Fact-Checking Claims About USAID Funding
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Fact-Checking Claims About USAID Funding

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Top officials in the Trump administration and allies in Congress, eager to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, have accused the agency of misusing taxpayer funds. But many of their claims were misleading or lacked context. The agency, long a target for…

Trump Administration Escalates D.E.I. Crackdown in Latest Threat to Federal Workers
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Trump Administration Escalates D.E.I. Crackdown in Latest Threat to Federal Workers

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration on Wednesday threatened federal employees with “adverse consequences” if they fail to report on colleagues who defy orders to purge diversity, equity and inclusion efforts from their agencies. Tens of thousands of workers were put on notice that officials would…

Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85
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Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tom Johnson, a composer and critic whose Village Voice columns documented the renaissance of avant-garde music in downtown New York during the 1970s, and whose own compositions embraced minimalism and mathematical clarity, died on Tuesday at his home in Paris. He was 85….

Johnson’s Reward as Speaker: An Impossible Job Delivering for Trump
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Johnson’s Reward as Speaker: An Impossible Job Delivering for Trump

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Just minutes after Speaker Mike Johnson could exhale, having put down a short-lived conservative revolt and won re-election to his post on Friday, hard-right lawmakers sent him a letter. It was not congratulatory. They had only voted for him, they wrote, “because of…