Even as US slashes jobs, ‘it is the calm before the storm’, economists warn An upcoming trade war and more DOGE job cuts will hammer the US economy, economists warn. Al Jazeera · Mar 11, 2025
First Circuit Denies Trump Administration Motion for Stay of Universal Injunction Against Birthright Citizenship Executive Order Interestingly enough, the government focused its argument on standing, and did not defend the Executive Order on the merits. Reason · Mar 11, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s treatment should not happen in a democracy The Columbia University graduate’s arrest is an attempt to destroy free thinking while murdering due process The Guardian - US · Mar 11, 2025
Lawmakers urge Trump administration to cancel owl-killing plan, say it would cost too much A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2025
House Democrats Tear Into Trump Admin for Quickly Tanking 'Strongest' Stock Market Ever: 'In 1 Month They've F--ked It All Up' House Democrats lambasted President Trump and his administration for steadily tanking the stock market despite reaching all-time highs at the start of February. Latin Times · Mar 10, 2025
The Case Against Deporting Immigrants for "Pro-Terrorist" Speech [Updated] It's both unjust and unconstitutional. Reason · Mar 10, 2025
Fear on Columbia campus as Trump admin arrests student for deportation over Gaza protests Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent legal resident, was detained at his university-owned residence on Saturday evening by immigration authorities The Independent UK · Mar 10, 2025
Venezuela's Maduro Says U.S. Revocation Of Oil License Will Affect Deportation Flights: 'We Have a Little Problem' Venezuela's authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro said that scheduled deportation flights from the United States have been "affected" following the Trump administration's decision to revoke an oil license for Chevron in the South American country Latin Times · Mar 10, 2025
Trump Walking Away From US Legacy as 'Leader of the Free World', Republican Lawmaker Says A Republican lawmaker criticized the Trump administration's approach toward the Russia-Ukraine war Latin Times · Mar 10, 2025
Why Chinese EVs Could Tempt Canada As America's Tariff War Rages On To say the once-steady relationship between the U.S. and Canada has been tested lately would be a severe understatement. President Donald Trump has not only sparked a bitter trade war with one of our oldest and closest allies, but he’s also cracking jokes about outright annexation. So now that America… InsideEVs · Mar 10, 2025
‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groups The Guardian - US · Mar 10, 2025
Rubio announces 83 percent of USAID contracts cancelled under Trump Trump administration has targeted USAID as part of president’s efforts to trim government spending and reduce ‘waste’. Al Jazeera · Mar 10, 2025
Trump Has Delivered A Bitcoin Reserve And Digital Asset Stockpile – Why Are Crypto Users Upset? Crypto users were not very pleased with the announcement of a strategic Bitcoin reserve and a digital asset stockpile, especially since crypto prices have not really rallied even after the big announcement from the Trump administration. International Business Times · Mar 10, 2025
ICE agents detain leader of Columbia pro-Palestine protests in front of heavily pregnant wife Arrest comes after reports State Department plans to use AI to monitor student political views and revoke visas The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2025
Reason · Mar 8, 2025 Downplaying Antisemitism at Columbia The Trump Administration has announced that it's suspending $400 million in federal grants to Columbia University in response to Columbia's… The post Downplaying Antisemitism at Columbia appeared first on Reason.com.
Reason · Mar 7, 2025 By Ending Contract, Union Officials Claim, Trump Administration Violated 'Dignity and Rights' of TSA Agents The Department of Homeland Security unilaterally tore up a collective bargaining agreement it had signed with unionized TSA screeners in May 2024.
Latin Times · Mar 7, 2025 Judge Gives Hard Deadline To Trump Administration To Make USAID Payments After Legal Setback The case stems from lawsuits filed by several non-profit organizations over the Trump administration's foreign aid freeze as part of a broader effort to cut federal spending
The Guardian - US · Mar 7, 2025 Trump administration to drop case against plant polluting Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ Biden-era suit sought to curb emissions of the carcinogen chloroprene at Denka plant formerly owned by DuPont
The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2025 20 states sue Trump over mass firings saying Musk’s DOGE skipped required notices The administration failed to provide notice before the mass firings, the states argue
International Business Times · Mar 7, 2025 Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration To Expedite Partial Repayment Of $2B USAID Debts A deadline has been set for Monday to repay the amounts owed to at least nine aid groups that filed a lawsuit after President Donald Trump halted all U.S. foreign assistance.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 7, 2025 US foreign aid projects asked to justify their work in White House survey Staff questioned on eccentric list of criteria that meet Trump administration’s new national security priorities
The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2025 Aid operations in Gaza imperiled as millions of promised USAID dollars do not arrive The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups, leaving them paying out of pocket to preserve a fragile ceasefire, according to officials from the U.S. humanitarian agency
The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2025 American Jews who fled Syria ask White House to lift sanctions so they can rebuild in Damascus American Jews who fled their Syrian homeland decades ago went to the White House this week to appeal to the Trump administration to lift sanctions on the country
The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2025 U.S. economy likely generated a solid 160,000 jobs last month, but Trump's trade wars cloud outlook The U.S. labor market likely kept on churning out jobs last month, economists say, but the outlook is cloudy and getting cloudier as the Trump administration wages trade wars, purges federal employees and seeks to deport millions of immigrants
The Independent UK · Mar 7, 2025 ‘Stand up’: Scientists launch major protest against ‘devastating attacks’ by Trump administration Thousands are expected at rallies in defense of science on Friday in Washington, D.C., and nationwide