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Trump administration says ICE operations will be in ‘full force’ on Halloween

Chicagoans will not see a reduction in federal law enforcement presence on Halloween, despite Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker requesting that the Trump administration pause its ICE operations to allow children to trick-or-treat on the holiday without fear of interactions with federal officers. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration’s operation will be in “full force” on Halloween. “We’re going to be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe,” […]

todayOctober 31, 2025 2

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Senate Republicans defeat Democrats’ effort to force the release of Epstein files

In a close vote, Senate Republicans defeated an effort Wednesday by Democrats to insert language into Congress’ annual defense authorization bill that would have forced the public release of case files on the sex trafficking investigation into the late Jeffrey Epstein. The Senate voted 51-49 to dismiss the changes to the bill, with Republican Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Rand Paul of Kentucky joining with all Democrats in opposition. For months, Democrats have clamored for the release of what’s become […]

todaySeptember 12, 2025 1

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US Air Force reverses course after removing Tuskegee Airmen video amid Trump DEI ban backlash

The uproar over the US Air Force’s removal of a video of Tuskegee Airmen from its curriculum in response to a DEI ban has made its way to the highest levels of government causing them to about-face. Now the US Air Force says it will return the video about the famous Black World War II pilots back to the curriculum for service members, with confirmation coming from the new incoming defense secretary Pete Hegseth. “This will not stand,’ Hegseth wrote […]

todayJanuary 27, 2025 2

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Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a federal law that could force TikTok to shut down on Jan. 19

The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company. Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company’s connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States. […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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Biden administration says Sudan rebel force committed genocide, imposes sanctions on group’s leaders

The Biden administration said Tuesday that a Sudanese paramilitary group and its proxies are committing genocide in a civil war with the country’s military that has killed tens of thousands of people, leveling sanctions on the group’s leader and affiliated companies. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the conflict, which began nearly two years ago and is considered the world’s biggest current humanitarian catastrophe, had escalated beyond a war crimes and ethnic cleansing determination he made in December 2023. Blinken said […]

todayJanuary 8, 2025 1

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Harris addresses US Air Force Academy graduates near 80th D-Day anniversary

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris spoke Thursday to a sea of white-capped graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado, looking back at U.S. airpower during D-Day and then forward to this generation’s edge on technological innovation, such as artificial intelligence. “Eighty years ago, over the beaches of Normandy, America won control of the skies, and we have kept it ever since,” said Harris to the 974 graduates, the class that arrived in 2020 to […]

todayJune 1, 2024 1

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Mr. President: If you force me to choose, you will lose

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. I vote in every election. When it comes to casting a ballot, whether it’s for president, Congress, state legislators, governor, mayor or city council, I am always going to vote based on what’s best for my child. There is nothing a candidate can say about any issue that will change this calculus. If I don’t believe my child will […]

todayApril 5, 2024 1