news2shortsHarvard faces a funding freeze as elite universities warn of growing threats to free inquiry and civil rights US politics live – latest updates Barack Obama, Yale and other academic institutions have come out in support of Harvard after the Trump administration elected to cut $2bn of its federal grants after the Ivy League school … Read more
The government needs to be clear-eyed about the threats China poses – not just accept them as the cost of doing business Last week, my husband and I flew to Hong Kong with real excitement to see my family and meet our newborn grandson for the first time. Welcoming a family member is a precious … Read more
Suit alleges Trump’s office of management and budget deactivated tracker in violation of federal law A watchdog group on Monday sued the Trump administration over its decision to remove a public tracker of how the government spends funds appropriated by Congress. The director of the office of management and budget (OMB), Russell Vought, has sought … Read more
A Virginia-based judge has granted the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss its illegal firearm case gainst a Virginia-based Salvadoran national accused of being an MS-13 leader. The FBI announced the arrest of Henrry Jose Villatoro Santos on March 27 in Woodbridge, Virginia, just south of Washington, D.C., with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director … Read more
FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is set to announce on Tuesday a $150 million federal grant to construct a new road and Port of Entry near the existing Otay Mesa facility in the San Diego-Baja, California region. “These investments will enhance border security by providing Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with state-of-the-art inspection facilities,” … Read more
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has become the latest government agency to join President Donald Trump’s deportation push, showing the president’s whole-of-government approach to keeping a key campaign promise. “This is the Trump administration using every tool it has in its toolbox to crack down on illegal immigration,” Tom Jones, the executive director of the … Read more
The Department of Transportation (DOT) is working through a backlog of roughly 3,200 grant awards that did not have signed agreements to go with them, which Secretary Sean Duffy said was inherited from when former Secretary Pete Buttigieg oversaw the department. “Since coming into office, my team has discovered an unprecedented backlog of grants leftover … Read more
The method is a vivid reminder of the brutality of state killing. That undermines the pro-capital-punishment narrative On 11 April, South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad. Mahdi had been convicted and sentenced for the 2004 killing of an off-duty law enforcement officer. One month before his execution, South Carolina put Brad Sigmon to … Read more
Warnings emerge even as effect of economic and political turbulence on the foreign visitors to the US is hard to define Batman said business was so-so, and King Kong beat his chest in agreement. But neither could predict that it would improve. Gotham’s caped crusader and his muscular ape neighbour could only hope. As with … Read more
With extreme weather and Trump’s looming trade war, US farmers are reeling and resigned to needing another bailout Farmers across the United States say they could face financial ruin – unless there is a huge taxpayer funded bail out to compensate for losses generated by Donald Trump’s sweeping cuts and chaotic tariffs. Small- and medium-sized … Read more
