Under the second Trump administration, there is one group of people getting expedited access to refugee status and resettlement in the US. It’s not citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where 6.1 million people have been internally displaced […]
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The Federal Reserve arguably saved the US from a recession in 2024: Fed chair Jerome Powell calibrated interest rates to gradually bring down inflation without triggering an acute slowdown in economic growth. But President Donald Trump isn’t satisfied with Powell’s
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President Donald Trump has invoked an 18th-century wartime law to carry out a large-scale deportation operation. As he promised on the campaign trail, Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to send hundreds of people with alleged Venezuelan gang ties to
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Candidate Donald Trump promised an economic renaissance. President Donald Trump is delivering economic turmoil. The US stock market, once the only measure of economic performance that the president cared about, has seen a significant selloff amid fears of an impending
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Civil rights advocates are accusing the Trump administration of trampling the First Amendment following the arrest of an immigrant who was involved with pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly showed up at Mahmoud Khalil’s university-owned
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President Donald Trump is going after a pair of major law firms — and attacking the First Amendment in the process. Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that took aim at Perkins Coie, a law firm that represented Hillary
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President Donald Trump’s tariffs have had a chaotic week. First, they were on, then they were great, then they were maybe off, then definitely off (but just for now). After the Trump administration enacted its 25 percent tariffs on most
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President Donald Trump has completely upended America’s position on the Ukraine-Russia war, shocking the foreign policy establishment by turning on the fledgling democracy while making friendly overtures to Russia, Ukraine’s invader. The US has provided about half of the total
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Keir Starmer, UK’s prime minister, bottom center, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukraine’s president, bottom second right, and other world leaders at a family photo during a summit at Lancaster House in London, UK, on March 2, 2025. Neil Hall/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty Images Source link
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A judge ruled Thursday that the Trump administration’s directive to fire tens of thousands of workers across the federal government is likely illegal. But it’s not yet clear what that means for current employees, as well as those who were
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