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'Your time is done': GOP senator slammed from both sides after posting 'staged' photo

March 22, 2025 7:17PM ET Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas took heat from anti-Donald Trump observers and MAGA on Saturday after he posted a "staged" photo. Cornyn, who has been largely supportive of Trump's agenda but has bucked the President at other times, took to X this week to post a photo of himself reading Trump's Art of the Deal. The ghostwriter for that book has since opposed the President. "Recommended," Cornyn wrote. MAGA fans didn't buy what one outlet l ...

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IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

March 22, 2025 8:30 p.m. The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. This, to be clear, is not a final tally. It’s not April 15th yet. It’s a projection based on historical data, the number of people who’ve filed, paid owed amounts of tax etc. It’s worth taking a moment to put this number into some context in case hal ...

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A 'dumpster fire': Angry voters bash lawmakers over Trump and DOGE

Published 5:08 a.m. ET March 22, 2025 | Updated 3:27 p.m. ET March 22, 2025 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The questions lobbed at freshman Democratic Rep. Kelly Morrison during a packed down hall Thursday night were meaty. “What is the plan to enforce court rulings against Trump and Musk in the event that they disregard court orders?” “If Trump ends Social Security, we will be unable to pay our mortgage. We will become homeless at age 70. What can or should we do?” “How will Democrats rehabilitate th ...

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MLB Is the Latest Org To Scrub 'Diversity' From Its Website

Updated Mar. 23 2025 4:05AM EDT Published Mar. 22 2025 5:30PM EDT Major League Baseball (MLB) is the latest organization to bend after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. On Friday, the MLB announced the removal of all “diversity” references from its careers page. “Our values on diversity remain unchanged,” MLB said in a statement to The New York Times, saying it was in the process of “evaluating our programs” to ensu ...

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FEMA hiring overhaul drives fears of agency dismantling as hurricane season nears

Updated on: March 22, 2025 / 4:58 PM EDT After firing more than 200 probationary workers from the nation's federal disaster relief agency, the Trump administration has taken its first step to dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) just months ahead of hurricane season. In an email labeled, "Hiring Update" and obtained by CBS News, FEMA informed employees on Friday night of a new hiring process that overhauls contract renewals for more than two-thirds of the agenc ...

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New Social Security Requirements Pose Barriers To Rural Communities

Mar 22, 2025, 10:25 AM EDT | Updated 2 hours ago WELCH, W.Va. (AP) — Veronica Taylor doesn’t know how to turn on a computer, let alone use the internet. The 73-year-old can’t drive and is mostly housebound in her mountainous and remote West Virginia community, where a simple trip to the grocery store can take an hour by car. New requirements that Social Security recipients access key benefits online or in person at a field office, rather than on the phone, would be nearly impossible to meet w ...

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Lawmakers fear DOGE cuts will drive away next generation of federal workers

March 22, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping federal layoffs aren’t just wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of employees across the country. Lawmakers in both parties are warning the cuts will harm the government’s ability to recruit young people out of college — as well as highly skilled candidates from the private sector — causing a ripple effect that could be felt for years or even decades. “The recruiting challenge they’re creating for themselv ...

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Trump's Social Security chief backs down from 'shutting down' agency

March 22, 2025 2:12 PM EDT Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - The head of the U.S. Social Security Administration has backed down from "shutting down the agency" after a federal judge rebuked him for misinterpreting a court ruling that limited billionaire Elon Musk's access to agency information. The agency's leader, Leland Dudek, who has been cooperating with a Musk-led group tasked with reducing government waste, said in a statement on Friday that the court had c ...

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Courthouse evacuated after Fani Willis' office receives suspicious parcel containing unidentified white substance

Mar 22nd, 2025, 12:06 pm A substantial section of a courthouse in downtown Atlanta was evacuated on Friday in response to a suspicious parcel delivered to the office of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. The parcel, variously described in news reports as a package or a letter, contained an unidentified white substance and led to several people being treated for headaches and dizziness at the scene of the incident, according to the Atlanta Fire & Rescue Department. The district att ...

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Trump demands Maine governor apologize -- or the state will face consequences

President Donald Trump is demanding a “full throated apology” from Maine Gov. Janet Mills in his spat with the state over transgender athletes, implying his administration will continue to target the state unless he gets one. The Democratic governor got into an argument with the president during a governors’ meeting at the White House in February, telling the president “we’ll see you in court” when he threatened to pull federal funding from the state if it failed to comply with his order to ban ...

