President Donald Trump’s administration is facing scrutiny this week after working with billionaire Elon Musk to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an organization Musk called a ‘viper’s nest’ of mismanaged funding.…
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Chris Wright, Trump’s pick to lead Energy Department, faces confirmation vote Monday in Senate
The Senate will hold a vote Monday evening on whether to confirm President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Energy, Chris Wright. Wright, the CEO and founder of Liberty Energy Inc., an energy…
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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) staffers said that they tracked over 600 workers who reported getting locked out of the USAID computer systems overnight, according to the Associated Press. People who remained in the…
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South Africa hits back at Trump’s claim that it is ‘confiscating land,’ as US aid to country threatened
JOHANNESBURG – President Donald Trump’s announcement that he plans to cut off all foreign aid to South Africa because he claimed it is ‘confiscating’ land ‘and treating certain classes of people very badly’ in ‘a massive…
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Elon Musk, who is spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort, said during an X spaces conversation that President Donald Trump agreed that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should be shut down.…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In 2020 and in the White House, I was the Biden spokesperson responsible for drawing strategic contrasts with Republicans and counterpunching when they attacked us – including…
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Amid a wave of early shakeups in the new administration, President Donald Trump has twice this month proposed ‘denuclearization’ talks with U.S. adversaries. ‘Tremendous amounts of money are being spent on nuclear, and the destructive…
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Trump urged to look into US funding of Lebanese army amid accusations of its ties to Hezbollah
JERUSALEM – The seeming alliance between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Hezbollah terrorist movement is adding greater urgency to calls for the Trump administration to pull the plug on its generous aid to…
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Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy. Carter, who died in December at the age of 100, was nominated at the 2025 ceremony in the audiobook, narration, and storytelling recording category for ‘Last…
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The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is led by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is taking aim at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and, according to senior congressional sources, moved to seize control…