8 h. ago Trump praises ‘great job’ by national guard in calming LA protests, as mayor says troops are not in the city – US politics live

Mayor Karen Bass disputes president’s claim as she thanks local law enforcement for dealing with unrest following immigration crackdownPresident Trump appears to have used federal law to order the national guard to go to Los Angeles, rather than the 18th century Insurrection Act.The national guard is a hybrid entity that serves both state and federal interests. Often, it operates under state command and control, using state funding. Sometimes national guard troops will be assigned by their state to serve federal missions, remaining under state command but using federal funding.Great job by the National Guard in Los Angeles after two days of violence, clashes and unrest. We have an incompetent Governor (Newscum) and Mayor (Bass) who were, as usual (just look at how they handled the fires, and now their VERY SLOW PERMITTING disaster. Federal permitting is complete!), unable to to handle the task.These Radical Left protests, by instigators and often paid troublemakers, will NOT BE TOLE...

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2 d. ago New York won't rescind Native American mascot ban, despite Trump's threat of cutting federal funds

New York education officials have refused to rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from the Trump administration that it risks losing federal funding

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4 d. ago Trump moves to officially strip $1 BILLION from 'radical left monsters' NPR and PBS

President Donald Trump's demand to strip $1.1 billion in federal funding from National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service came one step closer to reality

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6 d. ago At least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics shutter amid political turbulence

The reproductive health giant is navigating a loss of federal funding and fresh threats from multiple directionsAt least 20 Planned Parenthood clinics across seven states have shuttered since the start of 2025 or have announced plans to close soon – closures that come amid immense financial and political turbulence for the reproductive health giant as the United States continues to grapple with the fallout from the end of Roe v Wade.The Planned Parenthood network, which operates nearly 600 clinics through a web of independent regional affiliates and is overseen by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is facing a number of threats from the Trump administration. A Guardian analysis has found that Planned Parenthood closures have occurred or are in the works across six affiliates that maintain clinics in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Utah and Vermont. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Teen trans athlete at center of rightwing attacks wins track events in California

AB Hernandez, 16, ties for first place in two events as Trump administration threatens to withhold federal fundingA teenage transgender athlete in California, who has been at the center of widespread political attacks by rightwing pundits and the Trump administration, won in two track events over the weekend. The 16-year-old athlete, AB Hernandez, tied for first place alongside two other athletes in the high jump, and tied for first place in the triple jump.This comes as the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal funding from California for allowing trans athletes to compete in girls’ sports. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Professor Philippe Sands says reports of ‘rampant antisemitism’ at Harvard university are ‘complete nonsense’

Trump administration has accused US’s oldest and wealthiest school of not doing enough to tackle antisemitism, and slashed its federal funding

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9 d. ago All aboard! Congressman pushes lawmaker to rename DC Metro the ‘Trump train’

Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) introduced the “Make Autorail Great Again Act,” which aims to cut WMATA’s federal funding unless it rebrands as the ‘WMAGA’

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9 d. ago Hacker who beamed AI images of Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet was working during taxpayer

Iowa Republican Senator says the stunt from a federal agency has become ‘poster child for why taxpayer-funded union time needs to end’

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1 week ago HHS cancels funding for bird flu vaccine development because of RNA concerns

The Trump administration said the move signals a ‘shift in federal vaccine funding priorities’

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1 week ago Woke state's insane plan to get round Trump's rules and reward transgender athletes for beating biological girls

President Donald Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding from states that permit young transgender athletes to compete against girls at the scholastic level.

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1 week ago Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla

The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled scienceScience is under siege.On Friday evening, the White House released an executive order called Restoring Gold Standard Science. At face value, this order promises a commitment to federally funded research that is “transparent, rigorous, and impactful” and policy that is informed by “the most credible, reliable, and impartial scientific evidence available”. But hidden beneath the scientific rhetoric is a plan that would destroy scientific independence in the US by giving political appointees the latitude to dismiss entire bodies of research and punish researchers who fail to fall in line with the current administration’s objectives. In other words: this is Fool’s-Gold Standard Science.Colette Delawalla is a PhD candidate at Emory University and executive director of Stand Up for Science. Victor Ambros is a 2024 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine at the ...

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1 week ago NPR sues Trump administration over funding cuts it says violate first amendment

Lawsuit argues executive order violates constitution by targeting NPR for news coverage Trump feels is biasedUS politics live – latest updatesNational Public Radio, the US public broadcaster that provides news and cultural programming to more than 1,000 local stations, has filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump’s administration, challenging an executive order that cuts federal funding to the public broadcaster as an unconstitutional attack on press freedom.The lawsuit, which landed on Tuesday in federal court in Washington, argues that Trump’s 1 May executive order violates the first amendment by targeting NPR for news coverage the president considers “biased”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tribes say the U.S. misappropriated funds to pay for Native American boarding schools

The Wichita Tribe and the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California filed a lawsuit Thursday saying the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were systematically abused

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2 w. ago Most AAPI adults oppose college funding cuts and student deportations, a new poll finds

A new AAPI Data/AP-NORC poll finds that as colleges and universities pull back on diversity practices, young Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are overwhelmingly against cutting federal funding for diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education, and deporting students involved in protest activity on campus

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3 w. ago Humanities groups sue Trump administration to reverse local funding cuts

A humanities federation and a state council have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to reverse local funding cuts made by Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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3 w. ago Trump administration piles on pressure on Harvard with $450m more in cuts

The latest cuts follow a $2.2bn freeze, bringing total federal penalties against Harvard to $2.65bnUS politics live – latest updatesEight federal agencies will terminate a further $450m in grants to Harvard University, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday, escalating its antagonization of the elite institution over what officials frame as inadequate responses to antisemitism on campus.The latest funding cuts come after the administration cancelled $2.2bn in federal funding to the university, bringing the total financial penalty to approximately $2.65bn. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump administration piles pressure on Harvard with $450m more in cuts

The latest cuts follow a $2.2bn freeze, bringing total federal penalties against Harvard to $2.65bnUS politics live – latest updatesEight federal agencies will terminate a further $450m in grants to Harvard University, the Trump administration announced on Tuesday, escalating its antagonization of the elite institution over what officials frame as inadequate responses to antisemitism on campus.The latest funding cuts come after the administration cancelled $2.2bn in federal funding to the university, bringing the total financial penalty to approximately $2.65bn. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump official who is taking over DOGE from Elon Musk revealed... and Democrats will be furious

He will soon take much of DOGE's workload, including working with Congress to recoup funds, reclassifying federal workers and advancing the proposed 2025 budget.

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