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Americans won't let Trump 'establish an oligarchic form of government': Bernie Sanders

23 sec ago - March 23, 2025, 10:58 AM Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour is an attempt to stand up to President Donald Trump's agenda. "I'm trying to make it clear to the people throughout the world and throughout our own country, that ... (ABC News)

'This is not your grandmother's Easter Egg Roll': White House seeks corporate sponsorships for Easter event

42 min ago - Updated 1:36 PM EDT, Sun March 23, 2025 CNN — The White House, through an outside event production company called Harbinger, is soliciting corporate sponsors for this year’s Easter Egg Roll, which is prompting major concerns from ethics e ... (CNN Politics)

GOP Sen. John Curtis says politicians are 'not being honest' when they say they won't touch Social Security

1 hr ago - March 23, 2025, 10:49 AM EDT / Updated March 23, 2025, 11:19 AM EDT WASHINGTON — Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press” Sunday that politicians are “not being honest” when they say they won’t t ... (NBC News)

How Trump's regulatory freeze is disrupting the US fishing industry

1 hr ago - March 23, 2025 6:00 AM EDT Updated 8 hours ago President Donald Trump’s regulatory freeze has injected chaos and uncertainty into a number of lucrative American fisheries, raising the risk of a delayed start to the fishing season for some East C ... (Reuters)

Canada to head to polls as Mark Carney calls snap election for 28 April

2 hrs ago - “We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetime because of President [Donald] Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty,” he said. “He wants to break us, so America can own us. We will not let ... (The Guardian)

Homan, Trump's border czar, says administration won't defy judge's order on deportation flights

2 hrs ago - Tom Homan, President Donald Trump's border czar, vowed Sunday that the Trump administration would not defy court orders stemming from legal challenges over its invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport undocumented migrants from the Unite ... (ABC News)

Larry Tamblyn, Keyboardist for 'Dirty Water' Garage Rock Pioneers the Standells, Dead at 82

2 hrs ago - Larry Tamblyn, founding member and keyboardist for the pioneering garage rock band the Standells, has died at the age of 82. -snip- When the Standells formed as a doo-wop band in the early Sixties, Tamblyn initially served as their lead singer, inclu ... (Rolling Stone)

Global AIDS program teetering after Trump admin's shock-and-awe

2 hrs ago - 03/23/2025 06:00 AM EDT America’s most celebrated global health program is on life support, former U.S. government officials and global health advocates say. President Donald Trump’s decision to suddenly halt and then terminate most U.S. f ... (Politico)

Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention

3 hrs ago - Published 4:01 a.m. ET March 23, 2025 Immigrant women say they were held "like animals" in ICE detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives. Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. ... (USA Today)

Chuck Schumer rejects calls to step down as Senate Democratic leader

4 hrs ago - WASHINGTON — A defiant Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed that he won’t step aside as the chamber’s top Democrat, rejecting calls from some House colleagues and liberal advocates critical of his move to help pass a Republican f ... (NBC)

Trump allies press the White House to dial back Elon Musk's media interviews over his Social Security jabs

4 hrs ago - March 23, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT After his election, Donald Trump told NBC News that “we’re not touching Social Security,” other than to make it more efficient. But Elon Musk, who now wields enormous power in his role cutting government spe ... (NBC News)

Former US Attorney Jessica Aber Found Dead: What We Know

5 hrs ago - Jessica D. Aber, who until recently served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), was found dead at her Alexandria home on Saturday morning. Alexandria Police confirmed responding to a call at approximately 9:18 a.m. on Bev ... (Newsweek)

Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick pummeled over Social Security 'fraudster' comments

6 hrs ago - Sat, March 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM EDT Howard Lutnick, the billionaire Secretary of Commerce, is being pummeled online over his comments on Thursday that his 94-year-old mother-in-law would not complain about a missed Social Security check and that some ... (Yahoo! News/Business Insider)

MLB Is the Latest Org To Scrub 'Diversity' From Its Website

7 hrs ago - Updated Mar. 23 2025 4:05AM EDT Published Mar. 22 2025 5:30PM EDT Major League Baseball (MLB) is the latest organization to bend after President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. On ... (Daily Beast)

White House buoyed by capitulation of major law firm attacked by Trump

7 hrs ago - Sat 22 Mar 2025 11.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 22 Mar 2025 21.03 EDT Inside the White House, advisers to Donald Trump reveled in their ability to bully Paul, Weiss – one of the largest law firms in the US – and see its chair criticize a for ... (The Guardian)

IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA

8 hrs ago - March 22, 2025 8:30 p.m. The Post reports today that the IRS’s internal projections estimate that the DOGE-driven disruptions to the IRS since the inauguration are on track to have reduced tax receipts by more than $500 billion by April 15th. ... (Talking Points Memo)

US FAA pilot safety messaging system resumes operations after outage

8 hrs ago - March 22, 2025 7:24 PM EDT Updated 12 hours ago WASHINGTON, March 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. Federal Aviation Administration system that provides safety messages to pilots experienced an outage for several hours on Saturday before resuming operations, the ... (Reuters)

'Your time is done': GOP senator slammed from both sides after posting 'staged' photo

9 hrs ago - March 22, 2025 7:17PM ET Republican senator John Cornyn of Texas took heat from anti-Donald Trump observers and MAGA on Saturday after he posted a "staged" photo. Cornyn, who has been largely supportive of Trump's agenda but has bucked the President ... (Raw Story)

Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff vows defiance to Trump ahead of 2026 election

10 hrs ago - Updated 6:09 PM EDT, March 22, 2025 ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff came home to Atlanta Saturday to rally core Democrats desperate for effective action now against President Donald Trump’s administration. “Georgia will bow to no ... (AP)

IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants

10 hrs ago - Updated March 22, 2025 at 5:32 p.m. EDT The Internal Revenue Service is nearing an agreement to allow immigration officials to use tax data to confirm the names and addresses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, according to four pe ... (Washington Post)

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