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Trump’s anti-DEI order threatens state money for election security

By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Patrick Marley
Apr 29, 2025 9:17 pm - Federal election officials are suggesting states must pledge to follow President Donald Trump’s directive curbing diversity, equity and inclusion programs as a condition ...
Under oath to Senate, Martin claims ignorance of Nazi sympathizer’s views

By Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu
Apr 29, 2025 9:15 pm - A top Senate Democrat accused Ed Martin Monday of dodging or giving false answers to questions by a committee weighing his nomination as President Donald Trump’s pick to ...
USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show

By Jacob Bogage and Hannah Natanson
Apr 29, 2025 6:16 pm - The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun cooperating with federal immigration officials to locate people suspected of being in the country ill...
Canadian prime minister's Liberals fall short of a majority in Parliament

By ROB GILLIES
Apr 29, 2025 3:49 pm - TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals celebrated election victory in a stunning turn of fortune but fell short Tuesday of winning an outright majority ...
The EPA is canceling nearly 800 environmental justice grants, court filing reveals

By Maxine Joselow and Amudalat Ajasa
Apr 29, 2025 3:41 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency plans to cancel a total of 781 grants issued under President Joe Biden, EPA lawyers wrote in a little-noticed court filing last week, ...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting sues Trump after attempted board firings

By Scott Nover and Herb Scribner
Apr 29, 2025 3:27 pm - The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a nonprofit organization created by Congress that provides funding to public broadcasters such as NPR and PBS, sued the Trump adm...
US consumer confidence plummets to COVID-era low as trade war stokes anxiety

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Apr 29, 2025 2:58 pm - Americans’ confidence in the economy slumped for the fifth straight month to the lowest level since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as anxiety over the impact of tariffs takes a heavy toll.
Hegseth boasts about ending ‘woke’ program on women and security that Trump had signed into law

By TARA COPP and FARNOUSH AMIRI
Apr 29, 2025 1:00 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted on social media Tuesday that he had dismantled a program supporting women on security teams — and may not have realized the program he tried to break was not a “woke” Biden-era initiative but instead a celebrated program signed into law by his boss, President Donald Trump.
For some Americans, the end of the Vietnam War after Saigon fell 50 years ago is still deeply felt

By MARK THIESSEN and JULIE WATSON
Apr 29, 2025 12:56 pm - The Vietnam War greatly impacted U.S. society from the passage of the War Powers Resolution that restricts the president’s ability to send troops into extended combat without congressional approval to the cementing of college campuses as centers of student activism.
Amazon is not planning to show added tariff costs next to its online product listings

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and JOSH BOAK
Apr 29, 2025 11:44 am - Amazon is not planning to list added tariff costs next to product prices on its site — despite speculation spanning from a report that claimed the e-commerce giant would soon show new import charges, as well as fiery comments from President Donald Trump's White House denouncing such a move.

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