The volunteer who has manned the vigil for years said that “it is covered by the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and freedom of expression” and moved to take legal action An anti-war vigil that has been a fixture in Washington DC’s Lafayette Square since the 1980s was taken down over the weekend […]
President Donald J. Trump signed an executive order Friday changing the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War as a secondary title. The order — the 200th signed by the president since taking office — authorizes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DOD subordinate officials to use secondary titles like “Department of War,” “Secretary of […]
Many thousands marched in solidarity through downtown Chicago over the weekend to denounce the growing threat of President Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, with the Midwest’s largest city his latest target. Organized by the Coalition Against the Trump Agenda and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, city residents demonstrated in droves on Saturday afternoon, walking […]
“If the federal government wants to help they should invest, not invade,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson. With some federal agents already at a nearby naval station and fencing erected around the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse overnight, Chicagoans and Illinois’ elected officials on Friday continued to prepare for US President Donald Trump’s militarized “invasion” of the country’s third-largest city. […]