On Friday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: President Donald Trump made another major move on tariffs Thursday. USA TODAY World Affairs Correspondent Kim Hjelmgaard takes a look at the impact from President Trump’s executive order to freeze spending, pending a review, at the U.S. Agency for International Development. RFK Jr. was sworn in Thursday as Secretary of Health and…
On Tuesday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Hamas says it will stop releasing hostages, while accusing Israel of ceasefire violations. Israel accused Hamas of violating the ceasefire agreement. USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen breaks down why a group of states sued over billions in research cuts. Also in the courts, a judge extended the pause on…
Sorry, Debbie — how does it feel? I’m sorry to hear that Debbie Mayfield didn’t qualify to run for the Florida Senate District 19 seat because Ron DeSantis is retaliating against her. How do you think the U.S. Justice Department and FBI employees feel? Similar, maybe? Don’t know if you will have a job in…
WASHINGTON ― Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers whose prison sentence for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack was commuted this week, showed up at President Donald Trump‘s Saturday rally in Las Vegas. Rhodes, released from prison Tuesday, was among dozens of Trump supporters who stood behind the…
Two of the state attorneys general suing to block President Donald Trump‘s attempt to end birthright citizenship told USA TODAY they fear the order will erase funding for children’s health care and education. Eighteen Democratic state attorneys general sued together in a Massachusetts federal court Tuesday, led by the state attorneys general for New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California….
On Tuesday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY Chief Political Correspondent Phillip M. Bailey gives some of the biggest takeaways from President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day. Trump’s new meme coin soars. USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen breaks down Trump’s executive orders surrounding January 6 pardons, and the southern border. Trump Monday also signed an order on TikTok and removed the…
With the Supreme Court’s move Friday to uphold a ban on video sharing app TikTok, the social media app could be shut down as soon as Sunday. There’s still some uncertainty about TikTok’s future after the court denied parent company ByteDance’s argument that a ban on the app infringes on users’ free speech. That’s because…
A trio of Chinese national con artists pleaded guilty to running an elaborate conspiracy that involved scamming money from elderly and lonely Americans to buy Apple products to sell in East Asia, Department of Justice officials announced. The three – Naxin Wu, 26; Mengying Jiang, 34; and Mingdong Chen, 28 – used stolen gift cards…
WASHINGTON − The State Department’s Global Engagement Center, the highly touted nerve center for coordinating U.S. efforts to counter foreign disinformation – especially by Russia and China – shut down this week after becoming a lightning rod for conservative criticism. The mission of the GEC, as it is commonly known, was to “direct, lead, synchronize,…
A whole floor of a building in New York City was once functioning as an “illegal police station” for the government of the People’s Republic of China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. New York City resident Chen Jinping, 60, on Wednesday pleaded guilty in connection with the secret police station in Lower Manhattan’s…