The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the primary U.S. nonprofit for fighting child sexual exploitation, said Friday that it is removing all references to transgender people from its public materials. The move is in accordance with an executive order President Trump signed last week, which bars federal funding …
Read More »Trump administration preparing to restart immigrant family detention
The Trump administration is moving forward with restarting the detention of migrant families, including those with young children, which could mean an increase in arrests of children and teens, according to three sources familiar with the planning. The sources said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is preparing to publish in …
Read More »Judge to pause Trump administration effort to gut USAID’s workforce by thousands
A federal judge on Friday said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of more than 5,000. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols made the announcement from the bench after a hearing at a …
Read More »Trump taps Vance to negotiate sale of TikTok ahead of deadline
President Donald Trump has tapped Vice President J.D. Vance to broker a potential sale of TikTok to a U.S.-based entity before the most recent ban extension elapses in April, according to two people familiar with the arrangement. In the latest chapter of the TikTok saga — which began in 2020 …
Read More »Suspects arrested in Joe Burrow’s Ohio home break-in took selfie with stolen items, feds say
A group of men arrested after a December break-in at Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow’s home took a selfie with the stolen items, according to an FBI agent overseeing the case. The three men, all from Chile, are accused of breaking into the rear entrance of the Hamilton County home …
Read More »Vance says he supports rehiring DOGE staffer who resigned over racist social media posts
Vice President JD Vance said Friday that he would support the rehiring of a DOGE staff member who resigned after it was found that he had previously made racist remarks online. The staff member, 25-year-old Marko Elez, resigned from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Thursday after The Wall Street …
Read More »Woman arrested after sports reporter in Louisiana covering Super Bowl is found dead in hotel room
A Louisiana woman with a history of “drugging men” and stealing their credit cards was arrested following the death of a TV reporter who was in town for the Super Bowl, police said Friday. Hotel security footage showed Danette Colbert, who lives in nearby Slidell, with Kansas City Telemundo’s Adan …
Read More »Ye makes offensive comments against Jewish community, says he has ‘dominion’ over his wife in tirade on X
Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, appeared to write a barrage of posts Friday morning on X, making offensive comments about the Jewish community and saying he has “dominion” over his wife. A slew of posts were made on the 47-year-old artist’s account — many of them derogatory and …
Read More »Trump delivered on his promise to order a ban on trans female athletes. What’s next?
Donald Trump, the candidate, pledged to get “transgender insanity the hell out of our schools” and “keep men out of women’s sports.” Donald Trump, the president, wasted little time delivering on his promise to address a topic that seemed to resonate across party lines. Trump issued an executive order on …
Read More »U.S. added 143,000 jobs in January, unemployment rate dips to 4%
The U.S. added 143,000 jobs in January, fewer than economists expected, but the unemployment rate inched down to 4% from 4.1%, beating forecasts. Forecasters surveyed by Dow Jones had anticipated 169,000 payroll gains in January, after a surprisingly large 256,000 jump in December. The numbers released Friday by the Bureau …
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