Donald Trump used his first day in office to send a letter to the United Nations to withdraw from a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will take a year for the withdrawal from the UN Paris Agreement to go through, but at that point, the U.S. will join Libya, Iran, and Yemen […]
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President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order officially creating the Department of Government Efficiency, the cost-cutting initiative helmed by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The EO included fresh details about DOGE’s goals and structure, such as a mandate to upgrade the government’s IT systems. Mr. Trump first announced DOGE in November with
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One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president in 2017 was to institute a ban on travel to the U.S. from several nations that had Muslim majorities. During his campaign, he vowed to restore the ban if he won again. “We will seal our border and bring back the travel ban,” Trump said at an
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The Alaska Travel Industry Association (ATIA), which represents over 600 travel businesses in the state, is calling for “thoughtful” talks about opening up a vast wilderness area in the Arctic to oil and gas drilling. President Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency” in the United States on Monday and issued an executive order that
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Washington — President Trump took executive action Monday to start revoking the security clearances of his former national security adviser, John Bolton, and dozens of intelligence officials who signed a letter in 2020 claiming emails found on a laptop owned by Hunter Biden bore the hallmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign. The executive action was
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3m ago Watch Live: Elise Stefanik faces senators at confirmation hearing for UN ambassador today Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is facing senators’ questions on Tuesday as she defends her record and qualifications to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik, one of Mr. Trump’s most reliable allies in Congress, goes before
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President Trump is requiring millions of federal employees to return to the office. In an order issued Monday, the White House instructed all U.S. government departments and agencies in the executive branch to end remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work on a full-time basis. Department heads can exempt some workers from the requirement.
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Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik will face senators’ questions on Tuesday as she defends her record and qualifications to become the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Stefanik, one of President Trump’s most reliable allies in Congress, goes before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for her confirmation hearing less than 24 hours after Mr.
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Two more European airlines are returning to Israel. British Airways and ITA Airways have updated their schedules to include services to and from Tel Aviv. The developments are the latest in a series of route announcements after Israel and Hamas reached a delicate Gaza ceasefire deal. ITA – formerly known as Alitalia – will restart
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Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to
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