The sale comes as Israeli ministers are pledging permanent annexation of the occupied West Bank.
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This is an average of nearly 190 people dying per day while waiting for an initial determination on benefits.
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What happens to the Venezuelans sent to El Salvador now? In March, President Donald Trump invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act—last used during World War II—to detain and remove alleged members of the gang Tren de Aragua without due process. The administration sent 238 men to a mega-prison in El Salvador as part of a […]
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One of the casualties of Tuesday’s massive purge of workers from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an office dedicated to promoting healthy pregnancies. Most of the more than 100 employees at the Division of Reproductive Health lost their jobs this week, including some who conduct work mandated by federal law, according […]
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The GOP has come under fire for using an accounting trick to claim the proposed tax cuts would have no budgetary impact.
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Access to child care is already inadequate across the US. Trump’s funding cuts to Head Start will make it far worse.
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“Let’s be clear: Trump and his allies in Congress are cooking the books in broad daylight,” said one critic.
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Trump’s global tariff plan will have grave economic effects on US consumers and lead to a recession, the economist says.
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Perhaps what was most significant in the debate at the US Supreme Court Wednesday morning, during oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic—a major case over whether a state can unilaterally cut off Planned Parenthood’s access to Medicaid funding—is what wasn’t said. Nobody in the courtroom argued that the doctors and nurses at […]
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Even if Trump splits with Musk, the tech bro’s strategy of wrecking institutions and pushing legal limits will live on.
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In early 2015, the California Department of Public Health identified a case of measles in an 11-year-old who had recently traveled to Disneyland. Within a month, at least 125 US residents were stricken with the disease. About a third of them had visited the Magic Kingdom theme park, many were unvaccinated, and the outbreak spread […]
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Just a few months ago, Americans’ optimism about the economy was on the rise. The stock market boomed after Donald Trump won the 2024 election, and measures of business confidence rose. But all the positive sentiment came with an asterisk: It assumed that Trump would not follow through on his campaign promise to dramatically raise […]
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