news2shortsMedicaid cuts, a potential $4.6 trillion asterisk, a House-Senate divide, and a major debt ceiling question loom over Speaker Johnson’s push to pass the massive bill by Easter.
The American striker has been in splendid form at club level, but that has yet to translate to his national team It’s not too warm or too bright for Josh Sargent. He’s parked in a chair on the patio of the US men’s national team hotel in Manhattan Beach, Los Angeles. He’s facing the horizon … Read more
A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu, President Erdogan’s main rival, pending a corruption trial and inflamed the biggest protests in a decade.
His targeting of foreigners with residencies or work visas was inevitable: to achieve his aims, more and more people must be disenfranchised The imperial boomerang effect is the theory that techniques developed to repress colonised territories and peoples will, in time, inevitably be deployed at home. Repressive policing, methods of detention and controlling dissent, forcing … Read more
The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want out In six weeks, the Trump administration’s “rapid scheduled disassembly” of American science has been as sharp and deep as its trashing of the US’s alliances and goodwill; Earth science, weather forecasting and early warning systems, medical research (including … Read more
Possible shift in taxpayer data use aligns with more aggressive Trump immigration policies – key US politics stories from Sunday at a glance The US Internal Revenue Service is reportedly nearing a deal to allow immigration officials to use tax data to support Donald Trump’s deportation agenda. Under the proposed data-sharing agreement, said to have … Read more
Deportation flights to Venezuela resumed on Sunday after a weeks-long standoff between the Trump administration and the Venezuelan government, signaling a deal had been reached between the two countries. A flight carrying 199 illegal aliens – including members of the violent Tren de Aragua (TDA) gang – to Venezuela landed Sunday, the Department of Homeland … Read more
A new memo from Trump authorizes the attorney general and the homeland security secretary to sanction law firms that file lawsuits they deem “frivolous.”
Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love of Utah, a daughter of Haitian immigrants who became the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday.
Former U.S. Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, died on Sunday at the age of 49, according to her family. Love, who was the daughter of Haitian immigrants and the first black Republican woman elected to Congress, “passed away peacefully” surrounded by family. “With grateful hearts filled to overflowing for the profound influence of Mia on our … Read more
