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In a 103-page opinion, Judge William G. Young chronicled an “unmistakable pattern of discrimination” by the Trump administration in its termination of federal science funding. [...]
President Trump worked the phones and welcomed Republicans to the White House to cajole them into supporting his megabill. They left with signed merchandise and photos of the Oval Office. [...]
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was made to kneel overnight, denied bathroom access and confined in an overcrowded cell with bright lights and no windows, his lawyers say. [...]
The appraisal that Iran’s nuclear hopes had been set back 1 to 2 years by U.S. and Israeli bombings was the latest in a shifting series of pronouncements. [...]
When interviewing Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, PBS's Amna Nawaz asked for clarification on Trump’s flipflop of whether or not to exempt from arrest undocumented agricultural and [...]
"There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States." Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans [...]
“He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation [...]
Sorry, I’ve been on the road, so not much time for writing. I did want to quickly mention a couple of points about the data on consumption for May which [...]
The decision by the Redstone family, the major owners of Paramount, to settle a bogus lawsuit with President Trump over a 60 Minutes report he did not like is an [...]