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Idaho teacher Sarah Inama is defying her school district’s order to remove classroom posters promoting inclusivity, including one stating, "Everyone is welcome here."

Wisconsin resident Bradley Bartell voted for Trump's promise to crack down on "criminal illegal immigrants," but now his Peruvian wife Camila Muñoz has been detained by ICE.

Following a February 7th neo-Nazi rally, residents of Lincoln Heights, a majority-Black Ohio town, formed an armed Safety and Watch Program to protect against hate groups.

A father whose unvaccinated six-year-old daughter became the first U.S. measles death in 10 years remains steadfast in his anti-vaccine beliefs.

"The amount we could export would not solve their egg shortage," says the head of the Finnish Poultry Association.

The evidence from proprietary MyinTuition data is consistent with that obtained from net price calculators for the category of highly endowed private colleges. This correspondence suggests that data gathered from net price calculators is reasonably reliable as well. Collectively, these data indicate that the perception of rising college costs in the last five to ten years is not accurate.

At least 34 people have died after powerful tornadoes and storms swept through the southern U.S., with Missouri suffering 12 fatalities.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

“You wake up one day and discover you’re dead,” Johnson told me. “It’s been truly surreal.”

A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport five Venezuelans.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered nationwide outside Tesla showrooms Saturday amid heightened criticism against CEO Elon Musk’s federal cost-cutting role in the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and after Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to crack down on vandalism against Tesla.

A federal judge on Saturday barred the administration of President Donald Trump from deportations under an 18th century law that Trump invoked just hours earlier

In his latest move to clamp down on illegal immigration and immigration more broadly, President Trump has filed a presidential action invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a seldom-used law that gives the president authority to detain or deport nationals of an enemy nation during wartime. It's only the fourth time in American history a president has used the act — and the first since World War II.

Millions of Americans across the country are on alert for a severe weather outbreak with violent, long-track tornadoes with damaging winds of up to 80 mph and large hail.

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

A Fox News host, Jessica Tarlov, highlighted Trump's declining approval ratings, citing a new Quinnipiac poll showing 53% of voters disapprove of his second-term performance.

Executive order aims to eliminate the parent agency of VOA, RFA, RFE/RL and other US government-funded news outlets.

"U.S. officials are escalating deadly attacks on one of the poorest and most devastated nations in the Middle East, while recklessly pushing the U.S. toward a wider regional war with Iran," said one peace group.

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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that aims to reduce seven federal agencies – including the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other federal broadcasters.

The Trump administration is considering issuing sweeping travel restrictions for the citizens of dozens of countries as part of a new ban, according to sources familiar with the matter and an internal memo seen by Reuters.

The Senate swiftly approved legislation late Friday that would allow the District of Columbia to keep its budget intact, rather than roll back to 2024, fixing a provision that had drawn protests from the mayor and residents warning it would require $1 billion in cuts to services.

Earlier this year, Michael Woolfolk attended a legislative committee in Georgia where lawmakers considered for a third year whether to compensate the 45-year-old for the 19 years he spent behind bars for a 2002 killing before charges against him were dismissed.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he was “being a little bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly claimed as a candidate that he would have the Russia-Ukraine war solved within 24 hours — and even before he even took office.

Tesla dealerships, vehicles, and charging stations have been vandalized amid growing protests against Elon Musk’s political influence.

The Trump administration has repeatedly conflated participation in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza with support for Hamas. It has also accused demonstrators of supporting “terrorists”.

President Donald Trump’s attempt to deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil marks one of Trump’s most egregious assaults on democratic liberties since taking office. Yet too many Democrats, particularly in party leadership, are responding to Trump in the most mealymouthed way possible. But this is a problem of Democrats’ own making: Their trepidation stems from their own history of repressing speech critical of Israel — and now we’re all at risk of paying the price for it.

I guess days passing is woke...

A California jury Friday imposed a $50 million fine on Starbucks in the case of a delivery driver burned by a scalding cup of hot tea at a company location in Los Angeles.

Elon Musk announced plans to cut federal entitlement spending, claiming without evidence $500-700 billion in annual "waste and fraud" from programs like Medicare and Social Security.

Leo Terrell, head of the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism, shared a post by white nationalist Patrick Casey claiming Donald Trump can “revoke someone’s Jew card.”

A leaked TSA email suggests funding for bomb-sniffing dogs has been halted under Elon Musk.

Kohl's eliminated DEI title, so now they have a chief inclusion and belonging officer.

