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The Department of Education is facing a reckoning under US President Donald Trump. After calling it “a bloated and radical bureaucracy” on the campaign trail, Trump took steps to dismantle the department within months of taking office.
Latest news and updates as Trump announces the U.S. will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine and meets with NATO's secretary general.
The Supreme Court could upend the way Republican and Democratic parties raise money, with experts warning it could drastically alter the influence of big spending in upcoming elections. The high court announced last week that it would add a case to its docket challenging a decades-old rule from the Federal Election Commission limiting how much
President Donald Trump successfully secured Senate confirmation for Whitney Hermandorfer, a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court justices, for a federal appeals court position. This marks the first of 15 judicial nominees by Trump in his second term,
The president’s lawyers have harnessed decades of conservative legal scholarship to defend moves like deploying the National Guard to Los Angeles.
Architects of pressure campaigns targeting U-Va. and Harvard were shaped by experiences as ideological minorities in liberal campus communities.
White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said Thursday, “President Trump was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize due to his proven record of securing peace around the world.” She added, “Thanks to this President’s leadership, America is respected again, making the entire world safer and more prosperous.”
The U.S. Supreme Court quietly backed Trump's agenda, enabling rapid federal government restructuring without explanation.