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Washington — A federal appeals court is set to convene Thursday to consider President Trump’s use of an emergency powers law to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every U.S. trading partner.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will hear arguments in the Trump administration’s appeal of a ruling from a trade-focused lower court that found the president did not have the authority to hit foreign nations with 10% tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or IEEPA.While a three-judge panel on the the U.S. Court of International Trade blocked the sweeping duties that the president assessed on…

July 30, 2025 Local faith leaders are fighting back, refusing to let the Bible and the church be hijacked by extremists. Ad Policy A sign in Alabama, 2018. (Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post via Getty Images) 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. Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number had dwindled to…

A little-known federal agency that sends more than $12 billion annually to support community health centers, addiction treatment services, and workforce initiatives for America’s neediest people has been hobbled by the Trump administration’s staffing purges.The cuts are “just a little astonishing,” said Carole Johnson, who previously led the Health Resources and Services Administration. She left the agency in January with the administration change and has described the sweeping staff cuts as a “big threat” to the agency’s ability to distribute billions of dollars in grants to hospitals, clinics, nonprofits, and other organizations nationwide.Since February, about a quarter of workers at…

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People are seen traversing the Brown University campus in Providence, R.I., Oct. 12, 2020. Steven Senne/AP hide caption toggle caption Steven Senne/AP WASHINGTON — Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations in a deal with the Trump administration that restores lost federal research funding and ends investigations into alleged discrimination, officials said Wednesday. The university also agreed to several concessions in line with President Donald Trump’s political agenda. Brown will adopt the government’s definition of “male” and “female,” for example, and must remove any consideration of race from the admissions process. Brown President Christina H.…

Top Texas Democrats are sounding the alarm over a GOP plan to redraw Texas’ congressional maps, warning in interviews with CBS News it would dramatically dilute minority representation in the Lone Star State and set off a nationwide ripple effect.Republican state lawmakers unveiled a draft congressional map on Wednesday that would turn five U.S. House districts currently held by Democrats into GOP-leaning seats — an idea blessed by President Trump as Republicans angle to hold onto their narrow congressional majority in next year’s midterms.One Democratic member of Congress whose district could be impacted called the proposed map “grossly unfair,” arguing…

With Trump’s popularity in freefall, 2026 should be a gimme for the opposition. But there are signs that the Dems could sleepwalk into disaster. Ad Policy Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY).(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) Six months into the catastrophe known as the second Trump administration, the Democratic Party is experiencing the unfamiliar emotion of hope. President Donald Trump has been in a polling free fall ever since the summer of Epstein kicked off in earnest. With the White House’s increasingly frantic efforts to dismiss questions about the president’s decade-and-a-half-long bro-ship with…

Arkansas State Police have arrested a suspect after a couple was killed while hiking with their two young daughters over the weekend at Devil’s Den State Park. James Andrew McGann, 28, of Springdale, was taken into custody on Wednesday and has been charged with two counts of capital murder, police said.Clinton David Brink, 43, and Cristen Amanda Brink, 41, were found dead Saturday at the park in Washington County. The couple was hiking with their two daughters, ages 7 and 9, when they were attacked, state police said. Their daughters were not hurt and are being cared for by family members,…

Washington — Former Vice President Kamala Harris won’t run for California governor next year, she announced Wednesday afternoon in a statement. “In recent months, I have given serious thought to asking the people of California for the privilege to serve as their governor,” the 60-year-old Oakland native and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee said. “I love this state, its people, and its promise. It is my home. But after deep reflection, I’ve decided that I will not run for governor in this election.””For now, my leadership—and public service—will not be in elected office,” she added.Declining a gubernatorial bid gives Harris a window…

In this file photo from August 1958 American labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamster’s Union, testified at a hearing investigating labor rackets. Hoffa disappeared in 1975 and no body has ever been found. Keystone/Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption toggle caption Keystone/Getty Images/Hulton Archive His full name is James Riddle Hoffa. But everyone knew him as Jimmy. A labor leader who thrived in the rough and tumble world of union organizing, of contracts, and picket lines… and of standing up for workers right no matter what. When he disappeared it was front page news. But how many imagined we’d…