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With Seats of Congressional Black Caucus Members Under Attack, Trump Again Targets Rep. Ilhan Omar – BlackPressUSA

By Lauren Burke On December 4, during a White House cabinet meeting, President Trump launched into a hateful, racist rant against Congressional Black Caucus member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “Those Somalians should be out of here. They’ve destroyed our country. And all they do is complain, complain, complain. You have her – she’s always talking about ‘the constitution provides me with uhhhh,’” Trump ranted, speaking of Congresswoman Omar. Trump has targeted Rep. Omar and other members of Congress’s “Squad” before […]

todayDecember 12, 2025 5

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Rural America Faces the First Cut as ACA Support Hits a High – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Out across the long stretches of the country—where the roads narrow, the hospitals disappear, and the winters sit heavy—health insurance is not an abstraction. It is a quiet bargain that keeps families from slipping into ruin. That bargain is now on the edge of collapse. Enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies are set to expire at the end of the year, and rural Americans stand to suffer most. These subsidies, introduced during […]

todayDecember 11, 2025 4

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Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Scores $779 Million Verdict for Black Family – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent In an America shaped once again by racial hostility and the rollback of diversity protections under the Trump administration, renowned Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump continues to force institutions to confront the value of Black life. His latest victory, a $779.3 million wrongful death verdict for the killing of security guard Lewis Butler, lands as a direct challenge to a system that has long accepted negligence toward Black workers as an […]

todayDecember 11, 2025 2

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Trump’s Police Buildout Raises National Alarm – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Across the country, Americans are watching Washington not as the symbolic capital of a democracy but as a stage where power is being rearranged in real time. The resignation of D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith, the deployment of National Guard units and federal troops into the city, and the quiet but relentless expansion of the U.S. Park Police form a single portrait. It is the portrait of a federal government reshaping […]

todayDecember 10, 2025

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett Announces Run for Senate, Rev. Frederick Haynes, III Files to Run for Her Old Seat – BlackPressUSA

By Lauren Burke “We need to stop all the hell that is reigning down on all of our people,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett from a Dallas stage to a cheering standing-room-only crowd. On December 8, Rep. Crockett, who has built a reputation as a firebrand in Congress in the fight against Trump’s MAGA Republicanism, announced she would run for the U.S. Senate in 2026. Rep. Crockett will be competing to take on veteran Republican Senator John Cornyn, but there is […]

todayDecember 9, 2025 1

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Jasmine Crockett launches historic campaign for US Senate in Texas

Jasmine Crockett, the high-profile congresswoman from Texas, has officially launched her campaign for the U.S. Senate, marking the beginning of a historic campaign that could see her become the first Black woman to hold the seat from the state. It would also mark the first time in the history of the Senate that three Black women have served simultaneously. Crockett filed paperwork to become a candidate for the Democratic primary election on March 3 and will announce publicly at a […]

todayDecember 8, 2025 2

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Rep. Ilhan Omar says Trump has ‘creepy obession’ with her and Somali community

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar called out President Donald Trump on Sunday, days after his vicious personal attacks on her and the Somali immigrant community in her home state of Minnesota. “It’s disgusting. It’s completely disgusting,” Omar told CBS on “Face the Nation.” The 43-year-old congresswoman and former Somali child refugee said of the president, “These are Americans that he is calling garbage, and we feel like there is an unhealthy obsession that he has on the Somali community, and an […]

todayDecember 8, 2025 2

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Redistricting in Indiana faces ultimate test in state Senate

A proposal to redraw Indiana’s congressional boundaries faces its first public test in the state Senate on Monday, with no clarity on whether it can pass a final vote later in the week despite months of pressure from President Donald Trump. Senators will take action on a bill designed to favor GOP candidates in the upcoming midterm elections. However, many Republicans, who control the chamber, have been hesitant or even outright opposed to the idea of mid-decade redistricting. Several have also been threatened over their opposition or unwillingness […]

todayDecember 8, 2025 1

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‘Turn the reins over’: Barack Obama is ready for the next generation to lead

Former President Barack Obama is looking to the future to help educate the next set of world leaders. During a sitdown with Olivia Walton at The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, the 44th President spoke openly about his dreams while in the White House and what he hopes to see come from his Presidential Library, which is set to open in 2026. When asked what he wished his library in Chicago would achieve, Obama had no […]

todayDecember 7, 2025 1