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Elon Musk walks on Capitol Hill on the day of a meeting with Senate Republican Leader-elect John Thune (R-SD), in Washington, U.S. December 5, 2024. Benoit Tessier | ReutersFive former Treasury secretaries warned Monday that recent actions at the Treasury Department by Trump administration officials and Elon Musk’s DOGE team raise “substantial cause for concern” that the United States’ financial commitments are being “unlawfully” undermined.”We have during our service in the Treasury Department faced moments of crisis, when the specter of an American default loomed,” the former secretaries wrote in a New York Times op-ed.”Any hint of the selective suspension of…
Asked whether Palestinians would be allowed to return to Gaza under his plan, US president says, ‘No, they wouldn’t.’Washington, DC – United States President Donald Trump has confirmed that his proposal for mass displacement in Gaza does not include a right of return for Palestinians in the enclave. In an interview with Fox News, partially aired on Monday, Trump also reiterated his push to “own” Gaza. Asked whether Palestinians would be allowed to return to their territory under his plan, Trump said, “No, they wouldn’t.” The US president’s plan to empty Gaza of its population has been forcefully rejected across…
Talk to end the penny’s production has been bandied about for decades among government officials and economists. However, the talk became policy when, over the weekend, President Donald Trump ordered the Treasury to stop minting new pennies.”For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”Trump’s attack on the penny came after Elon Musk’s DOGE already had targeted the coin for elimination. Among…
Poco después de las 3 a. m., un ariete abrió de golpe la puerta de un apartamento en el piso 14 y tres hombres vestidos con el equipo táctico negro de la policía chilena entraron presipitadamente. Blandiendo pistolas, agarraron a Roland Ojeda delante de su esposa y su hijo de 6 años y se lo llevaron a rastras en ropa interior.Ojeda, exoficial del ejército venezolano de 32 años, era un disidente político asilado en un barrio de clase media de la capital de Chile, Santiago. Había intentado organizar complots para derrocar a Nicolás Maduro, el líder autocrático de Venezuela, y…
In the early United States, most presidents operated under something called the “spoils system.” This meant that when new presidents took office, they often replaced federal employees who’d worked under a previous administration with loyalists from their own party. Federal employees could face firing if they didn’t demonstrate their fealty to the ruling party by obeying party bosses or donating money to campaigns. This wasn’t an official U.S. policy, but over time, it became an entrenched political norm.Calls for reform of the spoils system increased with the growth of the federal government after the Civil War. It then came to…
The day after President Donald Trump returned to office, Lisa Suhay took her 21-year-old daughter, Mellow, to a passport office in Norfolk, Virginia, where they live.Getting a passport for Mellow, who is transgender, was urgent.In an executive order Trump signed the night before, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes instead of a broader conception of gender. The order says a person is male or female and it rejects the idea that someone can transition from the sex assigned at birth to another gender. The framing is in line with many conservatives’ views but at odds with major…
WASHINGTON — A judge said in a ruling Friday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau could not terminate employees without cause, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the agency.The court order came in response to a lawsuit by the National Treasury Employees Union and the CFPB Employee Association, among other groups, that sued the agency and its acting director Russell Vought this week. They had asked the judge to “declare unlawful and set aside the defendants’ actions and intended further actions to dismantle the CFPB.”The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson prevents any mass…
On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he signed an executive order that essentially reaffirmed free speech, which is already enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The order alleged that the previous administration of President Joe Biden “trampled on free speech” by censoring “Americans’ speech on online platforms”, and forced social media companies to comply under the guise of combatting “misinformation”, “disinformation”, and “malinformation”. What the order overlooked was that members of both parties routinely asked social media companies – including X (formerly Twitter), now owned by Trump ally Elon Musk – to…
(The Center Square) – An Illinois-based Black health advocacy group is demanding more tax dollars for Black HIV care. Officials from the group Black Leadership Advocacy Coalition for Healthcare Equity (BLACHE) said the Black community continues to struggle with HIV.“Despite the rate of infections going down across the state among other ethnicities, African Americans continue to comprise 47% of new cases,” said BLACHE Board Chair Creola Hampton. Hampton claims the state is withholding funds that were promised four years ago and believes white organizations are getting preferential treatment from the state. “You cannot justify 96% of your budget going to White-led organizations,” said Hampton.…
The penny was one of the first coins the U.S. Mint made after its establishment in 1792. The original version of the coin was larger and made of pure copper. Today the penny is 0.75 inches in diameter, 0.0598 inches thick and made up of 97.5 percent zinc and plated with copper. The coin has also been downsized in value. The U.S. Mint reported in 2024 that it cost 3.07 cents to produce each penny and that producing the coin has cost more than its face value for 19 years. In 1989, legislation was introduced to ditch the penny and round cash transactions…