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1 day ago · After days offline, USAID’s website was finally restored late Tuesday … with a notice announcing that all employees will be placed on administrative leave. “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for …

6 days ago · The Trump loyalist has previously said he would shut down the FBI Hoover building and “replace it with a mausoleum of the Deep State,” sparking concern that Patel would use his power to weaponize the country’s national security organization.. In recent weeks, the FBI Agents Association urged Patel not to punish agents investigating Trump and the January 6 …

1 day ago · While Democrats over the past 50 years or so have focused their efforts on winning elections (legislative and executive), the billionaires who own the GOP have directed their attention to using massive amounts of cash to seize control of the unelected branches (judiciary and press), a job that can be done with money, but doesn’t always require winning elections.

2 days ago · “The earliest iterations of prisons in this country included something called convict leasing, where prisons would actually loan out the labor of incarcerated people to farms,” says New Republic contributor Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit.. The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except for those convicted of a crime, created a ...

Jan 27, 2025 · That is roughly what Donald Trump did last week when he fired a slew of inspectors general in the executive branch. He broke a law that Congress passed as a reform because of his own earlier behavior as president. What he did flings the door wide open to run-of-the-mill corruption and potentially far worse.

Jan 21, 2025 · “We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” Thune continued. “I think they were case-by-case.” “I assume you’re asking me about the Biden pardons of his family,” said Senator Chuck Grassley, when asked by Semafor’s Burgess Everett. “I’m just talking about the Biden pardons, because that is so selfish.”

Jan 23, 2025 · A federal district court judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Trump’s revocation of birthright citizenship, striking the first blow against the president’s sweeping, aggressive executive orders.. Senior U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour listened to 25 minutes of arguments before rejecting the order, halting the policy from coming into effect for 14 days.

Jan 27, 2025 · Today, that movement—the Resistance—has all but disappeared.Trump’s second inauguration was met by smatterings of sparsely attended protests. The Democrats, meanwhile, have not only largely dropped the antagonistic posture but have arguably become cooperative, particularly when it comes to Trump’s draconian immigration policies.

Jan 20, 2025 · It helped that they had a case: There were legitimate questions about Russia’s influence in the 2016 election—not to mention Russia’s influence over Trump himself—that would soon blossom into a multiyear scandal that eventually culminated in his becoming the second president ever to be impeached.But there were myriad other motivations behind the anti-Trump movement that quickly emerged ...