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American stock markets fell after Donald Trump announced the start of tariffs on imports from Canada, China and Mexico. Click here for more details.
Donald Trump announced that tariffs will begin 1 February 2025 on imports from Canada (25%, except 10% on oil), China (10%) and Mexico (25%) in violation of treaties he put…
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A Louisiana grand jury indicted a doctor in New York for allegedly prescribing an abortion medication online for a patient in Louisiana. A grand jury for District Court in Baton…
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Costco, which faced a deadline for a strike by the Teamster union, announced it is increasing pay rates for most of its hourly workers. Most of the upper tier will…
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Governor J.B. Pritzer (D-IL) issued an order prohibiting employment of any of the January 6, 2021, attackers of the Capitol who received a pardon or commutation from Donald Trump. In…
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) wrote to National Archives and Department of Justice’s Inspector General about the DOJ’s removal from its website of details of criminal charges…
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Robert Santos, Director of the Census Bureau, announced he is resigning midway through his five year term, making an easy path for Donald Trump to have the 2030 done as…
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Newly appointed Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy issued a memo declaring that federal transportation funds will be linked with state compliance to White House policy dictates for various non-transportation policies.…
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The Tennessee legislature passed and sent to Governor Bill Lee for signature a law to require a special, distinct driver’s license for legal, documented immigrants. No Democrat in the legislature…
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The Tennessee Legislature passed and sent to Gov. Bill Lee for signature a law making it a felony for any public official to vote in favor of any sanctuary policy.…
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Newly appointed Federal Communications Chair Brendan Carr launched an investigation into National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System, starting the groundwork for defunding. (more…)
American Airlines Flight 5342 from Wichita, Kansas, and an Army Blackhawk helicopter collided in mid-air during the airplane’s approach to Reagan National Airport. (more…)
Donald Trump signed an executive order to prepare facilities at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 immigrants deported from the USA. (more…)
Meta will pay $25 million to Donald Trump to settle a lawsuit brought by him for suspension of his Facebook account after the 6 January 2021 attack on the national…
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The American Federation of Government Employees sued the Trump regime to block his executive order that seeks to reclassify large numbers of non-political civil servants to a new Schedule F category…
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Donald Trump signed into law the Laken Riley Act, requiring detention of unauthorized immigrants who are accused of violent crime or theft. (more…)
The Senate voted to confirm Republican former Congressman Lee Zeldin to lead the EPA. (more…)
Former Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), convicted on bribery and corruption charges in July 2024, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. (more…)
Donald Trump refused to pay £290,000 (about $360,000) in fees he incurred for a lawsuit he filed that was thrown out in February 2024. (more…)
One day after a federal judge imposed a temporary restraining order to block an announced “pause” in most federal grants, loans and other funding flows, OMB rescinded its “pause” directive.…
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Phyllis Fong, Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was escorted out of her office after refusing to comply with Donald Trump’s 25 January mass firing of IGs without…
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The Department of Justice moved to drop its criminal case against Republican former Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry. (more…)
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy ordered, shortly after taking office, that vehicle fuel efficiency standards are to be reversed as soon as possible. (more…)
Environmental Protection Agency grant recipients were locked out of the grant system while over 1100 EPA employees were warned they can be terminated immediately. (more…)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearing began in the Senate Finance Committee for his nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. (more…)
Caroline Kennedy issued a scathing open letter against her cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services hours before his confirmation hearing began. (more…)
In a special election for Senate District 35, Democrat Mike Zimmer defeated Republican Kate Whittington by 52% to 48%. (more…)
Medicaid payments portals went down nationwide several hours before scheduled start of the OMB’s pause of federal payments and despite OMB’s statement that Medicaid would not be affected. (more…)
Newly confirmed Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth revoked security clearance and removed the security detail from General Mark Milley, who was Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Donald…
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In Minnesota’s state Senate district 60, Doron Clark won with about 90% of the vote, breaking the Senate’s 33-33 split and putting the Senate in majority Democratic hands. (more…)
Attorneys General for 22 states banded together to sue the Office of Management and Budget, asserting the agency’s freeze of most federal funding violates both law and the Constitution. (more…)
Six transgender military personnel on active duty sued Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth and other officials to block a Trump executive order that effectively bans transgender people from…
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District Judge Loren AliKhan issued a temporary restraining order which prohibits the Office of Management and Budget from implementing its directive to freeze most federal grants, loans and funding streams.…
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) send email to the 2 million federal employees offering 8 months of severance pay if they agree to leave their jobs at the end…
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Attorneys General for 19 states sent a joint letter to the President of Costco demanding that within 30 days the company must either abandon its DEI practices or explain why…
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Nonprofit groups, public health organizations and small businesses sued for a temporary restraining order to block the Office of Management and Budget’s mass freeze of federal grants, loans and funding…
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The Department of Justice voluntarily dropped its lawsuit against Virginia purge of voters which focused on naturalized citizens and other eligible voters shortly before the 2024 general election. (more…)
With immediate effect and without legally required assertions of transgressions, Donald Trump fired a board member of the National Labor Relations Board, leaving it unable to act, and fired NLRB…
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The Office of Management and Budget issues a late-night memo ordering federal agencies to “pause” federal assistance payments, excluding those to individuals (such as Social Security, Medicare). The order takes…
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A group of five Quaker congregations sued DHS and its newly appointed Secretary challenging as violation of their freedom to practice their religion the federal government’s new policy allowing raids…
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KKK flyers were distributed in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were headlined in large letters LEAVE NOW SELF-DEPORT AVOID DETENTION. (more…)
Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban transgender people from serving in the military. Out of about 2 million serving in the USA’s military, an estimated 15,000 are transgender.…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to reinstate military personnel who were discharged for refusing to take vaccination against Covid-19. (more…)
Donald Trump signed an executive order ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the military. (more…)
Donald Trump signed an executive order to create an advanced “Iron Dome for America” missile defense system, including defense against hypersonic weapons. (more…)
Denmark will increase its military spending in its territory Greenland by $2 billion in the shadow of persistent statements by Donald Trump threatening to forcibly “buy” Greenland. Click here for…
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Donald Trump fired two of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Democratic commissioners years before the ends of their terms, which is highly abnormal. (more…)
Donald Trump’s administration put at least 56 senior officials in the US Agency for International Development on leave while they investigate suspicions that the agency may not have completely frozen…
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Effective immediately, the Department of Justice fired a dozen of its employees, focusing on career prosecutors who worked for Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s team on criminal cases against Donald Trump.…
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A trans woman sued the federal government, asserting that Donald Trump’s executive order that there are only two sexes and sex cannot be changed after birth has resulted in abridging…
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