President Donald Trump’s plan to have private donors fund his new $400 million White House ballroom could cost him the entire project, as a federal judge will soon decide whether the administration can rely on fundraising to bypass congressional approval. U.S. District Judge Ricard Leon says he may rule this month on a lawsuit filed … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — A year after the Trump administration took control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the consumer watchdog has largely pulled back from enforcement and regulatory work, changes that consumer advocates and Democrats now estimate have cost Americans at least $19 billion in financial relief. In a report provided to The Associated … Read more
Green Day was never part of MAGA’s agenda. The California rock band has called out Donald Trump and his administration in many of their musical performances, and it doesn’t look like they’ll be stopping anytime soon. In recent years, the band — made up of members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool — … Read more
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Historians and observers have accused the Trump administration of trying to rewrite American history to justify its own foreign policy decisions toward Latin America by posting a “historically inaccurate” version of the Mexican-American War. Monday’s White House statement commemorating the war’s anniversary described the conflict as a “legendary victory that secured … Read more
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled Thursday that academics who are parties to a lawsuit alleging that U.S. policy singles out non-citizens for detention or deportation because of their pro-Palestinian activism on college campuses can seek relief from the court if their immigration status is changed as punishment for participating in the case. The … Read more
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a year before a U.S. military operation ousted Nicolás Maduro, a top adviser to President Donald Trump has alleged that the Venezuelan leader sent gang members to the United States. “If you are the dictator of a poor country with a high crime rate, wouldn’t you send your criminals to … Read more
A federal judge ruled Monday that work on a large offshore wind farm off Rhode Island and Connecticut can resume, giving the industry at least a temporary victory as President Donald Trump tries to shut it down. In the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth said the government had … Read more
The Trump administration has said it is freezing child care funding for all states until it provides more administrative and verification data about the programs, in a move fueled by a series of fraud schemes at day care centers in Minnesota run by Somali residents. All 50 states will be affected by the overhaul, but … Read more
States will share $10 billion next year for rural health care in a program that aims to offset the Trump administration’s massive budget cuts to rural hospitals, federal officials announced Monday. But while every state has requested money from the Rural Health Transformation Program, it won’t be distributed equally. And critics fear that funding could … Read more
“We lowered (the price of) infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies, hopefully by the midterms.” This bizarre remark was made recently by Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Four years into the first Trump administration and nearly a year into the second, many of us have become … Read more