He also did so during his first term, donating his salary to various federal departments. President Donald Trump on May 4 said that he would again be donating his entire presidential salary back to the federal government, as he did in his first term. “I do something that no other president has done, they think
Gabrielle Wimer’s suspension ‘effectively is an extended vacation,’ one person who spotted her says L: Anti-Israel Protesters at Barnard College (unityoffields/X) R: Columbia medical student Gabrielle Wimer (Columbia Human Rights Initiative Asylum Clinic) Columbia University medical students accused the Ivy League school of pushing a double standard after a classmate who was suspended following her
A senior official behind a number of the Washington, D.C., attorney general office’s high-profile climate-related legal actions is funded through an initiative backed by billionaire climate activist Michael Bloomberg—an arrangement experts say raises serious questions about government independence. Lauren Cullum’s official title is special assistant attorney general for the Office of the Attorney General for
Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They’re not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past few weeks, he told KFF Health News, his Schenectady, New York, office has seen people come in for whom “there is no
The president said the move is necessary to protect the once globally dominant U.S. movie industry. President Donald Trump announced on May 4 that he was authorizing his administration to impose a 100 percent tariff on movies produced outside of the United States. In a Truth Social post, Trump said the Department of Commerce and
The president directed federal agencies to rebuild the former federal prison located on a small island off the San Francisco coast. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he will “reopen and rebuild” the historic Alcatraz prison off the San Francisco coast to jail the nation’s most ruthless and violent repeat offenders. In a Truth Social
The president said the United States is benefitting from the period of slowed trade, referencing the decades-long trade deficit with China. President Donald Trump said on May 4 that he has no plans to reduce tariffs on Chinese goods in order to bring about negotiations, spurning a demand made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).