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A protester with a sign saying “HONK IF YOU WANT YOUR DATA BACK!!!” stands with other demonstrators outside of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s headquarters in February in Washington, D.C., to rally against the DOGE team set up by President Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk getting access to personal data about federal employees. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Falling public participation in surveys and trust in government have plagued the U.S. Census Bureau for decades. And some of the agency’s current and former workers say there’s a new complication to gathering enough survey responses…

Hickory, N.C. — A 20-year-old man was arrested Tuesday on an attempted murder charge in connection with a weekend shooting around a house party in North Carolina that led to the death of one person and injuries of 11 others, sheriff’s deputies said.Garon Nathaniel Killian, 20, of Lenoir, was being held in jail without bond, the Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. Online records didn’t show booking or lawyer information for Killian and the county court clerk’s office’s phone didn’t accept voicemails Tuesday evening. The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office, the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation and the Federal…

The party should be listening to former Tea Party stalwart Joe Walsh. No, really. Ad Policy Joe Walsh speaks at a Country Over Party Rally to talk about his support for Kamala Harris.(Aimee Dilger / SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) In the motley ranks of Never Trump Republicans, I always harbored a guilty fondness for former Illinois GOP Representative Joe Walsh. An ardent recruit to the anti-government Tea Party movement, Walsh was never afflicted with nostalgia for a gauzy bipartisan Beltway consensus—the drug of choice for many Never Trump apostles, from right-wing pundits Bret Stephens and Max Boot to ineffective…

The United States doubled its steel and aluminum tariffs to 50% Wednesday, casting a pall on a gathering of OECD ministers as President Trump’s intensifying trade war weighs on the world economy. The boosted levies went into effect at midnight EDT.Mr. Trump’s sweeping tariffs on allies and adversaries alike — including ones on imported steel and autos — have strained U.S. ties with trading partners and sparked a flurry of negotiations to avoid the duties. And the pressure is mounting as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a 38-nation grouping of mostly developed countries, cut its global growth…

Federal prosecutors charged a Southern California man with allegedly threatening to kill President Trump on Facebook after last year’s election.The man — identified as 73-year-old Thomas Eugene Streavel of San Bernardino County — was indicted last week on three counts of making threats against a president-elect, the Justice Department said in a news release Tuesday. An indictment unsealed Tuesday lists out a series of angry Facebook messages that Streavel allegedly penned about Mr. Trump both before and after the election — some of which expressed a desire for him to be assassinated. The charges focus on three messages allegedly written in November,…

The new official portrait of Donald Trump shows the president staring into the camera with an expressionless face. White House hide caption toggle caption White House The White House unveiled a new portrait of President Trump this week, replacing the image taken in January that had drawn comparisons to a mugshot. In the new photograph, announced by the White House on Monday via X, Trump stares directly into the camera. His right eye is slightly squinted and his mouth is pressed into a straight line. He is dressed in a blue suit with one of his signature red ties, and…

Police in Florida arrested a man who allegedly climbed a fence and tried to enter President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club early Tuesday, the Secret Service said.The alleged intruder — described only as an adult male — “scaled a perimeter fence and triggered alarms” shortly after midnight on Tuesday, a Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement to CBS News. He was detained by the Secret Service “without incident” before local police in Palm Beach took him into custody and charged him with trespassing, according to the spokesperson. The arrested man allegedly told local police he hoped to speak with Mr. Trump about…

June 3, 2025 The “big, beautiful bill” has reaffirmed that a pledged golden age is really just a windfall for the über-wealthy. Ad Policy Supporters gather on May Day at City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where Senator Bernie Sanders held a rally along his Fighting Oligarchy Tour.(Kayla Bartkowski / Getty Images) This article was originally published at The Guardian and is republished here with permission. The blush is off the rose, or, rather, the orange. The erstwhile “First Buddy” and born-again fiscal hawk Elon Musk recently said he was “disappointed” by Donald Trump’s spendthrift budget currently under debate in the…

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Six Nobel laureate economists said a massive budget bill passed by House lawmakers last month and backed by President Trump would weaken key safety-net programs while greatly lifting the federal debt. The tax and spending package, which Republicans have dubbed the “one big beautiful bill,” would hurt millions of Americans by slashing Medicaid and food stamps, the economists wrote in a June 2 letter on behalf of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. “Even with the safety net cuts, the House bill leads to public debt rising by over $3 trillion in coming years (and over $5 trillion over the…