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Trump orders closure of Department of Education
On Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing recently sworn-in Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin…
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Disney shareholders reject right-wing anti-diversity proposal
Disney shareholders have rejected an anti-DEI proposal put forward by a conservative think tank during the company’s annual meeting…
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LGBT asylum seeker ‘forcibly removed’ from US, sent to El Salvador
An immigrant rights group that represents an LGBTQ asylum seeker from Venezuela says the Trump-Vance administration on March 15 “forcibly removed” him…
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Marco Rubio erases LGBT people from human rights report
An annual U.S. State Department report detailing human rights around the world will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and…
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Pentagon restores Native American veterans’ histories
The Pentagon restored some webpages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans…
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Federal judge blocks Trump’s transgender military ban
A federal judge in D.C. on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender service members, which was scheduled to take effect on Friday…
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Judge orders Trump to reinstate nearly all of USAID’s functionalities
In a stunning legal rebuke, a federal judge has ruled that Elon Musk and officials from the Department of Government Efficiency must…