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From NPR: The announcement of Machado as winner of the prestigious award came as a surprise after intense speculation that President Trump could be a wildcard winner after negotiating a Gaza ceasefire this week. But the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday that Machado's tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela was "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times."

Since Mamdani stunned the political world with his upset win over Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Party's primary, the White House has taken a keen interest in the outcome of November's election. Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has run on promises of rent stabilization and city-owned grocery stores in an effort to make the city more affordable. Trump, along with countless other prominent critics, have labeled Mamdani a communist and endorsed Cuomo now running as an independent.

AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced on Friday that his office has started firing federal workers, writing on X that the RIFs [reduction-in-force] have begun. A spokesperson for the budget office told The Associated Press that the layoffs are substantial, without providing further details. During a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Trump clarified that he's only focused on cutting Democratic programs, saying, That's the way it works.

The officials said that part of Trump's guarantee was the establishment of a U.S.-led military task force to oversee the ceasefire and address any violations. Driving the news: The Israeli military must now withdraw its forces to an agreed perimeter inside Gaza within 24 hours of the cabinet vote. In the next 72 hours after that happens, Hamas must release all of the remaining hostages, 20 of whom are alive. That should be completed by Monday.

The definition of insanity is to do the same thing again and again expecting a different result. The reason we're here is because the president actually charted a different course with a different team. He vested a lot of authority in Steve Witkoff in particular, and that's why we're here. It's because you did something different, and I think it's important to recognize that.

By the numbers: Barrasso compared the nominee confirmation numbers of the past few administrations, in a presentation slide obtained by Axios. The total number of Trump 2.0 confirmations is now at 298 after Tuesday's votes.

Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life.... This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

Reports of the Trump administration's plan to slash refugee admissions to an even lower number than previously stated - with the majority of spots given to white South Africans descended from French and Dutch colonists who arrived in the country in the 17th century - represents "a moral failure and a dark hour for our country," according to one refugee policy expert.

Last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order approving a proposed deal to keep TikTok operating in the US. The $14bn deal, if finalised, would see the transfer of TikTok's US operation from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to a consortium which includes the American billionaires Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder, and Rupert Murdoch, as well as two investment firms with known ties to the Trump administration.

Arrington allegedly resisted a request from the Trump administration to give one of Eisenhower's swords to Charles, which was meant to symbolise the US-UK relationship and highlight the two countries' collaboration in the second world war. Before becoming president in 1953, Eisenhower helped lead allied forces against Nazi Germany. The Trump administration ultimately gave Charles a replica sword donated by West Point, the army academy where Eisenhower began his military career.

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Foolish and reckless political leaders set the wrong compass heading and we lost our way. We became the 'Woke Department,'

It's been 250 days. Now that immigrants have been violently torn from their families and communities have been destroyed, now that trans people have been blamed for virtually everything and live in fear, now that free speech is on the brink of collapse for us all - has your life gotten better? Has the widespread suffering of others paid off for you in the way he promised it would or are you still waiting?

Staff members at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) seem to have done the impossible. Despite US President Donald Trump's administration laying off thousands of the agency's workers, delaying meetings to review research grants and terminating funding for some projects, the NIH seems like it will dole out its entire US$48-billion budget on deadline - by the end of the fiscal year on 30 September.

"Where are all the red hats - am I going to run into Steve Bannon?" asked one of my guests as we peered around the room at Butterworth's, the buzzy, much-publicized MAGA hangout up on Capitol Hill. His voice was urgent, even kind of excited, and he spoke in a loud, hissing whisper, like an eager tourist out on safari for the first time waiting for the lions to arrive.

The big picture: The decision follows the Trump administration's re-interpretation of civil rights laws and history to focus on " anti-white racism". The administration has been purging and rewriting federal web pages' stories about slavery and discrimination, and President Trump has ordered a review of Smithsonian museums. Trump issued a March executive order titled "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History," to fight "concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation's history," as he argues.

I want to be clear about this: it's not because I'm worried about being randomly attacked by teenagers. It is because of the presidential Administration that we have and their policies that I feel less safe now as a trans person than I ever have.

Since the start of the Trump II reign, and the attack on the rule of law that coincided with that, it's been clear that Biglaw wasn't going to be our savior. When d irectly confronted with unconstitutional Executive Orders targeting firms on Trump's list for retribution, more than twice as many major law firm were willing to promise the president nearly a billion dollars in pro bono payola for conservative causes or clients as were willing to fight the EOs in court.

He's one of scores of lawyers the Trump administration has named in executive actions, joining a list that includes big law firms and attorneys who worked for people Trump considers his opponents. There's no shortage of reasons why Donald Trump would hate Elias and want to shut him down: Elias has for decades represented high-profile Democrats, including the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris, and prominent liberal groups, including the Democratic National Committee.

The scale of the intervention is remarkable a total of nine already permitted offshore wind projects that were set to provide electricity to nearly 5m households and create around 9,000 jobs in the US are under investigation or have already been paused by the Trump administration. Trump has barred any new solar and wind projects from federal land and waters, eliminated incentives for clean energy and, almost uniquely for a US president, called for an entire industry to be stopped in its tracks.

"narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive."

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday. In a social media post just after he departed the White House for an event at Mount Vernon, Trump wrote he was nominating Halligan as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, writing that she "will be Fair, Smart, and will provide, desperately needed, JUSTICE FOR ALL!"