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President Trump announced a travel ban Wednesday on 12 countries and a partial ban on seven others. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation banning travelers from 12 countries and partially restricting travelers from seven others, starting on Monday, June 9. The White House said the action was needed to protect the United States from terrorist attacks and other national security threats, and said the countries lacked screening and vetting capabilities. The full ban applies to foreign nationals from Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti,…

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Emily Scott is a Job Corps student in Los Angeles who is also a caretaker for her disabled mother. She is four months away from graduating from the Job Corps program as a licensed nurse. Andrea Watts of Las Vegas was homeless before finding her way to a Job Corps center in L.A. for an opportunity to obtain her high school diploma and eventually become a pharmacy technician. Both are students who are undergoing training at Job Corps, but whose careers are in limbo as the centers were abruptly shut down last week.On May 29, the Labor Department announced a “phased pause”…

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Environment / June 3, 2025 I can vote for two candidates—Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander—who’ve made climate a cornerstone of their campaigns, with real hopes that one or the other will prevail. Ad Policy State Senator Robert Jackson holds a campaign flyer supporting Working Families Party mayoral candidates during a rally in Brooklyn, New York.(Madison Swart and Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images) I was lucky enough as a young reporter to find myself covering elections in the only city in America that chose its leaders via ranked-choice voting (RCV). This was… a long time ago, and so it…

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The body of a climber who was ascending Alaska’s Mount McKinley, also known as Denali, has been found two days after he fell approximately 3,000 feet, the National Parks Service said.Alex Chiu, 41, was ascending the West Buttress climbing route of Mount McKinley — the tallest mountain in North America — with two others on Monday when he fell at a spot known as Squirrel Point, according to park officials. After his friends witnessed the fall, they tried to lower themselves as far over the edge as they possibly could, but they weren’t able to hear or see Chiu, NPS said in…

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President Trump ordered an investigation Wednesday into whether former President Joe Biden’s administration used an autopen machine to sign key presidential documents like pardons — months after Mr. Trump claimed his predecessor’s pardons were illegitimate.In a memo signed Wednesday night, Mr. Trump told Attorney General Pam Bondi and the president’s counsel to probe what he claimed was a “conspiracy” to “abuse the power of Presidential signatures through the use of an autopen to conceal Biden’s cognitive decline.”The order cited a litany of executive actions by Biden — including pardons and federal judge appointments — and argued “there are serious doubts…

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Linda McMahon, U.S. Secretary of Education, during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing in Washington. Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Eric Lee/Bloomberg/Getty Images U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon had a complicated job this week: To explain to lawmakers the Trump administration’s new fiscal year 2026 budget proposal for a department McMahon and President Trump have both committed to close. According to a new budget summary, the administration wants to cut the Education Department’s funding by 15%, while largely preserving the two most important federal funding streams to K-12 schools: Title I, for schools in low-income neighborhoods, and IDEA…

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Washington — GOP leaders in Congress appeared undeterred Wednesday as Elon Musk ramped up his criticism of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” with a barrage of posts slamming the measure, raising questions about whether Republicans can remain united around the centerpiece legislation of Mr. Trump’s second-term agenda.In a post on X on Tuesday, Musk called the bill “outrageous” and “pork-filled,” arguing that it’s a “a disgusting abomination” and lambasting congressional Republicans for supporting it. The post was only the beginning of a slew of comments from Musk, who called for a new bill to be drafted on Wednesday as the…

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Sexual predators are getting free passes from Donald Trump and the right-wing mediasphere. Ad Policy Harvey Weinstein at a preliminary hearing last year for his retrial on rape charges in New York (Jefferson Siegel-Pool / Getty Images) It’s raining toxic men. On Friday, President Trump took questions in the Oval Office and addressed an issue only Trump could bring to the presidential level: the possibility of pardoning Sean “Diddy” Combs in his sex-trafficking and racketeering trial—before a verdict of any kind has been reached. After warmly acknowledging their past friendship from Combs’s days on The Apprentice in 2012, the president…

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Trump administration says Columbia violated civil rights law Trump administration says Columbia violated civil rights law 00:42 The Education Department said Thursday that Columbia University has violated federal antidiscrimination laws and has therefore failed to meet accreditation standards.The department’s civil rights office notified the Middle States Commission on Higher Education — which accredits U.S. colleges and universities — that Columbia was out of compliance, according to a news release from the Education Department.The department, citing President Trump’s executive order on accreditation standards, accused the university’s leaders of failing to address antisemitism on campus after the Oct. 7 attack against Israel…

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