“We’re pleased that the court acted quickly to put in safeguards to protect people’s personal information until the facts are sorted out,” said an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group. A federal judge on Thursday issued an interim order limiting access to a critical U.S. Treasury Department payment system that members of billionaire Elon […]
“Dismantling USAID would be a callous, destructive political power play,” warned the president of Oxfam America. The unelected billionaire given free rein to tear through the federal government said early Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump agrees with the ongoing push to shutter the United States Agency for International Development, the single-largest contributor of humanitarian assistance worldwide. […]
One economist warned the tariffs would amount to the “largest tax increase… that has ever been imposed” on working-class families. The trade war that U.S. President Donald Trump launched over the weekend by announcing sweeping new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China drew intense criticism from experts and analysts across the ideological spectrum, including those who believe […]
One analyst described the catastrophic incident as “a tragedy that will change aviation.” Hundreds of rescue workers continued to scour the Potomac River in dangerously cold conditions Thursday morning after a regional jet operated by an American Airlines subsidiary collided in midair with a Blackhawk military helicopter that was on a training exercise. The plane, […]