On Friday, a federal judge dismissed the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, ruling that the Trump administration had shown “presumptive vindictiveness” and had charged him in retaliation for his lawsuit challenging his wrongful deportation to El Salvador. Judge Waverly Crenshaw said in her ruling that the Department of Justice reopened a closed, four-year-old investigation into…
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In what one emergency physician and public health expert called “a dramatic abdication of what we owe our own,” the Trump administration is reportedly preparing to send Americans with suspected and confirmed cases of Ebola to a facility in Kenya, instead of repatriating them and treating them in the state-of-the-art quarantine and treatment facilities the U.S. has for dangerous diseases that pose…
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced his support for prediction market companies, calling for continued federal control while lambasting state regulators. “It is critically important” that the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) maintain “exclusive authority over Prediction Markets” in order for them to “thrive,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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On Monday and Tuesday, Israel expanded its strikes and ground operations in Lebanon as the U.S.’s negotiations with Iran came to a standstill. Overnight on Monday, Israel bombed areas in Southern Lebanon and in Bekaa Valley in Eastern Lebanon, and expanded its ground operation outside of the so-called “yellow line,” an Israeli-drawn line separating Israel’s current occupation of areas of the…
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Facing the growing loss of its unquestioned hegemony in the world system — that unipolar world that took shape after the end of the Second World War and was consolidated with the collapse of the Soviet bloc — conservative sectors have been arguing for several decades that the window of opportunity to prevent China’s power from equaling or surpassing that of the United States is closing.
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President Donald Trump’s second Cabinet was never exceptionally diverse from the start. And in the past three months, four women have been fired or resigned. The first to go, on March 5, was ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the face of the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda. Then, less than a month later, Trump ousted former Attorney General Pam Bondi. On April 20…
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