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Bird Flu Looms as Trump’s Mass Firings Unleash Chaos at Public Health Agencies
Trump and RFK Jr. have moved to fire thousands of highly trained employees at the CDC and other agencies since Friday.
Circuit Court Rejects Trump Appeal of Block on Birthright Citizenship Order
The next step for Trump could be appealing the decision to the United States Supreme Court.
Pentagon Schools Pull JD Vance’s Memoir Amid Trump-Era Book Purge
Schools run by the Department of Defense are implementing sweeping bans that even affected the vice president’s memoir.
Rates of Sepsis Soared After Texas Banned Abortion
Life-threatening complications for people experiencing miscarriage shot up under the ban.
Mississippi Judge Orders Newspaper to Delete Editorial Critical of City
The action is an extraordinary violation of the paper's First Amendment press freedoms, one critic noted.
Hegseth’s Proposed Pentagon “Budget Cuts” Seemingly Won’t Reduce Spending at All
The Defense Department quickly reframed plans for an 8 percent annual reduction in military spending as “offsets.”
Trump Backs House GOP Bill Slashing $1 Trillion From Medicaid and Food Stamps
Republicans are cutting Medicaid “to pay for tax breaks for the richest 1 percent of Americans,” one organization noted.
Kansas Bans Gender-Affirming Care for Minors After Veto Override
Kansas is now the 27th state to restrict or ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
Utah Bill Would Disenfranchise Rural Native Residents, Critics Warn
The proposal comes despite the vast majority of Utah voters being confident in the current vote-by-mail system.
Trump’s Attack on Agencies’ Independence Aims to Spark Legal Fight, Experts Say
Robert Weissman of Public Citizen called the executive order “illegal” and “profoundly dangerous.”