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President Donald Trump on Friday said he would make himself chair of the Kennedy Center after dismissing multiple board members, reports the Atlantic. “At my direction, we are going to make the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., GREAT AGAIN. I have decided to immediately terminate multiple individuals from the Board of Trustees, including the Chairman, who…
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The U.S. is in “deep trouble” fiscally but finally has someone to audit the government to “have accountability for the American people” and a president who is “actually doing what he said he’s going to do,” Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., said Friday. “We’re in deep trouble. I was kind of talking to my colleague and compare…
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The Trump administration announced Friday night that Colleen Shogan, archivist of the United States, has been dismissed. “At the direction of @realDonaldTrump the Archivist of the United States has been dismissed tonight. We thank Colleen Shogan for her service,” Sergio Gor, director of the Presidential Personnel Office, said in a post to X. The move was expected.…
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval of the African nation’s land policy and of its genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Washington’s ally Israel. The White House said Washington will also formulate a plan to resettle…
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President Donald Trump once again hinted at the idea of serving a third term, saying he was “not 100% 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 presidents — but while he often strikes a…
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India’s foreign minister threatened a “strong crackdown” on illegal migration on Thursday, a day after a US military airplane flew back 104 migrants as part of President Donald Trump’s overhaul of immigration. Thousands of unregistered migrants have been arrested across the United States since Trump’s inauguration on January 20. Trump’s flurry of executive actions aimed…
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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them financial incentives, the latest tumult for government employees already wrestling with upheaval from the new administration. The ruling came hours before the midnight deadline to apply for the deferred resignation program, which was orchestrated by Trump adviser Elon Musk.…
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Federal workers associations filed suit late Thursday asking a federal court to stop the Trump administration’s “effective dismantling” of the lead U.S. aid agency. The lawsuit by the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees comes as the new Trump administration and ally Elon Musk are targeting the U.S. Agency for…
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports. The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” gives federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administration’s view, which interprets…
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In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s executive order prohibiting men from playing women’s sports, the NCAA fell in line on Thursday, announcing a new policy that limits college women’s sports to those “assigned female at birth only.” The NCAA has been criticized — most acutely and frequently by Republican lawmakers — for adopting a policy in January…
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The U.S. trade deficit widened sharply in December, as imports reached an all-time high amid looming tariff threats, according to data released on Wednesday. The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that the goods and services deficit was 98.4 billion U.S. dollars in December, up 19.5 billion dollars,…
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China has all along believed that “the Palestinians governing Palestine” is the fundamental principle of post-conflict governance of Gaza, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Wednesday. The spokesperson made the remarks at a daily press briefing when asked to comment on U.S. President Donald Trump’s speech in which he said the U.S. will “take…
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was mulling over Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s offer to accept and jail violent American criminals in the “most severe cases.” “I’m just saying if we had a legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “I…
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Donald Trump is outlining how his executive order will be felt across the US in the coming years. Turning to the 2028 Olympics, which will be hosted in Los Angeles, Trump says his administration “will not stand by and watch men beat and batter female athletes”. “It’s going to end and it’s ending right now,”…
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US President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum to set up a 30,000-person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay to detain “high-priority criminal aliens.” The Guantanamo Bay facility, which has so far been used to hold terrorists, will now also house illegal immigrants with criminal records. The signing took place on Wednesday, with Trump directing…
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Mattel could soon raise the prices of toys such as Barbie and Hot Wheels in response to new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, executives said Tuesday. The toy giant, which manufactures about 40% of its toys in China and less than 10% in Mexico, told analysts it will look to move around its supply chain to mitigate the effect…
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