House passes Trump’s $9 billion DOGE cuts package in another legislative win for president
House Republicans gave the final stamp of approval early Friday morning to a package of $9 billion in spending cuts to foreign aid and public broadcasting, handing a win to President Donald Trump.
What will happen to PBS and NPR stations once they lose federal funding?
Public media stations are on the verge of losing the federal funding that has helped keep them on the air for decades. Here’s what that would look like.
Trump’s victory over PBS and NPR ‘bias’ will be ‘devastating’ for rural areas, station leaders say
Public TV stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate approved a bill canceling all the federal funding for the network.
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans advance nomination of former Trump lawyer Emil Bove as Democrats walk out
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a federal judgeship, over the loud protests of Democrats.
One of the notes for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday bore the president’s name and a drawing of a naked woman, Wall Street Journal reports
A collection of letters gifted to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday in 2003 included a note bearing Donald Trump’s name and an outline of a naked woman, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday.
Trump vows to sue Rupert Murdoch over WSJ’s report
The president said he personally told the Fox Corp mogul the story was a ”scam” and warned him not to print it. “But he did, and now I’m going to sue his ass off,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a letter with President Donald Trump’s name and what appears to be a lewd hand-drawn image of a woman was sent to Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. President Trump denies that he wrote the letter or drew the picture saying, “I never wrote a picture in my life. I don’t draw pictures of women. It’s not my language. It’s not my words.” CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kristen Holmes reports.
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Trump seeks release of ‘pertinent testimony’ in Epstein probe
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President Donald Trump announced tonight on Truth Social that he’s asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to produce “any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony,” related to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, seeming to bow to pressure to release more material on the case.
Immigration
‘Not Trump’s dumping ground’: Fury over deportees sent to Eswatini
Across Africa, and in the tiny nation of Eswatini, fury has erupted over the arrival of foreign deportees from the United States, after its government confirmed that migrants described by a Department of Homeland security spokesperson as “depraved monsters” had been sent to its prisons.
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China was on the sidelines of the Iran-Israel war. That’s just where it wanted to be
Weeks after his country was battered by waves of Israeli strikes and the US bombed three of its prized nuclear facilities, Iran’s foreign minister came to a gathering of regional diplomats in China this week with a simple ask.
‘That people are still there haunts me in the night’: Former Hamas hostage says ordeal won’t truly end until everyone is home
The sight of Or Levy emerging in February from Hamas captivity shocked the world.
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Gaza’s only Catholic church hit by Israeli strike
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Gaza’s only Catholic church, internationally recognized after it emerged Pope Francis would video call with the congregation almost daily since the war started, has been struck by a tank, killing three and injuring many more. CNN’s Nada Bashir reports.
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