Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77
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Alexis Herman, First Black Secretary of Labor, Dies at 77

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Alexis Herman, a Democratic Party insider who grew up under segregation in Alabama and went on to become the first Black secretary of labor, a position in which she helped settle a crippling strike by United Parcel Service workers, died on Friday in…

Opinion | ‘Of Course People Are Angry’: Four Columnists Unpack What the Democrats Are Missing
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Opinion | ‘Of Course People Are Angry’: Four Columnists Unpack What the Democrats Are Missing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Gessen: All of the above. But that wouldn’t be enough. A lot of what you are asking about, Patrick, is already happening. There are protests — Erica Chenoweth, a very interesting political scientist who studies nonviolence, has shown that there are many more…

Signal Leak Shows Trump Only Takes Federal Secrets Seriously When It Suits Him
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Signal Leak Shows Trump Only Takes Federal Secrets Seriously When It Suits Him

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As far as the Trump administration is concerned, there are government secrets and then there are government secrets. Details sought by a federal court about a military flight of immigrants that landed many days ago with video cameras recording its arrival? Sorry, judge,…

Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More
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Trump Revokes Security Clearances for Biden, Harris, Clinton and More

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s revenge tour continues. Late Friday night, he issued a memo rescinding security clearances and access to classified information for a slew of erstwhile opponents including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and “any other member of Joseph R. Biden…

Mahmoud Khalil Sues Columbia and Lawmakers to Keep Activists’ Names Secret
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Mahmoud Khalil Sues Columbia and Lawmakers to Keep Activists’ Names Secret

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate detained by the Trump administration last weekend, and seven current students asked a federal court on Thursday to block the school from producing student disciplinary records to a House committee that demanded them last month. The committee’s…

Trump’s Revenge on Law Firms Seen as Undermining Justice System
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Trump’s Revenge on Law Firms Seen as Undermining Justice System

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s retribution campaign against law firms, legal experts and analysts say, is undermining a central tenet of the American legal system — the right to a lawyer to argue vigorously on one’s behalf. With the stroke of a pen last week, Mr….

Jim Guy Tucker, Ex-Arkansas Governor Caught Up in Whitewater, Dies at 81
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Jim Guy Tucker, Ex-Arkansas Governor Caught Up in Whitewater, Dies at 81

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Jim Guy Tucker, a former governor of Arkansas who was caught up in the long-running investigation that unsuccessfully targeted his predecessor as governor, Bill Clinton, died on Thursday in Little Rock, Ark. He was 81. His death, at a hospital, was caused by…

Opinion | Trump is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound.
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Opinion | Trump is Already Failing. That’s the Key to a Big Democratic Rebound.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Democrats are a party controlled by elites, liberals and special interest groups. They are out of touch with America’s middle class. They are personified by a president who let inflation get the better of him and world events spin out of his…

Tulsi Gabbard’s Unorthodox Path to Trump’s Intelligence Team
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Tulsi Gabbard’s Unorthodox Path to Trump’s Intelligence Team

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Anita van Duyn, a former retail entrepreneur who left Science of Identity in 1994 after more than a decade in the group and knew Ms. Gabbard as a young woman, has written a letter to members of Congress warning that Ms. Gabbard is…