Senate kicks off all-night ‘vote-a-rama’ as Democrats plan to press GOP on Trump, DOGE
Senate Republicans triggered a vote-a-rama on Friday in a bid to pass Trump's budget resolution after it ends.
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DACA recipient and father of 3 deported to Mexico despite valid documentation
A 39-year-old DACA recipient and married father of three from Kansas City, Kansas, was deported last month after he left the U.S. and traveled to Mexico to visit his grandfather’s grave, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. Evenezer Cortez-Martinez was detained March 23 at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport as he was making
Defiant Brown U Student Relaunches Database Spotlighting School’s DEI Administrators As Trump Admin Slashes $510 Million in Funding
‘I guess my passion is dismantling DEI,’ sophomore Alex Shieh tells Free Beacon When Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh published an online database spotlighting administrative bloat at the Ivy League school, he became the subject of both a university investigation and a hacking effort that shut his site down. Now, he’s barreling ahead, having launched
North Carolina Appeals Court Rules Thousands of Contested Ballots Must Be Verified
Voters who provide their necessary verification information within the 15 days will have their votes counted. A North Carolina appeals court said on April 4 that contested ballots in a close race between two candidates for the state Supreme Court must be verified to be counted. The 2–1 decision, which sided with Republican Jefferson Griffin,
New Columbia President Promises To ‘Continue’ Implementing Trump-Imposed Reforms
The Ivy League university has inconsistently enforced the reforms intended to curb campus anti-Semitism Columbia president Claire Shipman delivers a Ted Talk in 2023 (YouTube) Columbia University’s new acting president, Claire Shipman, promised Friday to “continue” implementing the Trump-imposed reforms her predecessor agreed to in a bid to recover $430 million in slashed federal funding.
IRS cutting its workforce by 25%, eliminating agency’s civil rights office
The Trump administration is continuing to shrink the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as many employees are slated to be let go this week.
Tariffs May Raise Prices Slightly But Will Deliver Tax Relief for Bottom 50 Percent, Bessent Says
Money generated by the tariffs will fund proposals to scrap taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security benefits, the Treasury secretary says. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said consumers could see a one-time price increase of about 2 percent for every 10 percent of new tariffs imposed on foreign goods, and that the revenue from tariffs