Kadia Aretha Tubman

New York

National News & Disinformation Correspondent at Scripps News

/KAY•dee•uh/ My facts are straight but I'm not. covers disinfo for @scrippsnews previously @businessinsider @yahoonews @risj_oxford @nielsen

Articles

Democrat-led cities are under a mass deportation threat

1 week ago | scrippsnews.com | Kadia Aretha Tubman

Democrat-run cities across the country are on high-alert after President Donald Trump directed multiple law enforcement agencies to carry out the “largest Mass Deportation Operation” in US history. “In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Sunday.
Democrat-led cities are under a mass deportation threat

1 week ago | tmj4.com | Kadia Aretha Tubman |Tony Aria

Democrat-run cities across the country are on high-alert after President Donald Trump directed multiple law enforcement agencies to carry out the “largest Mass Deportation Operation” in US history. “In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside,” Trump said in a Truth Social post Sunday.
International perception of the US is falling, including among its allies

1 week ago | news5cleveland.com | Kadia Aretha Tubman |Jennifer Glenfield

Fresh from the G-7 summit, where allied democracies meet to discuss global economic policies, global polling shows an increasing number of people in U.S. allied countries have low confidence in President Trump and his administration. According to a Pew Research Center survey, more than half of people in key U.S. allied countries have no confidence in President Trump's leadership in world affairs.
US lawmakers barred from oversight visit of NYC ICE holding facilities

1 week ago | news5cleveland.com | Kadia Aretha Tubman

New York lawmakers Jerry Nadler and Dan Goldman said Wednesday they were blocked from conducting an oversight visit to inspect detention facilities at a Manhattan immigration court. “We just went in to conduct our constitutional oversight authority of ICE and ICE detention facilities. We were denied access,” Rep. Goldman (NY-10) said at a brief press conference after the attempted visit.
Lawmakers scrutinize the privacy implications of selling genetic testing service 23andMe

2 weeks ago | scrippsnews.com | Simon Kaufman |Kadia Aretha Tubman

Lawmakers raised questions and concerns about the sale of genetic-testing company 23andMe during a hearing on Tuesday. Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform focused on privacy worries regarding the health data of more than 15 million 23andMe users as the company nears a bankruptcy sale. "There are serious concerns about what will happen to this private information," said committee chairman Rep. James Comer. "How will it be stored?
President Trump's new travel ban could face legal challenges

3 weeks ago | abcactionnews.com | Simon Kaufman |Kadia Aretha Tubman

President Donald Trump's new travel ban will likely face legal challenges — but it may withstand them more than a 2017 travel ban that he signed during his first term. The new ban completely restricts travel for most foreigners from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It partially restricts travel from people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
President Trump's new travel ban could face legal challenges

3 weeks ago | scrippsnews.com | Simon Kaufman |Kadia Aretha Tubman

President Donald Trump's new travel ban will likely face legal challenges — but it may withstand them more than a 2017 travel ban that he signed during his first term. The new ban completely restricts travel for most foreigners from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It partially restricts travel from people from Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.
This independent library champions banned books by Black women

1 month ago | wxyz.com | Kadia Aretha Tubman

Public libraries are under intense pressure with their funding threatened and their books facing increased scrutiny, leaving independent libraries as one of the last safe spaces for people to access books free from political pressure. The Free Black Women’s Library, a community and grassroots-funded library in Brooklyn, New York, has found a way to keep moving forward amid widespread cutbacks. “They call it a third space. It's not a space where you work. It's not a space for you to shop.
This independent library champions banned books by Black women

1 month ago | scrippsnews.com | Kadia Aretha Tubman

Public libraries are under intense pressure with their funding threatened and their books facing increased scrutiny, leaving independent libraries as one of the last safe spaces for people to access books free from political pressure. The Free Black Women’s Library, a community and grassroots-funded library in Brooklyn, New York, has found a way to keep moving forward amid widespread cutbacks. “They call it a third space. It's not a space where you work. It's not a space for you to shop.
Tariffs are supposed to promote domestic investments, but transitioning supply chains could take years

1 month ago | scrippsnews.com | Simon Kaufman |Kadia Aretha Tubman

Honda is among the latest major companies to announce it's shifting its production to the U.S. The carmaker announced it will move production of its CR-V from Canada to the U.S. because of tariffs. Honda isn't alone as companies aim to relocate supply chains and infrastructure to the U.S. amid growing concerns about the cost of importing goods from abroad due to President Donald Trump's tariffs.