A U.S. federal appeals court Friday lifted a block on the Trump administration’s crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal government, pausing a lower court ruling blocking enforcement of a series of presidential executive orders halting support of DEI initiatives.

‘People are going to die’ if cuts continues, mental health workers warn

NEW YORK, March 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it was looking into what it said were possible violations of terrorism laws during protests over the Gaza war at Columbia University, putting fresh pressure on the epicenter of last year's nationwide anti-Israel activism.

The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.

The USDA has canceled $11 million in funding for North Carolina food banks through the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program.

Four Tesla Cybertrucks burned overnight in a lot near 4th Avenue and Spokane Street in Seattle. The lot serves as a temporary storage space for Teslas arriving from overseas before they are sent to dealerships.

The following Democrats [and one independent] voted to advance the Republican continuing resolution, which was backed by President Donald Trump:

Acting stats chief booted after only 15 days in the job; fate of the Nation’s Report Card unclear

Donald Trump's push to annex Canada as the 51st U.S. state is confusing due to its sudden and unexplained emergence.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus have condemned the House-passed spending bill and vowed to vote against it when it comes up in the Senate, even as other Democrats say they’ll support it to avert a government shutdown.

Schumer announced Thursday he would vote to pass Trump’s disastrous budget bill to avert a government shutdown, flipping on his own party just 24 hours after he signaled he would vote against the bill. Pelosi issued a statement the next day urging Senate Democrats not to follow his lead.

Trump's erratic tariff policies threaten American manufacturing's recent renaissance.

The Forbidding Unlawful Representation of Roleplaying in Education, or FURRIES, Act, filed by Austin-area Republican State Rep. Stan Gerdes, would "prohibit any non-human behavior by a student, including presenting himself or herself, on days other than exempt days, as anything other than a human being."

JD Vance, the US vice-president, was booed by the audience as he took his seat at a National Symphony Orchestra concert at Washington’s Kennedy Center on Thursday evening.

In a Friday statement, Rosen called the continuing resolution “irresponsible” and “hyper-partisan,” arguing that President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress are using their power to “help Elon Musk continue to systematically dismantle basic government functions,” such as veterans’ health care and aviation safety.

Driving the news: Asked at a press conference if it is time for new leadership in the Senate, Jeffries quickly responded, "Next question."

He said he doesn't want to be taken alive. As far as I am concerned he doesn't have to be.

In 2008, as the Great Recession was starting to take hold, my travels reporting on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign took me to one American city after another that was reeling from major layoffs. I visited places such as Kokomo, Indiana, which was losing so many jobs at its Chrysler and Delphi plants that by year’s end it was labeled one of America’s fastest-dying towns, and Lorain, Ohio, where Obama visited a National Gypsum plant that closed four months later.

As fossil fuel interests attack climate accountability litigation, environmental advocates have sounded a new warning that they are pursuing a path that would destroy all future prospects for such cases.

Meanwhile Trump wants to mass deport thousands.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s aggressive federal cost-cutting plans face legal setbacks and public opposition.

On-again, off-again tariffs, mass government layoffs, funding cuts and immigration crackdowns have seriously spooked Wall Street, which is emphatically rejecting President Donald Trump’s chaotic economic agenda.

Crazy that these suits are still ongoing and the orange asshole is back in office.

Family and friends of a Vancouver entrepreneur are demanding answers after she was unexpectedly detained by U.S. immigration officials while attempting to cross the border with a job offer and visa paperwork in hand.

Federal agencies will begin to vacate hundreds of offices across the country this summer under a frenetic and error-riddled push by Elon Musk’s budget-cutting advisers to terminate leases that they say waste money.

Musk, who has over 219 million followers on X, formerly known as Twitter, retweeted a post saying Soviet revolutionary Joseph Stalin, former Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong and Hitler—whose regime under his direction orchestrated the Holocaust—did not murder millions of people, “Their public sector workers did.”

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Under growing pressure from their left flank, several Democratic centrists said Wednesday evening and Thursday that they would vote against the House GOP spending proposal, even though they had earlier warned that the failure to pass it could trigger a devastating government shutdown.

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Ayo Edebiri said she received "insane death threats" after Elon Musk shared a false report claiming she would replace Johnny Depp in a Pirates of the Caribbean reboot.

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Democratic attorneys general from over 20 states, led by New York’s Letitia James, sued the Trump administration over deep cuts to the Department of Education.

A second federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary (new) federal employees fired in mass layoffs.

A campaign finance watchdog filed a formal complaint alleging Elon Musk violated conflict of interest laws by influencing an FAA deal favoring his company, Starlink.

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