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Brown University to see half a billion in federal funding halted by Trump administration

The Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University, adding to a list of Ivy League colleges that have had their federal money threatened as a result of their responses to antisemitism, a White House official said.

Senate Republicans, minus one, coalesce around budget plan

The Senate took an initial vote Thursday to advance a budget blueprint for enacting President Trump's agenda, with all but one Republican unifying around the outline for sweeping tax and spending cuts.

Nominee for South Carolina’s top doctor toppled by lingering COVID anger

A South Carolina Senate committee rejected the Republican governor's nominee to be the state's top doctor after hours of hearings dominated by the state's response to the COVID pandemic.

Trump says things are ‘going very well’ after worst stock market drop in years over tariffs

President Donald Trump offered a rosy assessment after the stock market dropped sharply Thursday over his tariffs, saying, "I think it's going very well."

W.G. Sebald’s essays from beyond

When W.G. Sebald died in a car crash in 2001 at the age of 57, he was eulogized by the Anglophone literary world as the author of four singular novels. Artfully fusing fact and fiction and interlarded with grainy and blurry photographs, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, and Austerlitz revolve around real-life characters […]

Rising anger among Democrats fuels talk of Tea Party-style backlash

Democrats are seeing signs of growing energy on the grassroots level, raising questions about the possibility of a Tea Party-style movement from the party’s progressive flank. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) drew tens of thousands on stops for their “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” over the weekend, illustrating what progressives say is their...

Wyden: Democrats shouldn’t make Republicans job ‘any easier’ by helping them raise debt limit

Sen. Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) on Monday said Democrats shouldn’t help Republicans tackle the debt ceiling this Congress, after a recent forecast warned the government was at risk of defaulting during the summer. “The economic agenda for Trump and Republicans is about running up the debt and inflicting pain on working families to make billionaires like...

‘Incendiary’ devices found at Tesla showroom in Austin

Devices that were deemed "incendiary" by Austin Police were found at the northwest Austin Tesla showroom on Monday morning, police said.

Columbia student sues Trump admin over efforts to deport her

Columbia University student Yunseo Chung is suing the Trump administration amid its efforts to deport the 21-year-old, who has been in the U.S. since she was 7 and has lawful permanent resident status. A lawsuit was filed Monday after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) got an administrative warrant for Chung's arrest and told the...

Buttigieg assails leak as ‘highest level of f‑‑‑up imaginable’

Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg slammed Trump administration officials for reportedly discussing plans for an attack against Houthi rebels in Yemen on a text chain that inadvertently included The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg. “From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of f‑‑‑up imaginable,” Buttigieg, a Navy veteran, wrote in a post on...

Vance on Trump admin’s plans to bomb Houthis: ‘I just hate bailing Europe out again’

Vice President Vance reportedly said that he disliked “bailing Europe out again” when discussing Trump administration plans to bomb Houthi rebels in a group chat featuring other administration officials. According to a new report from The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, he gained access to a group chat on Signal featuring Trump administration officials such as...

Trump picks new CDC nominee, acting director Susan Monarez

The White House has picked Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as the new nominee to lead the agency. Monarez’s selection comes after the White House abruptly withdrew the nomination of former Florida congressman Dave Weldon to lead the agency hours before his confirmation hearing was set...

Here’s what to know about Pennsylvania’s special elections

Voters in Pennsylvania are heading to the polls Tuesday to fill one vacant state House seat that will likely hand Democrats back their majority, as well as a vacant state Senate seat. The elections are taking place in House District 35, to replace former state Rep. Matt Gergely (D) following his death in January, and...

Watch: Jeffries holds press conference as Congress grapples with war plans chat news

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is holding a press conference as lawmakers contend with reporting that Trump administration officials discussed sensitive attack plans against the Houthis in Yemen in a Signal group chat to which a reporter had been added. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported Monday that national security adviser Mike Waltz had apparently...

Monsanto parent ordered to pay $2B in Roundup lawsuit damages

The company behind Roundup weedkiller herbicide was ordered to pay more than $2 billion in a man’s cancer lawsuit. According to his attorneys, John Barnes developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after using Monsanto’s Roundup for two decades. The case resulted in a $2.065 billion verdict, Barnes’s lawyers said. The Associated Press reported that Bayer, the parent company...

Trump says he knows nothing of Atlantic journalist swept up in war plan text chain

President Trump on Monday said he knew nothing of a report by a journalist for The Atlantic who says he was swept up in a text message chain with defense and national security officials while they detailed plans for an attack on Houthi rebels. Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, wrote earlier Monday that he...

Progressive influencer launches bid to unseat House Democrat

Progressive influencer Kat Abughazaleh announced on Monday that she’s launching a bid to unseat Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) in the northern Chicago suburbs. “Donald Trump and Elon Musk are dismantling our country piece by piece, and so many Democrats seem content to just sit back and let ‘em,” Abughazaleh said in a video announced her candidacy...

Moulton: Hegseth a danger to US, servicemembers

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calling him a danger to the country and the United States’ military after The Atlantic reported on Monday that its editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been included on a Signal channel that detailed sensitive information regarding U.S. strikes in Yemen against the Houthis. “Incompetence so severe that...

Former Obama DOJ official calls for FBI investigation into war plans text chat

Former Obama Justice Department official Matthew Miller called for an FBI investigation after The Atlantic’s bombshell report that its editor was included in a group chat of Trump administration officials discussing details of a U.S. plan to bomb targets in Yemen. “You don’t even have to do the 'what about her emails' thing. In any...

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