Nation and World Politics
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White House comes out with sharp spending cuts in Trump’s 2026 budget plan
May 02, 2025 7:33 am - President Donald Trump's 2026 budget plan would slash non-defense domestic spending by $163 billion while increasing expenditures on national security, according to White House statements Friday.
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‘We need to voice our concerns’: Suburbs join in on global May Day ralliesMay 01, 2025 9:22 pm - Gray skies and intermittent drizzle couldn’t dampen the enthusiasm of protesters attending suburban May Day rallies Thursday.
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Miller highlights key Trump priority: the war against ‘cancerous, woke culture’
May 01, 2025 7:18 pm - President Donald Trump and his top advisers on Thursday sought to spotlight their efforts so far to remake the federal government and American society with a pointed and ...
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Trump threatens sanctions against buyers of Iranian oil after US-Iran nuclear talks are postponed
May 01, 2025 7:14 pm - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian oil, a warning that came after planned talks over Tehran’...
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Trump administration cuts school mental health grants created after shootings
May 01, 2025 7:10 pm - The Education Department this week began cutting about $1 billion in mental health-related grants created in response to mass school shootings, claiming that schools that...
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More than 1,100 arrested in 6-day Florida immigration sweep, officials say
May 01, 2025 4:46 pm - More than 1,100 people have been arrested in Florida over the last week as part of a sweeping immigration operation involving state and federal law enforcement agents, De...
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Justice Department sues Hawaii, Michigan, Vermont and New York over state climate actionsMay 01, 2025 4:04 pm - DETROIT — The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Tr...
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Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th-century wartime law
May 01, 2025 12:56 pm - A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump's invocation of it was “unlawful.”
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Trump names Secretary of State Rubio as acting national security adviser, taps Waltz for UN envoy
May 01, 2025 10:48 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating for United Nations ambassador.
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Schaumburg Business Association talks tariffs, sidesteps ideological issuesMay 01, 2025 8:56 am - Members of the Schaumburg Business Association were promised and received a non-ideological overview of tariffs and a history of their use by the U.S. on the 100th day of the second Trump administration Wednesday.