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Trump signs executive order directing federal funding cuts to PBS and NPR​

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.

The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies “to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS” and further requires that that they work to root out indirect sources of public financing for the news organizations. The White House, in a social media posting announcing the signing, said the outlets “receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’”

It’s the latest move by Trump and his administration to utilize federal powers to control or hamstring institutions whose actions or viewpoints he disagrees with. Since taking office, Trump has ousted leaders, placed staff on administrative leave and cut off hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to artists, libraries, museums, theaters and others, through takeovers of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump has also pushed to withhold federal research and education funds from universities and punish law firms unless they agreed to eliminate diversity programs and other measures Trump has found objectionable.

The broadcasters get roughly half a billion dollars in public money through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and have been preparing for the possibility of stiff cuts since Trump’s election, as Republicans have long complained about them. ...

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Email mistake reveals secret plans to end research on Head Start and other child safety net programs

A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs.
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Power of judges to hold Trump administration in contempt may be undermined with filibuster-proof GOP proposal | CNN Politics

The ability of federal judges to hold the Trump administration in contempt for defying their orders could be undermined by legislation approved by a House Republican-led committee late Wednesday in a bill that may be impossible for Senate Democrats to filibuster.
www.cnn.com

Next US national security advisor? Here's who Trump might pick to replace Waltz

Fox News Digital took a look at whom President Donald Trump could select to replace former national security advisor Mike Waltz.
www.foxnews.com

Senate votes to overturn EPA rule that limits 7 hazardous air pollutants

The party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.
www.cbsnews.com

Rubio takes on two top national security roles after embracing Trump's 'America First' vision

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security roles at once after President Donald Trump appointed him to temporarily replace Mike Waltz as national security adviser.
apnews.com

Trump jokes his admin will 'forget about' separation of church and state: 'We're bringing religion back'

President Donald Trump celebrated the National Day of Prayer on Thursday by joking that his administration may end the separation of church and state.
www.foxnews.com

Kamala Harris condemns Trump's first 100 days, calling on Democrats to band together

The former vice president panned Trump's agenda, saying he pulled America to the brink of a constitutional crisis, devastated the economy and abandoned world allies.
www.nbcnews.com

Politico: Ketanji Brown Jackson warns Trump’s rhetoric against judges are ‘attacks on our democracy’ | CNN Politics

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Thursday strongly criticized President Donald Trump — without naming him — for his attacks on judges, arguing that the rhetoric of the president and his allies threatens democracy, according to Politico.
www.cnn.com

Trump says it's Biden's economy, but businesses and economists beg to differ

When the stock market was climbing in January 2024, Donald Trump knew exactly who deserved credit: He did.
apnews.com

Trump's deportation campaign is capitalizing on a key hallmark: Speed

The president has been emboldened in his second term, surrounded by loyalists and governing a nation that has moved to the right on immigration.
www.nbcnews.com

Analysis: John Roberts wrote three cases dissolving the separation of church and state. Will he take another leap of faith? | CNN Politics

Over his 20 years on the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts has demonstrated an ability to slowly build the scaffolding, case by case, for a major development in the law. At the same time, he is also known for famously decrying “jolts” to the legal system.
www.cnn.com

Trump nominates Mike Waltz for UN ambassador in major shake-up of national security team

President Donald Trump says he is nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz as United Nations ambassador while Secretary of State Marco Rubio would take over Waltz’s duties on an interim role.
apnews.com

SCOOP: 38 GOP lawmakers say not repealing Biden's green agenda in Trump tax bill is 'hypocrisy'

A group of House Republicans is pushing their leaders to eliminate the Biden administration's clean energy tax credits in reconciliation.
www.foxnews.com

Trump nominates Waltz for high-level post after ousting him as national security advisor

President Donald Trump announced former national security advisor Mike Waltz as his choice to serve as ambassador to the U.N. after Rep. Elise Stefanik withdrew her nomination amid concern over the GOP's slim majority in the House.
www.foxnews.com

Trump administration weighs sending migrants to Libya and Rwanda, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has discussed with Libya and Rwanda the possibility of sending migrants who have criminal records and are in the United States to the two countries.
www.cnn.com
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Top Senate Armed Services Republican says Trump OMB's budget 'shreds to the bone' military capabilities

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The Senate’s top Armed Services Republican eviscerated President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) shortly after the White House released details of its government funding proposal for fiscal year 2026.

