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A top Trump administration official accused Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell of leading an “ostentatious” office renovation project that may be “violating the law” on Thursday, a new broadside against the central bank chief as President Trump tangles with him over interest rates.”The President is extremely troubled by your management of the Federal Reserve System,” Office of Management and Budget Chair Russell Vought wrote in a letter Thursday.The letter came after months of criticism from Mr. Trump over the Fed’s decision not to slash interest rates. Economists say lowering rates may accelerate economic growth, but also runs the risk of…

On a recent afternoon, Mahmoud Khalil sat in his Manhattan apartment, cradling his 10-week-old son as he thought back to the pre-dawn hours spent pacing a frigid immigration jail in Louisiana, awaiting news of the child’s birth in New York. For a moment, the outspoken Palestinian activist found himself uncharacteristically speechless. “I cannot describe the pain of that night,” Khalil said finally, gazing down as the baby, Deen, cooed in his arms. “This is something I will never forgive.” Now, weeks after regaining his freedom, Khalil is seeking restitution. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a claim for $20 million in…

Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, talks to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, July 11, 2023. Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP/Keystone hide caption toggle caption Salvatore Di Nolfi/AP/Keystone UNITED NATIONS — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it is issuing sanctions against an independent investigator tasked with probing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza. The State Department’s decision to impose sanctions on…

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said that if Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, were to be released from pretrial detention, ICE officials have not determined where he would be sent. “There’s been no decision made, as he is not in ICE custody,” Thomas Giles, assistant director for ICE enforcement and removal operations, testified Thursday in federal court in Maryland. Giles was in court after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis earlier this week ordered the government to produce someone with firsthand knowledge of any third country Abrego Garcia where he could be…

July 10, 2025 It’s hard not to see a straight line between Stalin’s version of photoshopping and the purge of the Pentagon archives in 2025. Ad Policy Former US president Donald Trump during a campaign event at Alro Steel in Potterville, Michigan, on August 29, 2024.(Emily Elconin / Bloomberg) This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com. In early June, The Washington Post published a follow-up to earlier stories on a Trump administration plan to remove thousands of photographs from Defense Department websites because…

Walmart is recalling roughly 850,000 water bottles after a problem with the lid caused two people to suffer permanent vision loss and another to sustain injuries.The lid on the Ozark Trail stainless steel bottles can forcefully eject when users try to open it, posing “serious impact and laceration hazards,” according to a July 10 notice posted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The federal regulatory agency said people who own the water bottle should stop using it immediately and contact Walmart for a full refund. Consumers may also get a refund by bringing the product to their nearest Walmart. Walmart is…

President Trump announced Wednesday that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will temporarily lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, weeks after Mr. Trump withdrew an Elon Musk-linked entrepreneur as his pick to lead the space agency. The president praised Duffy in a Wednesday Truth Social post, writing: “He will be a fantastic leader of the ever more important Space Agency, even if only for a short period of time.””Honored to accept this mission. Time to take over space. Let’s launch,” Duffy wrote on X.NASA was being led by Janet Petro, a former leader of the Kennedy Space Center who has served as the agency’s…

The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently gained high-level access to a database that controls government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S. Christian Blaza for NPR hide caption toggle caption Christian Blaza for NPR A staffer from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently got high-level access to view and change the contents of a payments system that controls tens of billions of dollars in government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the United States, according to internal access logs reviewed by NPR. “When we talk about farm loan application records, there…

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America is being hollowed out by an extractive economy. Ad Policy Donald Trump signs the One, Big Beautiful Bill Act into law during an Independence Day military family picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on July 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images) Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” just passed both chambers of Congress. It slashes over $1 trillion from Medicaid and cuts anti-hunger programs by $295 billion, all while delivering tax breaks where 72 percent of all benefits go to the top 20 percent of earners. At least 16 million Americans are projected to…