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The Trump administration has named overdose prevention among its top drug policy priorities, but a preliminary budget proposal that was recently leaked suggests that it would cut about two dozen substance abuse prevention and treatment programs.

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The Justice Department moved to drop charges against a man they had alleged to be a “major leader” of the MS-13 gang – just weeks after publicly lauding his arrest – a move his lawyer says is the first step toward immediately deporting him to El Salvador.

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Jewish and Muslim groups condemned President Trump for calling Senator Chuck Schumer "a Palestinian," saying that the president used the term as a racial slur. Trump made the comments at a meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

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President Trump has pardoned an imprisoned former Tennessee state senator who was two weeks into a 21-month sentence for his role in a campaign finance fraud scheme.

submitted 102 days ago • 129 comments

BREAKING: Dow drops 890 as stocks sink again and worries deepen about how much damage the economy will suffer from trade strife.

submitted 104 days ago • 77 comments

AP jaw-dropper: “In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan” apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 108 days ago • 241 comments

Starting this week, we’ll all pay more at the store because of the Trump tariffs, even while he’s finalizing a multi-trillion-dollar tax cut for the wealthy. All the bluster is meant to get us talking about literally anything else.

submitted 110 days ago • 428 comments

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

submitted 110 days ago • 670 comments

President Trump made one of the biggest gambles of his presidency by initiating tariffs with no clear rationale on imports from Canada, Mexico and China. The move will further raise costs for American households and hinder economic growth, economists said.

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President Donald Trump repeated one of his many false claims about Canada – wrongly saying, again, that Canada prohibits US banks from operating there.

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EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions. On @therecordmedia.bsky.social therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

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The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

submitted 115 days ago • 271 comments

Just got fired from being a freshman football coach, if you want to know what MAGA does to communities. They don’t care about what helps people, because the school is certainly not going to find an ex-NFL player willing to coach there at that level, they only care about trying to hurt people.

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Elon Musk’s team posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the five biggest “savings” on that original list, after The New York Times and other media outlets pointed out they were riddled with errors.

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The Trump administration has rescinded a Biden-era regulation that sought to ensure American allies don’t use U.S.-made weapons in violation of international humanitarian law, officials said Monday.

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President Donald Trump on Thursday again raised the prospect of serving an unconstitutional third term, asking a crowd at a White House event whether he should run again. The Constitution’s 22nd Amendment limits presidents from holding the office more than twice.

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A coalition of congressional Republicans from the New York area rebuked President Trump for cuts to a federal program that administers aid to emergency workers and others suffering from toxins related to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

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In remarks to reporters Tuesday and in a social media post on Wednesday, Trump made numerous false claims about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Russian war on Ukraine – some of which echoed inaccurate talking points from Vladimir Putin. Here is a fact check of some of his assertions.

submitted 123 days ago • 165 comments

President Donald Trump and top allies who have questioned the constitutionality of recent court orders blocking the administration’s agenda touted similar rulings by federal courts as “great news” and “brilliant” when they paused President Joe Biden’s policies.

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"President Trump is suppressing essential health information that public health agencies and providers across the country rely on to do our jobs," said Dr. Robbie Goldstein, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. cnn.it/4i3tdWn

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President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had paid Politico and other news media outlets for positive coverage of Democrats. The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing that agencies paid for subscriptions.

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Elon Musk and elected officials have falsely said Politico was subsidized by the government. Turns out, government officials were just paying for subscriptions.

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Breaking news: Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday warned senators about Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling her cousin — now Trump’s pick to lead HHS — a “predator” whose victims have ranged from family members to the parents of sick children.

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Breaking news: The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman for the department said Monday.

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President Trump made demands for a voter ID law in California as a condition for the state to receive federal funding after deadly wildfires, politicizing disaster aid

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JUST IN: President Trump has terminated the Secret Service detail protecting his former national security adviser John Bolton, who had faced threats from Iran.

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JUST IN: President Trump said he has pardoned Ross William Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace who was serving a life sentence.

submitted 152 days ago • 131 comments