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US Deportation Law Based on Anti-Latino Racism Fuels Immigration Fight
A Nevada case shined a light on a U.S. immigration law and its little-known history after a federal judge called the rule racist and struck it down.
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Trump Administration Gathered Intel on Oregon Protesters, Report Shows
U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials under then-President Donald Trump compiled intelligence dossiers on people who were arrested at Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon.
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In Mideast, Biden Struggling to Shift Policy After Trump
Joe Biden took office looking to reshape U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. But so far, he’s struggled to separate his approach from Donald Trump’s. Biden is set to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia this coming week.
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Democrats Seek Criminal Charges Against Trump Interior Head
Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee have asked the Justice Department to investigate whether a Trump administration interior secretary engaged in possible criminal conduct while helping an Arizona developer get a crucial permit for a housing project. David Bernhardt, who led the Interior Department from 2019 to 2021, is accused of wrongdoing as he helped developer Michael Ingram, a...
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Biden Reverses Trump Move to Open Up More Oil Drilling in Arctic
The Bureau of Land Management’s decision will shrink the amount of land available for lease in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
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Two Years Into COVID, Was $800 Billion PPP Loan Worth It?
President Donald Trump rolled out the Paycheck Protection Program to catapult the U.S. economy into a quick recovery from the coronavirus pandemic
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Some Trump Records Were Torn Up by the Former President and Later Taped Together: Agency
Some Trump White House documents preserved by the National Archives were ripped up by the former president and had to be taped back together by government officials, the records agency said Tuesday. “Some of the Trump presidential records received by the National Archives and Records Administration included paper records that had been torn up by former President Trump,” the agency…
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Former Trump Aide Kellyanne Conway Coming Out With Memoir ‘Here's the Deal'
Up to now, her most famous words are likely “alternative facts”
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Melania Trump Announces NFT Venture
Former first lady Melania Trump launched a venture this week selling non-fungible tokens that must be paid for with Solan cryptocurrency, currently valued around $180 each.
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Trump's Border Separations Left Children, Parents With Severe Trauma, Study Finds
Children and parents separated at the border under the Trump administration experienced severe psychological trauma that some are dealing with long after being reunited, the first qualitative study of children and parents has found. The study by Physicians for Human Rights published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal PLOS ONE concluded that the separation of 31 parents and children whose cases the group reviewed “constitutes cruel,...
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Watchdog: Pompeo Changed State Dept. Rules, Violated Hatch Act With Convention Speech
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo changed longstanding State Department policy and violated the Hatch Act with his speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, a government watchdog concluded in a report released Tuesday. The Office of Special Counsel’s 59-page report found Pompeo was one of at least 13 high-level Trump administration officials who violated the 1939 law designed to prevent the mixing...
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‘Faulty' Science Used by Trump Appointees to Cut Owl Habitat
U.S. wildlife officials say political appointees in President Donald Trump’s administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl
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US Lowers Cutoff for Lead Poisoning in Young Kids
U.S. health officials are changing their definition of lead poisoning in young children.
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US to Restore Full Pension of FBI Official Fired Under Trump
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago
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State Dept. Watchdog Investigating Missing Trump Gifts Meant for Foreign Dignitaries
The State Department inspector general is investigating whether Trump administration officials helped themselves to expensive Trump-branded gifts meant for foreign dignitaries, NBC News confirmed Tuesday. The Office of the Inspector General is investigating whether political appointees of then-President Donald Trump removed the taxpayer-funded presents from the State Department gift vault in January and took them home, a department official with knowledge...
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Biden to Restore 3 National Monuments Cut by Trump
President Joe Biden will restore two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing
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Trump Plans to Invoke Executive Privilege in Probe of Capitol Riot
Donald Trump intends to assert executive privilege in a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol
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Biden Lifts Abortion Referral Ban on Family Planning Clinics
The Biden administration is reversing a ban on abortion referrals by federally funded family planning clinics
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US General: Afghan Collapse Rooted in 2020 Deal With Taliban
Senior Pentagon officials say the collapse of the Afghan government and its security forces in August could be traced to a 2020 U.S. agreement with the Taliban that promised a complete U.S. troop withdrawal