Curtis Yee

3 weeks ago | winknews.com | Bernard McGhee |Curtis Yee

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is resurrecting the travel ban policy from his first term, signing a proclamation Wednesday night preventing people from a dozen countries from entering the United States. The countries include Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.

1 month ago | apnews.com | Bridget Brown |Pamela Sampson |Bernard McGhee |Curtis Yee

U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to make progress on a ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine. A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an organization taken over in March by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

1 month ago | apnews.com | Curtis Yee |Sylvia Hui

At a post-victory press conference, JJ said the message of his song about unrequited romance was that “love is the strongest force on planet Earth, and love perseveres.”“Let’s spread love, guys,” he said. The singer, who performs as a countertenor at the Vienna State Opera, has called 2014 Austria winner Conchita Wurst a mentor. JJ’s final vote tally was 436 points. It was split between 258 points from the jury vote, and 176 points from the audience.

2 months ago | sojo.net | Curtis Yee

THE CAPTAIN AMERICAseries has always been a bright spot in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sure, they’re big blockbuster fun, but they’ve also been willing to do what political thrillers do best: Consider the questions of power. Previous entries have interrogated the perils of the surveillance state and the historic experimentation done on Black soldiers, political waters that few MCU projects have ventured into.

2 months ago | apnews.com | Bridget Brown |Bernard McGhee |Curtis Yee

A federal judge on Tuesday placed a hold on much of Trump’s order forbidding the federal government from doing business with anyone who hires the law firm Susman Godfrey, making it the fourth time a judge has found the president’s targeting of law firms is likely unconstitutional.