Just before 5 p.m. on Tuesday, when the Trump administration’s federal aid freeze was scheduled to begin, a D.C. judge issued a ruling pausing it for a week, setting the stage for a high-profile legal fight. It’s not the only conflict playing out over the freeze. A battle between political and career staffers is underway
When President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting wind energy development on his first day in office, it appeared to solely target offshore wind farms. But buried deep in the order, Trump also halted a single onshore wind development, the Lava Ridge Wind project in southern Idaho, handing an unlikely victory to local residents
When the Trump administration unveiled a 90-day freeze of foreign aid aimed at ensuring the funding is “consistent with U.S. foreign policy under the America First agenda,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio allowed career staffers to submit waivers for projects they felt were aligned with that agenda. Those staffers went on to submit some 200
Trump’s Treasury secretary became the highest-ranking openly gay official to be confirmed by the Senate (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made history as the nation’s highest-ranking gay official after the Senate confirmed him to the cabinet post on Monday. But the confirmation has gone unmentioned by the country’s top LGBT groups, which effusively
‘A previous version of this article referred to Samidoun as an activist network that supports Palestinian prisoners’ L: (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) R: A Samidoun flier with an anti-Israel slogan. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The Washington Post quietly amended a piece on “Palestinian prisoners” to note that the original version cited the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
No one more fully embodied the mainstream media’s smug self-righteousness and sneering disdain for everyday Americans It’s official. Jim Acosta, the obnoxious TV journalist best known for fighting a young female staffer who tried to take away his microphone at the White House, has quit his job at CNN after refusing to accept a humiliating
‘A return to the status quo prior to October 7 is not enough,’ Columbia Jewish Voice for Peace writes Anti-Israel protest at Columbia last year (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Columbia University’s chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) issued a Monday statement for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It compared Auschwitz to “Zionist dungeons and torture camps”