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Federal District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocked portions of Donald Trump’s executive order that would force election officials to “assess” the citizenship of people receiving public benefits and demand that…
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Donald Trump signed an executive memorandum ordering the Department of Justice to investigate and take action against ActBlue, the main fundraising platform for Democrats. Attorney General Pam Bondi is commanded…
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Federal District Court Judge District Judge Dabney Friedrich in the District of Columbia ruled from the bench that Donald Trump’s regime cannot enforce its demand for schools to certify their…
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Federal District Court Judge William Orrick issued an injunction against Donald Trump, barring him from withholding, freezing or setting conditions on federal funds for “sanctuary” jurisdictions that do not cooperate…
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Federal District Court Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Maryland issued an order to temporarily block Donald Trump’s regime from cutting off federal funds for Kindergarten-12th grade public schools that have diversity,…
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided the home of former Dona Ana County Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife Nancy Cano, and arrested them for allegedly harboring a member of…
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National Weather Service announced on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) that by 28 April 2025 it will resume translation of its products such as weather warnings to languages…
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Congressional Representative Frederica Wilson (D-FL24) toured the Krome Detention Center in Miami, the oldest immigration detention facility in the USA, after receiving complaints about it for weeks. Relatives of people…
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After fierce outcry, the National Institutes of Health announced a U-turn and declared the Women’s Health Initiative will continue after this fiscal year. In its more than three decades and…
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Federal District Court Judge Landya McCafferty in the District of New Hampshire issued a preliminary injunction to block Donald Trump’s regime from cutting off federal funds for Kindergarten-12th grade public…
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The wife of a Coast Guard member on active duty was arrested by federal immigration agents at on-base housing in Key West, Florida, the day after the couple went to…
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Cuban-born Heidy Sánchez, the wife of a USA citizen and breastfeeding mother of a 1 year old daughter with a seizure disorder, was detained when she attended a routine immigration…
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Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary was called out by major news media for repeatedly lying in public interviews, falsely insisting that no scientists or food inspectors were…
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North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong, a Republican, vetoes bills to ban more books from libraries due to sexual content and to establish school vouchers for private schools. Neither bill had…
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Federal District Court Judge Stephanie Gallagher ordered Donald Trump’s regime to retrieve a second man who was wrongly renditioned in violation of a 2019 class action court case to the…
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as White House Press Secretary during Donald Trump’s first term in office, sent a letter begging him to reverse his denial of her…
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Donald Trump signed an executive order to undo equal opportunity access to credit and financial services, as well as undo protection against other forms of discrimination. Although he cannot rescind…
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Chinese airlines refused to accept two new Boeing jets due to Donald Trump’s tariffs, another is about to be returned, and delivery is expected to also be rejected for the…
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Two proposals for Goldman Sachs aimed at undercutting or eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion policies were each rejected by 98% of shareholders. At least one of the proposals was from…
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Democratic Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announced he will direct several state agencies to review their ties with El Salvador with an eye to reducing them. His intention is to reduce…
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Twelve states filed a lawsuit in the federal Court of International Trade to halt Donald Trump’s tariff policies on the grounds that they are unlawful and are wreaking havoc on…
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More than 99% of shareholders of Levi Strauss resoundingly rejected a proposal to end its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The proposal was made by the right wing National Center…
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A three-judge panel declared unconstitutional an attempt by the Republican-dominated General Assembly to shift the power to appoint the state election board from the Governor, currently a Democrat, to the…
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In the aftermath of an attack on tourists in Kashmir, which is under India’s control, India and Pakistan squared off against each other in a series of actions, stopping short…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chose not to attend a negotiation session hosted in London about reaching a peace deal with Russia, sensing another ambush similar to the one by Donald…
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Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia who was wrongly deported to El Salvador, had to move with her three children to a safe house after the government…
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Federal District Court Judge Paula Xinis reached the end of her patience with lawyers for Donald Trump’s regime for stonewalling instead of complying with orders from herself and the Supreme…
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Dr. Teresa Borrenpohl initiated a $5 million lawsuit against Kootenai County Sheriff Robert Norris and the 6 men facing various charges for their roles in dragging her out of a Republican…
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Bill Owens resigned from his job as executive producer of the CBS weekly television news show 60 Minutes, saying he no longer has the journalistic independence necessary to run the…
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Five businesses that jointly sued in the federal Court of International Trade to halt Donald Trump’s tariff policies were denied a temporary restraining order, but remain in position to seek…
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News broke that Rwanda has begun taking immigrants deported by the USA that have no connection with it, referred to as “third-country nationals.” The deal echoes one attempted by the…
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Elon Musk’s company Tesla, which is best known for making electric vehicles and also makes home solar power systems, reported a 71% drop in income for the quarter versus the…
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Federal prosecutors Celia V. Cohen, Andrew Rohrbach and Derek Wikstrom resigned after being placed on administrative leave for refusing to sign a motion to dismiss corruption charges against New York…
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Men who claimed to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents took Teodoro Dominguez Rodriguez from a courthouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, moments after unrelated charges against him were dropped. It is…
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In the wake of mass firings throughout the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration suspended its quality testing of milk and dairy products due to…
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The International Monetary Fund published an update to its World Economic Outlook, which showed its forecast for global GDP growth reduced to 2.8% for 2025, 0.5% weaker than projected in…
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The most deadly attack since 2000 in Kashmir, which is administered by India, killed at least 26 men, injured more than a dozen more, and amped up chronic antagonism between…
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USA stock markets fell and the value of the dollar (USD) hit its lowest point in three years after Donald Trump escalated his verbal assault on Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome…
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Four more Congressional Democrats traveled to El Salvador and attempted to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and renditioned there. The delegation…
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Washington state Governor Bob Ferguson signed a new law that requires National Guard from outside of the state to get approval from the governor before entering the state, unless the…
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Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the wide-ranging attacks by Donald Trump’s regime, which attempt to replace academic independence with a forced overlay of his views. Harvard had been in…
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National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya announced that a new national disease registry will be created for autism “requested by the president of the United States to Secretary…
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Kyushu University Institute for Q-shu Pioneers of Space in Japan agreed to provide synthetic aperture radar imagery to Ukraine’s military intelligence agency. In February, Japan and Ukraine began to discuss…
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Nadine Menendez, wife of disgraced former Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), was found guilty by a jury on all 15 counts of bribery, obstruction of justice, wire fraud and conspiring to…
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is ending its first and largest project on the health of women as of the end of this fiscal year. Under…
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In response to commercials aired in Mexico by USA Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem against illegal immigration, Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum announced she will push to make propaganda from abroad…
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said her handbag was stolen at a restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C. Sunday evening. She is responsible for border security and some counterterrorism efforts for…
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At 09:45 Italian time, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at age 88 of a stroke. The Pope had been ill since mid-February, mainly with pneumonia,…
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El Salvador President Nayib Bukele proposed a prisoner swap to Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro, offering people renditioned from the USA in exchange for people he called “political prisoners.” Diplomatic relations…
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News emerged that on 15 March 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared details of a military strike in Yemen not only in the Signal chat that inadvertently included a…
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