"President Trump successfully campaigned on a Peace Through Strength agenda, but his advisers at the Office of Management and Budget were apparently not listening," Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said in a statement.

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Meta threatens to cut off Facebook in Nigeria over huge fines

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The social media giant has challenged demands to pay $290m over regulatory violations.
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South African woman guilty of kidnapping and trafficking daughter aged 6

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Joshlin Smith's disappearance last year sent shockwaves across South Africa. She is yet to be found.
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Donald Trump is looming over Australia's election

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Foreign policy is rarely a big factor in Australia's poll - but the US president has changed that.
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Man accused of being MS-13 leader opposes DOJ dropping charges

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Attorneys for a Virginia man labeled by the Trump administration as a top MS-13 gang leader are pressing a judge to hold off on dismissing his criminal case, arguing he could be deported without ever hearing — or defending himself against — the specific allegations against him.

Henrry Villatoro Santos' arrest was announced last month in a nationally televised news conference featuring the attorney general, who accused Villatoro Santos of being the "East Coast leader" of the infamous MS-13 transnational gang. He was accused of responsibility for...
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Donald Trump is looming over Australia's election

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AOC draws spotlight with Queens town hall as 2028 White House talk swirls

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is hosting an in-person town hall in Jackson Heights, Queens, on Friday night amid speculation she is considering a 2028 presidential run.

After speaking at a May Day protest in New York City on Thursday, rejecting Trump's agenda and warning protesters that Republicans "are going after Medicaid next," Ocasio-Cortez is returning home to New York's 14th congressional district to "share updates on her work in D.C., provide important constituent updates, and take questions from the audience."

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Brown University in GOP crosshairs after student's DOGE-like email kicks off frenzy

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FIRST ON FOX: A brewing controversy over a "DOGE-like" email at one of America’s top universities has gotten the attention of Capitol Hill.

Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wrote to Brown University on Friday morning urging the school to reconsider any disciplinary action against Alex Shieh, a sophomore who sent an email mirroring the style of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that asked non-faculty university workers what they did "all day."

"Reports indicate that Mr. Shieh engaged in a journalistic act of contacting university...
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Trump asks SCOTUS to strip protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants

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The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to override a lower court ruling and let it move forward with ending protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan nationals in the U.S.

The government is asking the high court to block, for now, a March ruling from U.S. District Judge Edward Chen that delayed President Donald Trump's plans to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) protections for some 350,000 Venezuelan nationals living in the U.S. Those protections would have otherwise expired in April.

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Fla. AG to rebuff judge who ordered halt to state immigration enforcement: 'The court has overstepped'

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EXCLUSIVE: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will rebut a judge’s demand that his office order state law enforcement to halt enforcement of a state immigration law she ordered paused under suspicion of unconstitutionality.

The law allows for misdemeanor charges against illegal immigrants who enter Florida and hope to avoid federal immigration officials.

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Trump's surgeon general pick touted as 'fierce' MAHA advocate before confirmation hearing

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Plan for possible military parade on Trump's birthday includes troops, vehicles

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The Army is planning for a potential military parade on President Trump's birthday in June that would include "thousands" of troops, as well and Bradley and Stryker fighting vehicles, a defense official confirmed.

According to planning documents obtained by the AP, the parade calls for over 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, tanks, seven bands and possibly a couple thousand civilians.

The documents, dated April 29 and 30, have not been publicly released. They represent the Army's most recent blueprint for its long-planned 250th...
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REAL ID renews America’s age-old dread of the DMV

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Billions spent, warfighters wait: Inside the Pentagon’s broken buying system and the plan to fix it

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Doug Burgum unveils major deregulatory shift to boost Gulf oil and gas production

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EXCLUSIVE: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Friday will update a Biden-era federal rule regarding energy development as a major cost-saving measure to private firms, one day after taking a visit to a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the Gulf Coast.

A source familiar with the workings of the rule said it essentially will "massively deregulate" a rule passed between the two Trump administrations and should further bolster Gulf Coast oil and gas production by providing lower startup costs for energy firms.

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