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Trump Administration Will Shut Down 7 Major Housing Discrimination Cases
Three cases allege that local governments clustered polluting industrial facilities in minority neighborhoods.
Trump Admin to Restrict Waivers That Let States Help Kids Stay on Medicaid
This comes less than two weeks after Trump signed into law the largest Medicaid cuts in US history.
Trump Threatens to Sue Wall Street Journal for Publishing Letter to Epstein
For decades, Trump had a strong friendship with Epstein, a disgraced financier and child sex trafficker.
Rep. Ro Khanna Pushes Bipartisan Bill Calling for Release of All Epstein Files
Khanna also responds to the stripping of $1.1 billion from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Voters Want a Third Party. They Just Don’t Want Musk in Charge of It.
Nearly two in five Democratic-leaning voters would consider joining a non-Musk-led third party.
Medicaid Is Giving ICE Access to Data of 79M Enrollees, Including Ethnicity
Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for Medicaid, but DHS says the data will aid their immigration crackdown.
Texas Plays Cynical Racial Gerrymandering Game to Save House Majority for Trump
Trump’s Justice Department gave political cover for Gov. Greg Abbott to mingle gerrymandering with disaster relief.
Trump DOJ’s Broad Requests for Voter Data Is Unprecedented, Critics Warn
“This all is part of a bigger ploy to further undermine our voting in this country,” said Colorado’s secretary of state.
Trump Rages Against “Weakling” MAGA Backers Who Still Care About Epstein
Several prominent right-wing voices are turning on Trump after his angry social media post.
Trump Admin Welcomes Israeli Minister in DC as He Plots Gaza Concentration Camp
Minister Israel Katz has said that international partners will manage the camp.
Huckabee Attends Netanyahu Corruption Trial in Tel Aviv, in Unprecedented Move
The ambassador’s visit is a brazen attempt at intervention from a U.S. official in a foreign state’s domestic trial.
US Set to Destroy 550 Tons of USAID Food Meant to Go to Malnourished Kids
One Democratic US senator condemned the plan to destroy the food as "disgusting.”
Public Media Defenders Mobilize as Senate GOP Set to Gut Over $1B in Funding
"This is a coordinated, authoritarian attempt to silence dissent and dismantle the public good,” said Our Revolution.