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When we abandon the scientific process and choose whatever conclusion best suits our whims, preferences, or proclivities, the underlying scientific reality doesn’t stop being true. We simply suffer the consequences that come along with choosing a less-than-optimal path for dealing with the very real problems that we’re facing.

The president used the tragedy, which killed 67, to deliver a bigoted and self-promoting tirade about DEI.

Months before last night’s fatal aircraft collision, lawmakers dismissed safety warnings and approved an airline-backed measure that increased flight traffic at Washington, DC’s already overstressed airport — the site of the disaster.

In a move that intensifies the national debate over how race and gender are taught in American schools, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at championing so-called “patriotic education.”

The latest executive order threatens funding for schools that teach about gender and race.

Kyrsten Sinema accepted tens of thousands of dollars from crypto companies while in Congress. Now she’s leveraging those ties as a new adviser to Coinbase, the $73 billion crypto exchange platform.

A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) under President Donald Trump’s administration dropped the criminal proceedings against Trump’s co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliviera, in the classified documents case initiated by former special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday. The appeals court must still approve the Justice Department’s request for the appeal to be officially terminated.

The edits to the webpage offer a glimpse into how far the Trump administration will go in refusing to acknowledge today’s inequalities as it purges federal initiatives promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act (the “Act”) into law Wednesday, which will require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to detain individuals who are unlawfully present in the United States and have been charged with, or arrested for, burglary, theft, larceny, or shoplifting.

Donald Trump is doubling down on his plan to buy Greenland. A US takeover could weaken the country’s mining laws and ban on private property, aiding Trump tech donors’ plans to profit from the island’s mineral deposits and build a libertarian techno-city.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to enact a ban on the abortion drug mifepristone if President Donald Trump told him to do so after he was confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

President Donald Trump's Justice Department has moved to dismiss the case prosecuting former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (NE).

“I hope that DPS and other schools fight back for their students,” said Z Williams, a trans activist in Denver.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would sign an executive order to begin preparing a facility on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to detain tens of thousands of “the worst” undocumented immigrants.

The order, which Trump said he would sign later Wednesday, will instruct the Pentagon and Department of Homeland Security to prepare 30,000 beds at the site of the infamous U.S. military prison in Cuba, the president said, “to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people.”

“Some of them are so bad we don’t even trust the countries to hold them, because we don’t want them coming back, so we’re gonna send them out to Guantanamo,” Trump said.

“This will double our capacity immediately,” he said, calling it “a tough place to get out of.”

Trump’s remarks came just before he signed the Laken Riley Act, a hardline immigration measure pushed through with some Democratic support — and the first law the president has signed in his second term.

The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base — both a military base and the site of a controversial U.S. military prison that has held terrorism suspects for more than two decades — housed Hatian refugees in the 1990s, before the detention facility was built there. Cubans were also housed there in the 1990s, and former President Joe Biden last year explored plans to house Haitians there if the nation’s precarious government collapsed.

But other presidents who held refugees on the base, or considered doing so, cast their plans as emergency humanitarian measures, rather than harsh deterrents.

The 45-square-mile land and water base, on the southeastern portion of Cuba, has been controlled by the U.S. since 1903 and has long been a thorn in the side of Cuba’s communist government, which resents the U.S. presence on the island. In addition to housing the military prison, whose detainee population had shrunk to 15 people by the end of the Biden administration, the base is used by the Navy as “a key operational and logistics hub, supporting a variety of missions including maritime security, humanitarian assistance, and joint operations,” according to The Navy.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for additional details on the contents of the executive order or when Trump would sign it.

The union represents 750,000 workers.

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that people in Gaza were using condoms provided by the United States to make bombs.

Trump spokeswoman's social media post immediately used against administration in court

Donald Trump's executive orders to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives extended all the way to observance of certain holidays.

Drop Site published unknown details about the conditions at the secretive facility, now emerging as a centerpiece of the president's extreme anti-immigrant policy.

Trump's sweeping orders reek of Musk's management philosophy

Proposal from state board of education condemned by teachers and rights groups, as parents and students protest