Articles filed under Donald Trump
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Mexican border cities are in limbo as tariff threats spark fears of a recessionFeb 06, 2025 7:27 am - As soon as the sun glints over miles of border fence dividing the United States and Mexico, the engines of cargo trucks packed with auto and computer parts roar to life along border bridges and bleary-eyed workers file into factories to assemble a multitude of products geared toward the U.S. market.
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From fighting disease to protecting the Amazon rain forest, USAID has big impact across the globeFeb 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.
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Judge temporarily blocks Trump plan offering incentives for federal workers to resignFeb 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.
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U.S. won’t pay to rebuild Gaza or send troops, White House saysFeb 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.
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‘We’re all humans’: Immigrant advocates rally in West Chicago to protest mass deportationsFeb 05, 2025 2:00 pm - Large crowd in West Chicago demonstrates against ICE raids, activists worry about arbitrary deportations.
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Trump’s birthright citizenship order is put on hold by a second federal judgeFeb 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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US officials now say Trump only wants to displace Palestinians from Gaza temporarilyFeb 05, 2025 1:16 pm - President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and his main spokesperson on Wednesday walked back the idea that he wants the permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, after American allies and even Republican lawmakers rebuffed his suggestion that the U.S. take “ownership” of the territory.
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Rash of ICE impersonation follows Trump immigration crackdown, police sayFeb 05, 2025 8:58 am - Police in South Carolina received a call last week reporting that a person was driving a vehicle without a license. But they later learned it was actually the caller who ...
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US Postal Service flip-flops on Hong Kong-China packages, lifting a ban imposed a day earlierFeb 05, 2025 8:48 am - The U.S. Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong.
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Iran praises US for cutting foreign aid funding as it looks for a Trump message on nuclear talksFeb 05, 2025 7:54 am - Iran's government seems to be welcoming some recent decisions by the United States — even though they happen to come from a man Iranian operatives have allegedly been plotting to assassinate.