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Biden’s former WH spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre says he was forced to drop out by ‘firing squad’

Karine Jean-Pierre, President Joe Biden’s former White House press secretary, is speaking out about her ex-boss being unceremoniously ousted from the 2024 presidential election just one month after leaving office. While speaking at a forum at Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics on Wednesday, Jean-Pierre did not mince words when defending Biden. On July 21, 2024, President Biden announced that he would no longer seek reelection after dozens of Democrats privately and publicly called for him to step aside following […]

todayFebruary 27, 2025 2

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Trump says he will offer ‘gold cards’ for $5 million path to citizenship, replacing investor visas

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to offer a “gold card” visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors. “They’ll be wealthy and they’ll be successful, and they’ll be spending a lot of money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people, and we think it’s going to be extremely successful,” Trump said in the Oval Office. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the “Trump Gold Card” would replace EB-5 visas in […]

todayFebruary 26, 2025 1

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Mayor Bibb says irony of Trump’s anti-DEI crusade is that racial equity was mandated by Republican president

Democratic Black mayors are on the frontlines of the opposition to President Donald Trump‘s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion, among other dizzying actions coming from the White House. Mayor Justin Bibb of Cleveland, Ohio, the new chair of the Democratic Mayors Association, tells theGrio that he and other mayors are uniquely positioned to make the case for why DEI makes the United States stronger, not weaker. “This country was built on the backs of Black Americans when it comes […]

todayFebruary 25, 2025 2

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Trump celebrates MSNBC cancellation of Joy Reid’s ‘The ReidOut’: ‘Obnoxious racist’

President Donald Trump celebrated the recent cancellation of Joy Reid’s MSNBC show “The ReidOut” late Sunday on Truth Social and railed against the liberal cable TV network. “‘Lowlife Chairman of ‘Concast,’ Brian Roberts, the owner of Ratings Challenged NBC and MSDNC, has finally gotten the nerve up to fire one of the least talented people in television,” wrote Trump, using disparaging nicknames to describe both parent company, Comcast, and its network, MSNBC. The president has long considered the news channel […]

todayFebruary 24, 2025 1

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Judge largely blocks Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs

A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore granted a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from terminating or changing federal contracts they consider equity-related. Abelson found that the orders likely carry constitutional violations, including against free-speech rights. Trump signed an order his first day in office directing federal agencies to terminate all “equity-related” grants or contracts. He signed […]

todayFebruary 22, 2025 2

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Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrested near Capitol on assault charge after press conference

Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested Friday near the U.S. Capitol on a charge that he assaulted a woman protesting a gathering attended by Tarrio and others who received presidential pardons for crimes stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot in the nation’s capital. Capitol police said officers saw Tarrio strike the protester’s cellphone and arm after the woman placed the phone close to his face as they walked near the Capitol. Tarrio had just left a news conference that had ended “without […]

todayFebruary 22, 2025 1

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President Trump fires chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown

President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in the ranks. The ouster of Brown, only the second Black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shock waves through the Pentagon. His 16 months in the job had been consumed with the war in […]

todayFebruary 22, 2025 1

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Racist? Donald Trump appoints Alice Marie Johnson, a Black woman, as “Pardon Czar”

Alice Marie JohnsonOn February 20, 2025, during a Black History Month reception at the White House, President Donald Trump announced, Alice Marie Johnson, a woman whose life sentence he commuted in 2018 and fully pardoned in 2020, would serve as his administration’s "pardon czar. Alice Marie Johnson’s story is one of resilience and redemption. In 1996, Johnson, a single mother of five from Memphis, Tennessee, was convicted of nonviolent drug offenses related to a cocaine trafficking operation. She was sentenced […]

todayFebruary 21, 2025 1

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Byron Donalds gets glowing endorsement from Trump for Florida governor

U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., received a glowing endorsement from President Donald Trump for his expected bid for Florida governor. On his social media platform, Truth Social, Trump praised Donalds as a “TOTAL WINNER.” “I know Byron well and have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels,” President Trump wrote on Thursday. “As Governor, Byron would have a BIG Voice, and would work closely with me to advance our America First Agenda.” The president’s endorsement comes as […]

todayFebruary 21, 2025 2