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Washington Attorney General Nick Brown speaks up after a federal judge temporarily blocked President Trump's order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, Jan 23, 2025
Trump says he will appeal federal judge's decision to temporarily block birthright order
WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked US President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional”. The decision came during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.US District Judge John Coughenour repeatedly interrupted a Justice Department lawyer during arguments to ask how he could consider the order constitutional. When the attorney, Brett Shumate, said he’d like a chance to explain it in a full briefing, Coughenour told him the hearing was his chance.The temporary restraining order sought by Arizona, Illinois, Oregon and Washington was the first to get a hearing before a judge and applies nationally.The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and a number...
January 24, 2025

Trump says he will appeal federal judge's decision to temporarily block birthright order

President John F Kennedy was killed while driving through Dallas in 1963
Trump orders plan for release of JFK and MLK assassination documents
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history -- the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr."A lot of people are waiting for this for long, for years, for decades," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. "And everything will be revealed."The order directs top administration officials to present a plan to declassify the documents within 15 days.President John F Kennedy was killed in Dallas in 1963. His brother Robert F Kennedy was assassinated while running for president in California 1968, just two months after King, America's most famous civil rights leader, was murdered in Memphis,...
January 24, 2025

Trump orders plan for release of JFK and MLK assassination documents

Donald Trump signs executive orders on Monday after being sworn in as president for a second term
US government workers told to report DEI efforts or face 'consequences'
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration emailed thousands of federal employees on Wednesday, ordering them to report any efforts to "disguise" diversity initiatives in their agencies or face "adverse consequences".The request came after President Donald Trump banned diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs throughout the government.Emails seen by the BBC directed workers to "report all facts and circumstances" to a new government email address within 10 days.Some employees interpreted it as a demand to sell out their colleagues to the White House."We're really freaked out and overwhelmed," said one employee at the Department Health and Human Services (HHS).The Office of Personnel Management, which manages the federal workforce,...
January 24, 2025

US government workers told to report DEI efforts or face 'consequences'

Enrique Tarrio (centre) speaks to reporters in Miami after his release from prison
Freed Capitol riot ringleaders regroup and vow 'retribution'
WASHINGTON — Leaders of the far-right organizations at the forefront of the Capitol riot who were released on Donald Trump's orders say they are planning to regroup.In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes defended his actions during the 6 January 2021 riot and said he was "very grateful" to President Trump for commuting his sentence.Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison on a number of charges including seditious conspiracy, or plotting to overthrow the government.Meanwhile, Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, former head of the Proud Boys, indicated to reporters that he had rejoined the all-male group."We've made the decision four years ago not to tell the media what our structure is, but I'd suggest that the media...
January 23, 2025

Freed Capitol riot ringleaders regroup and vow 'retribution'

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, accompanied by President Donald Trump, Oracle CTO Larry Ellison (R), and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son (2nd-R), at the announcement of an investment in AI infrastructure
Musk bashes Trump's $500bn AI project, claiming its backers don’t ‘have the money’
WASHINGTON — Shortly after President Donald Trump announced a new massive AI infrastructure investment from the White House, “First Buddy” Elon Musk tried to tear it down.“They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X. “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.”Trump said the investment will create a new company, called Stargate, to grow artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States. The leaders of SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle stood alongside Trump during the announcement. Their respective companies will invest $100 billion in total for the project to start, with plans to pour up to $500 billion into Stargate in the coming years.The comments are a notable takedown of a major White House project from...
January 23, 2025

Musk bashes Trump's $500bn AI project, claiming its backers don’t ‘have the money’

Refugees arrive at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, after being evacuated from Kabul following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on August 27, 2021
Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US
WASHINGTON — Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled, according to a State Department memo to resettlement partners obtained by CNN.The memo comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending refugee admissions and marks another example of the swift impact his actions are already having. The move stands to affect thousands of refugees who had flights already scheduled.“All previously scheduled travel of refugees to the United States is being cancelled, and no new travel bookings will be made. RSCs should not request travel for any additional refugee cases at this time,” the memo states, citing the president’s executive order.Approximately 10,000 refugees had...
January 23, 2025

Flights canceled for refugees who were slated to travel to US

President Donald Trump has ordered that all US government staff working on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes be put on immediate paid administrative leave
Trump puts all US government diversity staff on paid leave 'immediately'
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has ordered that all US government staff working on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) schemes be put on immediate paid administrative leave.The White House confirmed that all federal DEI workers had to be put on leave by 17:00 EST (22:00 GMT) on Wednesday, before the offices and programs in question were shut down.In an executive order issued on Tuesday, Trump also called for an end to the "dangerous, demeaning and immoral" programs.It is unclear how many people are affected by the order, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which represents 800,000 federal workers, said.Since his inauguration, the president has acted swiftly on a number of key pledges through a raft of unilateral actions.He repeatedly attacked DEI...
January 23, 2025

Trump puts all US government diversity staff on paid leave 'immediately'

Emergency crews patrol along a street as flames and smoke billows into the air in the distance
Thousands evacuated as new fast-growing fire ignites near Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — A new fast-moving wildfire has erupted in Los Angeles County, prompting tens of thousands to evacuate a region already reeling from the most destructive fires in its history.The Hughes fire ignited about 45 miles northwest of the city of Los Angeles on Wednesday morning, near Castaic Lake in a mountainous area that borders several residential areas and schools.The blaze grew to more than 9,200 acres in several hours on Wednesday, fuelled by winds and dry brush. No homes or businesses have been damaged, and fire officials expressed confidence about getting the blaze under control.The new fire is located north of the two mammoth blazes — which are still burning — that destroyed multiple neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area earlier this month.Local news showed residents...
January 23, 2025

Thousands evacuated as new fast-growing fire ignites near Los Angeles

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin speaking at a conference in 2017
Trump tells Putin to end 'ridiculous war' in Ukraine or face new sanctions
KYIV — Donald Trump has warned he will impose high tariffs and further sanctions on Russia if Vladimir Putin fails to end the war in Ukraine.Writing on his social media platform Truth Social, he said that by pushing to settle the war he was doing Russia and its president a "very big favor".Trump had previously said he would negotiate a settlement to Russia's full-scale invasion launched in February 2022, in a single day.Russia has not yet responded to the remarks, but senior officials have said in recent days that there is a small window of opportunity for Moscow to deal with the new US administration.Putin has said repeatedly that he is prepared to negotiate an end to the war, which first began in 2014, but that Ukraine would have to accept the reality of Russian...
January 23, 2025

Trump tells Putin to end 'ridiculous war' in Ukraine or face new sanctions

Trump rallygoers hold a sign of Riley's face saying 'say her name'
US Congress passes Laken Riley Act in early win for Trump on immigration
WASHINGTON — The US Congress has passed a bill requiring undocumented immigrants who are arrested for theft or violent crimes to be held in jail pending trial.The bill, named after Laken Riley — a Georgia nursing student murdered last year by a Venezuelan man — passed the House of Representatives a day after it was approved by the Senate.The measure cruised through the House by a vote of 263 to 156. Forty-six Democrats defied their party leadership and crossed the political aisle to support the Republican-led measure. In the Senate, 12 Democrats gave their support to the bill.It now heads to the White House for President Donald Trump to sign into law — an early legislative win for his fledgling administration on a bill named after a woman whom he often invoked during his...
January 23, 2025

US Congress passes Laken Riley Act in early win for Trump on immigration

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