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The Trump administration's decision to end almost all foreign aid spending from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is poised to plunge global health into chaos.
The contract terminations announced Wednesday will end grants for HIV treatments and prevention, tuberculosis, polio, malaria, Ebola and numerous other diseases and conditions. Nutrition assistance programs for infants in developing countries have also been halted, organizations said.
Nearly 5,800 projects funded by USAID have been terminated, ending the hope that contracts previously frozen might have been restarted. |
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Sports commentator Stephen A. Smith is taking on a new role in Democratic politics as the party searches for its identity after its loss to President Trump in November.
Smith expressed interest in politics well before Election Day but has been particularly critical of the party following Trump's victory, calling on it to refocus on voters' top issues during the past cycle, including inflation and immigration. |
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Virginia and New Jersey could serve as some of the first bellwethers over voters' attitudes toward President Trump's policies, Elon Musk and his slashing of the federal bureaucracy, and the salience of key issues this November.
Voters will head to the polls in both states to elect their next governor and weigh in on important state legislative elections. While there will certainly be local issues at play, the elections will also take place nearly a year into Trump's second term, during which he, Musk and members of his administration are quickly shaking up Washington. |
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Cuts to the Department of Education are hitting the highly valued Nation's Report Card even as sirens blare on student test scores.
The 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) was recently canceled, and the top official in charge of it was put on leave, leading advocates to doubt a promise from the Department of Education that NAEP would not be affected by the cuts from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). |
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The Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) structure and authority has become a central mystery in the barrage of lawsuits seeking to stymie its operations. After insisting Elon Musk isn't the group's formal leader, the White House under mounting pressure cleared up confusion over DOGE's leadership Tuesday, naming Amy Gleason as the cost-cutting panel's administrator. |
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Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) condemned the Trump administration over the recent fallout with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky during Friday's Oval Office meeting broadcasted by the American press. "This week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that Russia started the war in Ukraine. It ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the Oval Office and whispers from the White House that they may try to end all U.S. support for Ukraine," Murkowski wrote in a Saturday post on X. |
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Polls show that Americans' confidence is slipping in President Trump's ability to handle the economy – the most important issue in the 2024 election and the one that likely carried Trump to a second presidential term. Concerns about affordability, jobs, and inflation are weighing on Trump's economic approval rating against a backdrop of faltering consumer sentiment and flashing economic warning signs, including a negative forecast for first-quarter GDP growth from the Atlanta Fed. |
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President Trump signed a Saturday executive order requesting an evaluation of lumber imports, which he described as a "critical" manufacturing industry "essential" to national security, economic strength and the industrial resilience of the United States. "Wood products are a key input used by both the civilian construction industry and the military. Each year, the United States military spends over 10 billion dollars on construction. The military also invests in innovative building material technology, including processes to create innovative wood products such as cross-laminated timber," the executive order reads. |
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President Trump designated English as the official U.S. language in a Saturday executive order that repealed former President Clinton's executive action aiding individuals who are limited in their English proficiency. The order makes it so federal agencies are no longer required to provide language assistance to non-English speakers. |
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OPINION | "Nature hates a vacuum" is a truism that applies especially to politics. Since President Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in November, peeling off many formerly loyal Democratic voters from diverse communities, much of the talk has been about the Democratic Party being rudderless, leaderless and lost. |
BY MARK TOTH AND JONATHAN SWEET |
OPINION | Talk about fumbling a $1 trillion Ukraine deal on the one-yard line. Team Trump foolishly did just that Friday in the Oval Office, and in doing so, they turned the football over to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead of taking the easy win, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance turned the meeting into a bad episode of "Survivor." Tempers flared, accusations were bandied about and Zelensky was asked to leave the White House. |
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After the White House began to handpick pool reporters, Brian Glenn of the conservative Real America's Voice network got to be front and center for the Ukrainian president's visit. |
BY JOSH DAWSEY AND BRENT KENDALL |
The president has signed more than 75 executive orders to start his second term, spurring about 100 lawsuits so far. For now, most of the orders have survived. |
BY TIA GOLDENBERG and SAMY MAGDY |
Israel stopped the entry of all goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip on Sunday and warned of "additional consequences" if Hamas doesn't accept a new proposal to extend a fragile ceasefire.
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BY EVAN HALPER, DAN LAMOTHE AND HANNAH NATANSON |
The billionaire is trying again to demand that every federal worker justify their employment weekly. As before, the hastily executed initiative is sowing confusion and resistance, with many agency heads openly defying it. |
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