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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rain forest, USAID has big impact across the globe

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI
Feb 06, 2025 6:48 am - The Trump administration’s decision to close the U.S. Agency for International Development has drawn widespread criticism from congressional Democrats and raised questions and concern about the influence billionaire ally Elon Musk wields over the federal government.
Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resign

By CHRIS MEGERIAN, COLLIN BINKLEY and BYRON TAU
Feb 06, 2025 6:44 am - Thousands of miles from Elon Musk’s office in the White House complex, a federal worker based in the Pacific Northwest is wondering whether to quit.
Trump signs executive order intended to bar transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports

By WILL GRAVES
Feb 05, 2025 9:51 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women’s sports. The order, titled “Kee...
Guatemala gives Rubio a second deportation deal for migrants being sent home from the US

By MATTHEW LEE
Feb 05, 2025 7:46 pm - GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo said Wednesday his country will accept migrants from other countries who are being deported from the United States,...
Protesters in cities across the US rally against Trump’s policies, Project 2025 and Elon Musk

By MORGAN LEE
Feb 05, 2025 7:34 pm - Demonstrators gathered in cities across the U.S. on Wednesday to protest the Trump administration's early actions, decrying everything from the president's immigration cr...
Congress is quiet as Trump, Musk take an ax to federal agencies

By Hannah Knowles, Colby Itkowitz and Liz Goodwin
Feb 05, 2025 6:36 pm - President Donald Trump’s administration launched one of its most brazen challenges yet to Congress’s authority this week when officials led by billionaire Elon Musk gutte...
Trump administration may allow local police to arrest immigrants

By Maria Sacchetti
Feb 05, 2025 4:16 pm - The Trump administration is considering deputizing state and local law enforcement to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants at traffic stops and other locations, resur...
The Oregon Zoo welcomes a new baby elephant

Feb 05, 2025 3:46 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Zoo in Portland has welcomed its newest addition, a baby elephant. Thirty-year-old Asian elephant Rose-Tu gave birth on Saturday after 20 mont...
U.S. won’t pay to rebuild Gaza or send troops, White House says

Michael Birnbaum
Feb 05, 2025 2:11 pm - The Trump administration does not intend to pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, nor has it made any commitment to send U.S. troops there, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday, offering clarifying details a day after President Donald Trump vowed to take over the territory and rebuild it.
Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judge

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and MIKE CATALINI
Feb 05, 2025 1:19 pm - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a second nationwide pause on President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. to someone in the country illegally, calling citizenship a “most precious right.”

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