Articles filed under Political Figures
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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to leave mass layoffs at Education Department in placeJun 06, 2025 10:38 am - President Donald Trump's administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to pause a court order to reinstate Education Department employees who were fired in mass layoffs as part of his plan to dismantle the agency.
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Judge puts temporary hold on Trump's latest ban on Harvard's foreign studentsJun 06, 2025 9:04 am - A federal judge has temporarily blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump that banned foreign students from entering the U.S. to attend Harvard University.
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Goodbye Mr. Nice Guy? Investors dump Tesla on bet Trump may lash out at Musk through his car companyJun 06, 2025 6:53 am - Investors bought hundreds of billions of dollars of Tesla stock after Donald Trump was elected on a bet that politics were more important than profits.In three hours Thursday, they learned yet again how dangerous that gamble could be.
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Elon Musk pulls back on threat to withdraw Dragon spacecraftJun 06, 2025 6:49 am - As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world's richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. A few hours later, Musk said he wouldn't follow through on the threat.
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Duckworth’s ‘Don’t Miss Your Flight’ bill aims to fix last-minute delays en route to airportsJun 05, 2025 1:44 pm - And — former suburbanite and Tea Party star Joe Walsh announces he’s turning Democrat.
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Trump threatens to cut Musk’s government contracts as their public feud escalatesJun 05, 2025 12:28 pm - President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts as their fractured alliance rapidly escalated into a public feud with Trump suggesting he would use the U.S. government to hurt his fellow billionaire financially.
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Trump’s EPA targets environmental rules projected to save billions — and many thousands of livesJun 05, 2025 9:50 am - When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency announced a wide-ranging rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would put a “dagger through the heart of c...
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Russian strike kills 5 in Ukraine, including a 1-year-old, hours after Trump-Putin callJun 05, 2025 8:48 am - At least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed Thursday in a nighttime Russian drone attack on the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky, officials said.
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Trump tax bill will add $2.4 trillion to the deficit and leave 10.9 million more uninsured, CBO saysJun 04, 2025 2:58 pm - President Donald Trump’s big bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.75 trillion but also increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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Trump says Putin told him that Russia will respond to Ukrainian attack on airfieldsJun 04, 2025 2:35 pm - U.S. President Donald Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him “very strongly” in a phone call Wednesday that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields as the deadlock over the war drags on and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismisses Russia's ceasefire proposal.