Third Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

Two similar rulings were made by judges in Seattle and Maryland. A third federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order from taking effect. The federal government is looking to narrow the broad recognition of birthright citizenship to exclude children born to illegal immigrants and those only visiting the United States temporarily.

DHS Secretary Recommends Trump ‘Get Rid’ of FEMA in Its Current State

The Trump administration has signaled it will shake up the disaster relief agency. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said she is recommending that President Donald Trump “get rid” of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “the way it exists today.” FEMA is tasked with helping states and communities impacted by floods, fires, drought, earthquakes,

Federal employees union files lawsuits over CFPB shutdown, DOGE access

Washington — A union representing employees across dozens of federal agencies filed two lawsuits on Sunday against the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with one seeking to block the apparent shutdown of the agency and another aimed at stopping Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing employee records and information.  

Third federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order

Washington — A federal judge in New Hampshire on Monday blocked President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, becoming the third judge to do so amid more than half a dozen legal challenges to the president’s directive. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante said at the end of a brief hearing that he would

What History Says About Trump’s Plan To ‘Own’ Gaza. Plus, Inside USAID’s Efforts To Oppose Israel and Avoid Oversight.

The anti-Semitic U.N. official Francesca Albanese says Donald Trump’s plan to make Gaza the “Riviera of the Middle East” is “worse than ethnic cleansing.” We’ve heard a lot of that sort of rhetoric in the wake of Trump’s announcement, so we asked the eminent historian Andrew Roberts to weigh in. Nations and peoples that start

Trump Signs Proclamation Recognizing Feb. 9 as ‘Gulf of America’ Day

This follows an executive order Trump signed on his inauguration day, calling for the name change. President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Sunday declaring Feb. 9 as “the first-ever Gulf of America Day,” following his executive order on Jan. 20 to rename the ocean basin previously known as the Gulf of Mexico. Trump signed