news2shortsPresident’s anti-immigrant actions fuel a heartland battle between middle-ground Republicans and extremists From under the floorboards of a large, white building in Maysville, Kentucky, African American slaves making the arduous, secret escape from the south would hide one final time. Freedom, across the Ohio River to the north, was in clear sight. The Underground Railroad … Read more
A climate group linked to high-profile Democrat Stacey Abrams was granted $2 billion by the Biden administration in a “scheme” of “wasteful” spending, the Trump administration’s leading environmental agency has revealed. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently made a revelation that the Biden administration was allowing just eight entities to distribute $20 billion of taxpayer … Read more
Elon Musk’s remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday drew praise from those who were pleased with the cuts being made by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “I wasn’t really that interested in being political. It’s just like there was at a certain point no choice,” Musk said at the event in … Read more
President Donald Trump unleashed an earthquake on the U.S. immigration system during his first full month in office, quickly overturning Biden-era policies and overhauling how authorities conduct enforcement in the interior and at the border. An order late Wednesday, which was implemented a day ahead of the administration’s one-month mark, directed all federal agencies to identify … Read more
Trump administration is seeking to oust Hampton Dellinger, head of the office of special counsel The US supreme court on Friday temporarily kept on the job the head of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers, in its first word on the many legal fights over the agenda of Donald Trump’s second presidency. The justices … Read more
Democrats proved on Thursday during a press conference about protecting Medicaid that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has become an inevitable policy discussion under President Donald Trump’s second term. Ahead of the National Governors Association’s winter meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, Democratic and Republican governors huddled within their respective parties to strategize and … Read more
FBI says Aurora Phelps met men online for dating then drugged them and stole cars and money A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, FBI officials in Las … Read more
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) spent another week slashing hundreds of millions in spending by the federal government, while dodging various legal attempts to block its cost-cutting efforts. Here are some of DOGE’s big wins this week: On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, shot down a request from several federal … Read more
‘Colored School No 4’ was built in 1850 to serve Black kids, but it’s unclear what the city plans to do with it today In the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, a modest brick building stands as a silent witness to nearly two centuries of Black American history. Once known as Colored School No 4, this … Read more
Farmers are struggling to make critical decisions ahead of the spring thaw, as billions of dollars in promised payments remain frozen by the Trump administration.
