2 days ago · After days offline, USAID’s website was finally restored late Tuesday … with a notice announcing that all employees will be placed on administrative leave. “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for …

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2 days ago · Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has seized control of the Treasury Department. He is deciding who the government pays and who it doesn’t. The federal payment system he has access to contains the Social Security numbers and even the bank account information of nearly every American.

Jan 31, 2025 · The Trump loyalist has previously said he would shut down the FBI Hoover building and “replace it with a mausoleum of the Deep State,” sparking concern that Patel would use his power to weaponize the country’s national security organization.. In recent weeks, the FBI Agents Association urged Patel not to punish agents …

3 days ago · “The earliest iterations of prisons in this country included something called convict leasing, where prisons would actually loan out the labor of incarcerated people to farms,” says New Republic contributor Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit.. The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except for those convicted of a crime, created a ...

4 days ago · Trump falsely claimed in December that Mexico and Canada’s trade deficits with the U.S. were “subsidies,” rather than indicators that America’s neighbors are purchasing more goods from the U.S. than they sell to it. In 2023, that differential—or deficit, as Trump insists—was nearly $41 billion with Canada and $162 billion with Mexico, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Jan 23, 2025 · A federal district court judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Trump’s revocation of birthright citizenship, striking the first blow against the president’s sweeping, aggressive executive orders.. Senior U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour listened to 25 minutes of arguments before rejecting the order, halting the policy from coming into effect for 14 days.

Jan 21, 2025 · “We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” Thune continued. “I think they were case-by-case.” “I assume you’re asking me about the Biden pardons of his family,” said Senator Chuck Grassley, when asked by Semafor’s Burgess Everett. “I’m just talking about the Biden pardons, because that is so selfish.”

Jan 21, 2025 · Donald Trump on Monday pardoned or commuted the sentences of every single person criminally charged for the January 6 insurrection. Known violent extremists are now walking free. Trump’s sweeping pardon affects more than 1,500 defendants—including some of the most notorious. Proud Boy Dominic ...

Jan 21, 2025 · Republican lawmakers are already shifting goalposts to justify Trump pardoning or commuting the sentences of nearly 1,600 January 6 insurrectionists —many of whom assaulted police officers, an issue Republicans hold near and dear.. When asked about the pardons, Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday pointed the finger at Joe Biden, stating that the former president opened the ...