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Trump administration brands US cities war zones

The Trump administration branded Chicago a ‘war zone’ Sunday as a justification for deploying soldiers against the will of local Democratic officials, while a judge blocked the White House from sending troops to another Democrat-run city...

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Trump’s tech visa fee challenged

A coalition of workers in a variety of fields filed a lawsuit Friday to halt the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee introduced by the Trump administration...

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Trump cuts energy projects, freezes New York funding

The Trump administration has announced plans to terminate dozens of clean energy projects and freeze billions of dollars for major projects in New York, intensifying a stand-off with Democrats over a US government shutdown...

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Trump announces Pfizer deal for lower drug prices

The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a deal granting Pfizer a three-year reprieve on planned tariffs as the pharmaceutical giant vowed to voluntarily lower the prices of unspecified drugs for US purchase...

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Judge blocks Trump’s rapid deportation expansion

A US judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from massively expanding a procedure that allows authorities to swiftly deport migrants without a court hearing, in a blow for the president’s mass deportation plans.

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The geopolitics of the ‘great man’

THE Trump administration is currently attempting to rewrite American history by whitewashing the country’s negative legacy and scrubbing out references to anything connected to multiculturalism or diversity...

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14m people may die from US aid cuts: study

More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday...

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US administration cuts more Harvard funding

The US government on Tuesday announced fresh funding cuts to Harvard, a day after the elite school’s president said it shared ‘common ground’ with the Trump administration on many issues...

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Surrendering to authoritarianism

I WAS not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create an internal security force of 36 New York City Police officers empowered to ‘remove individuals from campus and/or arrest them when...

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Trump II and the Middle East

IT IS too early to draw an outline of the Middle East policy of the incoming Trump administration. The cabinet and other senior positions are shaping up, while Democrats are doing their best to badger Arab-Americans for their vote against the Democratic Party...