What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters
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What We Know About the Detentions of Student Protesters

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The Trump administration is trying to deport pro-Palestinian students and academics who are legally in the United States, a new front in its clash with elite schools over what it says is their failure to combat antisemitism. The White House asserts that these…

Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts
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Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, learned that his district might lose a Social Security Administration field office and the National Weather Center’s primary storm prediction hub the same way many other Americans did: through a public webpage the Department of Government Efficiency…

Jenner & Block Sues to Stop Trump’s Executive Order Against Law Firm
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Jenner & Block Sues to Stop Trump’s Executive Order Against Law Firm

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The law firm Jenner & Block sued the Trump administration on Friday, seeking to stop an executive order leveled against the firm this week that could cripple its ability to represent clients. The suit is the second time that a law firm targeted…

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

ByNews Polite

#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…

Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government
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Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump instructed a broad swath of government agencies on Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal unions, a major escalation in his effort to assert more control over the federal work force. Mr. Trump framed the order as critical to protect national…

University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program
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University of Michigan to Scuttle Its Flagship D.E.I. Program

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The University of Michigan will eliminate its central diversity, equity and inclusion program, the school announced on Thursday, seeking to overhaul an ambitious and expensive initiative that it had long cast as a model for American higher education. Michigan — one of the…

RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study
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RFK Jr. Turns to a Discredited Vaccine Researcher for Autism Study

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A steadfast figure in the anti-vaccine movement who has helped shape Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s thinking on a possible link to autism has joined his department to work on a study examining the long-debunked theory, according to people familiar with the…

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

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#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,…