Month: August 2025

The Trump administration has picked Deputy Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Jim O’Neill to serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a day after the administration fired current Director Susan Monarez, officials told The Hill. Monarez is contesting her firing, though the White House has confirmed her ouster…
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Related video: Former VP Mike Pence tells “The Hill” on NewsNation Putin “doesn’t want peace” About two-thirds of Americans are pessimistic that an agreement will be reached to halt the war between Russia and Ukraine, according to a new Gallup survey.  The latest Gallup poll, which was released Thursday, found 67 percent of U.S. adults…
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The White House press secretary essentially equated Russia’s slaughter of civilians, including children, with Ukraine’s strikes against oil refineries.

“Eminem spitting facts here,” one critic of President Donald Trump said Wednesday.

President Trump’s approval rating dropped to a new low for his second term in the latest Quinnipiac University poll. In the five-day survey, which concluded Monday, 37 percent of registered voters say they approve of the president’s handling of his job, compared to 55 percent who disapprove. Another 7 percent say they don’t know. The…
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Defendants are looking at felony charges and years in prison for what attorneys say could have been minor disorderly conduct cases in city court.

Local law enforcement and the FBI will go through videos and writings from the perpetrator of a deadly shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, police said Thursday. “The focus remains trying to go through everything that we possibly can, following all of the evidence to its logical conclusion, trying to determine what a potential motive…
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called for a bipartisan investigation into the firing of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), slamming the administration for making a “reckless” and “dangerous” decision.  “We need leaders at the CDC and [Department of Health and Human Services] who are committed to improving public…
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Republican support for federal law enforcement agencies has risen in the last two years, following President Trump’s return to the White House, according to a new survey. The Pew Research Center survey found 54 percent of Republicans or those who lean Republican now see the FBI in a positive light, compared to 38 percent in…
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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) will deploy “crime suppression teams” throughout the state amid President Trump’s crime crackdown.  “When the state and local communities work together strategically, public safety improves. While the Trump Administration undermines cities, California is partnering with them — and delivering real results,” said Newsom in a press release.  “With these new…
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The Trump administration said Thursday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) needs to align with the president’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) agenda, after the removal of its director and exodus of four other senior leaders. In an interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F.…
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President Trump fired a board member of a transportation regulator that is weighing a merger between Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific, part of the latest shake-up in the federal government.  The administration terminated Robert Primus, a member of the Surface Transportation Board (STB), on Wednesday. Primus, a Democrat, was nominated to serve on the five-member…
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RFK Jr. on Thursday said the CDC needs to deliver on Trump’s ambitions, a day after the White House fired the health agency’s director and several top officials resigned.

Ana Navarro has been reminding Latinos who voted for Donald Trump on her Instagram that recent raids and deportations are “s**t you all voted for.”

The Museum of African American History is the latest target of Trump’s campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion — not to mention basic facts.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Thursday condemned the Trump administration for the reported arrest of two wildfire crew members working to contain the Bear Gulch fire engulfing Olympic National Forest. The Seattle Times reported on Wednesday that two private contractor crews were targeted by immigration officials who requested their identification while the groups were working…
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Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is defending the Trump administration’s decision to purchase a 10 percent equity stake in Intel, the multinational tech company. In a recent Cabinet meeting, he sat alongside President Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and explained why the federal government owning part of a massive private company was not, in…
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President Trump’s border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that he is not a fan of masks, but argued federal immigration officials need them during raids since they and their families are being doxed.  “I don’t particularly like masks, but the ICE officers need the mask because their families are being doxed. Believe me, I know,…
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“The erosion of basic principles like due process and the expanding use of our military on domestic soil puts the liberties of all Americans at risk,” he said.

In May and July of 2017, early in his first term, President Donald Trump unleashed flocks of shrieking tweets imploring the Senate to change its filibuster rule for legislative measures. He advocated reducing the number of votes to stop interminable debates from 60 to 51.  One tweet summed-up his frustration: “Republican Senate must get rid…
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Former White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha, who served under former President Biden, criticized Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday for suggesting he could identify children suffering from mitochondrial challenges just by encountering them in public settings. “I’m sorry but what?” Jha wrote in a post on the…
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Thursday afternoon, a day after the Trump administration moved to oust the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). CDC Director Susan Monarez, who was confirmed to the role just last month, was fired Wednesday after she refused to step down following calls…
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Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Thursday said the firing and resignations of top leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is further evidence of the “grave error” made in confirming Robert F. Kennedy to helm the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HHS announced CDC Director Susan Monarez — confirmed…
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Former President Obama highlighted “dangerous trends” in recent months in the wake of the Trump administration’s actions to federalize and militarize local law enforcement. “This interview, which is also available to listen to as a podcast, provides a useful overview of some of the dangerous trends we’ve been seeing in recent months regarding federalization and militarization…
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The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.