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Where does the marijuana legalization movement stand under President Trump?

President Donald Trump‘s return to power at the White House in January has left uncertainty for the criminal justice reform movement to legalize marijuana. The status of the legalization effort was already fraught during the administration of President Joe Biden, who declined to publicly support legalization but still made critical steps toward federal decriminalization. Trump, whose tough-on-crime agenda includes calls for drug dealers to face the death penalty, has publicly given mixed signals on where he stands on marijuana. Despite […]

todayApril 23, 2025

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President Trump calls out ‘Radical Left Lunatics’ and resurrects 2020 election grievances in Easter message

President Donald Trump delivered an unusual Easter message to his perceived political enemies, expressing his greatest hits of grievances, including U.S. immigration policy and lies about the 2020 presidential election being stolen. After initially posting a brief Easter message on behalf of himself and First Lady Melania Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social, minutes later, Trump posted another message to Democrats. “Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to […]

todayApril 21, 2025 2

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Former President Barack Obama calls out Trump double standard: ‘Imagine if I had done any of this’

Former U.S. President Barack Obama called out a double standard, suggesting that if he had done what President Donald Trump has in his first few months in office, the public outrage would be loud and swift. “Imagine if I had done any of this,” Obama said on Thursday during an on-stage interview at Hamilton College, according to CNN. “It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent now would have tolerated behavior like that from me or a whole bunch […]

todayApril 5, 2025 2

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Black small business owners brace for impact of President Trump’s tariffs

President Donald Trump‘s Wednesday announcement of soaring reciprocal tariffs on U.S. imports has resulted in a slump in global markets and serious concerns among investors and consumers alike. The concerns are particularly felt by Black small businesses. “I’m concerned as to whether we’ll be able to survive this,” said Gladys Harrison, owner of Big Mama’s Kitchen & Catering in Omaha, Nebraska. Harrison told theGrio that despite opening the soul food eatery’s doors during the 2007 financial crisis and enduring the […]

todayApril 3, 2025 1

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Trump’s WH press secretary shuts down speculation that president might pardon Derek Chauvin

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Wednesday responded to public calls by conservative figures for President Donald Trump to pardon Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in 2020 for the murder of George Floyd. Chauvin, who placed his knee on the neck of Floyd, an unarmed Black man, for more than nine minutes, was convicted on the state level of second-degree murder and sentenced to more than 22 years in 2021. Chauvin later pled guilty in a […]

todayMarch 20, 2025 2

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Barack Obama: 44th US President and trailblazer

When Barack Obama became the 44th president of the United States at the age of 47, the former Illinois senator made history as the nation’s first African-American president and the first one born in a non-continental state. Despite being out of office for eight years, his influence, and the influence of his wife, Michelle Obama, hasn’t wavered. From his early days as a child in Hawaii to winning a Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, President Obama’s legacy continues to inspire. The early […]

todayMarch 14, 2025

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Was President Trump’s purchase of a Tesla off White House lawn good or bad optics?

President Donald Trump purchased a Tesla at the White House on Tuesday in a show of presidential support for Tesla’s owner, Elon Musk, who is also a Trump senior advisor and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE. The move came amid several national protests of the carmaker — many of which have taken place at Tesla dealerships — in reaction to Musk leading the administration’s government-wide effort to slash the federal workforce and programs. After […]

todayMarch 12, 2025

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris gives clearest sign yet of her political future

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly given the clearest sign yet about her political future. As Democrats and supporters await Harris’ decision on whether she will run for president again in 2028 or pursue the governorship in California, the former 2024 Democratic presidential candidate indicated a timeline for an announcement. According to Politico, Harris attended a pre-Oscars party in Los Angeles last week, where a fellow partygoer asked her when she would decide whether to run for governor. Previous […]

todayMarch 8, 2025 4

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Federal judge reinstates labor board member Gwynne Wilcox fired by President Trump

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump acted illegally when he fired a member of an independent labor agency, and the judge ordered that she be allowed to remain on the job. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., found Trump did not have the authority to remove Gwynne Wilcox from the National Labor Relations Board. “An American president is not a king — not even an ‘elected’ one — and his power to remove federal officers […]

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