Month: February 2025

A second federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship on Wednesday.

Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign promising to abolish entire federal agencies and departments, but it’s not quite so easy for a president to simply end an organization that was created and funded each year by Congress, which is supposed to be the president’s equal.

Donald Trump ran his presidential campaign promising to abolish entire federal agencies and departments, but it’s not quite so easy for a president to simply end an organization that was created and funded each year by Congress, which is supposed to be the president’s equal.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has laid waste to USAID, an international development agency that spends tens of billions of dollars on aid across the world. Its wholly unjustified demise could result in the death of “thousands, if not hundreds of thousands” of people, as one anonymous USAID official told Politico. In an excorciating series of tweets, Musk called out the “criminal organization” for being “evil,” while furthering baseless and harebrained conspiracy theories that U

Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Washington State Capitol on Wednesday as part of a nationwide movement opposing the Trump administration.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in at the Justice Department Wednesday, taking the reins amid a firestorm of reassignments, lawsuits and resignations from senior law enforcement officials.

“It is not Trump—just as it was not Biden or Harris—who decides what the Palestinians can or cannot do,” Abandon Harris’ Hudhayfah Ahmad told Newsweek.

A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and “runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth.”