news2shortsNative Americans have made basketball their own as they hustle to retain and defend their culture and traditions Long before Michael Jordan changed the sport of basketball, another Jordon transformed the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) history by breaking the league’s racial barrier as its first Native American player. In 1956, Phil “The Flash” Jordon, a … Read more
Top voices in the Democratic Party, as well as average Democratic voters, have struggled to answer who the party’s leader is when asked during interviews. A video from the conservative opposition research organization, America Rising, highlighted comments from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elissa Slotkin on the matter, including average Americans, almost all of whom struggled … Read more
The discussion revealed unserious people who don’t know when to keep quiet, with Stephen Miller as the real boss On 13 March, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Waltz, who was the policy director for two secretaries of defense and was a member of the House intelligence committee, sent a message on the commercial Signal … Read more
I could never have imagined that writing a critical piece about the government could put me at risk of deportation When I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, less than a year ago, I could never have imagined that writing a critical piece about the US government could put me at risk of deportation, threatening the life … Read more
We’re afraid the baseless theory spread by the president stigmatises our kids – and could affect access to care It was a moment when Donald Trump’s larger-than-life presence on the global stage became unexpectedly personal. Near the end of his one-hour, 40-minute speech to a joint session of Congress on 4 March, the US president … Read more
Roberto Lugo and other artists of color are now feeling heat from Trump’s attack on diversity and efforts to rewrite truth of the US’s past Artists, academics and politicians have shared their outrage in reaction to the Trump administration’s latest executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum network. Late on Thursday, Trump … Read more
Dr Peter Marks was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the FDA’s approval of life-saving vaccines A senior health official in the US, who was seen as a guardrail against any future politicisation of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of life-saving vaccines, has resigned abruptly, citing the health secretary Robert F … Read more
President Donald Trump drew laughs from the press when one reporter asked him to define what a woman is. Trump was speaking at a news conference after Alina Habba, a longtime member of his team, was sworn-in as the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. The reporter who asked the question first said that Trump had … Read more
While the U.S. military has been conducting strikes against Iran-backed Houthi rebels, President Donald Trump and his White House have been engaging in a battle of their own, defending leaked texts detailing war plans about those very strikes in Yemen. This week, the Trump administration has fielded a litany of questions and criticism after the … Read more
New College of Florida fired Kevin Wang, a professor who sought asylum and is authorized to work in the US The New College of Florida has fired a Chinese language professor under a state law that restricts Florida’s public universities from hiring individuals they deem to be from “countries of concern”. On Friday, Suncoast Searchlight … Read more
