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Trump administration to further dismantle Education Department, move Civil Rights office: ‘Cruelty is the point’

The Trump administration is reportedly taking further steps to achieve its goal of dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, including the extraordinary measure of relocating critical department offices and their work to other federal agencies. The moves would effectively leave the Education Department, first created in 1979, unequipped and obsolete. According to CNN, the White House will soon announce that the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, the Office of Indian Education, the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, the […]

todayNovember 18, 2025 4

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Why Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court decision on SNAP benefits is a temporary move

On Friday (Nov. 7), Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ordered a temporary pause to the full release of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits by the Trump Administration, a decision that was immediately critiqued and criticized on social media, given that 42 million Americans rely on SNAP benefits and payments had become a hot-button issue in the ongoing government shutdown. However, the move only pauses some payments until the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reconvenes and […]

todayNovember 9, 2025 1

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Kamala Harris marks 1-year anniversary of historic presidential campaign as she weighs next move

Former Vice President Kamala Harris commemorated the one-year anniversary of her historic 2024 presidential campaign against Donald Trump, sending a message of hope to her supporters. “One year ago today, I began my campaign for President of the United States,” wrote Harris in a post on Tuesday, marking the official launch of her campaign, which later led to her becoming the first Black and Indian American woman to win a presidential nomination. “Over the 107 days of our race, I […]

todayJuly 21, 2025 19

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Trump’s move to dismantle DOE sparks fears of racial segregation, ‘Attack on Black children’

Reactions from elected leaders and activists to President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education were swift, sparking outrage and fears about the future of education for millions of Black children across the country. President Trump, flanked by schoolchildren sitting at classroom desks in the White House East Room on Thursday, signed the order instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure” of the DOE and “return authority over education […]

todayMarch 21, 2025 1

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Kamala Harris makes subtle move that could signal her political future

Former Vice President Kamala Harris quietly made a subtle but significant move that could signal her political future as many await what’s next for the former presidential nominee. After her devastating defeat to now-President Donald Trump in November, Harris created an LLC called Pioneer49 in her home state of California, Politico reported. “Pioneer” is the code name used by Secret Service when referring to Harris, who is the 49th vice president of the United States. The outlet reports about the […]

todayJanuary 25, 2025 1

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States move to shore up voting rights protections after courts erode federal safeguards

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An appeals court ruling that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act is spurring lawmakers in several states to enact state-level protections to plug gaps that the ruling opened in the landmark federal law aimed at prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. Democratic-led states have been taking matters into their own hands because national legislation to expand voting rights remains stalled in a divided Congress. Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers in many states have tried to erode safeguards in the name of protecting […]

todayApril 1, 2024 1