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Trump’s dismantling of EEOC and Civil Rights Act enforcement will have chilling effect for Black workers

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are seething after President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders to eliminate DEI federal programs and decades-old enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Advocates and legal experts say one order, which revokes the enforcement of equal employment opportunity laws, also known as Title VII under the Civil Rights Act, will have a chilling effect. “We got a lot of people who are going to lose their jobs,” said Dr. Mary […]

todayJanuary 22, 2025 2

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Nelly to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural ball

Rapper Nelly will be hitting the stage to celebrate the inauguration of Donald Trump, who will be sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, according to CBS News. The 50-year-old hip-hop star, real name Cornell Haynes, Jr., is expected to perform at the Inaugural Liberty Ball, one of three evening balls. Nelly, best known for his 2002 hit song “Hot In Herre,” is a three-time Grammy Award winner and is one of the best-selling rappers in the […]

todayJanuary 17, 2025 3

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Trump’s Defense cabinet pick Pete Hegseth has a history of hostility toward racial equity

Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of U.S. Defense, Pete Hegseth, was grilled on Tuesday by Democratic senators during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, who pressed him on a range of controversial topics, including allegations of sexual assault, alcoholism, and his hostility toward anything related to DEI. While being questioned by Senate Armed Service Committee ranking member, Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., about his stance on diversity, equity and inclusion in the U.S. military, Hegseth, a conservative former Fox News host, […]

todayJanuary 15, 2025

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Is Trump’s criminal sentence justice served or vindication? It depends on who you ask.

After officially being sentenced on Friday by a New York court, Donald Trump will enter the White House on Jan. 20 by making history as the first convicted felon to serve as president of the United States. The president-elect quickly aimed to change the narrative after the sentencing from Judge Juan Merchan, declaring in a Truth Social post that the “Radical Democrats have lost another pathetic, unAmerican Witch Hunt.” Trump celebrated his “unconditional discharge,” which means he will see no […]

todayJanuary 11, 2025

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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to delay sentencing in his New York hush money case

A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for felony crimes days before he returns to the presidency. The court’s 5-4 order clears the way for Judge Juan M. Merchan to impose a sentence Friday on Trump, who was convicted in what prosecutors called an attempt to cover up a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump has denied any […]

todayJanuary 9, 2025 1

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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries slams Trump’s ‘Gulf of America’ proposal and ‘tax scam’ when ‘America is too expensive’

House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., slammed President-elect Donald Trump‘s proposal to annex Greenland and Canada and rename the Gulf of Mexico. “We are not sent to Washington to invade Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico or seize the Panama Canal by force,” said Jeffries during his weekly news conference on Capitol Hill. The House Democratic leader clarified that he and his congressional colleagues were instead elected to lower the high cost of living that American voters made clear […]

todayJanuary 9, 2025

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Trump’s lawyers ask judge to halt Friday’s hush money case sentencing while they appeal to block it

NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday moved to indefinitely postpone this week’s sentencing in his hush money case as he appeals a ruling that upheld the verdict and put him on course to be the first president to take office convicted of crimes. Trump’s lawyers say the case should be halted automatically while they ask a New York appeals court to reverse Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision last week, which set the case for sentencing on Friday — little more than a week […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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Hundreds of Capitol riot prosecutions are in limbo as a DC court awaits Trump’s White House return

WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s the largest prosecution in Justice Department history — with reams of evidence, harrowing videos and hundreds of convictions of the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now Donald Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of the more than 1,500 federal cases brought over the last four years. Jan. 6 trials, guilty pleas and sentencings have continued chugging along in Washington’s federal court despite Trump’s promise to pardon rioters, whom he has called “political prisoners” and “hostages” […]

todayJanuary 6, 2025

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An online debate over foreign workers in tech shows tensions in Trump’s political coalition

An online spat between factions of Donald Trump‘s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in his political movement into public display, previewing the fissures and contradictory views his coalition could bring to the White House. The rift laid bare the tensions between the newest flank of Trump’s movement — wealthy members of the tech world including billionaire Elon Musk and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and their call for more highly skilled workers in their industry — and people in Trump’s Make […]

todayDecember 27, 2024 2