Tag: Donald Trump
Trump pauses $2.1B for Chicago infrastructure projects, leveraging shutdown to pressure Democrats
WASHINGTON – White House budget director Russ Vought said the Trump administration will withhold $2.1 billion for Chicago infrastructure projects, expanding funding fights that...
Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals
NEW YORK – President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as...
New Mexico Legislature approves bills to prop up rural health care, underwrite food assistance
SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico lawmakers moved quickly Thursday at a special legislative session to prop up funding for food assistance and rural...
Fundraising groups step up to help reopen national park sites and welcome visitors
DENVER – When the government shut down in 2018, a Mississippi nonprofit interceded to fund a bare-bones crew to keep one of the state’s...
Putin praises Trump but warns that supplies of US long-range missile to Ukraine will badly hurt ties
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States that supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine will seriously damage relations between Moscow and...
FDA approves another generic abortion pill, prompting outrage from conservatives
WASHINGTON – Federal officials have approved another generic version of the abortion pill mifepristone, a regulatory formality that quickly triggered pushback from anti-abortion groups...
US will increase staffing at embassies and consulates to handle visas for World Cup fans
WASHINGTON – The State Department will increase staffing at certain U.S. embassies and consulates to accommodate an expected major jump in visa applications from...
The Latest: Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and punishment
President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening mass firings...
A freed political prisoner refuses to be deported from Belarus and promptly vanishes
TALLINN – Scores of political prisoners pardoned by the authoritarian leader of Belarus sat on a bus waiting to cross the border with Lithuania...
Trump uses government shutdown to dole out firings and political punishment
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish detractors, by threatening...
