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Trump’s War on America Ramps up with Vow Not to Pay Federal Workers – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent The White House has continued to wage war against the American people — not through bombs or foreign troops, but through policies that strip workers of their dignity, their pay, and their hope. The cruelty is no accident. It is deliberate, orchestrated, and flaunted as a spectacle of power. America’s government has turned its might inward, and its victims are the citizens who once believed they were free. A newly revealed […]

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‘His soul…He’s lost’: Chicago mayor responds to Trump’s Insurrection Act threat, says president fears Black and brown power

Chicago Brandon Johnson said he is praying for Donald Trump after the U.S. president threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 if his plans to deploy the military in cities like Chicago and Portland are stopped by federal courts. “If I had to enact it, I’d do it, if people were being killed and courts were holding us up, or governors or mayors were holding us up,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday when asked about […]

todayOctober 7, 2025

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Obama Fills the Void in a Fading Democratic Party – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Former President Barack Obama has stepped back into the political arena, delivering some of his sharpest critiques yet of President Donald Trump as the Democratic Party struggles through one of its weakest moments in modern history. With the party’s leadership approval at historic lows and its ties to Black-owned media nearly nonexistent, Obama’s renewed visibility has exposed both the vacuum and the disillusionment threatening to fracture the Democratic coalition. In recent […]

todayOctober 7, 2025

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“Scares the hell out of me”: Chicagoans react and push back as Trump sends troops into Black-led city

President Donald Trump‘s deployment of the military in Chicago has resulted in clashes in court and on the streets as local leaders and activists fight to end what they say is an “invasion” of the majority Black and brown city. On the heels of what Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker described as a “military-style” ICE raid of an apartment building in a majority-Black neighborhood in Chicago that resulted in women and children being zip-tied, the state and city of Chicago filed […]

todayOctober 6, 2025 1

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The Shutdown Standoff – BlackPressUSA

By April Ryan “We are not going to back down,” demanded House Minority Leader Congressman Hakeem Jeffries regarding healthcare for Americans. The Affordable Care Act is one of the key issues that created a stalemate between Democrats and Republicans, which resulted in the government shutdown. The New York Congressman says he is open to meeting with the president, the vice president, and others in the Republican Party to end the government shutdown that began on October 1st. However, he is […]

todayOctober 6, 2025 1

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Trump calls on FCC to ‘look into’ Al Sharpton in latest attack on media and free speech

President Donald Trump called out the Rev. Al Sharpton in a social media post, seemingly aiming at his administration’s latest target in what has become a pattern of attacking free speech. On Sunday evening, Trump took to Truth Social to attack Sharpton for his political views and went as far as to call for the Federal Communications Commission, chaired by his appointee Brendan Carr, to “look into” Sharpton’s MSNBC weekend show “PoliticsNation.” “I knew Al Sharpton for many years, not […]

todayOctober 6, 2025 2

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Government shutdown entering sixth day as Republicans and Democrats remain at an impasse

Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what is about to be a six-day shutdown — with President Donald Trump saying that layoffs are occurring. Asked on Sunday night when federal workers would be fired as he has threatened to do, Trump told reporters: “It’s taking place right now and it’s all because of the Democrats.” “The Democrats are causing the loss of a lot […]

todayOctober 6, 2025 1

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From Eggs to Hotels, Prices Soar as Inflation Redefines Daily Life – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent Prices across the United States are about 26% higher than before the COVID-19 pandemic, pushing everything from a weekend hotel stay to a simple cup of coffee out of reach for many families. A budget hotel room in Nashville can now cost $500 for the weekend—without breakfast—and a single cup of coffee can cost $7. Rental cars are also commanding premium rates, with four days in a midsize Toyota Camry easily […]

todayOctober 6, 2025 2

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National Urban League Declares’ State of Emergency’ for Black America in 2025 Report – BlackPressUSA

By Stacy M. BrownBlack Press USA Senior National Correspondent In its most urgent warning to date, the National Urban League has declared a “state of emergency” for democracy and civil rights in the United States. The organization’s 49th annual State of Black America report, unveiled at its conference in Cleveland, Ohio, outlines what it describes as a deliberate, coordinated campaign to reverse decades of progress for Black Americans. “A democracy willing to destroy itself rather than deliver justice is a […]

todayOctober 5, 2025 4