Washington The roles of Donald Trump, the president, and Donald Trump, the real estate tycoon, are beginning to conflate in his current administration. He began by attacking the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canada. Trump is currently considering Gaza as America's next big acquisition. The president declared Tuesday night that the small strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea in a Middle East conflict zone could become the French Riviera and would be worth a long-term ownership stake. Go here to watch live political coverage. Even congressional Republicans were taken aback by his comments, which centered on his proposal to take control of Gaza. In an X post on Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., stated, "I believed we voted for America First." It is not our place to consider another occu...

According to a National Head Start Association survey, dozens of Head Start programs—which offer low-income children childcare and preschool education—have been unable to obtain previously authorized federal funding, putting some programs in danger of closing their doors in the near future. The programs claim that since a federal funding freeze was declared in the second week of the Trump administration, they have not been able to access the money to cover costs such as payroll and electricity. An Office of Management and Budget document that initiated the freeze last week was swiftly withdrawn. A judge delayed the action amid a legal challenge to the freeze, and the White House stated that the freeze shouldn't have harmed Head Start programs. However, according to the report, funding dela...

On Wednesday, top officials at the Department of Education warned employees that if they accept the deferred resignation package offered by the Trump administration, the education secretary may later rescind it, leaving workers without any recourse and possibly without the promised pay. Federal employees were notified last week by the Office of Personnel Management that they may keep their salary and benefits through the end of September if they leave by February 6. As part of a plan to reduce the size of the federal bureaucracy, the Trump administration is seeking to get up to 10% of the workers to resign. However, at an all-staff meeting conducted via Zoom on Wednesday, the department's new chief of staff, Rachel Oglesby, and top human capital officer, Jacqueline Clay, explained importan...

According to officials, on Wednesday morning on the runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, the right wing of a Japan Airlines aircraft collided with the tail of a Delta Airlines aircraft. According to a statement from the Federal Aviation Administration, the crash happened at approximately 10:40 a.m. when the aircraft were taxiing. Delta said that when its tail was clipped, the aircraft was being deiced. There were no reported injuries. The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration will look into it. According to the FAA, some flights were halted at the airport. Delta said it rebooked passengers on a another trip after trip 1921, a Boeing 737 carrying 142 passengers, was supposed to depart Seattle for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. According to Japan A...

Washington Democratic lawmakers are attempting to counter President Donald Trump's efforts to restructure the government through executive power by hosting resistance-themed press conferences at home, protesting outside federal agencies, and using social media. Democrats are trying to mobilize voters against Trump's efforts to freeze federal loans and grants, dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies, and grant billionaire Elon Musk, his government efficiency czar, access to Americans' federal data. This is because Democrats are relegated to the minority in Congress and lack the legislative tools necessary to check Trump. Congressional Democrats protested outside USAID on Monday. They showed up outside the Treasury Department on Tuesday. They addressed tw...

Greenbelt, Maryland. As the lawsuit moves through the courts, a federal judge on Wednesday placed President Donald Trump's order to limit birthright citizenship on indefinite pause worldwide, stating that U.S. citizenship is a right just as valuable as life or liberty. During a hearing in Greenbelt, U.S. District Judge Deborah L. Boardman stated that the executive order is in violation of the plain wording of the 14th Amendment, goes against the 250-year tradition of citizenship by birth in our country, and contradicts a 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent. The president's perspective has never been supported by any national court. It won't be the first court. On February 19, the order was scheduled to take effect. The preliminary injunction issued on Wednesday is the second sh...

On Wednesday, protesters gathered in American cities to voice their disapproval of the Trump administration's initial policies, condemning everything from the president's crackdown on immigration to his revocation of transgender rights and his plan to forcibly relocate Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Signs condemning President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk, the head of Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency, and Project 2025, a hard-right blueprint for American society and government, were waved by protesters in Philadelphia and at state capitols in California, Minnesota, Michigan, Texas, Wisconsin, Indiana, and elsewhere. For live coverage, click this link. At a demonstration outside the Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio, Margaret Wilmeth declared, "I'm appalled by democracy's...

Washington According to two persons familiar with the matter, former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan was evicted from her residence by President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday with only three hours' notice, leaving her with little time to gather her personal belongings. On Trump's second day in office, Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first female military leader, was relieved of her position as the top officer of the Coast Guard. Her termination was due to border security concerns and an overemphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion, according to officials at the Homeland Security Department, which is in charge of the Coast Guard. A new president looking to show off his power found Fagan to be an easy target. Compared to firing the chiefs of the four major branches of ...

DENVER As part of the Trump administration's massive deportation campaign targeting major cities, heavily armed federal officials searched apartment buildings throughout metro Denver early Wednesday seeking Venezuelan gang members and other migrants. Before dawn, at least two dozen officers with powerful weapons stormed multiple complexes. They were occasionally supported by huge, military-style automobiles. On social media, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it was pursuing the arrest and custody of 100 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The number of those arrested was not specified. Officers from the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement participated in the ...

Brunswick, Georgia. The week-long case was abruptly stopped before it reached the jury stage on Wednesday when a judge dismissed the felony indictment used to charge a former Georgia prosecutor who was accused of exploiting her position to shield the men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery. Former District Attorney Jackie Johnson, who was the senior state prosecutor at the time, has long denied pressuring police officers who originally chose not to make arrests when Arbery was shot dead in coastal Glynn County over five years ago. The judge's decision put an end to the criminal allegations that had plagued Johnson for almost three years. When Johnson's trial began last week, she was charged with a felony, a misdemeanor count of hindering police, and breaching her oath of office. After fi...