POLITICS

DOGE Says 315,000 Credit Cards Have Been Canceled, Limited by Federal Agencies

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Last month, DOGE said that more than 4.6 million credit cards were used across federal agencies last year. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said about 315,000 government credit cards have been canceled or limited by various federal agencies under a cost-savings program. The Elon Musk-affiliated group wrote in a post on Tuesday that “up

NPR CEO, Who Called Trump ‘Deranged Racist Sociopath,’ Tells Congress There’s No ‘Political Bias’ at Taxpayer-Funded Broadcaster

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Katherine Maher also said NPR should have covered ‘the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively’ and botched coverage of COVID origins March 26, 2025 NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who once called President Donald Trump a “deranged racist sociopath,” testified Wednesday to Congress that she’s “never seen … political bias” at the taxpayer-funded outlet, a comment

As Trump Administration Moves To Void Settlement With Small Business, Documents Shed Light on Kafkaesque Nightmare to Which it Was Subjected

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In November 2024, the Biden administration’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) fined Townstone Financial, a small mortgage company in Chicago, Ill., $105,000 for statements the company’s owner had made about crime in the city. The police “are the only ones between that [area] turning into a real war zone and keeping it kind of where

Appeals Court Lets Trump Administration Suspend Entry of Some Refugees

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Judges said the order does not apply to people approved for refugee status before Trump was sworn in. A federal appeals court on March 25 granted a Trump administration motion to stay a lower court order, enabling the government to halt the processing of refugee applications and letting refugees into the United States. A U.S.

Appeals Court Allows Block on Trump Admin’s Deportation Proclamation

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Judge Justin Walker dissented from the decision. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has denied President Donald Trump’s request to halt a lower court order blocking his proclamation that applied the Alien Enemies Act to support deportations of suspected members of a Venezuelan gang. Judges Karen Henderson and Patricia Millett opposed the

ABC News Quietly Removes All Four Reporter Bylines From Piece That Referred to Israel’s ‘Occupation Forces’

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ABC also removed the phrase, which Hamas uses in reference to the IDF, but did not mention doing so in an editor’s note Israeli military moves near Lebanese border, Nov. 2023 (Amir Levy/Getty Images) ABC News has quietly removed the bylines of four reporters from a controversial piece that initially contained a false report accusing