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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Emell Derra Adolphus
A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration’s move to revoke the legal statuses of thousands of international students across nationwide universities. The injunction—which also stops the administration from arresting or detaining foreign-born students on the basis of immigration status—comes after the Trump administration revoked and then reinstated the legal status of 4,700 international students with little explanation beginning in March, NBC News reported.
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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Corbin Bolies
NBC’s Kristen Welker grilled Sean Duffy on the repeated air traffic control outages at Newark Liberty Airport and the transportation secretary didn’t seem convinced that his agency has a handle on the ongoing crisis. “Why does this keep happening?” Welker asked Duffy on Meet the Press. The New Jersey airport—sitting in the country’s busiest airspace—has been hit by three equipment outages in just two weeks, the latest on Sunday morning.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Erkki Forster |Corbin Bolies
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy had a series of scapegoats lined up Sunday for the ongoing chaos plaguing U.S. air travel. When grilled by NBC’s Kristen Welker on the repeated air traffic control outages at Newark Liberty Airport, Duffy didn’t seem convinced that his agency has a handle on the ongoing crisis. “Why does this keep happening?” Welker asked Duffy on Meet the Press.
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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Emell Derra Adolphus
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel left MAGA social circles fuming on Thursday after he flatly shot down a long-held Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory. During a televised Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Republican Sen.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Erkki Forster |Emell Derra Adolphus
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel left MAGA social circles fuming on Thursday after he flatly shot down a long-held Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory. During a televised Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Republican Sen.
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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Kenneal Patterson
April Ryan has been to dozens of White House Correspondents’ Dinners, but this year’s event stood out—for the wrong reasons. “It was the oddest thing I’ve ever been to,” said Ryan, the longest-serving Black White House correspondent in history, on this week’s episode of The Daily Beast Podcast. During the dinner, Ryan—who currently serves as the Washington Bureau Chief or BlackPressUSA—was awarded the Dunnigan-Payne Prize to honor her storied career.
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2 months ago | 
autism.einnews.com | Isabel van Brugen |Erkki Forster |Yasmeen Hamadeh
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is in full damage-control mode after causing outrage with his comments about autism during his first official press briefing as health secretary. Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic, attempted to dial back the controversy in a sit-down Thursday night with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. He had triggered a firestorm by claiming that people with autism—a neurodevelopmental disorder—will never play baseball, go out on dates, pay taxes, write poems, or hold down a job.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Leigh McManus
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s hunt for suspected leakers inside the Pentagon has claimed its third victim. Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was put on administrative leave Wednesday and escorted out of the building, according to a defense official and a person familiar with the matter who spoke to Politico.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Erkki Forster |Nandika Chatterjee |Matt Wilstein
THIRD DEGREEDonald Trump launched into a furious tirade against Harvard University after the college defied his demands for policy changes. After threatening to take away the college’s tax-exempt status over the refusal, Trump followed up with another blistering Truth Social post early Wednesday. “Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’ who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called ‘future leaders,’” Trump raged.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Nandika Chatterjee |Janna Brancolini |Leigh McManus |Erkki Forster
SERVEDAttorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday that the Justice Department is suing Maine because it refused to comply with a ban on transgender athletes in high school sports. The lawsuit alleges that the state violated Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination at schools that receive federal aid.
