Articles filed under Political Figures
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Trump blames ‘obsolete’ US air traffic control system for the plane and chopper collision near DCFeb 06, 2025 11:25 am - President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed last week's deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter on what he called an “obsolete” computer system used by U.S. air traffic controllers, and he vowed to replace it.
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Justice Department sues Illinois, Chicago over immigration enforcementFeb 06, 2025 10:45 am - The Justice Department sued the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago on Thursday, accusing them of impeding the Trump administration’s immigration policies. The department seeks a court order to bar protections for immigrants that exist at the state and local level.
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Musk uses his X ownership and White House position to push Trump priorities, intimidate detractorsFeb 06, 2025 10:26 am - The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary dynamic — a White House adviser who's using one of the world’s most powerful information platforms to sell the government’s talking points while intimidating its detractors.
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Trump tells prayer breakfast he wants to root out ‘anti-Christian bias’ and urges ‘bring God back’Feb 06, 2025 7:46 am - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S., announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians.
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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.”