren AliKhan issued a temporary pause on the order, leaving funding...
View ArticleTrump says he’s sending water to LA. It’s actually going to megafarms.
"This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here."While President Donald Trump has issued a flurry of far-reaching decrees during his first week in office, one...
View Article'Reminiscent of Stalin': Experts alarmed as Musk allies take over key federal...
A cohort of subordinates of tech billionaire Elon Musk have taken over an important federal agency, in a move that according to WIRED Magazine unnerves experts, and "one official found reminiscent of...
View Article‘Wake up America:’ Trump slammed over ‘shameful’ decision to revoke top...
Political observers from both sides of the aisle didn’t hold back unloading on President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke former Gen. Mark Milley’s government-funded security detail, which newly...
View Article'Not a happy departure': Famed NY Times columnist sounds off after abrupt exit
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who recently retired from The New York Times after 25 years, tried to set the record straight Tuesday about his abrupt exit, blasting the paper for what...
View ArticleTrump's pick to head intelligence doesn't believe in protecting it: WSJ...
President Donald Trump's pick to serve as director of national intelligence, former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, was scorched by the Wall Street Journal editorial board on Tuesday, over her seeming lack...
View Article'He'll stiff you': Senator warns federal workers Trump's 'buyout' offer is bogus
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) has an urgent warning for federal workers considering President Donald Trump's buyout offer: it's bogus.According to CBS News Capitol Hill correspondent Alan He, Kaine issued his...
View ArticleTrump shakes up Justice Department he accused of 'weaponization'
by Chris LefkowAbrupt firings, senior officials demoted, and career employees left reeling -- US President Donald Trump is taking a sledgehammer to a Justice Department he accuses of unjustly...
View ArticleBlurred posts, banned accounts: Abortion groups decry Meta 'suppression'
by Issam AHMEDBlurred posts, downranked searches and deleted accounts: Since President Donald Trump's election, groups sharing information about abortion pills say they have faced a surge in online...
View ArticleWho might buy TikTok in the US?
by Glenn CHAPMANAs the clock ticks down on TikTok's 75-day reprieve from divesting from its Chinese owners or being banned in the United States, several contenders are in the running.Here's a look at...
View ArticleTrump crackdown spurs migrants to seek refuge in Mexico
by Yussel Gonzalez with Zina Desmazes in TijuanaAfter US President Donald Trump dashed her hopes of gaining asylum in the United States, Arianne Dominguez joined hundreds of other migrants seeking...
View ArticleMan arrested after plotting to kill GOP leaders with Molotov cocktails: report
A man was arrested in Washington, D.C. after authorities said he plotted to kill prominent Republican officials with Molotov cocktails, reported The New York Times on Tuesday evening.According to the...
View ArticleNew Trump orders send ‘shock waves’ through Pentagon: report
The Pentagon is reportedly reeling from the uncertainty sparked by President Donald Trump’s head-spinning series of new executive orders – so much so that officials unsure of how to fulfill the...
View Article'That is not true': Senator shreds Trump aide's wild claim defending...
A Democratic senator smacked down a senior West Wing employee and adviser to President Donald Trump on Tuesday night over his claim that nearly every staffer with the USAID donated to left-wing...
View Article‘Elon will soon be on his way’: Trump wants Musk to retrieve stranded astronauts
President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that the two U.S. astronauts stranded for months on the International Space Station will soon be retrieved by none other than his new head of the Department...
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